CARL'S CORNER, Texas — The corn grows tall for miles around this truck stop, 80 miles south of Dallas, but it’s another crop, soybeans, that has engines revving in these parts. Since spring, when the ...

In 2006, Austin had more biodiesel pumps than any other U.S. city, a distinction that owed much to Jeff Plowman, who co-founded Austin Biofuels in 2003 with mechanical engineer Kurt Lyell and diesel ...

With gallon prices climbing dramatically, alternative fuels are starting to hold a greater appeal for a larger number of consumers. One alternative fuel is biodiesel, which is made from a renewable ...

Biodiesel is diesel fuel made from biomass rather than petroleum (petrodiesel). It’s used primarily in transportation, but it can also be used for home heating, electricity generation, and other uses.

It’s already possible to make biodiesel at home using waste oil–if you’re interested in setting up a system that competes with Breaking Bad’s meth labs for complexity. A new, compact, British-made ...

COACHELLA – The smell rising from the vats of recycled restaurant grease at Imperial Western Products sticks to your nostrils — heavy, with undertones of days-old fried food — long after you've left ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- From french-fries to shuttle buses at Loyola University - that's the journey thousands of gallons of vegetable oil take every year in Chicago. Zach Waickman is a Senior Program ...

The group of engineers from Jamaica tours the Imperium Renewables biodiesel plant in Grays Harbor, Wash., dwarfed by giant tanks of virgin canola oil. (Photo: James Burke, Engineers Without Borders.) ...