Peter Bell

Business leader, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Explorer, Idea generator, Inventor, Social entrepreneur, Startup, Technologist, World traveler

Peter was born in South Africa and was educated as an automotive engineer in the UK. Peter is often credited with rapid public awareness of biodiesel in the US market through his creation of the "BioWillie" brand of biodiesel in partnership with the legendary country singer, Willie Nelson. His company, Distribution Drive was acquired by a NASDAQ listed company in 2005 and prior to Distribution Drive, Peter was the co-founder & CEO of Flagship Systems, Inc the publisher of an early internet based accounting software system, Flagship. Peter is the inventor of the Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform, a humanitarian effort and is the co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, Inc.

Alternative Energy and how that can transform the prospects of the rural poor around the world.

The Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform (MFRFP) enables poor, rural farmers to free themselves from the cycle of poverty that currently ensnares them. Using vegetable oil seed crops as the raw material, rural farmers can energize their communities using the MFRFP Platform to make diesel fuel, not biodiesel, but a diesel fuel that exactly meets the specification for petroleum derived diesel fuel.. The MFRFP provides a way for rural populations to earn money selling a community produced diesel fuel replacement . As a byproduct, the MFRFP Platform brings electric power and clean water to their communities. For the first time Carbon Credits enable an expensive, high tech piece of equipment like the MFRFP Platform to be sold to the poorest people in the world who make less than a dollar per day. This process brings dignity to the folks being uplifted and poverty alleviation it is no longer a charitable process but a commercial transaction between equals. www.mfrfp.org

Alterantive Energy, Biodiesel, Diesel, Renewable Energy Technology, Renewable Fuel

Getting good ideas out of the lab into the market, skiing, sailing and windsurfing. Now I am trying to get good at cycling and hiking.