You can make your own biodiesel with these three ingredients; methanol, sodium
hydroxide (lye/ caustic soda like for cleaning drains, found next to Drano), and
vegetable oil. Everything you can get at the grocery store. Except for maybe the
methanol, but you can get it at the auto parts store. Gas line antifreeze is
usually pure methanol. (more…)

GreenHunter Energy, Inc. began operations at it’s Houston, Texas,
biodiesel refinery, which can produce 105 million gallons per year
(mgpy). That capacity narrowly beats out the Imperium Renewables’
biodiesel refinery in Washington State, making it the largest
biodiesel plant in the United States.

The new facility is able to produce biodiesel from animal fats, (more…)

A company called Terra Cycle makes products out of garbage.  They take the organic waste, feed it to earth worms, which ingest it and poop out fantastic fertilizer.

The worm poop is liquefied in large vats by adding water, bubbling it, to rid it of

chloride and add oxygen, and eat.  The company says it takes 5 days for the process. (more…)