Useful biofuel links

This thread is for you guys to post links to useful resources concerning biofuel energy. Try and make them as impartial as you can and fact based rather than news stories.

[arno]

http://biodiesel.org/ is a great resource for all things biodiesel

[draypoker]

Biogas papers
http://www.members.aol.com/wimtalk/biogas/index.html

[AlternativeEnergyBase]

Biodiesel plastic reactor tank versus steel reactor tank can be a great start for a huge debated thread http://www.onlinebiodiesel.org/biodi...actor_tank.htm

[marcpanton]

Hi all,

I have a work in progress site here that shows the locations and contacts for various Bio diesel producers in the UK.

Its a work in prgress so if you know one that's missing, let me kow (follow link on the site to send info).

Cheers,

Marc

[Series2]

There's been a lot of claims made about bioethanol on both sides of the fence, with some hailing it as the greatest thing since sliced bread and others claiming that it actually produces more GHGs than an equivalent amount of petreoleum.

This study at least appears to be a rigourous life-cycle analysis of the different types of ethanol plants (they identified 12 different types of plant). It's got quite an interesting history of the ethanol programme in the US (I didn't know that it started in 1980), and corn production (yields per acre are now eight times what they were 100 years ago).

Bottom line: Coal-fired ethanol plants do actually produce slightly more GHGs than gasoline, but on average corn ethanol reduces GHG emissions by 19% now, and is expected to improve to 21% by 2010.



Life-cycle energy and greenhouse gas emission impacts of different corn ethanol plant types, published by the Institute of Physics.

[Cricketina]

All of these people love talking about biodiesel so are great resources if you have questions. Biolyle teaches how to make biod. from used restaurant oil
http://biolyle.com/

http://www.fuelwerks.com/

http://www.nwbiodiesel.org/

[oliomap]

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum but I'd like to share with you my new website:

www.oliomap.com

Our Mission is to serve the public by providing the broadest and most extensive network of small scale biofuel related organisations. By working together as a community we hope to help this network to get organised globally and gain visibility.

We believe in the tremendous economic, environmental and social benefits that the development of small scale biofuel economies can provide globally compared to todays centralised and oligopolistic fossil fuel economy. Oliomap should be the tool that will help small scale biofuel production and distribution organisations to gain the visibility that will help them gain economic viability.

Please give me your thoughts

[Cricketina]

Thank you, that's a great site. I'll pass it on. There is a Japanese organization who will be driving around the world on biodiesel and will be collecting locally made biod through the whole trip. This is a great resource for them!

[oliomap]

Thanks Cricketina.

It's exactly for this kind of purpose that I've created oliomap.com, hopefully we can get as many small scale distributors as possible around the world to register on the map. It would also be great to have individuals with grease cars to give info about what they did. It could than become the largest independant fuel exchange community on the planet. A first step towards free energy!

Could you tell me some more about the organisation? We might be interested in making some kind of partnership with them.