photo: Rebecca Stanek

As if the sustainability issues are first generation biofuels weren’t substantial enough already....

A Vegetable-Oil Powered Car in the Race, Photo Credit: SF Chronicle

Escape from Berkeley

AP photo by Eric Gray

Photo credit: Jatropha Chile

photo: Karel Hladky

That’s waste vegetable oil biodiesel in that coffee pot. Photo: Jon Eby.

Windows Money for Algae Fuels
Bill Gates' Cascade Investment is putting money in Sapphire Energy, one more firm (see 15 Algae Biofuels Startups to Watch) trying to make second generation biofuels out of algae. The company announced that it has raised more than $100 million. Not bad for a 1-year old company.

Losing the "Hybrid" Part

Image source: Piedmont Biofuels

photo: Trey Ratcliff

What is a city to do for it 1500 vehicle strong diesel-powered transportation fleet after already converting them all to run on biodiesel? Reduce the distance that biodiesel travels from point of manufacture to the filling station, obviously.