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What Type of Renewable Energy is Best For You?

Energy is considered renewable when it is generated from resources that are replenished constantly and naturally. The most commonly used sources are sunlight, moving water, wind, and geothermal heat. Whether you want to help preserve the earth's non-renewable fossil fuels by using renewable, clean energy, or you live in a remote area, how do you know what type is best for you? Following is a brief overview of the five main types of renewable energy.

Solar energy is the most widely used form of alternative energy. Sunlight is converted to electricity in three main ways: through the use of photovoltaic or solar cells; by heating air that turns turbines in a solar updraft tower; and in a plant that is concentrating solar power to run a generator. The most well-known of these is the solar cell.

Obviously, being able to use solar energy is dependent on the sun and how much of it you are able to harness. You also need a large area for the solar panels, whether they are mounted on a roof, a pole, or on the ground. Solar energy can also be converted to thermal energy for heating water, as in swimming pools or hot water heaters, and to heat air inside buildings.

Wind movement is used to generate electricity when it turns the blades of a wind turbine. As the wind speed increases, the power output also increases. When the blades of a turbine move, they turn the drive shaft they are connected to, which then turns an electric generator, producing electricity.

Being in an area where the wind blows most of the time is crucial for this method to be of any use. Having backup power is also necessary for when the wind dies down.

Water power is produced by flowing water that is converted into electricity. Rivers are the most common source, and ocean currents are also used. The water is funneled through a pipeline or restricted area to build up pressure. It is then forced through a turbine and the rotational force drives a generator, producing electricity.

Where there is flowing water, as in a river or ocean current, the force of the current is the pressure needed to turn the turbine. When water is accumulated, as in a dam, the force is provided when the water is released.

Biomass is organic material, primarily from plants, that can be burned to provide heat, or produce steam for making electricity. Wood is most commonly used, but garbage, crops, and manure are used as well.

Biomass is converted into other fuels like ethanol and biodiesel, which are burned in engines to release their energy. Ethanol is in most of the gasoline we use today and biodiesel can be used in diesel engines.

Geothermal energy comes from hot liquid under the ground, like hot springs and geysers. There are two main ways this liquid is used. The hot water can be piped into buildings as heat, and geothermal plants generate electricity from the hot water or steam they take from underground.

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Disposing of Waste Oil - Don't Dump it!

The recent boom in alternative energy sources has some people looking towards restaurants and other businesses for fuel sources, while some business owners find themselves with the same old problem on their hands. What do you do with that used oil? You could hire a company to come take it off your hands, or you could give it to those who've already converted to bio diesel, but whatever you do- don't dump it.

Improperly Disposed Oil Is a Problem

Improperly disposed waste oil can not only be a big problem for wildlife in your area and cause serious damage to local water supplies, but did you know it can also cause issues with your septic and sewer system? You may think you're saving some money by dumping that oil, but in fact, you may find yourself with a much, much more expensive issue down the line. Dumped oil accounts for quite a heavy number of septic and sewer issues, and this is something that is totally avoidable. Some applied techniques actually makes it so you have to dispose of it less, which, again saves you money in the long term, so there really is no reason to dump, but many not to.

Salvaging Oil

Some have found that now, with conversion kits they are able to convert the waste oil into bio diesel- but hold one one second before you go running behind the McDonald's to grab their grease! If you aren't sure about the content of the grease, or you don't know exactly how to process it, or maybe you would just rather have someone else to make sure that you are converting properly, ask a technician. The company itself actually has processors to do just that- though not every franchisee may have this, they can often make sure that you are getting the best waste oil for the cause.

More creative types may find they can dispose of their waste oil by giving it to people who create things called 'slop logs'- basically using the oil and glop to make long, clean burning wood stove fuel. It may sound a little gross, but in fact, this can often lower a heating bill exponentially- enough that a little grease on their hands and some sawdust make it worth their while.

Another way to save some money off of waste oil is taking it to rendering companies- the grittier and gloppier the better. Taking your waste oil to a rendering plant and disposing of it can often be a profitable way of not only getting rid of it, but making a little cash in the process. These plants usually make animal feeds out of it, or find other uses for it you probably wouldn't think of, but now, won't have to.

On the whole, there are many options for waste oil removal, and if you are responsible, more often than not, there is some added benefit to doing it the right way.

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How Biofuel Leaked Into the House Health Bill

By David M. Herszenhorn

At first glance, it might seem as if House Democrats were so overwhelmed by their ambitious legislative agenda that they confused their big climate change legislation with their big health care bill.

A package of last-minute changes to the Democrats’ health care bill made public on Tuesday night included a curious tax provision related to the production of biofuels, including ethanol. By changing some of the rules related to tax credits for biofuel manufacturers, the provision would raise about $24 billion in additional tax revenue from the biofuel companies over 10 years.

So what do biofuel producers have to do with health care? Actually, nothing. The change was all about the money.

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, there are few things that Congress hates more than raising taxes. As a result, two of the favorite euphemisms on Capitol Hill are “pay-for” and “revenue-raiser,” which are just fancy ways of describing a tax: something that “pays for” legislation, or “raises revenue” to pay for legislation.

But good revenue-raisers are hard to find. And when one is available, lawmakers often fight over it.

In the case at hand, Senate Democrats swiped a revenue-raiser that House Democrats had included in their health care legislation: a delay in a tax code change, which would result in multinational corporations’ paying $26.1 billion in taxes over 10 years that they would otherwise be spared. The Senate Democrats decided to use that tax revenue to help pay for legislation to extend unemployment benefits and a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

But that move left a hole in the House Democrats health care bill and sent lawmakers in search of another way to raise revenue.

The solution was a change in the “second generation biofuel producer tax credit” which will make up most of the money taken by the Senate. In essence the change means some biofuel producers will receive less in tax credits than under current law. (The House also retained a limited version of the tax code change for multinational companies, which will generate $6 billion for the health care bill.)

Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, who sponsored the biofuel amendment on behalf of the House Democratic leadership, said that it was both a good way to raise money and an improvement in alternative energy policy that Democrats would have carried out anyway.

“The idea is to make sure that biofuels get a tax credit to the extent to which they meet the energy efficiency goals,” Mr. Van Hollen said. “Number one, this is something we have been focused on in terms of good policy.”

But he also quickly added that the Senate’s swipe of the tax provision — technically a provision “to delay implementation of worldwide interest allocation” — had left the House no choice but to find more money.

The biofuel provision, Mr. Van Hollen added, “is a good piece of policy that also accomplishes the goal of providing revenue.”

Such a tug-of-war over revenue-raisers is hardly unusual in Congress. But at a time when lawmakers and the White House are thinking about ways of reducing the nation’s huge long-term debt, the current spat highlights how increasingly difficult it has become for lawmakers to generate revenue without imposing new taxes that will be felt directly by the constituents who elect them. President Obama’s promise not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 a year has made that challenge even harder.

Some Republicans have been warning that Democrats are using most of the available revenue-raising ideas to pay for the health care legislation, rather than reducing the deficit. In the Senate, Democrats on the Finance Committee decided to limit all of the tax provisions in the health care bill to the health arena. Otherwise, the worldwide interest allocation provision might well have been included in the Senate Democrats’ own health care bill.

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About Jatropha Curcas

About Jatropha Curcas

Jatropha Curcas is a non edible oil crop predominately used to produce bio-diesel.

In addition to bio-diesel production, the by-product of Jatropha Curcas' transsterification process can be used to make a wide range of products including high quality paper, energy pellets, soap, cosmetics, toothpaste, embalming fluid, pipe joint cement, cough medicine and as a moistening agent in tobacco.

The Jatropha Curcas seed cake which is the waste by-product of the bio-diesel trans-esterification process can be used as a rich organic fertilizer.Jatropha Curcas grows best on well drained soils (pref PH 6-9) with good aeration but is well adapted to marginal soils with low nutrient content.

Jatropha Curcas grows well with more than 600mm rainfall per year and it can withstand long periods of drought. The plant sheds its leaves during a prolonged dry season.

Jatropha Curcas prefers temperatures averaging 20-28 degrees Celsius (68-85 degrees Farenheit). It can, however, withstand a very light frost which causes it to lose all its leaves and may produce a sharp decline in seed yield.

One tonne of Jatropha Curcas seeds will produce up to 600 litres of bio-diesel with proper management. Recommended planting rates of Jatropha Curcas are 2,000 / 2,500 plants per hectare (2.5 acres) One person can professionally plant, manage and harvest 5-8 hectares of Jatropha Curcas. 30kg of Jatropha Curcas fruit can be harvested per person, per hour. this information from http://www.jatrophacurcasplantations.com/

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BioDiesel Technologies Launching First Commercial Jatropha Biodiesel Project in Brazil

Brazil’s first commercial jatropha biodiesel project goes into operation this month following the delivery of BioDiesel Technologies’ (BDT) processing unit.

BDT will deliver an additional four processing units to increase the plant's annual capacity to 40,000 tonnes (about 10 million gallons US) by the end of 2007. The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will officially open the plant in September.

