The Big Biofuels Blog

The news about Google and YouTube got me thinking this morning so I've pulled together a bunch of resources on youtube about biofuels, biodiesel, bioethanol. The vids are a pretty eclectic mix ranging from people pouring cooking oil in to their cars with little obvious ill effects to sorting through brassicas for the oily bits. Go on, take a look.

Check out this video from a group I've formed on You tube. It is one person's view of what's we need to do on the way forward to make the world a better place.

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After yesterday's offering from the YouTube Biofuel Group here's another. Daryl Hannah makes a Splash about biofuels on Fox. I am indebted to Seattle Guy 1968 for this

What do you think about this video clip from resistanciafilms

One local council's use of biodiesel in recycling collections

Now that's what I call advertising, from Piedmont Biofuels, and its on YouTube, where I've added it to my (pretty partial) collection of biofuel videos...

I've written a bit about the threat to orang utans from biodiesel made from palm oil in southeast Asian countries. There is a really powerful video from Greenpeace that makes the point more eloquently than I can. Here it is.

hattip to Its the only one we have

Clean my fuel: Flex my ride. Webisodes of a show which is pro-ethanol, pro-corn and all AMERICAN. it made me smile, and contains adult content (well a bit of swearing and violence which is intrinsic to the plot). It also contains Ben Afleck check it out.

There's more at the project Phin home page
The funding organisation is the Center for American Progress, says it is a non-profit, non-partisan organization under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue code.

Reynolds Indiana is Bio Town, at least according to this video. They are pretty excited in that they have a couple of pumps at the gas station. These dispense e85 and b20, the town got a number of vehicles out of GM, which will run on biofuel but which don' t look very economical.. The demonstration site that's scheduled to be built there in 2008 looks more interesting. They'll be using pyrolysis...

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I don't profess to understand a word of this. I have no Spanish, as I've said before, but we have a battle of ideas in Spanish in video over on YouTube. I hope it is more about the pre-eminence of different Latin American states in ethanol than politics...

This is the original

This is the response:

I don't spend all of my time hammering away at this blog. They let me out occasionally. Here's a video that I made a little earlier this year about Biofuels in the US, it was shot in Texas and features Judith Taylor, who appears in an earlier blog today.

She wants 90% of petrol demand to be replaced by biofuels and electicity using lignocellulose and waste by 2050...Get with the greens to oil proof Australia.

Converting cars to run on veg oil ...

A swiss view of biopower using wood (hooray).

Warwick University looks at how we could use straw as feedstock for biofuels. They are taking an ethical stance...

Coast to coast with Aphrodesia on thier JustVote Tour on recycled veg oil.They want to build a prototype biofuel-solar-windpowered bus (oh and they need a sponsor)

Then you might like to head along to hear Dr Michael Webber, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas talking about the chances of ethanol taking off.

Some of the Department of Energy's thinking on the use of biofuels in the US from our Houston Bureau.

Journeyman TV has a video on YouTube talking about the role of corn ethanol in areas like food prices and US automotive sector. Its worth looking at. I can't embed it, which is a pity.

Check this from Al Jazeera on biofuels. Balanced interview with UK Special Rapporteur for food and European Biofuel proponent.

I make no promises about watching this, but he's pumped up with energy...

Japanese researchers say they have gone some way to overcomnig the difficulties in using ethanol as a fuel cell material.

Thanks to Hugh Baker

It isn't particularly fast, and there is no detail on the yeild, but Japanese researchers have developed an enzyme-based route to producing ethanol from shredded copy paper. There is no information about whether the ink on the paper makes any difference to the quality of the fuel.

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Thanks to Hugh Baker

It would only take 10% of the surface area of the state of New Mexico to meet the US energy needs if it were devoted to algae production according Val Kurtz, ceo Valcent Products, speaking in this video.

Thanks to Hugh Baker

ST1 has an animation about its plans for decentralised ethanol production integrated with the existing gasoline distribution network. Looks interesting.

Thanks to Hugh Baker