Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'rail'
For ethanol rain's a pain on the plains
Good report on how flooding in the midwest is making life hard for ethanol companies trying to get their product to market by rail from Dow Jones Newswire. Hattip to the Cattlenetwork. ...
Something for train spotters
For those of you who like big trains of ethanol criss-crossing the US we have Near Chicago and a whole host of them here http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=ethanol%20train&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&search_category=0&search=Search&v=&uploaded=&filter=1...
More on modifying locomotive diesel engines for biofuels
There's more on modifying locomotive diesel engines for biofuels from Steve, the PR man at Cummins in the UK. He says: It is true, the engines used in the Virgin Voyagers are Cummins QSK19 750hp engines. Their horizontal configuration is...
Just how much modification do trains need to run biodiesel
Just how much modification do trains need to run biodiesel? I asked the question over on the US Biodiesel and SVO forum yesterday in the light of the new Virgin 20% Biodiesel powered train..... Suzy suggests: I'd hazard a guess...
State of the Union: slow burn, big bang
Getting ideas to come takes a good night's sleep (or possibly two) and a series of slightly-off topic conversations is the way I like to reach an opinion, and I've come to a position on ethanol and Bush's State of...
OK, so how do we get the ethnol to market
Chatting over lunch, at the First Investing in Clean Fuels forum, we have to wonder how many more rail tank cars will be needed in the US if all the extra ethanol has to be made and moved around the...
Virgin looks to railroad biofuels
Virgin, run by Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur extraordinaire who recently announced plans to invest around $3bn in biofuels over the next 10 years. hopes that invoking biofuels will help him win an advantage over the competition from other applicants for...
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