ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA - Canola diesel to fuel trucks in N. Carolina
Basset,VA,USA -The Winston-Salem Journal/The Journal Gazzette (Fort Wayne,IND), by FRAN DANIEL -August 24, 2008: -- A group of North Carolina businessmen hopes to create a national network of truck stops that offer more than just coffee and quick meal... Red Birch Energy has created a delivery and production system for biofuel that includes a production plant next door to a truck stop on U.S. 220 in Bassett. The setup integrates all the steps of the biodiesel industry – the farmer, the oil provider, the oil crushers, the biodiesel manufacturers and the retailers – into one step... Nic George, the biofuels-project coordinator for the Energy Crops for North Carolina Project based in the N.C. Solar Center in Raleigh, said that making biodiesel from canola is simpler than making ethanol from corn because it is a chemical process as opposed to a biological process. The canola-based product also can be used in any diesel engine without modification...
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