Green Year

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Burning Man goes green

Local gearheads turned reluctant environmentalists?

By Steven T. Jones

Burning Man founder Larry Harvey chooses the theme for each year’s event — such as 2002’s the Floating World and last year’s Hope and Fear — but it usually doesn’t have much impact on the basic character of the event. This year’s theme, Green Man, is different. More after the jump

One last post for this morning, then to my coffee. At last night’s BRC GWG ( that’s Black Rock City Green Working Group ) Energy subcommittee meeting, I heard from Blue about the incredible challenges he’s had to overcome getting to use even a couple biodiesel generators out there. How our primary vendor United Rental won’t allow us to use the juice in their machines, and how he’s had to look high and low for another company, Kohler, that will.

Fast forward. Guy comes last night who know’s the VP of another company that’s now open to biofuels. Long conversation short, we’re now going to try to rent an entire fleet of biodiesel generators. How to fuel them, you ask?

Bentley Biofuels is a company in Minden, NV that collects used vegetable oil from restaurants in northern Nevada and processes it into biofuel.

So, if we put this deal together, we could go from using 20,000 gallons of diesel from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Texas, and other human rights war zones, or instead 20K gallons from, say, Sparks, Reno, and Truckee. I’ll take door number two for the planet, Alex. Stay tuned.