Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Local use of biofuels

An e85 fueling station opened in Boston (Boston Herald, by Jerry Kronenberg). It's the first e85 station to open in New England.

As well, I've been told that the MRJ recently reported on a biodiesel fueling station opening up next door in Southington.

Finally, the City of New Haven announced on Monday that they're going to use B50. B50 is a fuel blend consisting of 50% biodiesel (often made from soybeans, french fry grease or chicken fat) and 50% petroleum-based diesel. Cheshire began using B5 in January. B5 is 5% biodiesel and 95% petrodiesel.

Tim White

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This sounds fine but it cost money to collect and process. Is it worth it? I hope so. Solar is the way to go for heating hot water and photo-electric for electricity. Every new home or building should be required to have this. Over 30 years this would cost very little per month.

Tim White said...

It's worth it if we get comprehensive energy reform... nationwide policy reform.

For more info, google Energy Security Leadership Council or... i think... www.secureenergy.org