Ft. Bragg might be the home of the U.S. Army’s Airborne soldiers (by the way, as a former Air Force guy, we land those planes … you don’t have to jump out!), but the North Carolina post soon could be known as the home to clean air, born of biodiesel!
The Fayetteville (NC) Observer reports that the Army recently highlighted biodiesel during Ft. Bragg’s recent Green Living & Design Tour:
Fort Bragg is now served by seven separate shuttle routes. The buses are powered by B-20 fuel, which is 20 percent biodiesel fuel and 80 percent petroleum diesel fuel, and are hybrid electric diesel buses. Emissions reduction is about 20 percent and may be as much as 70 percent with hybrid technology, according to the Fort Bragg green tour fact sheet…
Fort Bragg has the ability to transform used cooking oil into biodiesel.
Recycling is basic to life, even on an Army base, so every base should really have a biodiesel production program. I am very proud of Fort Bragg for using biodiesel.
Image from: http://greenbigtruck.com/2010/01/biodiesel-producers-are-seeing-trouble-ahead/
Erie-based Hero BX, one of the nation's largest biodiesel producers, has joined four other energy-related companies to launch a national lobbying organization.
The name, Global Biofuels Alliance Inc., seems to suggest an organization to support the biodiesel industry.
The reality is something different, said Mike Noble, the chief executive of Hero BX and co-founder of the alliance.
"It's a nonprofit organization to support energy independence for the United States," he said.
Energy independence could take the form of solar, wind, natural gas, biofuels, ethanol and oil.
"In my opinion, it could be anything to make us less dependent on foreign oil," he said. "Why should we send $268 billion a year over to Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and all the rest?"
Now you are talking, join together and keep reminding our government that we are addicted to foreign oil, and biodiesel can help us become more independent.
Photo from: http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/research/sequestration/seq-01-2008.shtml
CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) will begin construction of a second biodiesel plant in Brazil in 2011, chief executive Patricia Woertz said Tuesday.
The plant will have an annual capacity of 164,000 metric tons and will be adjacent to a soybean crushing facility in Santa Catarina. Construction will begin in 2011, with completion in 2012, Woertz said.
The announcement reaffirms the company's previously announced goal of increasing soybean processing capacity by 7% to 10%.
This early announcement in a financial publication will be followed up by more information as the plant nears opening. Why a soybean biodiesel plant in Brazil instead of Iowa? Let’s try to find out, shall we?
Photo from: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/biofuel/4270240
A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has won a $50,000 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize to support the development of a carbohydrate-to-biodiesel process. The technology, which is designed to significantly increase yields, may also provide a pathway for the direct conversion of hydrogen and carbon dioxide into biofuels.
According to Gregory Stephanopoulos, an MIT processor of chemical engineering who is leading the project, the technology utilizes an engineered microbe to convert carbohydrate feedstocks into lipids. While Stephanopoulos noted that he is unable to disclose specific details of the process due to its proprietary nature, he said that the patent-pending technology can be applied to a wide portfolio of carbohydrate feedstocks, including sugars, glucose, glycerin, hydrolysates from biomass and algae.
“The yields that we obtain from this microbe are very remarkable,” Stephanopoulos said. “They are very close to the theoretical maximum. For a project like biodiesel, you need to have very high yields, otherwise the cost of the feedstock becomes prohibitively high.”
There are new methods for making biodiesel in the lab which will be patented, and only then will we be able to see all the secret methods laid out for the patent office.
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