The Compact Production Unit (CPU) 1000, which is installed in a 20-foot ISO container, is designed to use oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin, or used edible oils. It produces 1,000 liters of biodiesel per hour (8 million liters per year).

Project operator, Compahnhia Productora de Biodiesel de Tocantins, has formed agreements with local cooperatives and small farmers in the state of Tocantins to supply the biodiesel facility with the required feedstock. This has led to the establishment of 48,000 hectares of jatropha plantation.

The multi-feedstock technology provided by BDT will also allow the use of animal tallow for the manufacture of biodiesel. This could prove to be a significant source of income to the large slaughter-house industry within the Tocantins state, which has more than 6 million head of cattle.

This operation, bringing local agricultural communities into the biofuel production process, is the model upon which future Biodiesel operations in Brazil will be constructed; hence President Lula will show his support for the project in September. Brazil has introduced mandatory blends of 2% by 2008 and 5% by 2013 as well as numerous tax incentives for biodiesel producers that source their feedstock from local communities.

Compahnhia Productora de Biodiesel de Tocantins is examining project sites for a further two projects within the region, taking total regional production to more than 120,000 tons of biodiesel per year.

BDT, a biodiesel equipment manufacturer and project developer based in Austria, has 17 multi-feedstock projects operating in 10 countries worldwide.

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Jatropha Biodiesel

Jatropha is a genus of approximately 175 succulent plants, shrubs and trees (some are deciduous, like Jatropha Curcas), from the family Euphorbiaceae. Jatropha is native to Central America and has become naturalized in many tropical and subtropical areas, including India, Africa, and North America. Originating in the Caribbean, the jatropha was spread as a valuable hedge plant to Africa and Asia by Portuguese traders. The mature small trees bear male and female inflorescence, and do not grow very tall. The hardy jatropha is resistant to drought and pests, and produces jatropha seeds containing up to 40% jatropha oil which, after being refined, can be turned into jatropha biodiesel with our biodiesel processor.

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Downsides to Biofuel Vehicles

We've all heard about environment concerns such as global warming, our need to reduce our dependence on non-renewal fuel sources, particularly foreign oil, and the overall need to be "green." Even car manufacturers are getting in on the act, working on a variety of more energy-efficient and lower polluting cars such as the hybrids you see on the road more and more.

There are certainly upsides to biofuel vehicles. For example, since so many biofuels are derived from plants, they are close to being carbon neutral since the next crop raised for biofuels will use the carbon dioxide released from using the previous biofuels crop.

They also don't produce anywhere near as many particulates or carbon dioxide. Nor do they give off sulfur emissions, which are responsible for acid rain.

Plus they can be grown locally, so we can't be held hostage to foreign oil producers like we are now. Nor do we have to compete with other countries for limited resources, giving us control over our own fuels as well as keeping those dollars in our own economy.

But biofuels aren't the magic answer some have been touting and, indeed, there are some real downsides to biofuels, as we're sadly discovering nowadays what with skyrocketing food prices that can't just be blamed on the price of gas.

Currently US government subsidies are provided for ethanol, but they are for corn ethanol. However, unlike Brazil who has effectively produced ethanol on the basis of sugar cane waste for the past 20 years, the United States actually uses the corn itself, not the stocks and leaves. This has multiple negative effects.

In the first place, corn production, whether for food or biofuels production, requires a great deal of energy that releases more greenhouse gases than they actually save. Corn production also requires a great deal of water. Plus, the more demand for corn, the higher the price of corn. This isn't just for the corn we eat as canned corn, corn on the cob or corn flakes. Corn is also a major grain food used by animals, such as chickens, cattle, cows and the like. That's why the price of eggs, milks and hamburger has gone up so much recently.

Other current food sources used for biofuels, such as rapeseed and palm oil, have the same downsides since they, too, are used as foodstuffs, such as vegetable oil. Not only that, but many countries are deforesting great areas in order to provide more land to growl biofuels crops. And deforestation wreaks havoc on the environment. Talk about a downside!

There are many other plant materials that can be used for ethanol production, including switch grass and even algae. Waste products, such as wood chips, straw and pulp could accomplish the same thing Brazil has done...use what's left over after food production, not replace food production with fuel. After all, we can't eat biofuels.

Take Care,
Steven Longoria

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Know How to Make Your Own Biofuel - Save Money Using It

With the dependence on traditional fossil fuels through this years, the world is so much crippled that there is an impending oil crisis that will not only affect governments and businesses but on a deeper and more profound level, citizens. With this, the advent of revolutionizing alternative sources such as plants has become one of the last hopes we have, not only to save us from economic downfall but also to the plagues that traditional fossil fuels have caused the environment.

If you think the idea to make your own biofuel is too ambitious confined only to oil companies who have the logistics and enough funding and far from being done on your own, you are wrong. The FuelPod2 was invented to make everything in the process easier. This device though might at first be costly for you a beginner who is just trying it out to make your own biofuel.

Simple steps with just the simple ingredients and utensils with the right kind of vision are just what you need to make your own biofuel right in the comfort of your home while you don't have your sophisticated Fuelpod2 just yet. Yes, right inside your home. All you need is your waste vegetable oil as your main actor, the appropriate amount of lye to create a perfect chemical reaction producing the biofuel, alcohol needed during the heating and mixing proper to separate the glycerine from the final biodiesel fuel extract, and water of course for the final washing.

So, why know how to make your own biodiesel?
It's simple: Because the benefits are outstanding. The most important benefit is that you will reduce pollution of our planet, and if we start using more biofuel and less petrol our planet will be cleaner for our kids. The second benefit is the money that you can save. If you get a guide and learn how to make your own biodiesel you will spend 0$ on gas for your car. You will run your car on biodiesel and your engine will not be affected by running on biofuel.

These guides will show you exactly how to make your car run on biodiesel and how to make biodiesel in your own house. Don't you want to save at least 90% on gas costs?

Get 0$ Gas without modifying your car or your engine and without investing any money on your car.

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Make Biofuel at Home and Be the Businessman and Environmentalist That You Are

Before the fossil fuel diesel became the main source of energy in almost all aspects of modern living, Rudolph Diesel revolutionize the use of biofuels with his engine that ran on peanut oil. Unfortunately, he was named after the fossil diesel that became of major use in all industries. Unfortunately, this type of fuel has become one of the major causes of environmental degradation, far from what Rudolph diesel envisioned.

Biofuels have been found to have tremendous contribution not only to the solutions on environmental problems but also its economic and energy security benefits. In terms of economy, biofuels can help ease the burden of the rising cost of fossil fuels and also provide another source of income for the agricultural industry since the sources are plants crops. Energy security will be enhanced since the production of biofuels has been made simple and doable through various researches. Furthermore, it will bring to a higher level our energy security since we will slowly move away from fossil fuels that will soon become scarce and used up because they are not renewable.

The best thing about this is that it does not take so much genius and sophisticated equipment and procedures to do it. Yes, you can make biofuel at home! It is feasible, easy, and simple. Just be always on the guard for accidents since fumes can be toxic and heating night cause burns.
To make biofuel at home, you will just have to be ready with your chosen vegetable oil, new or used. Prepare your additives such as lye and methanol and of course equipment such as glass jars, measuring devices, and your filtering, mixing and heating gadgets. If you are familiar with soap making, making biofuel is almost very similar to it.

The final stage is to separate the glycerine (the one turned into soap) and the liquid that stays on top, and that is your biofuel. With a little "How to.." with you, you can make biofuel at home effective and successful and might just turn this not only a benefit and big help on your energy needs but also a lucrative business venture. Aside from the business opportunity you might discover, you also turned yourself into the staunch advocate of environmental protection.

My personal advice to you is to get a guide that will tell you exactly how to make biofuel in your own home and use it on your own car. To help you, I have reviewed the best guides here. Don't waste 5$ a gallon anymore and start using biofuel.

People all over the world convert their cars to run on biofuel and they don't pay one dime on a gallon. Using these guides you will stop wasting 4$ on every gallon on gas, guaranteed.

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How Ethanol Car Engines Work

Ethanol cars work in a way very similar to normal gasoline cars, and are a great viable alternative fuel option because of current high gas prices. The only real difference is that ethanol car engines are able to utilize the biofuel ethanol instead of oil based gasoline.

Ethanol fuel itself is extracted from plants such as corn or sugarcane, and refined into an alcohol. This alcohol is suitable to be used as a biofuel in cars and other vehicles. Most hybrid automobile engines that use ethanol can also use gasoline, and are also called "flex-fuel" engines. The ethanol is injected into the engine in the same way as a non-hybrid automobile engine. Though ethanol gives slightly less miles per gallon than gasoline, it doesn't create as much air pollution when it is burned.

The similarities between ethanol "flex-fuel" engines and standard engines make ethanol cars cheaper than most alternative or hybrid vehicles, because they are built in much the same way as a regular engine. Ethanol is actually cheaper in some cases than gasoline, and thus a hybrid that runs on ethanol can be less expensive to operate than a gasoline based vehicle.

