A: Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to ...

In 2006, Austin had more biodiesel pumps than any other U.S. city, a distinction that owed much to Jeff Plowman, who co-founded Austin Biofuels in 2003 with mechanical engineer Kurt Lyell and diesel ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- From french-fries to shuttle buses at Loyola University - that's the journey thousands of gallons of vegetable oil take every year in Chicago. Zach Waickman is a Senior Program ...

Biodiesel is not likely to replace gasoline as the main source of transportation fuel in most of our lifetimes. But researchers at Wake Forest University are convinced that they have a formula for a ...

Chevron's Renewable Energy Group is turning used cooking oil into biodiesel and delivering it to Restaurant Technologies to fuel their trucks. Photo: Restaurant Technologies For more than 10 years, ...

One of the more interesting debates taking place in the environmental arena is the role that biofuels should play. On the surface, as an alternative to fossil fuels, biofuels such as ethanol would ...

Brazilian energy and mining giants have joined forces to test an innovative marine fuel made with recycled cooking oil, marking a significant step toward reducing emissions in global shipping and ...

Biodiesel is made with different percentages of diesel fuel and extracted soybean oil or sometimes animal fats or other vegetable oils. The cost for traditional diesel and biodiesel are about the same ...