Home-brewed biodiesel may be ready to move from your neighbor's garage to prime time. No longer is the practice limited to a few mechanically inclined hippies with old converted electric water heaters ...

Beginning as an idea in 14-year-old Sam Flournoy’s mind, this automated biodiesel processor is now available for sale and can create usable diesel fuel from a combination of vegetable oil, methanol ...

My living room is a mess. If we ignore the stacks of stuff that belongs to me (magazines and DVDs, mostly), the mess is due to my roommate’s almost-finished “appleseed biodiesel processor”. Appleseed ...

OnSite Energy partnered with Flint's Mott Community College to develop a machine to produce biodiesel fuel. We got our first look at this machine today. It takes cooking oil and produces biodiesel ...

Now there is something better you can do with that viscous mess of cooking oil instead of sequestering it in a can or pouring it down the drain. The UK-based company Biobot offers the Biobot 20, a ...

Maria Alovert, a Berkely activist, is using old water heaters and the Internet to train the next generation of biodiesel fanatics. Known by the Web handle “Girl Mark,” Alovert created the Biodiesel ...

A solution to many of our fuel problems just might be cleverly hidden in plain view. While drivers of gas-guzzlers worry about the volatile price of petroleum and Middle East politics, diesel owners ...

MOUNT AIRY The high cost of diesel fuel has driven a truck hauler to take matters into his own hands to ensure his business and family's survival. Evan Dorsey, who owns KMT Trucking, shelled out ...

NEW YORK Some distributors of heating oil and diesel in the Northeast have started marketing "biodiesel" for home heating use, encouraged by a new federal tax credit used to promote alternate fuels.

On July first, a new Connecticut state law will require all home heating oil to be blended with a new, sustainable, green liquid fuel. Cooking oil from local restaurants is being turned into a ...