Most standard automobiles can even run on a 10% mixture of ethanol in gasoline. Many gas stations around the world offer ethanol as an alternative to gasoline, and in some countries cars are required to run on ethanol.

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The Biodiesel Car

In today’s society, Researchers in the United States and around the world are searching for ways to develop alternate forms of fuel. With the ever-rising fuel costs, developing alternate energy is a priority.

Bio diesel was developed to combat the high gas and oil prices. It is especially made for use in bio diesel cars and trucks. Bio-diesel is made from all natural foods that produce oil. Oils such as vegetable, canola, peanut, rapeseed, palm and olive oil can be used as bio diesel fuel.

Virtually all oils that you use in your kitchen everyday can fuel one of these cars. It does not matter if the oil has been used, it can be strained and filtered and then used in the fuel tank.

Biodiesel fuel is a better for the environment because it burns cleaner and does not pollute the atmosphere. It is non-toxic and biodegradable, making it the perfect fuel.

Biodiesel fuel has been road tested and will get up to twenty-five miles to the gallon. That is better than some conventional mileage ratings.

Many car manufacturers are realizing that the bio diesel automobile is becoming more popular, and are jumping on the bandwagon and developing their own version of a biodiesel vehicle. They realize that the need for these vehicles will increase, and predict that they will be ready for the onslaught.

If you are interested in purchasing a bio diesel and do not know where to start looking, call local dealerships and ask if they offer this type of vehicle. Chances are that they either have bio diesel cars or can place a special order for you. You can also do a Google search to find a dealer that is close by.

The least expensive biodiesel car’s price starts at approximately $20,000 dollars. Depending on the style of car, it can range up to $60,000 dollars. The only reported differences in driving a biodiesel car is that in some cases, the mileage per gallon is greater than a conventional car.

If you want the convenience of a bio diesel car, and do not have the funds to buy one, there is always the option to buy a conversion kit. These kits allow you to convert your current vehicle into a bio diesel vehicle.

The kits are relatively inexpensive compared to a new bio diesel car. They start at $600.00. Although it is recommended that you have a professional mechanic do all the necessary work, full instructions and a help line are included for the do-it-yourselfer.

A car with a diesel engine does not need to be converted into bio-diesel. However it is recommended that the hoses be replaces on any diesel car that was made before 1990. When the diesel engine was created in 1892, it was designed to run on peanut oil before diesel fuel, making it the changes unnecessary.

It is however recommended that the engines of vehicles to be converted do not have rubber seals in them, as over time the oil will deteriorate the seals.

A biodiesel car is very easy to maintain. The only major problem that has been reported is that when the weather turns cold, the oil turns cloudy and in temperatures below 35 degrees, the oil can crystallize. The potential problem with this is that the crystals can plug the engine and not allow the fuel to flow properly.

Special heating units are sold to keep the oil at a constant temperature.

The general public is being encouraged to purchase bio diesel vehicles. As an incentive, the government is offering special tax write offs for those who purchase bio diesel automobiles.

In Hollywood, celebrities and activists who are earth conscience have made the commitment to drive biodiesel vehicles. At the moment, California has more biodiesel cars on the road than all other states combined.

Daimler Chrysler will introduce its version of the biodiesel vehicle in the 2007. The Jeep Grand Cherokee CDR will be the first biodiesel SUV to hit the market.

It will run on soybean and vegetable oil, as well as grease from fast food restaurants. It is a little humorous to think that you will be able to order dinner and fill your fuel tank in the same place, but that may possible in the not too distant future.

With the growth of the biodiesel automobile, biodiesel fuel manufacturers are needed. Currently in the United States, there are sixty-five biodiesel producing plants and about eight hundred and fifty biodiesel service stations. Experts predict that a lot more will be opening over the next few years. by: Daniel Roshard

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The Advantages Of Using Biodiesel Fuel

You might have heard a lot about biodiesel. Biodiesel is diesel that can power up your car that is made from vegetable oils and other natural sources. It does not come from the regular crude oil that usually has to be imported from oil-producing countries.

Biodiesel can be considered a new technology, taking into account all the years consumers have had to settle for traditional diesel. Using biodiesel for your car has many advantages:

1. Biodiesel is not harmful to the environment. Unlike its counterpart, a car using biodiesel produces fewer emissions. If a vehicle uses traditional diesel, the vehicle emits black, stinky smoke. With biodiesel, the smoke becomes very clean indeed.

2. Biodiesel may not require an engine modification. Some cars can take advantage of biodiesel without the need to undergo engine alterations. Some mix 20% biodiesel with regular diesel. Doing so enables the car to benefit from the good points of biodiesel without the hassle.

3. Biodiesel is cheap. You can even make biodiesel in your backyard. If your engine can work with biodiesel fuel alone, then you really need not go to the gas station to buy fuel. You can just manufacture some for your own personal use.

4. Biodiesel can make the vehicle perform better. It is noted that biodiesel has a cetane number of over 100. Cetane number is used to measure the quality of the fuel’s ignition. If your fuel has a high cetane number, you can be sure that what you get is a very easy cold starting coupled with a low idle noise.

5. Biodiesel can make your car last longer. Because of the clarity and the purity of biodiesel, you can be sure it will not have too many impurities to harm your car. It is actually more lubrication. A car’s power output is unaffected by this type of diesel.

6. Biodiesel reduces the environmental effect of a waste product. Because biodiesel is made out of waste products itself, it does not contribute to nature’s garbage at all. Biodiesel can be made out of used cooking oils and lards. So instead of throwing these substances away, the ability to turn them into biodiesel becomes more than welcome.

7. Biodiesel is energy efficient. If the production of biodiesel is compared with the production of the regular type, producing the latter consumes more energy. Biodiesel does not need to be drilled, transported, or refined like petroleum diesel. Producing biodiesel is easier and is less time consuming.

8. Biodiesel is produced locally. A locally produced fuel will be more cost efficient. There is no need to pay tariffs or similar taxes to the countries from which oil and petroleum diesel are sourced. Every country has the ability to produce biodiesel.

Biodiesel is surely a viable fuel alternative. Moreover, it is also a sustainable fuel. Using biodiesel not only helps maintain our environment, it also helps in keeping the people around us healthy.

The production of biodiesel all over the world is now being looked upon favorably. In Europe, many biodiesel stations have been set up already. There is also a move to convert or make cars compatible with biodiesel fuel in the near future.

Biodiesel can surely change the way vehicles are manufactured and used. It is surely the best substitute right now, and everyone should consider ways to take advantage of the benefits of biodiesel.
by: Win Paulson

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BioFuel a Greener Energy Future

The growing global demand for energy has caused a steep rise in energy prices, notably for petroleum-based fuels which are the prime source of energy for most of the world's power plants, machinery, and transportation. As more and more so-called "fossil fuels" are burned to create energy, there has also been a steep rise in the emission of polluting gases around the world. Personal automobiles are the main culprit, since they produce most of the cardon dioxide (CO2) released daily into the atmosphere. CO2 is considered a "greenhouse gas," trapping heat from the sun at the surface of the earth much the way a greenhouse traps heat inside its glass walls.

Biofuels are by definition any fuel that, by being burned, can be converted to energy, and that is produced from a biological source. Since a biological source is also a renewable one, biofuels are reproducible. Unlike fossil fuels of which there is a fixed amount on earth, biofuels can continue to be produced so long as a source of biomass is available. The types of raw material that be converted into biofuel include organic plants, animals (especially animal fat), and even animal and human waste material.

One type of fuel already being produced from biological sources is biodiesel. This fuel, which burns cleaner than its petroleum-based cousin, can be used by most diesel engines without any need for conversion. Many companies are already involved in the production and distribution of a form of biodiesel known as B20. B20 is a mixture of petroleum-based diesel and biofuel "diesel equivalent."

Biofuel is already being made from corn and soy, for example. But using corn and soy has correspondingly driven up the demand for both foods, which while being ideal for biofuel production, are also consumed as food by people around the globe. Using these foods for biofuel has pushed up their cost considerably, which in turn has created food shortages in some areas of the world. This has produced an unexpected quandary for biofuel proponents.

If biofuel is ever to become a true alternative to fossil fuels, a way is needed out of this quandary. One possibility is the use of algae as a biofuel foodstock. Algae have the advantage of being a non-food source which can be produced in areas not already being used to grow other types of food. Corn, soy and cottonseed must be grown on arable land. Algae can be grown in pools, in warm climates around the world, and acre per acre algae yield over a hundred times the quantity of biomass of soybeans.

Since algae take in, rather than produce, carbon dioxide, the very foodstock being used to create biofuel can itself be a cause for a reduction in a significant greenhouse gas. Algae biofuel farms could therefore benefit from a dual income stream. The first is from the sale of the algae itself to refineries for the production of biofuel. The second is income generated from the use of the algae farm as a consumer of other forms of pollution.

