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Jason Diodati’s students at Templeton High School have spent the school year converting a 1984 Mercedes Benz 300 to run on biodiesel — used vegetable oil collected from local restaurants and processed into fuel.

“There are several reasons we are modifying tobacco to produce biofuel,” Lemaux said, “It is a high biomass crop. If you want to extract oil, then the more biomass you have, the more oil you get. And, since tobacco is not a food source, tobacco production for ...

Although challenges to planting the 2013 crop may provide some degree of support to corn and soybean prices, they have quickly faded from the 2012 highs and are threatening to diminish further from the highs that began in 2007. When corn prices were pumped up from ethanol demand and soybean prices had to bid for acres, a new era of commodity prices was declared by economists

Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear "free" - no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a "free" resource into usable electricity costs money for collecting, generating and distributing that energy. To consumers and tax payers, the real cost of wind power is very high,

Jeff Kaylor, Regional Vice President for Inland Waterways, stated, “The award of the BQ-9000® certification for biodiesel testing is an honor for our staff and the biodiesel laboratory. Intertek is committed to providing our clients with reliable, high quality, biofuel ...

“The award of the BQ-9000® certification for biodiesel testing is an honor for our staff and the biodiesel laboratory. Intertek is committed to providing our clients with reliable, high quality, biofuel testing and inspection services, in the USA and on a global basis.

(FOX 47) -- A group of John Marshall High School students got a hands-on lesson Wednesday morning on alternative energy sources. John Marshall was awarded a grant by the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association to tour an ethanol plant. The destination for the ...

Branstad credits MidAmerican's expanding wind turbine portfolio with landing Facebook's eventual billion-dollar expansion into the Des Moines suburb of Altoona. “Many of these high-tech companies, they want to have a 'green' portfolio,” Branstad told ...

The questions about ethanol arise after Congress first mandated it in 2007. Ninety-six percent of gasoline sold in the U.S. is now 10 percent ethanol, a high-octane fuel derived from corn. But under that bill and rules favored by the Environmental Protection ...

Jeff Kaylor, Regional Vice President for Inland Waterways, stated, "The award of the BQ-9000® certification for biodiesel testing is an honor for our staff and the biodiesel laboratory. Intertek is committed to providing our clients with reliable, high quality, biofuel ...

"Favourable hydrological conditions resulted in generation at long-term average levels, while the acquisition of more than 560 MW of hydroelectric and wind assets has expanded our portfolio in attractive markets. We continue to benefit from a high-quality ...

"Favourable hydrological conditions resulted in generation at long-term average levels, while the acquisition of more than 560 MW of hydroelectric and wind assets has expanded our portfolio in attractive markets. We continue to benefit from a high-quality ...

The questions about ethanol arise after Congress first mandated it in 2007. Ninety-six percent of gasoline sold in the U.S. is now 10 percent ethanol, a high-octane fuel derived from corn. But under that bill and rules favored by the Environmental Protection ...

“Geothermal, unlike other renewable energy sources such as wind, solar or hydroelectric, is not dependent upon weather. Geothermal power plants in Kenya and around the world operate at high capacity factors and provide needed base load generation,” he ...