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Cellulosic E85 Standard for First Time at Petit Le Mans

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Breaking News!  For the first time in any race at any venue in any country, all the entries using E85 are powered by cellulosic E85. It is happening at Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in Georgia from

September 30, 2010 Read Full Article

EUR 6.1 mln Project to Farm Algae for Biofuels

(FIS)  Scientists are proposing the creation of methane gas from algae grown in great offshore farms to power adapted vehicles. A new GBP 5 million (EUR 6.1 million) UK and Irish joint project called BioMara disclosed the plan and seeks to

September 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Purdue Receives Nearly $1.6 Million for Biofuels Crop Research

(AgriMarketing/Purdue)  Purdue University is receiving $1.59 million in federal funding for a project to conduct a sustainability assessment of energy crops for biofuels. The funding is part of a $16.5 million renewable fuel initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy to

September 30, 2010 Read Full Article

ALMS: Inside The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid

by Marshall Pruett  (SpeedTV)  It doesn’t use a battery. It draws technology from F1. It handles like an AWD car. And with an extra 160hp on tap, it simply flies. Meet Porsche’s racing hybrid. ...Porsche also offers a battery-based hybrid with

September 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Cleantech Stimulus Still Not Stimulating

by David Gold (RenewableEnergyWorld.com)   ...While stimulus supporters and the press love to focus on the selection of award winners for grants and loans, funds appropriated but sitting in the U.S. Treasury have zero potential to stimulate the economy irrespective of

September 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Verenium Launches DELTAZYM(R) GA L-E5 Enzyme for Fuel Ethanol Production

(Verenium)   Verenium Corporation, a pioneer in the development and commercialization of high-performance industrial enzyme solutions, today announced that it will now market and sell DELTAZYM(R) GA L-E5, a high performance enzyme for the saccharification of liquefied starch in the fuel ethanol

September 29, 2010 Read Full Article

William & Mary Receives $500,000 for Biofuel Study

(TAPPI)  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Washington, D.C., USA, has awarded the College of William & Mary, WIlliansburg, Va., $500,000 to study various aspects of using wild aquatic algae as both biofuel feedstock and as a medium for helping to

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Dutch Researchers Use Modified Pyrolysis Technique to Produce Bio-oil

(TAPPI)  Researchers at the University of Technology in Twente, the Netherlands, have reportedly developed a new technique that enables large-scale production of biofuels without adverse effects on food supplies. According to a report this past week by Radio Netherlands, an

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Colorado State University Study: Turning Algae Into Fuel Is Ecofriendly

(CBS4Denver.com/AP)  A Colorado State University study says turning algae into a biofuel is more environmentally friendly than the process for petroleum diesel or soy biodiesel. The study based its conclusion on the complete process for each fuel and included factors such

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA: US Ethanol Production More Efficient than Ever

John Davis (DomesticFuel.com) ...In an interview with USDA radio, Harry Baumes, Director of USDA’s Office of Energy Policy and New Uses says a new study shows that we’re getting more energy out of corn than what it takes to raise the

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Aviation Week & Space Technology Explores Future of Green Aviation

(Aviation Week)  Special report includes latest innovations in biofuels, laminar flow, and electric propulsion Much progress has been made in recent years in the development of biofuels made from microalgae, animal fat and other non-petroleum-based substances, and they likely will be approved

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Drayson LMP1 Green Racing Message Celebrated at Petit Le Mans

(Drayson Racing)  One year ago, Drayson Racing debuted theNo.8 Drayson Racing Lola Coupé with Judd Power in the Le Mans Prototype One (LMP1) class of the Petit Le Mans. The clear mission of the move into the American Le Mans

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Genome of Chlorella Microalgae Decoded

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The analysis of the complete genome of Chlorella microalgae, a promising genus for biofuel production, has been completed by the Laboratoire Information Génomique et Structurale of CNRS. The Laboratory is currently heading an international collaboration involving American and

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Farmers Urge States to Implement Sustainable Biofuel Criteria

by Dafydd ab Iago (EuroPolitics)  The European organisation of farmers’ associations Copa-Cogeca warned, on 24 September, that schemes to verify the sustainability criteria for biofuels and bioliquids may not be implemented by member states on time.   READ MORE (subscription needed)