Some companies have recognized the benefit to poorer communities of developing the market for biofuels while at the same time encouraging the development of foodstock supplies such as algae farms. These companies are planning to encourage production of foodstock for biofuel in poorer countries to supply the energy needs of more developed areas of the world should raise everyone's quality of life, both in economic terms and in terms of encouraging a cleaner global environment.

Mr. Naved Jafry is the head of Zeon Global Energy. Zeon is committed to produce and promote the biofuels. For more information about ZEON please visit Newswire.net Newswire.net is a social network newswire service providing members with a wealth of applications that enable them to create an in depth profile within Newswrie.net. To create your profile (http://www.newswire.net) sign up and within minutes you too can have your People profile running your ads and building your network with new members daily.

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Jatropha for Biodiesel

I know all of you are wondering why I am writing about a little known plant called "Jatropha Curcas". Well... it all has to do with making biodiesel and the production of electricity using biodiesel as a fuel. This is to inform you of a source of vegetable oil that is relatively unknown in the United States and North America. The European community has already seen the light as have some Asian, African, Indian, and South American countries. Running engines on vegetable oil is nothing new... did you know that Rudolf Diesel originally designed his engine to run on peanut oil? Maybe the US has not seen the light yet because we are mostly engaged in the growing of food crops and oils like soybean oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, and peanut oil. All these oils are edible and thus fetch high prices. After all, why should US farmers grow a completely inedible plant!? Used cooking oil is great for the "do it yourself" biodiesel enthusiast, but there is not enough supply of used cooking oil to supply a whole nation.
This is where Jatropha comes in...

Jatropha has the following benefits when looked at from the fuel production angle:

* it costs almost nothing to grow

* it is drought resistant

* it can be grown almost anywhere - even in sandy, saline, or otherwise infertile soil

* it is easy to propagate (a cutting simply pushed into the ground will take root)

* it is not invasive, or spreading, or damaging like kudzu

* it is capable of stabilizing sand dunes, acting as a windbreak, and combating desertification

* it naturally repels both animals and insects

* it lives for over 50 years producing seeds all the time

* it is frost hardy (does not like hard freezes)

* it does not exhaust the nutrients in the land

* it does not require expensive crop rotation

* it does not require fertilizers

* it grows quickly and establishes itself easily

* it has a high yield (Jatropha can yield about 1,000 barrels of oil per year per square mile - oil content of the seed is 55-60%)

* no displacement of food crops is necessary

* it is great for developing countries in terms of energy and jobs

* the biodiesel byproduct, glycerine, is profitable in itself

* the waste plant mass after oil extraction can be used as a fertilizer

* the plant itself recycles 100% of the CO2 emissions produced by burning the biodiesel

That's a whole lot of benefit with little or no disadvantages!

The European Union biofuels directive requires a minimum level of biofuels as a proportion of fuels sold in the European Union of 2% by 2005, 5.75% by 2010 and 20% by 2020. Of course, as the President stated recently on TV, we don't have any such energy program yet. And I doubt we will anytime soon. The main green fuels will be ethanol and biodiesel, and demand for biodiesel is expected to be up to 10.5 billion litres just in European countries by 2010.

Folks... this "biodiesel" thing is going to happen whether you like it or not! I know there are a lot of farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors reading this who can cash in on this biodiesl craze. They are already doing it big time in Europe so it's just a matter of time before it happens here. And by "it", I mean using Jatropha to make biodiesel. This industry will grow very quickly - start planting Jatropha TODAY and then start making biodiesel to generate your own electricity!

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Jatropa Curcas: The Bio Diesel Medicinal Plant

Jatropa Curcas or locally known as Tuba in our country has been used by our ancestors as a folkloric medicine for rheumatic pains, snake bites and also insecticide. The leaves are used as medicine for muscle ailments like rheumatic pains. Simply by applying oil on the leaves and heated by flames and then applied to the skin on where the ailments are. Although it has medicinal properties, the fruit and seed is not edible and poisonous when ingested. The leaves have anti-inflammatory properties but toxic when excessively used internally. The pounded leaves when pounded and made into a poultice can be used to aid in snakebites and also effective as an insecticide.

This shrub is erect and the leaves have a usually somewhat rounded at the base, pointed at the tip and toothed at the margins. Distributed though out the Philippines and neighboring Asian countries.

Although this is an important addition to the many medicinal herbs (which you can also find some Philippine medical plants in my site on the resource box link below), it is now been discovered as a good bio diesel alternative or additive. Very cost effective and very close to the chemical properties of (fossil) diesel fuel we are using today. Unlike the coconut oil or alcohol additive, which are expensive to produce, Jatropa curcas or tuba is much cheaper. A liter of pure coco bio diesel would cost over P120 or US$2.50, which is why only small amounts of it can be mixed with regular diesel fuel to produce a competitively priced alternative.

Since there are no much demand for tuba, and very easy to propagate the plants, it is cost effective. And imagine you can extract 1 liter of oil from 3 kilos of seeds. There are no complicated processes of extracting oil from the seeds unlike coconut oil and alcohol bio diesel. Seeds are sun dried and grounded to extract oil from it.

India now leads in the development of Jatropa curcas bio diesel fuel and now people in our country are becoming aware with the help of media. And hoping that the government will push through in promoting this bio diesel fuel. Research on jatropha biodiesel production in the Philippines is being undertaken by the research and development facility in Diliman, Quezon City, of PNOC Energy Development Corp.

In India they are talking about planting jatropha in as much as 33 million hectares of wasteland. The proponents envision plantations that can produce enough oil seeds from which biodiesel could be extracted to meet India’s current diesel fuel requirement of 40 million tons annually. Five tons of jatropha oil seeds can produce two tons of biodiesel.

The Indian proponents of jatropha biodiesel point out, among others, that the plants “grow on poor degraded soils and are able to ensure a reasonable production of seeds with very little inputs. [They are] not grazed by animals [and are] highly pest and disease resistant.”

About the author: Manolito Montala is a webmaster and one of his interests is collecting local medicinal plants information which can be found in Filipino Herbs Healing Wonders. You can visit his site in http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonders.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/

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Cellulose Ethanol - Second Generation Biofuel

In the search of renewable energy, turning low volume materials such as switch grass and corn husks into ethanol to fuel cars in some thing of a holy grill. In theory these raw materials should replace the corn grain from main feed stock of ethanol in United States, thus reducing the pressure farmland that played a role in increasing food prices and put drivers into compaction with human hunger.

Front line researchers and investors are finding it hard to market this process commercially and environmentally viable.


Microbiologist Anthony Clarke at the University of Guelph in southwestern Ontario sees the future of renewable fuel but dose not find corn kernel feasible. Anthony states that we have all the other parts of a corn plant, leaves stalk and the husk to produce cellulose ethanol and he also mentions the acid and energy required in the process... turning plant waste into cellulose ethanol is not an simple procedure as acid and stem required in the processing both need energy to be made. So more energy in going in at the moment then the amount being recovered. With the current technology cellulose delivers less energy then corn. But if the scientists succeed in developing there dream technology cellulose ethanol can be 3 to 8 times more efficient then corn ethanol.

Clarke and his team are working on micro organisms that produce cellulose enzymes that can munch on these raw materials the way bacteria in cow help break down and digest grass.

This bio-technology should allow production of cellulose ethanol on commercial scale, resulting into a cheep bio-fuel not directly linked to food grain. This research is being funded by Logen an Ottawa-based market leader of second generation bio fuels.There is another very common negative approach towards bio fuels. Canadian energy coordinator David Martin, agrees to the fact that plants provide a cleaner source of fuel compared to fossil fuel as no new CO2 is added to the atmosphere.

Last 1 year of reviews portrayed bio fuel manufacturers as a space goat or giant maggots graving away all the food grain holding them responsible for inflation in food. Price of a bushel in the past three years raised thrice with a record of $6 and above.

Canadian produce and distributor of Greenfield ethanol Robert Gallant agrees to the fact that the height cost of grain is directly related to the high cost of fuel in USA and even in Pakistan where energy scarcity is common. It should be clear that the lift in the cost of grain has very little to do with the actual cost of the grain. Robert also foresees corn ethanol as a step stone towards cellulose ethanol, and hope that cellulose ethanol should be able to take place of wheat & corn ethanol which s a major source of ethanol production in north America.
Hopes are that when cellulose ethanol comes into the market it should be able to replace not only grain ethanol but also quite a few petroleum products, this also means a promise of a positive environmental impact with this second generation of bio fuels.

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Biofuel - Fuel for Airplanes?

On the verge of several new inventions Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 was tested to fly on Biofuel. It was the first commercial jet ever to fly on Biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels.

This plane was tested with five people on board on one of London Heathrow's two main runways. There were around 100 people watching to evidence this event standing on a nearby hangar. Virgin founder, Richard Branson told reporters just before its take off that, "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," His voice was not clear because of deafening noise of overhead planes.

