#renewablefuel — Public Fediverse posts

#EPA investigating the supply chains of at least 2 #renewable fuel producers.

The production of #biodiesel from sustainable ingredients, like used cooking oil, can earn refiners #environmental & #climate subsidies under the EPA’s #RenewableFuel Standard. But some supplies labeled as used cooking oil are actually cheaper & less #sustainable virgin palm oil, which is associated w/ #deforestation & other environmental damage.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-epa-says-it-is-auditing-biofuel-producers-used-cooking-oil-supply-2024-08-07/

Behind the Science:
Generating Chemical Energy from Renewable Fuels with Semiconductors

Exposing GaAs photovoltaic devices to methanol fuel in the presence of an oxidizer leads to electricity generation by the device

https://www.chemistryviews.org/behind-the-science-generating-chemical-energy-from-renewable-fuels-with-semiconductors/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #research #behindthescience #researcherinterview #renewablefuel #fuelcell

Fuel
From waste to the sky
Low carbon turns to fuel
Cleans the air, reduces waste
Achievement in flight

#sustainability #renewablefuel #lowcarbon #wastetofuel #cinquain #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/from-toilets-to-the-sky-uk-startup-makes-waste-into-low-carbon-jet-fuel-194003678.html

The #biodiesel industry is projected to produce four billion gallons of the #renewablefuel this year, using an average of 1.2 billion pounds of #soybean oil each month.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/clean-fuels-hoping-to-take-flight/