In tune with Farm Aid‘s cause, renewable fuels can provide family farmers with new opportunities. A few ordinary people are making extraordinary differences in communities around the world by taking the initiative in this Biodiesel industry. For example: Andrew Cooper first heard about Biodiesel in 1998 from a fellow student when they were taking an engineering class at Humbolt State University, he started “Footprint Recycling” a community scale production facility in Arcata, Humboldt County, California. Melissa Hardy another Biodesel pioneer started the “Biodiesel Oasis,” a retail store selling Biodiesel B99 in Berkely. Australian Pete Bethune is skipper of Earthrace a powerboat attempting to break the round-the-world speed record running on Biodiesel. Celebrity promoters include actor/ranch owner Tommy Lee Jones, Iowa Senator Tom Arkin and of course folk hero/musician Willie Nelson, owner of BioWillie Diesel Fuels. Many more people are finding out that Biodiesel is a viable and ecological alternative. Funny that the word “Diesel” comes from the German inventor Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel who invented the diesel engine in 1982 fueled originally by peanut oil.
Feb
10
Call him crazy if you want, but Jack Nicholson was a hip nutty professor back 30 years ago when people were brain dead on gasoline fumes thinking it would last forever… Jack’s Chevy Hydrogen modified car ran perfectly and the Hydrogen was produced by Solar Power. How’s that for thinking ahead?