New biodiesel station opens in Santa Cruz : Indybay

New biodiesel station opens in Santa Cruz : Indybay: " A new biodiesel station will have a grand opening in Santa Cruz on Saturday, April 21 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Ocean Street.

Pacific BioFuels had a grand opening of their new biodiesel fuel station on the cormer of Ocean Street and Soquel Avenue on April 21. All Santa Cruzans and visitors to our city can now use the more sustaiinable fuel, biodiesel.

The opening features live music by Keith Greninger, Horizon, Steve Robertson and Yuji.
Ray Newkirk, of Pacific BioFuels, said the station will also sell organic food, coffee and electric bicycles.

The city of Santa Cruz has goals of reducing CO2 emissions. What better way than refueling with a renewable fuel from U.S. farmers. FOSL urges all diesel car owners to patronize the only striclty biofuel station this side of Berkeley.

The station also supports the Santa Cruz Green Building program by using recycled fuel tanks, fuel dispensers and even the fencing surrounding the tanks is mostly recycled lumber and locally grown bamboo.

To find out more about Pacific BioFuels, contact Ray Newkirk, ray [at] pacfuel.com. Also for more information about price quotes, orders and deliveries, call Pacific BioFuel at 831-457-1328 or email them at: info [at] pacfuel.com"

Sunday Gazette-Mail - News

Sunday Gazette-Mail - News: "Just replacing fossil fuels with alternatives won’t save the environment, said Sally Shepherd, president of WVBioFuels/Renewables Co-op.

“We have to conserve, and biodiesel is just one of the aspects of that,” she said.

On Saturday at West Virginia State University, Shepherd and WVBioFuels held a public demonstration and meeting about alternative fuel and power sources, including biodiesel and solar power, as part of the National Day of Climate Action.
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Inside a small shed at West Virginia State University’s Bioplex Project site is a small biodiesel manufacturing setup, opened by the co-op in October.

The 110-gallon reactor takes used cooking oil collected from area restaurants and institutions and turns it into biodiesel, which is used by co-op members to run diesel engines.

Lou Kapicak of the Mid-Atlantic Technology Research and Innovation Center, or MATRIC, has been helping the co-op with the production of the fuel.

In the reactor, used cooking oil is infused with methanol, the pumps are turned on and the oil separates, leaving biodiesel on the top and glycerin on the bottom, Kapicak said."