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Biodiesel
Grease to Greece
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2009
In the last week of August, eight cars rolled triumphantly into Athens, having driven across Europe from London in a cloud of dust and cooking
smells.
The 3,000-km car rally ran on oil, recycled from used cooking oil collected from restaurants, service stations, hospitals, even "old folks' homes
along the way".
The rally's organiser, Andy Page, called it a "fat-finding mission". No stranger to alternatively-powered rallies, he led a team of
Poverty as a posture?
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2008
The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded
Biodiesel portal
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
With oil prices going through the roof, the frenzy around biodiesels has intensified. The us Biofuels Exchange Inc.
(usbe) has thrown in its bit in the kafuffle. It has launched an internet biofuels platform which links biofuel producers
with buyers.
The platform works very similar to the emarketing portal, eBay; it has a rating system to track and follow deals, display real time pricing and
Food vs fuel
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
The final press conference of the meet was postponed by an hour and a half because there were disagreements on the final document to be read by DG Diouf. According to fao sources, the dispute was to do with biofuels and the liberalization of agricultural trade. The delay did not come as a surprise; an undercurrent of dispute, stemming from differing concerns, was there all through the conference. The rich nations of the North brought their own agenda to the meet, which was to defend their right to alternative fuel and therefore their interests in biofuel.
Adventure on biofuel
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
Earthrace, a 78-feet trimaran, set off on a voyage from Sagunto in Spain on April 27 to circumnavigate the globe on biodiesel. By March 8, it covered 4,200 nautical miles (7,778.4 km) and reached Puerto Rico where it refuelled, fixed the toilet and repaired an inspection hatch on the fuel tank. This is the second attempt by the team to circumnavigate the globe.
A chocolate truck to Timbuktu
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
Propelled by a unique biodiesel produced from leftover chocolates, this vehicle arrived in Mali's central city Timbuktu on December 22. Nicknamed BioTruck, the vehicle started its journey from the UK on November 26. The BioTruck team claims this is the world's first carbon-negative driving expedition across the Sahara desert. The expedition was to raise public awareness about biofuels and their potential to ease the impact of climate change, as well as to explore the value of different carbon-reducing measures.
Twenty-five by' 25
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2007
a bill seeking to expand renewable energy production was passed in the us on October 16. The resolution focuses on agriculture-based energy products, including ethanol and biodiesel, and aims to replace a fourth of the country's energy needs by renewable resources by 2025. Renewable energy sources provide about six per cent of the us 's total energy needs.
CO<sub>2</sub> from cars to feed algae
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2007
the use of algae as a source of biofuel has gained popularity in the last few years. In July 2007, three entrepreneurs
from the uk came out with a way to feed algae by capturing carbon dioxide (co2) from automobiles. This co2 was used to feed algae which then
produced biofuel.
Rajasthan announces draft biofuel policy
@soulmoksha Issue Date: Mar 15, 2007
Now it is the turn of the Rajasthan government to be bowled over by biofuel. At a press meet in Jaipur on January 11, 2007, parliamentary affairs minister Rajendra Rathore relayed the decision of the Rajasthan cabinet to allocate 48.5 million hectares (ha) of "culturable wastelands" for planting ratanjot (Jatropha curcus) and other biofuel crops, as part of its new draft biofuel policy.
US attempt to promote corn ethanol challenged
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2007
The west Asian crisis, rising prices and global warming are pushing
large oil users to rethink energy alternatives and biofuel has become
the buzzword. Various options are being tried out to produce ethanol in
laboratories as well as in industry
The US with 5 per cent of global population and 25 per cent of global
