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  Biofuels: Journey to Forever - how to make your own clean-burning biofuel, biodiesel from cooking oil, fuel alcohol, ...
Biofuels can be used to power small-scale farm and local workshop machinery and electricity generators as well as vehicles.
Biofuels crops have to be grown, and there's a lot of common ground between growing sustainable fuel and growing sustainable food.
Please note that the Biofuel list is not a newsletter service and not a "website", it is an interactive email discussion group posting from 20 to 50 messages a day or more.
journeytoforever.org /biofuel.html   (5450 words)

  
  Biofuels
Biofuels are produced from living organisms or from metabolic by-products (organic or food waste products).
Biofuels Markets Americas is part of the Biofuels Markets Global Series of events which attracted over 1000 industry executives from 64 countries in 2006.
Biofuel is any fuel that is derived from biomass - recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows.
www.alternative-energy-news.info /technology/biofuels   (1130 words)

  
 EcoWorld - Biofuel
In the following assessment of biofuel produced in a "bioreactor" from algae, the pitfalls of producing biofuel from algae ponds is recognized, and then the author explains the potential to produce biofuel within illuminated, enclosed containers, infused with carbon dioxide.
Biofuel crops are usually grown either to make bio-diesel, a fuel for high-compression diesel engines, that is refined from the vegetable fats in a crop, or ethanol, a fuel for engines with spark-plugs, which is distilled from a crop that is fermented.
Distilleries for biofuel exist throughout the world; biofuel is a form of solar energy harvested from the land, and wherever land and water are abundant, biofuel is cheap and the flow never wanes...
www.ecoworld.com /energy/ecoworld_energy_biofuel.cfm   (1223 words)

  
 Ethics of Biofuels | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
When we speak of biofuels or energy crops, we generally mean crops that produce oil biodiesel, such as, rapeseed and soybeans (among others) and those that commonly produce ethanol, like corn, switchgrass, sugarcane and forest and crop residues.
Biofuel production has the potential to further invest our nation and the world in the industrial agricultural model, in ways that only increase the difficulty of extricating ourselves from the environmental disaster we've created.
An industrial, globalized biofuel economy will increase hunger in the third world, but it is also not an answer to first world problems, because the required fossil fuel inputs are so great that the cost of biofuels will be bound inextricably to the cost of fossil fuels.
www.energybulletin.net /24169.html   (7695 words)

  
 Development Crossing: Biofuel
Biofuels are desirable because the plants from which it is created store carbon as they grow.
A New Mexico biodiesel blend bill passed on a 19-14 vote in the US Senate yesterday, requiring that all diesel fuel used in state vehicles be 5% biodiesel by July 1, 2010 and that all diesel fuel sold in the state have the biodiesel blend by July 1, 2012.
The rapid expansion of biofuel production may be welcome news for environmentalists but for the world’s beer drinkers it could be a different story.
www.developmentcrossing.com /development_crossing/biofuel/index.html   (3148 words)

  
 Independence Fuel
Biofuel is the only alternative fuel to have fully completed the health effects testing of the clean air act.
A 1998 biofuel lifecycle study, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, concluded that biofuel reduces net CO2 emissions by 78% compared to petroleum fuels.
Biofuel has a solvent effect that may release deposits accumulated on tank walls and pipes from previous petroleum fuel use (the release of deposits may initially clog filters and precautions should be taken).
www.biofuelme.com /index.php?page=tips   (618 words)

  
 BioFuel   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BioFuel is the name that I give to biological material useful as a Fuel, straightforwardly enough.
BioFuels have one big advantage, which is that they are generally capable of being Renewable, although this does not mean that the necessarily are.
At heart, BioFuel can be considered to be a form of SolarPower as nearly all life comes at some point from photosynthesis.
homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk /phillip.lord/wiki/energy/BioFuel.html   (319 words)

  
 Agra
The use of Biofuel in a conventional diesel engine results in substantial reduction of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulate matter.
Biofuel can be operated in any diesel engine or home heating oil burner with little or no impact to the fuel system.
Biofuel can be used as a pure fuel or blended with petroleum in any ratio.
www.agrabiofuels.com /faqs.html   (355 words)

  
 Copra Biofuel Project
This is through a specially designed generator that utilizes coconut oil as its primary fuel source 90% - 95% of the total running time of the generator.
Two such communities that are greatly benefiting from the coconut biofuel programs are Lomaloma, Naqara and Sawana villages in Vanua Balavu and Welagi village in Taveuni.
Commissioned in April 2000, the 90kVA Lomaloma Copra Biofuel Project serves three villages (Naqara, Sawana and Lomaloma).
www.fdoe.gov.fj /Old_copra_biofuel_project.htm   (408 words)

  
 BioFuel Energy files IPO - Boston.com
BioFuel Energy Corp. filed an initial public offering Friday, making it the fifth ethanol company to seek a listing in the United States this year.
Denver-based BioFuel Energy intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay debt and fund construction of ethanol plants, according to its prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BioFuel Energy, formed in April, reported in its prospectus a loss of $2.3 million since its inception through Sept. 30, and hasn't posted any revenue yet.
www.boston.com /business/markets/articles/2006/12/08/biofuel_energy_files_ipo   (261 words)

  
 BioFuel Region
BioFuel Region is the propelling force in a long-term process where regional co-operation is used to implement the development and introduction of renewable fuel, which is based on biomass from forests, fields and recycling.
BioFuel Region’s strategy is to promote and lead development by mobilizing, committing and activating as many potential developmental forces as possible in each respective region.
This amount is the equivalent of approximately two pro mille of the amount spent on gasoline and diesel fuel in the region, which is to say SEK 16 billion during the project period.
www.biofuelregion.se /english.cfm?open=eng   (478 words)

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