For experiment purpose, Virgin's eco-plane ran only one engine with that fuel and the other three engines were filled with standard jet fuel. In addition the Biofuel-powered engine was using a blend of conventional jet fuel and Biofuel: 80/20 in favor of the regular stuff. In sum just 5% of the 49,000-lb (22,000 kg) fuel load consisted of the novelty: a special mix of coconut oil and oil from the Brazilian babassu plant, prepared by Seattle-based Imperium Renewable over the last 18 months and tested by General Electric Aviation in Ohio.

Commenting against the people who were stating this incidence as mere publicity stunt, people said that it was just a businesses claim, meant merely as a demonstration. Branson told reporters, "What we're proving today is that Biofuel can be used for a plane," He further added, "Two years ago, people said it was absolutely impossible."

It was also feared that Biofuel would freeze before a plane reached cruising altitude, or that it would require massive and costly changes to the aircraft or fueling systems to work at all. Those all believes were proved wrong with this successful experiment. The fuel used by Virgin did not require any equipment modifications and it flew to 25,000 feet (7,600 m) without incident; and the environmental benefits seem clear, at least once the fuel is loaded onto the plane.

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How to Produce Biofuel

If you can master the basic skill of how to produce biofuel and conjure up the equipment and ingredients in making bio fuel then you can save a lot of money and possible even make a couple of bucks in selling your product.

It is rather simple once you have a grasp of the fundamental principle of how to produce biofuel. All it takes is a few equipments which you can buy online, in your local hardware and even in the grocery. Also some chemicals to facilitate the transformation of the main ingredient, which is waste veggie oil, would be needed to make a batch of this safe form of fuel.

To begin with making your first batch, you need to make sure that you have a supplier of used vegetable oil. You can get this from the closest restaurant in your place. It would be best to make arrangements with the manager so that you have first dibs on the used oil of that day.

Once you have that all set, you will need a bio diesel kit. You can order this online or assemble one for yourself. The parts and accessories are not that hard to find so no excuses there.

You would need to get some reagents that you will need to use in how to produce biofuel. This would be methanol (racing fuel) and sodium hydroxide (household lye).

Using the biodiesel kit, the veggie oil will be mixed with the catalysts which are methanol and lye. Once mixed, this will make your veggie oil in a fuel fit for a diesel engine. Of course, this product will undergo washing and filtration to be at optimal condition to be used in a diesel engine.

This would pretty much summarize how to produce biofuel. Once mastered, you'll be on your way to powering your own engine and possibly selling some of the leftovers. If you are interested in a guide that you show you exactly how to produce biofuel in your own garage, then read more here.

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The Wide Variety of Biofuel Sources

There are many pros and cons of methanol fuel, but this alternative energy source can play a part in meeting the energy needs of the future. Methanol may also be called wood alcohol or M85 which is a blend of 85% percent methanol mixed with 15% gasoline. This type of biofuel is similar to ethanol and is very efficient and clean burning, making it eco friendly. Methanol is produced using a process that starts with methane gas and then uses steam and catalysts to turn this gas into biofuel. There are a few disadvantages to methanol, because this fuel does not operate as well in cold weather, but this problem has been fixed when M85 is created instead of a straight methanol mixture. Methanol does not contribute to global warming or pollution, and is a very powerful alternative fuel source.

Another earth friendly option is the biomass fuel biobutanol as direct replacement of gasoline. Biobutanol offers many benefits. This fuel is a better alternative than ethanol and fossil fuels. Biobutanol does not have a corrosive effect like ethanol, and requires less engine maintenance and repair. It does not evaporate as quickly as other fuels, so it can be stored much longer without losing effectiveness. There is no conversions or alterations needed to a traditional gasoline engine to burn biobutanol fuel instead, so switching over can be very convenient and simple to do. It is a biofuel which is low cost, clean burning, and could be used right now in place of traditional gasoline and other fossil fuels.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas, also known as LPG, is another solution to using fuels which do not pollute or speed up global warming, even though this fuel is really a fossil fuel found in the earth. What is a liquefied petroleum gas? This fuel is a naturally occurring gas that can be found around other fossil fuel reserves in the earth, and is a combination of both propane and butane gas. This fuel is carbon based, but half a million vehicles in the U.S are LPG fueled and it does not have a negative impact on the environment. The gas is highly pressurized and there is an airtight delivery system, so no gas can get into the air. This fuel reduces sulfur in the air and acid rain, as well as greenhouse emissions and air pollution.

Another alternative method is to use municipal solid waste management to produce biomass fuel. This technology takes municipal solid waste, or garbage, and turns it into biofuels which can power your car, as well as electricity and heat for your home. Cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel can be produced from municipal solid waste. All organic materials can be used in these processes to provide biofuels which are safer and nicer to the earth and environment. Biofuels cut down on carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, and will not contribute to global warming. A few third world countries have objected to biofuels because of food shortages, but using municipal solid waste to produce biofuels does not affect the food supply at all.

One alternative and renewable fuel source is waste vegetable oil, also called WVO. The future of waste vegetable oil, just like the future of municipal solid waste management, is strong and bright for the same reasons. Both technologies take something that has been discarded and turns it into a valuable energy resource. Many people have seen commercials and news stories about cars and owners who use discarded waste vegetable oil for fuel. The oil must be strained, but that is the only disadvantage. The energy needs of the future must be met with environmentally friendly sources, and WVO can be one of these.

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Important Facts About Biofuel Production

Biomass fuel production in different countries can be a touchy subject, because not all countries agree with the production and use of biofuels. India is very outspoken in their dissent, because of the mistaken belief that biofuel production takes away from the food supply and contributes to global hunger. Biofuels are produced from biomass, which is an organic material such as dead plant particles, manure or municipal solid waste. More than 20 countries so far have biofuel production facilities and programs in place, with others moving forward in this arena as well. Biofuels do not have to be made with corn or soybeans, Germany is using rapeseed, and there are many other sources that do not come from food crops. These fuels are the future of the energy used globally, because soon fossil fuels will be gone. Biofuels are an environmentally friendly alternative that will be used to meet future energy needs.

It is not widely understood by many but biofuel production can help third world economies instead of causing problems. The production of these fuels offers many benefits to these economies. The entire economy of the local area can be improved. Using local employees and materials mean more income and taxes, as well as an improved infrastructure to serve the plant and community. Farmers would be paid regularly for their crops, and the transportation of these materials is much less because they are local. Biofuels and food do not have to compete, and farmers can grow food crops on fertile land and grow biofuel crops on land that is useless for any food farming.

One of the advantages of biofuel production is that biomass fuel can be produced at comparably low cost. Whenever fuel is produced, regardless of the origin of the fuel, cost is always going to be a factor. Just a few years ago biofuels were not widely produced, and this led to a higher cost for these fuels. Ethanol, biodiesel and biogas can all be produced at a low cost financially, and a large benefit ecologically. These fuels offer many benefits and are seeing more widespread use. Ethanol is alcohol based and created through a fermentation process. Biodiesel uses oils and fats from plants and other organic materials in a process called transesterification. Biogas is usually produced from specially designed landfills and waste to energy plants and programs. Using these biofuels can also help to combat a global warming.

In a recent amazing discovery, growing biofuel on trees is also possible. There is a specific tree, called the diesel oil tree, that can be tapped to recover an oil that is remarkably easy to turn into biodiesel. This tree will produce the oil for seventy years, and Australian farmers are growing plantations of them. A fungus, called Gliocladium roseum has been located in trees in the Patagonia rainforest, and it creates carbon chains identical to the ones found in petroleum. Unfortunately, right now these are only produced under very strict and narrow conditions, but the breakthrough has lead to more research. Biodiesel can play a big part in reducing pollution and global warming, and making the earth a better place to live for everyone.

The benefits of bio fuel production to the world are many. Fossil fuels are quickly being depleted and can not be replaced. Alternative sources of energy are numerous, and eco-friendly, but most of these, like solar, wind, and ocean energy, can not be used to power a vehicle. These technologies can be used to provide heat and electricity for homes and buildings though. Biofuels are carbon neutral so they do not speed up global warming, they are an environmentally friendly source of fuel that is renewable, and they are the answer to meeting the fuel needs of the future. Any organic material can be used to make biofuels, and these fuels can make a big difference to the planet. Until recently though, they were not in high demand because of the low cost and availability of fossil fuels.

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Methanol is Different than Ethanol, But it Can be Used for Automobile Fuel

What is Methanol? Well it is wood alcohol or methl-alcohol and for automobiles there is an M85 Blend, which is like the Ethanol E85 Blend. The M85 Blend has 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent methanol. In the United States our methanol blends use natural gas but we can also make it from coal, biogas, sewage were even cow pies, pasture patties, meadow muffins, sidewalk Sundays and well, you get the point.

The good thing about methanol is the octane rating is fairly high in that means good performance and even better performance than normal gasoline. The methanol can be unstable it is used in some high performance racecars, but when it is mixed with gasoline it is not quite is dangerous.

