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ECO Racing to run biodiesel prototype in ALMS

Posted Jul 11th 2008 at 8:41AM by Sam Abuelsamid

Filed under: Biodiesel



British race team ECO Racing has announced their intention to compete in three of this years remaining American Le Mans Series races with a car running on biodiesel. ECO racing is taking up the ALMS's Green Racing challenge with a Radical LMP1 chassis powered by a production based V10 diesel. The team had originally planned to compete at the Sebring 12 Hour race earlier this year but regulatory issues kept them off the track. They are now back and ready to compete at Road America, Road Atlanta and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. ECO racing first ran a biodiesel fueled car at Le Mans in 2004 two years before the debut of the Audi R10 TDI. The team runs a jatropha based fuel supplied by D1 Oils. The Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta will also be the debut of the ALMS Green Challenge where teams will earn points based on the total carbon footprint of there cars. A team like ECO Racing should have a good chance for that trophy since they run an efficient diesel engine fueled by an oil from an inedible tree.

[Source: American Le Mans Series]



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Tags: alms, american le mans, american le mans ser..., american league, american lemans series, AmericanLeague, AmericanLeMans, AmericanLeMansSer..., AmericanLemansSeries, eco racing, EcoRacing, jathropa, jatropha, jatropha curcas, JatrophaCurcas

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Daimler, ADM & Bayer team up to try biodiesel from Jatropha

Posted Jan 10th 2008 at 7:57AM by Xavier Navarro

Filed under: Biodiesel, DaimlerChrysler

We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality similar to rapeseed) to make biodiesel. A lot of research is being done on making jathropa a viable source for biofuels.

Three important companies have teamed up to see how good this plant can be. Daimler will investigate how this type of biodiesel affects engines, ADM has expertise in biodiesel production and Bayer CropScience will investigate how this plant can be grown and will develop herbicides, insecticides and fungicides for it. Are three minds better than one here?

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[Source: Reuters]

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Tags: adm, bayer, jathropa

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India's first biodiesel plant has started production

Posted Oct 16th 2007 at 8:02AM by Xavier Navarro

Filed under: Biodiesel

Last Saturday, India's first biodiesel plant started production in Kakinada, a citi in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The facility, owned by Naturol Bioenergy, is expected to produce 30 million gallons of biodiesel per year obtained from Jathropa and using Belgian technology.

According to the company, biodiesel costs less than normal diesel, although it's sold at a similar price. World biodiesel consumption was about 5 million tons in 2006, but it's expected to reach 100 million by 2016.

Other Indian green energy companies include Suzlon, which invests in windmills, and Moser Baer, working on solar panels. They all want to get their part in the alternative energy market, which is considered a great opportunity for business. We'll see what Greenpeace thinks about Jathropa biodiesel in India.

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[Source: Times of India]

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Tags: biodiesel, biodiesel-india, Jathropa, Jathropa-biodiesel, naturol, Naturol-Bioenergy

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