Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'veg'
London to get ring of biofuel power stations
London is to get a ring of veg oil fueled electricity generation stations, according to a report on the BBC. What is not clear from the report, which says the company planning to build up to eight stations, is the...
Veg oils as diesel fuel database
Have you been running your vehicle on straight veg oil? Do you want to add to the sum of human knowledge? Have you checked out the Vegetable Oil Fuels Database? It is an attempt to put real life experience into...
Petrotec pins hopes on old chipfat with new plant
Petrotec started up its new biodiesel plant in the port of Emden yesterday. The plant's capacity is 100,000 tons (about 11 3 million liters)/year. It includesa refinery, storage tanks, a laboratory and its own loading and unloading unit for...
San Fransisco leads in municipal biofuel collection programme
The city of San Francisco is collecting waste veg oil from restaurants in the city and turning it into biofuel. The programme started on 20 November, the same day the city banned plastic bags. It builds on some of the...
Thai police love biodisel
I love the idea of the police using biodisel -- there's no mention of whether they're paying duty on it in the story. But being Thailand the contributions of waste veg oil are voluntary......
20p off bus fare with a litre of used veg oil
UK bus operator Stagecoach is offering passengers 20p off bus fare with a litre of used veg oil on selected routes in Scotland as it trials biofuels on some routes. According to a report on Scotsman.com Locals can take their...
The Big Green Bus
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)...
Inside Lovecraft biofuels
Converting cars to run on veg oil ......
You know you've gone to far with biofuels when...
You know you've gone too far with veg oil when... There's an excellent thread on this over on the Australian Biofuels forum: Some of my favourites are: * Your kids can not only identify whether chips from an unfamiliar chip...
Veg oil was a fine choice for Bob Teixeira
Veg oil was a fine choice for Bob Teixeira, a guitar teacher from Charlotte North Carolina. He converted his Mercedes, bought some soya bean oil and set off down the road only to be fined $1000 last month for not...
A veg oil advocate speaks
Crossing the US on veg oil
Crossing the US on veg oil. Could you spend two months with the same person driving 6200 miles (km) in an old Merc? Rather them than me... but, then I'm not in love. They are, of course, blogging it on...
Biodiesel in the news
This story about the SF bay area biofuel community appeared on ABC a couple of weeks ago......
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