Comments on: Advantages of Biodiesel Fuel for Transportation

By: mihkel

mihkel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:42:19 +0000

Bio-diesel can not be environmentally friendly, if the material for producing it is grown by farmers, because it leads to deforestation/desertification and food shortage. + the fact that internal combustion engines are a waste of energy has been too much overlooked.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:45:08 +0000

Yeah, and then the Alabama company (Cello) is found to be fraudulent!

By: Neal Hazen

Neal Hazen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:54:16 +0000

Right here in little ol’ Baldwin County, Alabama two brothers have your solution. They have designed built, and are running a full-scale biodiesel plant that uses grasses and municipal wastes to make biodiesel. Old rubber tires can also be used, but doing so is a bit harder. The biodiesel being produced can be made for under $1.00 a gallon. A little tweaking of the process can yield kerosene, or even gasoline, as the end product. Another bonus is that these products are far cleaner than those made from fossil fuels.

The current U.S. consumption of oil and natural gas for energy can be effectively replaced by such plants using an estimated 20% of currently produced municipal waste being used as feedstock.

The process used in Baldwin County is “Carbon Neutral”, as is. However, if the biodiesel were used in a fuel cell the carbon emissions would be both far less, and nearly completely capturable. The captured carbon could then be used as a feedstock in numerous commercial processes.

You can imagine the impact this technology – when fully implemented – will have on landfills.

By: Gregory Phortbain

Gregory Phortbain — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:22:41 +0000

Bio diesel is not as environmentally friendly as people would like you to believe. Many acres of forest will be cut down so farmers can grow bio fuel and to effectively produce bio fuel in way that could effectively replace fossil fuels you’d have to harness about 20% of the worlds photo voltaic energy.

By: Dragoness

Dragoness — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:17:33 +0000

Automobile maufacturers that make trucks/rigs that run on diesel should be modifying their engines so that they run on biodiesel. Much of the harmful emissions that are in the atmosphere come from the transport industry. It may be a costly endeavor, but I believe it would be worthwhile.