April 22nd, 2009
Biodiesel: don't try this at home
Do-it-yourself biodiesel cookers are causing house fires. Maybe some enterprising enterprise could come up with a safe, legal cook-it-yourself biodiesel bioreactor for the home hobbyist. Cooking oil into truck fuel. Here’s your kit.
COMMERCIAL BIODIESEL
Commercial-scale biodiesel has problems of a different sort. In the U.S. a tax credit is going away. And Europe is hitting U.S. made biodiesel with an import tariff. In Montana, Sustainable Systems is over $1-million in arrears to biodiesel foodstock suppliers. That’s despite even larger subsidies from the state.
A newsman since 1969, Harry Fuller has worked for CBS, ABC, CNBC Europe, CNET and was founding news director at TechTV. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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