Below the Fold

Helped a nice fellow from the Merdien Record/Journal on a front page piece on alternative fuel usage in CT. This blog gets a mention (perhaps that's why you're tuning in?) and Cliff made a fairly accurate report, to his credit. Most reporters get facts wrong, and though my quotes were a bit offf, the over-all information in the article was spot-on. More importantly, GreenleafBiofuels.com got a mention and people will hopefully be able to get dirrected to quality BioD in CT if they were inspired by the article.
Meanwhile, due to some wacky lady totalling our other car, we were able to purchase a used Jetta TDI (diesel) for the straight vegetable oil experiment. Soon the entire family fleet will be on American-made, renewable fuel...and we'll be saving money, to boot!

Biodiesel Factory in CT

Late posting is still posting, sorry. I got invited to the grand openning of the first Biodiesel manufacturing plant in my state of CT. Governor Rell (in Red) and a surprising amount of local press was there. The company, Biopurinc.com, is a modest faciluty starting out under half a million gallons per year. This will probably not effect prices in CT as Biodiesel demand is growing much faster than this facory can increase production.

However, this may help our Energy Independent Farm Project. We're hoping to get a model; farm growing enough oil to power its own tractors, increase profit margins and hopefully stabilizing overhead expenses. Farmers pre-sell their crops before they are sown, but variation in energy costs can eat up these profits before harvest. The CT Biodiesel Consortium thinks that, with a addition infrastructure, farmers could turn their oil into biodiesel. I'm working on an angle used in Europe, which is to use the oil dirrectly without the expensive biodiesel conversion. Either way, it is a great project. More details on asoon to come link.