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Biofuel O-Ring Seal Engineering – Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

Seals engineered for Biofuels are featured in this video. Trelleborg Sealing Solutions: www.tss.trelleborg.com Online Product Brochures www.tss.trelleborg.com email: tssamericas@trelleborg.com Local contacts and phone numbers: www.tss.trelleborg.com Biofuels present some significant challenges when specifying seals, as their chemical make-up can affect the sealing integrity of elastomers. Standard laboratory tests indicate that typical FKM and FVMQ compounds are […]

Best Alternative Energy Source – Biofuel from Algae

www.livinggreenchannel.com Algae is the fastest growing plant life, and as an organism it converts sunlight into oil, scientists theorize that Algal biofuel can produce a whopping 30 times more energy per acre than any other biofuel option. The US Department of Energy has estimated that if Algal Biofuel replaced all conventional fuel in the country, […]

Does the term biofuel make any sense?

Technically, all mass with potential energy must be organic, or biological in nature… Nothing has energy that wasn’t organic at some point in time. Technically, all fuel is biofuel, right?

A Peaceful Solution – Hemp Biofuel – Hemp For Victory

In response to the wonderful piece by Willie and Amy Nelson, A Peaceful Solution, hemp biofuel is presented by the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org with a piece by Richard M. Davis, author of Hemp For Victory: A Global Warming Solution

New Study Predicts Yield For Biofuel Jatropha

New Study Predicts Yield For Biofuel Jatropha An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy predicts the yield of the biofuel crop, Jatropha curcas L., for present and future climates.Researchers related reproductive potential with the natural occurrence of Jatropha, with biogeographic modeling and ecological principles. This model allowed them to estimate yield […]

XPRIZE Video – Algae Biofuel

Made in Windows Movie Maker etc by a group of students from MATES (Manahawkin, NJ) for the XPRIZE Contest. Video includes lots of information about Using Algae as a Biofuel for the next xprize contest. VOTE FOR THIS!!!

Michael Wittman on Algae, a Future Biofuel

AlternativeEnergy.com’s David Kates speaks with Michael Wittman, CEO of Third Planet Energy, about algae, a future biofuel. [www.alternativeenergy.com] Wittman discusses the problems with deriving fuel from food, namely corn ethanol. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Air New Zealand flies green using biofuel

The seed of a tropical plant called jatropha plant is fueling Air New Zealand’s planes started with Boeing 747-400, saving money and the Earth. For two hours, pilots tested the oil, in a 50-50 blend with conventional jet fuel in one of the four Rolls-Royce engines powering a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, the first test flight […]

European Demand Seen Powering Africa Biofuels Growth

European Demand Seen Powering Africa Biofuels Growth Demand from Europe and from airlines should be enough to support biofuel crop development in Africa, according to renewables experts at an African energy conference Thursday. The European Union will need to import as much as tens of billions of litres of biofuels, which must come from various […]

ITDI produces biodiesel from jatropha curcas

ITDI produces biodiesel from jatropha curcas In support of the Philippine Biofuel law and the Alternative Fuels Program of the government, the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has recently launched its new facility for the pilot production and testing of biodiesel from jatropha curcas.   The Philippine […]

The Next Big Biofuel?

A Florida farmer thinks the next big biodiesel alternative will come from the seedpods of the jatropha tree