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels: a New Methodology to Estimate GHG Emissions Due to Global Land Use Change

by Roland Hiederer, Fabien Ramos, et al. (European Commission Joint Research Centre)  This study implements a new methodology developed by the JRC IES and IE for estimating changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil and above- and below-ground biomass resulting

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Sekab Trials Corn Waste Ethanol Production

(Argus Media)  Swedish ethanol producer Sekab and Swedish technology specialist Taurus Energy will next month begin trialling the production of ethanol from corn waste.  The trials will take place at Sekab's ethanol demonstration plant in Ornskoldsvik, northern Sweden, and involve the development

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Mumias to Start Production of Ethanol Next Year, Says Kidero

by Joseph Bonyo   (Daily Nation)  ...The plant that is expected to produce about 22 million litres of ethanol a year will be the latest addition to the firm’s portfolio. According to the company, the ethanol will be targeted for sale within

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

EPA Helps to Launch Science and Engineering Festival

(US Environmental Protection Agency)  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development, Paul Anastas, joins other science leaders to kick off the USA Science and Engineering Festival on September 29 in Washington, D.C. Dr.

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Midwest Biodiesel to rehire workers thanks to $300,000 loan

by Kelsey Volkmann (St. Louis Business Journal)  Midwest Biodiesel Products LLC, the only biodiesel refiner in the St. Louis area, plans to use a $300,000 loan from the St. Louis Business Development Fund and St. Louis Private Fund to rehire

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Journal of Peasant Studies Publishes Perspectives on New Agrarian Relations Related to Biofuels

(Journal of Peasant Studies)   In this collection we ask a number of questions emerging out of the new agrarian political economy created by the ‘biofuel complex’. Together the papers offer perspectives from political economy, political sociology and political ecology, and

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Deal Reached on Malaysian Ensyn Biofuel Plant

by Bert Hill  (Ottawa Citizen)  Construction will start this year on a biofuel plant in Malaysia that uses the technology of Ensyn Technologies, an Ottawa company. A Malaysian government agency has announced that the plant will turn palm oil biomass into biofuel

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Green Star Signs Contract to Fabricate Biodiesel Plant for Processing Algae Oil

(Green Star Products)  Green Star Products, Inc., announced it has signed a contract to build a biodiesel facility. This is the first of several contracts in conjunction with an ambitious Algae-to-Biodiesel project on the west coast. Green Star has already started fabrication

September 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Southeast Missouri St. Official Says Sorghum May Replace Corn as Preferred Crop for Ethanol

(AP/KSPR)  ...Wesley Mueller, Southeast professor of agriculture, said sorghum grown at the university farm in the future could produce 500 gallons of ethanol per acre. These figures rapidly outpace corn, which generally yields 235 gallons of ethanol per acre.  READ

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Corvallis Ethanol Producer Optimistic

by Nathalie Weinstein (Daily Journal of Commerce: Oregon)   Large basins of fermented sugars are brewing at Trillium FiberFuels in Corvallis. But this brew isn’t beer; it’s cellulosic ethanol, a promising biofuel that the start-up company says could steal some of corn

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Montana Senators Push Military Option on Biofuels

by James Cartledge  (BrighterEnergy.org)  As the Senate debated and ultimately failed to pass reforms in the military this week, two Senators from Montana introduced legislation to boost markets for biofuel. Sens. Max Baucus and John Tester’s bill, American Security and Freedom Fuels

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Cunning Capitalists Go Blazing Into Biofuels

by Hilary Kramer  (Forbes)  ...One Renaissance man in the thick of the green chemical and biofuel revolution is David Milroy. I knew Australian-born Milroy from his days as the trailblazer in the global telecom and broadband revolution of the mid-

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Ohio to Offer $8M in Subsidies for Ethanol, Biodiesel

(Dayton Business Journal)  Ohio is preparing to dole out $8 million to boost manufacturers by subsidizing ethanol and biodiesel refining equipment purchases. ...Under the Advancing Biofuels Beyond the Basics program, companies can snag $500,000 to $1 million for buying equipment that

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Hot Technologies, RFS Power US Biodiesel Revival

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...With the collapse in markets, rising prices and the evaporation of the tax credits, condition were ripe for the end of biodiesel 1.0. By early 2010, only two major producers were left standing, Imperium Renewables