Since most methanol is made from natural gas and natural gas can be expensive it can be problematic and it is difficult to store because it is very corrosive. Ethanol is much more efficient and you get better economy than with ethanol. Ethanol refineries cost less to build also, as methanol refineries are really distilleries and when you make methanol from natural gas you actually get CO2, which believes the atmosphere or has to be collected.

All in all ethanol is the better bet and this is why ethanol E85 has been chosen as the biofuel of choice for our cars. Of course Methanol makes sense to power other things and it can be an option in other endeavors. Consider this in 2006.

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Home Biodiesel Production Part 2

Now that we've filtered our oil, we're now going to make a batch of biodiesel. And we want to show you what you do. We now have filtered oil. I have oil in a 55 gallon drum, and I'm going to put oil into this machine. Inside this machine it has marks that tell me the different sizes, and so I will transport this oil in using this big behemoth. Click it on, and then we can start the flow by turning the power on. I've already preloaded this machine full of oil, but basically this suck pump would suck the oil up, and put it into this machine. Once the oil is in here then we're ready to get started with the batch. Remember it takes methanol, and lye, and we use a secret ingredient, we use sulfuric acid and I'll tell you what that's for in a minute.

After we've loaded our oil into this machine it's now time to load the chemicals and everything else needed to get it going. Our next is to put methanol into these quarts up here. So I'm going to climb up here, and what we have is; one quart for our methanol, one quart for our methoxide, which is going to be our combination of sodium or potassium hydroxide, we're going to use potassium hydroxide in this case, and some methanol. I have some handy gauges on the side here that let me know when I get the amount of methanol I've needed, into the machine so I'm just going to step down here for a moment, put my methanol in the barrel, and I'm going to chug away, with a pump, then I'll get methanol into our machine here.

What you see now is a gauge that's coming up. You're able to see that we can fill this full of methanol. This tank is going to be used for what we call our estarification process which is where we use sulfuric acid. We'll show you that in a minute, but for now it's time to get the methanol into the machine.

The next step that we're going to do is we're going to measure out some chemicals. It's really important that you wear something to protect your face and hands because what we're about to do is really nasty. Using a scale, we're going to way out enough catalyst to make our biodiesel with. I have tarred my scale, and what that means is I've set it to zero so I know how much I'm putting in. I'm going to bring this up to 1600 grams and I'm going to do it again. So my goal is to put 4800 grams of catalyst into that machine. So with that, we're going to take it over and put it in.

The next step is to put the catalyst into the machine. This is a very careful process of making sure all the stuff in the pitcher just gets into the machine. It generates lots of dust. It's kind of gross. It's basically annoying, but it's a necessary evil. I have to do this a couple more times and then we'll be ready to start a batch.

So we've got now a certain amount of catalyst in here, and we're now going to introduce methanol. A chemical reaction is going to occur. I'll top that off. It's important that after you've put the catalyst in that you seal your catalyst back up. So we're now going to go over and seal our catalyst before we get started on our next set.
One of the things that we do when we're done with our catalyst is we seal everything so that we don't let the catalyst get moist. So, I've sealed my catalyst bucket that I've got, I'll get a towel and cover up my scale, to keep it nice and dry. I put this inside here to keep it dry and I cover everything. I don't want any moisture getting on there. Our next step is to put more methanol in the machine, and we'll get the batch started.

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Making Biodiesel at Home - Part 1

Hi! On behalf of Parleys Diesel Performance and Utah biodiesel supply we're now going to show you how to make a large batch of biodiesel. We're going to show you how we collect out oil, we'll talk a little bit about how we filter our oil, how we transfer that oil into a biodiesel processer, how we do the process, and then how we use the fuel. We're going to talk about various things along the way so let's get started.

First of all we have a shop, that we go out and collect oil in 55 gallon drums. We put these drums behind restaurants that we've contracted with, and they put oil into these drums, and then we bring them back to this shop on the back of a truck. We have a lift-gate on the back of the truck so it makes it really easy to swap them in and out. A lot of people try to collect oil using pumps, they'll go and they'll actually pump the oil, and we tried that for a little while, but a lift-gate was just so much easier. They're about 2,500 to 3,500 dollars but they are the best thing in the world. If you get one be sure you don't let your uncles, aunts, friends, and everyone else know because soon you'll be transporting pianos down the street. They're just a wonderful piece of equipment to have on a truck. However, what we have when we go to collect oil is, we'll bring a barrel back here, bring it right to about here, and then we'll get out a filter. And this looks nice and kind of grimy. It's a four-hundred micron baron filter. We put it over the barrel, and we filter the oil. Once our filtered oil is done we'll haul it to a production facility that I'll show you in a moment, and we make the biodiesel.

I want to tell you a little bit about what we use here. Remember in our smaller setting we talked about using methanol, lye, and oil. Well, up here is our methanol. This methanol is a 325 gallon tank. Most of you won't need anything this large, but we make so much fuel we get this delivered to us. Then we go through it and we take it back to our area. You can get it pretty cheap when you get it this way. This is a 55 gallon drum. This is typically how methanol is purchased. This is one common way. The easiest way to transport it home, it can be put on the back of a pick-up. And then when you get it home you get to transport it into the back of your biodiesel processor.

These are our glycerin barrels, and as we produced our fuel if you'll remember right we had our byproduct of glycerin. So we just take that glycerin out of the machine and we'll come over here and we pour this glycerin right into these barrels. The glycerin's going to contain crude glycerin, some soap, some catalyst, and some methanol. We cap these barrels up, we use our lift-gate, we throw it on the back of the truck, and we haul it over to a waste water treatment plant where they take it off our hands. They add it to their methane digester which produces methane gas they use to run their generators. We get rid of it that way. They don't charge us for it, we don't get paid to get it taken off our hands, but it's a nice way to get rid of it. Once we get the glycerin out of here we then can take the fuel out of here and make biodiesel with it. I'll show you in a moment how we make the fuel.

After we have our oil filtered, in a drum such as this, we get a sump pump. And all this is is a good old cheap sump pump from Home Depot, Lowe's, what have you. We've mounted a big pipe on it, and a tube, and we use this to fill the machine full of oil. We just turn it on, it works great, we put these drum on dollies so that we can move them over to our equipment, and we're able to make biodiesel. A moment ago we showed you some methanol. This is a methanol drum right here. This is just a pump that we've attached to it so that we can quickly pump methanol into our machine. We're going to make a batch today so you can see how that works as well. Methanol, oil, and then if he pans over to my side over here, this is lots and lots of catalyst. This particular catalyst contains potassium hydroxide, and we use it to make biodiesel. Remember it takes methanol, oil, and catalyst to make fuel. Behind me is on the right is fuel. This is biodiesel that we have produced in our machines. We'll show you how that's done, and this fuel is ready to use in diesel pickups. Again remember it's being made for about a dollar a gallon, and we are able to save ourselves a lot of money by using what normal people would throw away. Welcome to biodiesel, we'll show you how to filter, we'll make a batch, and be on our way.

Once we've brought our oil into our warehouse we have to filter it. In order to make biodiesel it's a really good idea to filter it so you get all your crustys and crunchys out. This is just a 55-gallon drum strainer. It's a 400 micron. It's the one that we personally use. It looks kind of gross and uky but we've probably put about 3,500 gallons of fuel through this filter. So they're really durable and they last long. It's just a poly based filter. You can get them on most sites. Take a look at my site I carry them as well. We're going to put the filter on, we're going to take our oil and just simply poor it through it. Now, oil coming from restaurants is really gross, and nasty. As you see there are some crustys and stuff in here, and as you notice it doesn't like to go through this really quick so we get ourselves a spatula with rounded corners, and we just scrape back and forth to let those crustys go out. So this oil is just going to filter through. Can you hear it filtering down in there? Once it's filtered we'll take it into our lab or into our shop and make biodiesel. So we're going to kind of let this sit here for a while while we go do that. One thing I want to show you though, a lot of times you're going to get really thicky crap oil and you need to get rid of the crustys. So we cut a car boy open which is what your going to typically get oil in, and we just scrape it into there. So again I'm just moving back and forth real slow. You can see some of those chunks that I'm getting out of that. It's usually food particles and stuff from the grill, it's French fries, just all that stuff they put in the oil over at the restaurant that you really don't want in your fuel. Particularly in your truck, okay? I'm just going to filter that out, and our next step is showing you how we load our machine, full of oil. Then we're going to make a batch. So we'll see you in a second.

Our next step is we've filtered the oil so now it's time to make the biodiesel. Remember from before, to make biodiesel you need a heated mixture, so I happen to have sitting next to me one heck of a heated mixture. This is a stainless steel piece of equipment with a giant mixer in it, and a big heater on the bottom. It allows me to make biodiesel very quickly, and in a fairly automated fashion. Now to make biodiesel you don't need something like this, but we make so much that we like it. Let me tell you just how much we make. You've seen the fuel sitting behind me a minute ago. Last year alone we made 6,800 gallons of fuel that we used in a wide variety of diesel pickups. Anything from an 07 Duramax down to a 93 F350 to the stapid large DT466 with an international harvester engine, and we're running biodiesel in all of those. We have a Ford, Chevy, and a Dodge that we run it in so we've got it all across the gammit.

