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- Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
- Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuelAmazingI think it is absolutely amazing that we can use a product like vegetable oil and convert it to fuel. What is so frustrating though is that we don't utilize this technology to cut down on waste and pollution, when do we start seeing...
- Tags: vegetable oil
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in US
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in USI still stand by the statementI know it burns cleaner then gasoline, but the refineries do have to follow guidelines.Depending on how or where it's processed, are there any harmful byproducts from the manufacturing of these fuels to be a...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Vegetable OIL, Bio-diesel, Gas Tax, tax, government
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in US
- Know somebody in America running a vehicle on vegetable oil? New or used, it doesn't matter, that fuel is not government approved. Apparently the EPA could crack down on canola-burners and slap on some pretty hefty fines. It's not just the Feds who are against...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Greasecar, Vegetable Oil, Greasecar Guy, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
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- VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill Test
- Distilled Water You could possibly do this with many laptops with distilled water, and it wouldn't affect it for a while! But its good to see laptops designed for this sort of thing!RE: VAIO? BZ Notebook Spill TestThat is hardly a test...Who drinks water? In a glass?Spill something that conducts...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, BZ Notebook, Sony Vaio
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Biodiesel's future
- I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
- At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product...
- Tags: Free Trade, Finance, biofuel, green, oil, vegetable, waste, diesel, gas, reactors, carbon, technology
- Videos 2008-12-05
- Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future
- Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testers
- Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testersHaven't even installed SP/2And wouldn't touch SP/3 with a flag pole.Plenty of spyware, rootkits, and DRM without their SP's to update it.Yeah your right.. no tin hatsYeah your right.. no tin hats ... just 5 times longer to figure out...
- Tags: Operating systems, SP-3, TechNet tester, Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate, Windows XP SP3, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?
- Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?So how is diesel different.Diesel, Bio, its all the same. If biofuels are just a way to stretch our, not "limited gasoline supply" but out limited petroleum supply then diesel is not any kind of answer.Further what does biofuel get us? How much...
- Tags: Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- The world's biodiesel potential
- Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...
- Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Sea, soy and sun
- Will you use one day SoyScreen on the beach? This is an eco-friendly sunscreen developed by chemists working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA. SoyScreen is biodegradable, non-toxic and could lead to a new class of cosmetic ingredients. It was developed by using an enzyme-based method to make 'an...
- Tags: Ingredient, Oil, Patent, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, SoyScreen, FSG33, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Diesel wants to be your friend
- Diesel wants to be your friendJust The Facts not Freedom Fries in Vegetable OIL original diesel fuelRudolf Diesel was born in Paris in 1858. His parents were Bavarian immigrants. Rudolf Diesel was educated at Munich Polytechnic. After graduation he was employed as a refrigerator engineer. However, his true love lay...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Rudolf Diesel, Diesel
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets
- Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...
- Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Homemeade Hair Lotions 1 (Windows)
- Homemade Hair Lotions: Nettle Hair Lotion: 1 cup nettle tops. Simmer nettles in three cups of water; Strain; Rub into hair and scalp every other night for soft, shiny hair; Keep refrigerated. Vegetable Oil Hair Lotion: Vegetable oil ,Egg. Mix together 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and 1 egg; Apply to...
- Tags: Vegetable, Flawless Complexion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-07-11
- Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashion
- Earlier this week, I participated in a panel discussion at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering where we covered the challenges to science and technology journalists in separating the truth from the hype. Hype in science and technology you say? There's no hype! It's all truth! He he. ...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Servers bathed in oil
- Servers bathed in oilCray??I seem to remember a story that Cray was looking for the perfect liquid to cool their super-computers back in the 80s. They had tried everything and what turned out to work best was a saline solution that mimicked blood.Oil-cooled computers? What kind of oil?Most...
- Tags: Tom, saline, liquid, server, OPEC, April Fool
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- Houses made of waste
- Some engineers are more ambitious than others. Two UK engineers plan to replace the 350 million concrete blocks manufactured in the UK each year by blocks made almost entirely of waste materials such as crushed glass, pulverized fuel ash, and bitumen, a by-product of the petrochemical industry. The Bitublocks are...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on french fry grease
- Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on french fry greaseReduce CO2 emmissions?Perhaps I am mistaken or just ignorant of the science, but don't biodiesel vehicles release just as much CO2 as regular diesels? The article makes it sound as if alternative fuels are one of the answers to global warming,...
- Tags: Bio-fuel, biodiesel, carbon dioxide, carbon, WVO, oil
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- VeraSun to squeeze ethanol, biodiesel from same corn
- VeraSun to squeeze ethanol, biodiesel from same cornDo a little basic research![pre]It takes 7.5 pounds of vegetable oil to produce a gallon of biodiesel.[/pre]You make that sound wasteful. It would be a lot less deceptive to say that "A gallon of biodiesel WEIGHS 7.5 pounds." Sloppy reporting!Biodiesel is...
- Tags: biodiesel, gallon
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Photos: Revving up on fast food
- The Big Green Bus from Dartmouth College runs on vegetable oil from deep fat fryers.
- Tags: Dartmouth College, food
- Image galleries 2006-07-11
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