From today’s Green Energy Digest: During the LA Auto show, Toyota announced that it will using animal waste from the state’s Central Valley to power clean cars and trucks such as the Toyota Mirai and hydrogen-powered semi trucks currently being piloted at …
Category: Biofuels
Synthetic Fuels in the News
2GreenEnergy has had a long-running interest in helping a company called Doty WindFuels enter the synthetic fuel market; in fact, they’re on our “clean energy investment opportunities” page. The company, based in Columbia, SC, has a proprietary multi-step approach that …
Government Investment in Algae as Fuel
ARPA-E (The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Administration – Energy) is investing an average of about $600K into each of 18 projects associated with algae as fuel. They write: Today, nearly all domestic biomass produced for electricity generation …
Transportation Fuel: The Last 120 Years
From my colleague Fred Roeschke: Very little-known fact about Henry Ford:
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How Modern Technology is Making Automobiles More Green and Clean Than Ever
Some people might see a car as simply a mode of transportation that gets you from one place to another, but the truth is that a car is an expression of the driver. At the moment, more people are looking …
Despite Opposition, the U.S. Military Is Flying High with Biofuels
Here’s an article that reminds us of an important aspect of the U.S. military: these people take energy security very seriously. They refuse to allow the availability of oil to be a necessary condition to safeguarding our country. Their main …
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Biofuels Made from Bacteria
Here’s a good article on the production of propane using E. coli bacteria. The thing to keep in mind here is the conservation of energy.
Car Bumper-Stickers Provide Insight Into the Political Make-Up of the Community
A few times a week, I take a run on a beach here in Santa Barbara, and I’m always amused by the bumper-stickers on the cars in the parking lot. To get the joke of the first one, you need …
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California Carbon and Low Carbon Fuel Standard Summit
Each year, I attend somewhere between 10 and 15 conferences on energy and the environment, sometimes as a speaker, but always as an active participant in meeting people and encountering new ideas and cleantech business plans. It’s also important to …
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Note on Algal Biofuels
Here’s the latest installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which includes a fairly full treatment on algae biofuels. He believes they’re at a critical juncture as a viable clean transportation fuel, and writes: A few years ago, algae …
