If biodiesel is green and ethanol is green, then combining the two must be super-green! Or not... Anyway by combining ethanol with biodiesel and a "stabilizing agent", a company called O2Diesel is hoping to make diesel work more effectively for the Department of Defense in colder weather. We have shared with you past examples of their efforts. And now, word comes that a fuel known as O2Biodiesel, consisting of 28 percent renewable resources, is being demonstrated and tested at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. Hopefully, what happens in Vegas will not stay in Vegas, and the fuel will pass the tests and make it into more widespread use than the standard no2 diesel currently in use with the DOD.

[Source: O2Diesel via greencarcongress]

Remember O2Diesel, the company that is blending ethanol with diesel to make a cleaner-burning, less-polluting fuel? It's just taken another forward in getting its product into the market. O2Diesel said yesterday that all the school buses in the South Dakota Lead-Deadwood school district will move to O2Diesel. The switch is part of a national air quality initiative called CityHome. CityHome uses corporate sponsor dollars to pay to move municipal and school bus systems to use O2Diesel at no additional cost. The ethanol in the blend is made by KL Process, which currently makes ethanol from grains but says it wants to lead the move to cellolusic ethanol.

Exactly how much cleaner O2Diesel's ethanol-diesel blend is compared to straight diesel in the overall CO2 emissions picture (figuring in what it takes to grow and process the ethanol, for example) is still up for debate. O2Diesel says that a 2005 study transit bus study in Kansas "predicted emissions reductions of six tons per year by switching to O2Diesel." 75 buses were involved in that study.
Related:

• O2Diesel gets funds to test ethanol-diesel blend
• O2Diesel to Begin Testing New Ethanol-Biodiesel Blend

[Source: O2Diesel]

O2Diesel, the company developing an ethanol-diesel fuel alternative, has joined the Flagship Energy Systems Center (FESC) in Anderson, Indiana. The FESC is a project launched by the Flagship Enterprise Center to "promote the development of companies in the area of alternative energy, including hybrid vehicles and lithium batteries". The Center is a university/city partnership of Anderson U and the city of Anderson and tries to incubate small businesses working on these green car technologies. O2Diesel is no stranger to government help, having recently received money from both the Department of Energy ($1 million) and the Department of Defense ($800,000) for this ethanol-diesel fuel.

Related:

• O2Diesel to Begin Testing New Ethanol - Biodiesel Blend
• O2Diesel gets funds to test ethanol-diesel blend
• Pentagon to use new fuel as it stakes its claims in old fuels

[Source: Flagship Enterprise Center]