biodiesel

Julie, Sage, and our car were highlighted in a story in today's Tallahassee Democrat, our local newspaper. They were out trying to educate people on the problems with our energy policies and unnecessary addiction to foreign oil.

Even Al Gore's movie made it into the story, as well as my professional opinion of it.

A new device being developed by Goran Jovanovic at Oregon State and the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) converts vegetable oil directly to biodiesel almost instantly. This has tremendous implications to several industries. Farmers and restaurant owners, for example, can now process their own fuel from their own vegetable oils without having to ship the oil to a seperate processor. Jovanovic says that using these microreactors, biodiesel could be produced between 10 and 100 times faster than traditional methods.

I like to practice what I preach. Now, thanks to Tony Brown, the director of Cornerstone Learning Community, I am now running clean, renewable biodiesel in my Volkswagon Jeta TDI (turbo diesel). You can run biodiesel in any diesel vehicle, without modifications, and get some great benefits. These are taken from Blue Sun Biodiesel:

• Go Farther with a fuel that increases mileage, power, and engine life.
• Go Stronger with a fuel that decreases our dependence on foreign oil.
• Go Cleaner with a fuel that dramatically reduces emissions.
• Go Smarter with a renewable fuel grown on American farms.

Julie and I always try our best to make our impact on this planet smaller, lessening the toxic burden we leave for future generations. To learn more, visit the National Biodiesel Board.