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SBJ Series: Homegrown Alternatives

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SBJ explores local efforts to find alternative ways of producing energy.

Greased Lightning: Golden Fuel Systems thrives as gas prices push customers to vegetable oil

Published April 7, 2008

Springfield-based Golden Fuel Systems is benefiting from skyrocketing diesel fuel prices by offering a parallel auxiliary fuel system that allows diesel vehicles to run on filtered vegetable oil.

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Against the Grain: Area startup Queen City Green rescues trees for wood products

Published Jan. 21, 2008

A local startup’s mission is to rescue usable wood that might otherwise be treated as debris and destroyed. Its main suppliers are Mother Nature and real estate developers who have cleared trees to make way for subdivisions or strip malls.

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Power Package: Mansfield company pursues patents for a new transportation power source

Published Oct. 15, 2007

Mechanical whiz Daren Luedtke says his idea for an alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles will revolutionize modern transportation.

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Sunny Side Up: Springfield company reaches upward to generate business

Published Aug. 27, 2007

Missouri's business climate for solar companies appears to be improving, and the owner of Springfield-based Power Source Solar Inc. is banking on it.

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Small-town Company, Big-time Aspirations: American Green Holdings specializes in alternative fuel

Published July 30, 2007

A Crane company formed in October specializes in biodiesel and alternative fuel technologies and already has a few celebrity customers plugging its EcoOutlaw, a motorcycle that runs on ethanol-blended fuel.[[In-content Ad]]

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