We know about what it's going to do. We're in Utah here and we are cold outside and in the winters we are starting to blend. We make primarily our biodiesel from canola oil, canola is wonderful cold flow added diesel properties, so when it gets down to about 50 degrees we start blending. Before that we can pretty much handle it. Some of our diesels are a little bit more sensitive, others aren't. Pretty much if it's a diesel it will handle biodiesel, and handle it really well. That's anything from dump trucks, to big earth movers, to farm equipment, to tiny little TIs. You name it if it's got a diesel engine in it and it's direct injected or indirect injected chances are it will run on biodiesel. Believe it or not, Rudolph Diesel when he made the biodiesel engine his goal was to have an engine that was ubiquitous with all sorts of oils, and biodiesel just happens to be one of those that will run in it.

The DR Performance Diesel Products & Edge Diesel Products are both fully compatible with biodiesel- Nathan Young

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Cellulosic Ethanol - An Advanced Ethanol Fuel That Could Be the Answer to Our Global Energy Needs

We live in a society that has made it easy for us to develop very bad energy consumption habits. We have been spoiled over the last 50 years because of the fact that oil from fossil fuels is a very rich energy source, but the problem is that it is not a renewable energy source and therefore it will run out one day in the near future. We got a little glimpse of what a shortage of oil can do to us as a nation last summer when gasoline prices went over $4.50 a gallon. Now this was just a temporary shortage. Imagine what will happen when we are close to using up the global oil supply. President Obama, has started to earmark millions of dollars towards research on alternative energies . In this article we will take a look at some alternative energies that continue to show promise.

Ethanol is a pretty good alternative energy fuel source and it is already being used in a few foreign countries. Brazil for example, powers most of the vehicles in its country of ethanol fuel and while it is a very green energy since it is made from corn and other farm sugars it can really exhaust the global food supply really fast if we do not have ways to manufacture it on a large scale. There must be another alternative fuel source which is readily available that we really don't depend on as our main food sustenance.

Cellulosic ethanol is one of the most exciting advanced ethanol fuel sources that is being talked about globally and it is one that can potentially solve our future energy crisis. Cellulosic ethanol is an advanced type of biofuel that is made from the different parts of plants and trees that are not edible.cellulosic ethanol is made mainly from Lignocellulose, which makes up almost all of the mass of vegetation and it is mainly made up of three different types of cellulose. Woodchips are an example of material that can be used to make cellulosic ethanol, and it can be found all around us in abundance. When we cut our lawn and trimming trees with chips or byproduct of this, so instead of throwing these woodchips away we can use them in the future to create cellulosic ethanol. Another great benefit of this type of fuel is that it has been proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 85% compared to conventional gasoline fuel, and this is something that regular ethanol fuel cannot even come close to matching.

The only drawback to this alternative fuel is that it takes a lot more processing to get it to the end result of becoming an actual fuel source. If our government really get serious about this and pours in billions of dollars into this research they cut down the processing steps which will enable us to make this a readily available global alternative fuel. Let's hope the Obama administration lives up to its promise of funding these alternative fuel sources.

I love writing about alternative fuel sources such as Biofuel. You can read about the newest advances in biofuels at http://www.biofuelguide.net which is updated regularly with the newest, most exciting biofuel technologies coming out.

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Biogas and Biomethane Gains Wider Acceptance

Biogas is a wonderfully flexible and renewable form of energy and it can be used as a building block to make not only a wide variety of liquid fuels, but also organic chemicals and even plastics.

The biogas digestion (anaerobic digestion) process can be installed and run at the household level with simple training and support, and it can also be developed in huge projects to anaerobic make community and district anaerobic digestion plants. These can take up to 100,000 tons per year of organic waste and create methane from it. When the methane produced is cleaned and compressed it is called biomethane, and can be pumped into the district grids which nowadays deliver us natural gas from fossil fuels.

A household biogas plant consists of a tank (at its simplest just an underground brick pit) where manure (human sanitary waste) and other organic materials are mixed with water and allowed to ferment.

A farm biogas plant does the same but in a larger reactor and usually takes the farm animal slurries, but can also in some Scandinavian plants also use silage. The silage is stored for use to feed farm biogas plants during the long cold winters, when other feed organic feed materials may be in short supply. The farm anaerobic digestion (AD) plant can in this way strengthen the ability of farm businesses to withstand bad weather and poor years when crops are poor, and its adoption in large numbers will therefore improve the resilience of the agricultural sector.

Let us not forget either that greater biogas production and the use of it will result in a reduction in greenhouse emissions and sizeable plants can make reductions of the order of 50,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalents annually.

An AD plant always contains two main components: a digester (or fermentation tank) and a gas holder. The digester in the most common types of plant is a rectangular-shaped or cylindrical leakproof vessel with an inlet into which the fermentable mixture is introduced in the form of a liquid slurry.

China is an example of a nation where the government has introduced a biogas program. More and more governments are realizing that biogas production brings benefits not only the ecological system, but it also benefits rural populations. India and Nepal are also well known for their digesters.

The benefits are many and include it being an alternative energy source, methane is very useful for cooking, improving rural sanitation, reducing firewood consumption, relieving the rural women's burden, providing a liquid fertilizer for the fields, and proving a sludge which can improve soil quality, plus more. What is more, each farmer my be able to obtain a cash income from this as well.

The actual results of bio-gas programmes have shown these real benefits improving rural life in so many ways.

In one example the biogas digester attached to toilets provides cooking gas for a 600-student school and vocational-training program the foundation runs. In the past, non-governmental organizations were the only ones offering these ideas but that is rapidly changing as the good word gets around.

After the fermentation has been completed in an AD plant, the biogas leaves from the top of the digester at a low pressure, sufficient to overcome the losses provide enough pressure to push the gas through a gas burner, and similarly through some power generation motors, without any compressor to raise pressure.

The countries in Europe are now beginning to sit up and take stock of successes in China and other nations, and are introducing new legislation to encourage the uptake of AD technology. These laws will be explained and discussed extensively at both the plenary sessions and in the workshops in a surprisingly large number of conferences this year.

Steve Last is an anaerobic digestion expert, and web master. You will find much more about this fascinating subject at his Biogas Digester web site. But for a simple Biogas Calculator follow the link earlier in this sentence.

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A More Fuel-Like Biofuel - Producing Biofuels That Actually Resemble Gasoline

The offspring of Jay Keasling's synthetic biology research and vision, Emeryville, CA-based Amyris Biotechnologies has made a double impact. First, the company, with more than $40 million of backing from the Bill Gates' Institute for One World Health charity, developed a microbial route to the anti-malarial compound artemisinin. In and of itself this work was a stunningly successful scientific achievement, and the resulting process has been licensed to Sanofi-Aventis for low-cost manufacturing and distribution in the third world.

But how does that relate to biofuels? Well, producing the anti-malarial drug relied on the engineering of a metabolic pathway to produce a key intermediate that is in the class of chemicals called terpenes. Chemically, terpenes are hydrocarbons, similar to diesel or gasoline, and are therefore very good fuel compounds. Thus, the same basic science that led to artemisinin can be applied, with appropriate tweaking, to produce fuels based on terpenes. And according to the company, a desired fuel compound can be selected based on its properties (flash point, cloud point, boiling point, density, fuel value, etc), and then the pathway to produce it can be designed. Voila! You have a designer fuel. And being hydrocarbons with properties similar to gasoline, terpenes do not suffer from the limitations that alcohols (particularly ethanol) have as fuels. If you want to put something into your gas tank or jet engine, a designer hydrocarbon is likely to be superior to any alcohol. At least that is what Amyris argues.

Amyris has the backing of a well-heeled group of VCs: Kleiner Perkins, TPG Biotech, and DAG Ventures. In the area of bio-based production of gasoline-like fuels, Amyris is at the head of the class. Economics remain to be proven, but Amyris has formed a joint venture with the second largest Brazilian sugar producer, Crystalsev, to get access to inexpensive sugar feedstock, and the first demonstration plant is scheduled to be built right on the sugar plantation in Brazil by 2010. It will produce a biodiesel (with the interesting name of "No CompromiseTM"), currently being piloted at Amyris' Emerville facility. Amyris promises that a bio-gasoline and a bio-aviation fuel are not far behind. If any company can make terpene-based fuels successfully, Amyris appears to be that company.

David Rozzell maintains a web site and blog dedicated to the latest developments and news in biofuels, biocatalysis, and industrial biotechnology. For informative, sometimes amusing, always opinionated analysis go to http://www.bio-catalyst.com He has 25 years of experience in biocatalysis and industrial biotechnology, and speaks frequently at international symposia. He is available for consulting projects. Contact him at david@bio-catalyst.com.

