Monday, December 05, 2005

[Biodiesel] Company ready to start state's first biodiesel plant A recycling company is poised to break ground on Wisconsin's first biodiesel plant. Green Bay-based Anamax Corp. plans to start construction on the 12,300-square-foot plant next to its existing restaurant-grease recovery plant in DeForest on Monday. State Department of Agriculture Rod Nilsestuen and U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Republican from Green Bay, are scheduled to attend. [Source: AP via Duluth (MN) News-Tribune] 3:23:34 PM Google It!    [Biodiesel] Bean-based biodiesel gives buses bellyache As nutritional as they are, beans can also be the source of occasional discomfort. While beans in humans can lead to gas, beans in the gas of local buses has led to engine indigestion. Like someone who has had one pinto too many, some buses in Aspen that run on soybean-based biodiesel started having trouble about three weeks ago. [Source: Aspen (CO) Times] 3:20:27 PM Google It!    [Biodiesel] NY: For a "Veggie Car," Grease is the Word Source: New York Times, 12/4/05. The fryers run all day at the Super Duper Weenie outlets in Fairfield and Monroe. The modest hot dog stands have been celebrated in magazines like Gourmet and Cigar Aficionado and on David Letterman's show, and every time there's more exposure, the lines grow. Until recently, the restaurants had a disposal problem at the end of the week: 30 gallons of contaminated soy oil. To make it go away, the restaurants paid $40 to a Massachusetts-based rendering company. But today, Super Duper Weenie's waste oil has become an asset, not a liability. Instead of piling up in a storage shed, it is filtered to remove potato starch and bread crumbs, then goes straight into the tank of the 1978 Mercedes 300D owned by Gary Zemola, an owner of the restaurants. NOTE: Free registration with the New York Times web site may be required to access this story. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News] 2:59:42 PM Google It!    [Biofuels] Run Your Car on Cow Fuel, Canadian Company Says Source: Reuters, 12/2/05. A Canadian company has an idea for motorists worried about global warming - put a cow in your tank. A C$14 million ($12 million) factory near Montreal started producing "biodiesel" fuel two weeks ago from the bones, innards and other parts of farm animals such as cattle, pigs or chickens that Canadians do not eat. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News] 11:56:08 AM Google It!    [Renewable energy] New Zealand's Energy Need Looks to Bioenergy More than 50 specialists met recently in Christchurch, New Zealand, to explore new approaches to producing fuel gas from biomass. The country's small bioenergy industry welcomes a new phase of research and collaboration, especially on biomass gasification. [Source: RenewableEnergyAcccess.com] 11:42:37 AM Google It!

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