A: Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to ...

In 2006, Austin had more biodiesel pumps than any other U.S. city, a distinction that owed much to Jeff Plowman, who co-founded Austin Biofuels in 2003 with mechanical engineer Kurt Lyell and diesel ...

Most biofuels, biodiesel included, are made in the Midwest from decidedly Midwestern crops–corn for ethanol, and soy beans for biodiesel. (The National Biodiesel Board, located in Missouri, was ...

Kevin Lofgren in the lab holding a flask containing the pure biodiesel product made with the process described in the journal Energy & Fuels. UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to ...

Biodiesel is made with different percentages of diesel fuel and extracted soybean oil or sometimes animal fats or other vegetable oils. The cost for traditional diesel and biodiesel are about the same ...

If you watched the MythBusters drive an old Mercedes diesel fueled with used cooking oil, you probably wondered why we don't do that all the time with all diesels. After all, Cummins B-series are the ...

Microsoft is becoming greener as biodiesel-powered equipment build the company's new eastern Washington datacenters, which will be hydroelectrically powered Hydroelectric power isn’t the only green ...

LuLu Group, one of the UAE’s largest retail chains, has begun powering its delivery fleet with biodiesel made from used cooking oil collected across its stores. This move is part of the company’s ...