June 2008 Blog Posts (3)

I went to a neighborhood car show today and they had a nice selection of alternative fuel vehicles. One of which ironically came on a trailer pulled behind a gasoline engine truck. Also exhibiting was a local biodiesel advocacy group, Northwest Biodiesel Network. The advocacy of this fuel option is critical. The level of misinformation on biodiesel is staggering. The mainstream media regularly treats it as an amazingly new development in the fuel industry. Y… Continue

Articles are popping up more and more in main stream media about algae as a source for energy. One of the latest companies to get recognition is XL Renewables. XL was recently covered by Ryan Randazzo in a six-part series on the sustainability movement published by the somewhat conservative newspaper, the Arizona Republic. XL sees the opportunities algae p… Continue

The follow link is to a post that shows the application for this fuel is already highly useable and the potential for increased use is staggering. BioDieselNow.Com Making motor vehicle fuel from algae uses carbon dioxide as a resource for 2/3 of its mass and growing it on land that is otherwise not useable for food crops, sequestering some additional greenhouse gases while we… Continue