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

United States Joins Alliance to Promote Clean Cooking in Developing Countries

By Arpita Bhattacharyya, Andrew Light (Center for American Progress)  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday an impressive collaboration at the Clinton Global Initiative that brings together U.S. agencies and the United Nations Foundation to form the Global Alliance for

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

BlueFire Renewables Signs 15 Year Feedstock Supply Contract for Fulton, MS Cellulosic Ethanol Facility

(PRNewsWire)  BlueFire Renewables, Inc., a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced a contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire's planned cellulosic ethanol

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Phyco BioSciences and CBE to Develop Algae in China

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Phyco BioSciences, Inc., has announced an agreement with Hong Kong based China Biological Engineering, Limited to develop two projects in the Peoples Republic of China beginning this Fall. The first project is a joint venture in JaingShu Province

September 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Searching in the Microbial World for Efficient Ways to Produce Biofuel

by Dennis O'Brien (USDA/ARS)   With the help of genetic materials from a cow's rumen, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are developing new ways to break down plant fibers for conversion into biofuel. To convert corn stover and switchgrass into biofuel, the

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

California Bioenergy Bill Killed

by Anna Austin (Biomass Magazine)  A bill (AB 222) that would have expedited the introduction of new conversion technologies to produce green power and advanced biofuels from solid waste materials in California is officially dead, due to lack of key

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Deficit Hawks Not Talking Turkey About Ethanol

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  A Bloomberg story today warned that deficit hawks in Congress – and potentially those that might be elected this fall – are targeting ethanol as an example of wasteful government spending.  ...Our government spends

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Swedish Biofuels Do Have Major Benefits for the Climate

(Alpha Galileo)  For the first time, researchers have taken an overall look at Swedish biofuels and analysed what impact they have on the environment, both in relation to one another and to the fossil fuel alternatives petrol and diesel. The results

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Dutch flowers Grown with Carbon Dioxide from Bioethanol plant in Rotterdam

(IBTimes/Green Energy UK)   More and more of the millions of flowers grown in Dutch greenhouses each year are receiving carbon dioxide from carbon capture and storage systems. As the leading European bioethanol producer, Abengoa Bioenergía is contributing to this shift

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Oxford Resource Partners, LP and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. Announce a Miscanthus Biomass Pilot Project in Ohio

(Oxford Resource Partners)   Opportunity to Convert Reclaimed Mine Lands for Renewable Energy Oxford Resource Partners, LP and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. announced their collaborative agreement to develop a pilot project to produce Mendel's proprietary Miscanthus varieties on land previously reclaimed from mining operations by

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Waste-Based Microbial Oil set to Become a Raw Material for Renewable Diesel

(Neste Oil Corporation)  Neste Oil has applied for patents to cover technology developed to produce microbial oil from waste and residues with the help of various yeasts and molds for use as a feedstock for its NExBTL renewable diesel. Research work

September 24, 2010 Read Full Article

Making an Impact on and off Track with Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid

(American Le Mans Series)   Porsche and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón were guests Tuesday of the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Washington DC got its first look at Porsche’s 911 GT3

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Cellulosic Ethanol Production Shows Promise

By Kerri Ebert (Midwest Producer)  ...Kansas State University agricultural economist David Lambert has been developing economic models focusing on how development of the cellulosic ethanol industry could help meet EISA targets of 16 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol production by

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Camelina: Potential Biofuels Crop in Western Nebraska

by IANR News Service   (North Platte Bulletin)  ...Camelina is a yellow-flowering oilseed crop that grows one to three feet tall. It has some advantages as an industrial oil crop, said University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist Ed Cahoon. For example, it's not

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

The A.I.M. Interview: Algae Genetic Engineer Dr. Stephen Mayfield

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  If moving genes around on a chromosome is your idea of a good time, meet Dr. Stephen Mayfield, Director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology. ...Steve is now the John Dove Isaacs Professor

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Leillani Returns to Racing:New Partnership Brings Together Racing, Veterans for Clean Energy

(Operation Free)  Stock car racing fans at Kansas Speedway on September 30 will receive an unusual message from one of the cars speeding around the track: America needs to compete in the "Race to Energy Independence."   Operation Free, a group of

