Biofuels

This book is about the politics, power and science surrounding the use of biodiesel to replace a substantial portion of our petroleum based diesel and home heating fuel oils. Even though it is not a “how to” book, if your passion is biofuels, you should read this one.

If you want to process and produce your own biodiesel, this is the book for you. Biodiesel Basics and Beyond aims to separate fact from fiction and to educate potential home, farm and cooperative manufacturers on the economic production of quality biodiesel from both waste and virgin oil feedstock. The book includes: detailed processes and lists of equipment required to produce biodiesel that meets North American standards; how farmers can use excess oilseed as a feedstock for biodiesel production; the use of the co-byproduct glycerin in making soap; a guide to numerous reference materials and a list of supplier data.

David Blume’s opus, Alcohol Can Be a Gas, is the definitive guide to weaning America from the oil habit via biofuels. In great detail, it thoroughly debunks the myth that ethanol production takes nearly as much energy to run the process as it produces, and shows how America can thrive by sustainably growing both an abundant food supply and biofuels at the same time (they can actually feed each other synergistically). Blume shows us a pathway to personal and national energy independence! David Blume has been an alcohol pioneer since Buckminster Fuller, one of America’s foremost visionary geniuses, coached and coaxed Blume in the 70’s to continue to pursue their united dream of energy independence through biofuels. Blume is a hands-on kind of guy, having been an organic farmer, inventor, permaculture teacher and alcohol pioneer over the past thirty years. This book is encyclopedic in scope, and is for everyone from policy makers to consumers to the back yard tinker who wishes to make his own ethanol and convert his existing gasoline powered car to run on ethanol fuel