Filed under: Biodiesel Coming to you live, for one weekend only, it’s the fabulous Sustainable Biodiesel Summit, which is about what you probably think it’s about. This year’s Sustainable Biodiesel Summit will blend the sustainability message with a local one. The official theme is, “Localize It! Celebrating Community Scale Biodiesel.” Activists Annie Nelson and Darryl Hannah will be on hand to talk to producers and leaders in the biodiesel industry. Two years ago, the SBS was held in Texas ; last year in Florida . As in previous years, the SBS is followed by the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo, put on by the National Biodiesel Board. One of these years, it’d be nice to be a part of these events, but we’ll just need to rely on reports coming from SF over the weekend. Anyone attending? [Source: Sustainable Biodiesel Summit ] Continue reading Sustainable biodiesel summit takes place this weekend in San Francisco Sustainable biodiesel summit takes place this weekend in San Francisco originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Transportation Alternatives , Green Daily , Pacific Region Airlines all over the world are finding themselves under increased pressure to lower their carbon footprints, and saving a buck or two (million) in the process certainly wouldn’t hurt anything. To that end, Air New Zealand has successfully conducted the world’s first commercial test flight with a Boeing 747-400 powered by Rolls-Royce jet engines. According to reports , everything went exactly as planned without a single problem. This successful test should go a long way towards helping Air New Zealand hit its self-imposed target of displacing 10 percent of its 9 million barrels of fuel used annually with biofuels by 2013. If the company is able to meet that goal, some 400,000 tons of CO 2 could be kept out of the atmosphere. For this flight, one of the jet’s two engines ran on jatrpopha-based oil and the other used normal Jet A1 fuel. Jatropha oil reportedly freezes at a lower temperature than even standard-grade jet fuel and is not used as a food source, making it an ideal choice for aviation biofuels. The oil for these tests was sourced from East Africa and India and is cost competitive with traditional fuels. [Source: Stuff.co.nz ] First commercial biofuel jet test successfully completed yesterday originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments