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Category: Biodiesel

  • Biodiesel in the garage

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    I am now the proud owner of a biodiesel gas pump in my garage: Two 55 gallon barrels of biodiesel with a handcrank that allows me to fill up my Landcruiser right in my driveway. This came about because the SFBiofuels coop’s biodiesel pump got shut down (due to neighbors complaining), which has made getting…

  • 2CV

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    Not that this car will ever make it to the US, but take a look: Apparently Citroen will release a successor to the classic 2CV. It looks great and will supposedly have an interesting sounding diesel hybrid drive train.

  • Biodiesel progress report

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    After a couple of months and 1000 miles running my Landcruiser on biodiesel I have the following to report: Pros: Feels great to be driving on soybeans! Getting gas at SFbiofuels has been easy (very nice people there too) The car runs perfectly well and a little more quietly than on petrodiesel No more puffs…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part IV

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    It’s taken me a while, but I have finally made my transition to biodiesel! In the last installment I talked about picking up my diesel Land Rover in Port Hueneme and then getting it ready for the road. Well, something came up while it was in the shop getting fixed up. I had originally been…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part III

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    I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my progress on getting my diesel Land Rover into the country and running on biodiesel. Well, some things have gone well and some haven’t :). In my last installment I described how I had found a diesel Land Rover from an outfit called UK LandRovers in, you guessed…

  • Aurora Biofuels

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    I’ve been wanting to mention that I am angel investor in Aurora Biofuels. From their site: Aurora’s proprietary technology, developed at The University of California, Berkeley, allows Aurora BioFuels to create bio-diesel with 125X higher yields and 50% lower costs than current production methods. They are a small, impressive team with a promising plan to…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part II

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    After deciding to give biodiesel a try, I had to get a diesel car. It’s not the easiest task in the world to find a good diesel in San Francisco. Because of current regulations, you can’t buy a new diesel in California. So cars like the Jeep Liberty CRD, or the various new diesel Volkswagen’s…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part I

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    Back in February, Braughm gave me the idea to try out biodiesel. Pretty soon thereafter, I decided that I want to switch my primary car over to a renewable fuel. This has taken a little bit of research, which I’d like to share here. Step 1 was to pick a fuel. My requirements Replace my…

  • Biofuel update

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    Interesting article on Brazil’s rapid reduction of oil dependence thanks to ethanol: New York Times Great and thorough presentation on ethanol by Vinod Khosla (found on Infectious Greed): A couple of things I’m curious about and haven’t been able to find the answers for: How do ethanol and biodiesel stack up against each other (Khosla…