Feature from Environmental Building News

Biodiesel:
A Cleaner, Greener Fuel for the 21st Century


Those of us who drive diesel vehicles or heat our homes and businesses with heating oil enjoy the savings this fuel provides—I’ve driven over 800 miles (1,300 km) on a single tank of diesel fuel in my Volkswagen Passat TDI station wagon—but some of us are not so thrilled about the pollutants emitted by that fuel. Diesel fuel and heating oil emit high levels of sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, hydrocarbons, particulates, and—like all fossil fuels—carbon dioxide. We’d like to do better.


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