Arizona Alternative Fuel Alliance

The Desert Biofuels Initiative held a workshop earlier this month that really got the ball rolling for the local biofuels movement. Here are some quotes that came from the workshop.

“…a watershed for AZ biodiesel…”
” …never been at a conference with such broad representation, from corporate, to government, education, NGOs and home brewers…”
“…showed just how important this topic is…”
“…tremendously valuable…”

Check out DBI’s website and Google group to learn more.

http://desertbiofuels.blogspot.com/2008/03/desert-biofuels-workshop.html

http://groups.google.com/group/dbi-workshop

“Eating fried chicken wings and french fries might not clean out your arteries, but it actually could help clean up the air, now that two local companies are transforming waste cooking oil from local restaurants into diesel fuel.” Continue on to article at azcentral.com

PetroSun and Optimum Biofuels announce plans to build and operate a biorefinery in Coolidge. They plan to generate all their own power, consume no fossil fuels, and be carbon neutral. They also announced that they’ll use algae as their feedstock. Press Release.

Some recent studies published yesterday in Science conclude that the growing of feedstock for biofuels is causing more harm then good. This is discouraging news, but at the same time there is also some encouraging news about developments in friendlier feed stocks such as waste products, algae, and switch grass.

NPR’s Science Friday 2/8/08 discussion on biofuels.