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Singapore Firm to Put $100m Into Jatropha

Singapore-based Mother Earth Plantations Pte. Ltd., through its Indonesian subsidiary PT Buana Ibunda, will invest $100 million to develop jatropha plantations and a refinery in West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara Province, which it says will be able to produce up to 21 million barrels of biodiesel a year by 2013.

Speaking on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 5th World Islamic Economic Forum in Jakarta, Roland A. Jansen, Mother Earth’s president, said the investment would take place over four years, and include the construction of a refinery with a processing capacity of 100,000 tons of jatropha seeds per annum by the end of this year.

Jansen said the company would eventually be able to produce some 3 million tons of Jatropha curcas seeds on the marginal land in Kupang that is to be planted as part of the project.

Jatropha curcas, known locally as jarak pagar , is an inedible oil crop primarily used to produce biodiesel. It is estimated that Indonesia has the capacity to produce 2.9 million kiloliters of biodiesel a year and 215,000 kiloliters of bioethanol per year.

However, Paulus Tjakrawan, the secretary-general of the Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association, or Aprobi, said he was no longer so sure about the potential of jatropha-based biofuel, saying it was now unattractive to buyers. Biofuel producers have repeatedly complained that they suffer losses of an average of Rp 610 a liter on sales of biodiesel and bioethanol to Pertamina as the prices are set based on the crude oil price, which collapsed last year.

The government started pushing jatropha oil as an alternative energy source four years ago, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issuing a decree on the subject in 2006. Under the scheme, three state firms were to buy the jatropha seeds for processing from farmers, who were encouraged to set aside vast areas for growing the feedstock. But the companies never did make the anticipated purchases, mainly because they had their own jatropha plantations, the output of which already exceeded the production capacity of the existing refineries. The jatropha project has now ground to a halt, although the government has yet to admit as much.

The energy mix is currently dominated by petroleum, accounting for 51.6 percent of the energy consumed in Indonesia. This information from here

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What is Ethanol?

Ethanol is a clean-burning, high-octane motor fuel that is produced from renewable sources. At its most basic, ethanol is grain alcohol, produced from crops such as corn. Because it is domestically produced, ethanol helps reduce America's dependence upon foreign sources of energy.

Unblended 100% ethanol is not used as a motor fuel; instead, a percentage of ethanol is combined with unleaded gasoline. The most common blends are:

E10 - 10% ethanol and 90% unleaded gasoline
E10 is approved for use in any make or model of vehicle sold in the U.S. Many automakers recommend its use because of its high performance, clean-burning characteristics. Today about 70% of America's gasoline contained some ethanol, most as this E10 blend.

E85 - 85% ethanol and 15% unleaded gasoline
E85 is an alternative fuel for use in flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs). There are currently more than 6 million FFVs on America's roads today, and automakers are rolling out more each year. In conjunction with more flexible fuel vehicles, more E85 pumps are being installed across the country. When E85 is not avaialble, these FFVs can operate on straight gasoline or any ethanol blend up to 85%.

It is important to note that it does not take a special vehicle to run on "ethanol". All vehicles are "ethanol vehicles" and can use up to 10% ethanol with no modifications to the engine. Often people confuse E85 for "ethanol", believing incorrectly that not all vehicles are ethanol-compatible.

Mid-range blends of ethanol: between E10 and E85
ACE is leading efforts to attend to any technical or regulatory hurdles to using ethanol blends above 10%, such as E20, E30, or E40. If these higher percentages of ethanol could be used in standard automobiles, the U.S. could use a dramatically higher amount of renewable fuel, thus significantly decreasing our dependence on petroleum.

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Ethanol Industry

Ethanol is a high octane, clean burning, American-made renewable fuel. Its production and use offer a myriad of benefits to the United States and its citizens.
The production of ethanol is an economic engine for the United States, adding value to U.S. agricultural products and bringing billions of dollars to the nation's economy each year. The use of ethanol reduces harmful auto emissions, offers consumers a cost-effective choice at the pump, and decreases the amount of expensive crude oil needed to satisfy the nation's thirst for transportation fuel.
Ethanol is produced at more than 175 facilities across the nation and blended in to unleaded gasoline in varying percentages. Ethanol is most commonly retailed as E10, the blend of 10 percent ethanol (90% gasoline) for use in all automobiles. Increasingly, ethanol is also available as E85, the 85 percent ethanol blend for use in Flexible Fuel Vehicles. Study is being done on allowing the use of blends beyond 10 percent in standard automobiles

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After entering the global crisis that began in October 2008, the start feel some impact of this month, where many start Reduction of labor, savings perusahaaan, stimulus from the government and many more. At the time this is important once we consider how the development of children when a crisis occurs. We may not let them play not only because we have little or no money.

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Energy, biotechnology and Agribusiness SG Veterans Form Biofuels Development Jatropha as a low cost, Oil Development

Energy, biotechnology and Agribusiness SG Veterans Form Biofuels Development Jatropha as a low cost, Oil Development

SG Biofuels library assembles the genetic material of Jatropha

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2 / PRNewswire / - After three years of research, a team of energy, biotechnology and agribusiness veterans today announced the formation of SG Biofuels, a San Diego, CA-based plant oil companies that specialize in the development of Jatropha as a low cost, which produced sustainable source of oil.

Kirk Haney, President and Chief Executive Officer, the company introduced at the 2009 National Biodiesel Conference and Expo in San Francisco, CA, where he was a feature speaker on Jatropha.

"We switch from Jatropha opportunities become a reality with a world-class team of scientists and geneticists, depth of resources and expertise in Latin America and agribusiness committed to sustainable production," said Haney.

SG Biofuels' scientific team, led by Dr. Robert Schmidt, PhD., Combining more than 100 years of experience in plant molecular genetics and biotechnology, and includes three members of the National Academy of Sciences. The Company has assembled the largest and most diverse library of Jatropha genetic material in the world, providing the opportunity to develop the most productive type of Jatropha.

Jatropha curcas is a non-edible shrub is native to Central America. High number of seeds which contain oil that can be used for a variety of bio-based feedstock materials, including biodiesel and Petrochemical substitutes for fuel and aviation industry. Can be developed effectively left on the ground that are not suitable for other crops.

Jatropha oil produced by SG Biofuels have been independently evaluated for the quality of biodiesel and verified to be clean, stable source for biodiesel fuel that meets or exceeds strict European specification. Latin American companies Jatropha done recently out palm, soya and Jatropha from India in differentiating the two criteria: low-temperature performance and long-term storage stability.

Biofuels SG team that includes veteran Georges Daou business as Chairman and Chief Business Development Officer. Daou founded Daou Systems, Inc., and for 10 years and has led some to invest in start-up and the capital invested in business enterprises. Its advisory council includes Edgar Masri, former CEO of 3COM Corporation, swamp George, a former general manager for Kellogg Brown & Root in Saudi Arabia, and Herb Sostek, former President and CEO of Gibbs Oil Company.

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Green Gold Energies (Symbol: GRYE) Opens Its First Jatropha Biodiesel Oil Refinery Marketwire

Green Gold Ray Energies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRYE) -- "Fueling the Future" -- announced today that its biodiesel refinery in Nasipit Port, Agusan del Norte will be opened in the next 90 days. Below is the perspective view of the GRYE Processing & Refinery Plant capable of producing about 180 million gallons per year or 680,400,000 liters per year.

The Research and Development Team of Green Gold Ray Energies has designed a unique biodiesel processing and refining technology that fits best to the Jatropha oil market requirements. The plant is designed to produce high biodiesel oil quality, based on fast enhanced growth, cultivation period, increased production efficiency, reliability and better productivity.

CEO Manolo Tecson said that he expects to see a greater increase in revenue now that they are initiating towards the full capacity of Green Gold Ray Energies. "Green Gold is responding to the global economic program of immediate creation and development of clean alternative energy production! We are very excited to see this first stage of growth come to pass, so we can finally fulfill and contribute to the local and global demands of biodiesel fuels, thus servicing our clients' inquiries and requests, while we get to the completion of our Website www.GreenGoldEnergies.com."

To date the Philippine government has legalized into law the Republic Act 9367, known as the Biofuel Act of 2006, which encourages the public to consume alternative fuels and strives for the gradual phase out of the use of damaging gasoline additives. The Act seeks to implement that all oil companies retail only liquid fuel that contains at least 5% bioethanol by total annual volume within the next two years from the effective date of the Biofuel Act and a minimum of 10% blend of ethanol by volume within four years.

A minimum of 1% by volume shall be blended into all diesel engine fuels within 3 months from the effective date of the Act and will increase to 2% in the next 2 years. The Philippines is in need of 150 million liters of bio diesel per year and is expected to double in the next 5 years.

CEO Tecson adds, "There is only one existing biofuel company here in the country, Chemrez Phil., with only 60 million liters production per year, not enough for the country's bio fuel demand and Chemrez is using coconut oil as feed stock. Food-fuel competition will be their future problem."

Jatropha oil is inedible oil, not fit for human consumption, so by using Jatropha as feed stock, Green Gold Ray Energies is exempted from the "Food for Fuel Controversy." This information from here

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