Archives: biodiesel

Biodiesel Production by Microalgae

January 8, 2014 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: biodiesel.

By Guest Blogger Wilson Yeo Biodiesel is fast emerging as a viable option in powering vehicles as reducing the impact of anthropogenic activities on the environment takes center stage. Together with bioethanol and biogas, biodiesel form part of the biomass fuels that could form one of the array of replacements for fossil fuels as en • Read More »

Making Biodiesel At Home

July 9, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: biodiesel.

Making biodiesel at home is becoming mainstreamed since the price of regular diesel fuel in some parts of the country (such as California) has toppled the $5 per gallon mark. Many environmentalists, frugal types and those who like to experiment have been making biodiesel at home in the past, but now they have competition. For • Read More »

Hawaiian Algae Shells Out BioDiesel

December 12, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: biodiesel.

Sally sells algae by the seashore. Or does she? Actually, Sally works for Shell Oil Company and will be heavily involved in farming algae on the shores of Hawaii that will in turn create biodiesel for cars and trucks. Shell has teamed up with HR Biopetroleum, Inc. in a joint venture named Cellana to grow • Read More »

Biodiesel Making a Comeback

November 6, 2007 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: biodiesel.

Biodiesel is making a comeback as many people have a renewed interest in cleaning up the environment and ending our dependence upon foreign fossil fuels. But, while Willie Nelson may be going broke pedaling his BioWillie like a traveling medicine man in the Old West, other vendors are starting to prosper. In fact, while BioWillie • Read More »