Monday, November 28, 2005

[Biodiesel] Fill 'er up with your old cooking oil, scientists say After the doughnuts are fried and the chicken wings made golden and crispy, what do you do with old cooking oil, the smelly and nasty-looking stuff that remains? Why, make fuel out of it. That's what a group of scientists at the Waste Management and Research Center in Champaign are doing.  They're collecting waste oil from the University of Illinois dining halls, whipping up batches of biodiesel and fueling up the center's Ford F-250 pickup truck. [Source: Champaign-Urbana (IL) News-Gazette] 10:42:58 AM Google It!    [Biofuels] Just Fill 'Er Up with Seaweed SCOTS scientists have discovered methane gas extracted from seaweed can be used to power cars. Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) at Dunbeg, Argyll, are working on a way of extracting the gas in commercial quantities. Scientists made the discovery after they started using seaweed on fish farms to absorb nitrogen produced by waste. [Source: Sunday Mail via RenewableEnergyAccess.com] 10:22:55 AM Google It!    [Biofuels] Tilapia Fish Farm Doubles as Ethanol Plant It's rare that plans call for an ethanol plant that incorporates biodiesel production with a substantial tilapia fish farm / processing facility. But with new investors in a large malting facility, residents in Wisconsin may get the best of both worlds. Following are excerpts from the release from the Watertown Daily Times: A total of 70 million bushels of corn and other grains are expected to be processed at the plant annually, with expectations of producing 140 million gallons per year. Byproducts of the process will include 325,000 tons per year of liquid carbon dioxide.... One new project at the plant will be the tilapia fish farm that will complement the ethanol production: more than 8 million pounds of tilapia per year will be processed into fillets at this site, and the byproducts will be turned over to the biodiesel fuel production operation. Other food waste such as fryer oil will turn into biodiesel fuel, with up to 20 million gallons of fuel per year expected and the byproduct turned into animal feed. [Source: Watertown (WI) Daily Times via RenewableEnergyAccess.com] 10:20:58 AM Google It!    [Biofuels] New York Adopts Biofuels Initiative New York Governor George E. Pataki announced a major initiative to increase the production of biofuels in New York State, part of a comprehensive plan to develop and expand markets for ethanol and other biofuels, and help reduce the state's dependence on foreign energy sources. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com] 10:18:29 AM Google It!

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