September 23, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA Report Shows Improving Corn-Ethanol Energy Efficiency

(US Department of Agriculture)  Harry Baumes, Acting Director of USDA’s Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, says a report that surveyed corn growers in 2005 and ethanol plants in 2008 indicates the net energy gain from converting corn to ethanol

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Fueling a New Market

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  A mid-Atlantic company may have developed a solution for two of ethanol producers’ main problems: natural gas usage and how to increase demand for their product. ...LPP Combustion LLC may have the answer to the

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

MemfoACT Carbon Membrane Helps to Convert Low-Grade Biogas into Biofuel

(AZo Materials)  MemfoACT, a spin-off from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), has secured NOK 25 million to turn its award-winning membrane technology into a commercial product. Based on research conducted at NTNU's Department of Chemical Engineering, the company's

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

The Biorefinery Project of the Future: A 10-Part Series

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...We have spoken to farmers, local business owners, environmentalists, community development officials, engine developers, scientists, policy makers, producers, investors, lenders, blenders, wholesalers, retailers, and end users. We have visited development projects on four continents. We have

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Hoover Eyed for Site to Grow Algae for Biofuel

by Val Walton (The Birmingham News)  Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos wrote a letter of support last week for the SouthEast Region Algae Consortium (SERAC) -- a group of scientists, engineers and experts in biofuels and algae research which is pursuing a

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Progress for Abengoa’s Kansas Cellulosic Ethanol Project

by James Cartledge  (BrighterEnergy.org)  Abengoa Bioenergy has secured 60% of the feedstocks it needs for its hybrid ethanol facility being developed in Hugoton, Kansas. ...The Hugoton facility is set to be the first commercial-scale installation of a hybrid refinery – a

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Students Learn FFV Conversion Process

by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuel)  Students at North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) are studying the flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) conversion process. As first reported on KMIT.com, by using FlexFuel U.S.’s system, the students are excited to learn how to lessen

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

2010 Fuel Scorecard Released

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel) The Truman National Security Project has released its 2010 Fuel Scorecard and ethanol scores near the top of the list as viable fuel options for the future. Based on several factors that affect America’s security including instability of

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Green race: Algae-to-Biofuel Firm Announces Breakthroughs

by Steve Clark (The Brownsville Herald)  Photon8 Inc., Brad Bartilson’s Brownsville-based startup company, has managed to plow through some sticky issues in its quest for commercially feasible algae-to-biofuel production and is two years ahead of schedule in terms of production milestones.In

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Improved Labs Energize Biomass Research

(National Renewable Energy Laboratory)   When you've lived in the same "home" for more than 20 years, a time comes when you need to upgrade your furnishings to keep current and spruce things up a bit. That is exactly what has

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Central America Working towards Standardised Biofuel Evaluation Criteria

(Eco Periodicals)  During a recent meeting in San Salvador, member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) weighed up the possibility of standardising criteria for assessing the quality of biofuels and their potential impact in each country. SICA comprises Belize, Costa

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

E-Fuel Introduces MicroFusion™ Reactor

(PRNewsWire)  Disruptive technology makes possible to process all organic biomass into ethanol fuel. E-Fuel is pleased to announce its latest innovation, the E-Fuel MicroFusion Reactor, a disruptive technology which empowers users to process all forms of cellulosic waste into sugar water,

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Hostile Takeover: What Happens to Biofuels if Republicans Take Congress?

Interview of BIO's Brent Erickson by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...BE: I have been a little bit disappointed in the Obama administration. When he was in the Senate he as very pro-biofuels.  He had to choose his priorities, and that

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

The Valley of Death: Why Energy Is Not Like IT

by Stephen Lacey (RenewableEnergyWorld)  We often wonder when the next Google of clean energy will materialize. When will the lone inventor finally emerge from his garage to change the world and solve our energy problems? What stealth company will bring

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Could Be Cleared For Aircraft Use

by Graham Warwick (AviationWeek)  In just five years, the aviation industry’s decades-long reliance on petroleum-based fuels has been turned on its head. The future lies in fuels from sources that range from animal fat to microalgae. But with the technology in

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Holden Running with Ethanol

by John Parry (WeeklyTimesNow)  Buyers of Holden's new Commodore will be able to run it on 85 per cent ethanol.   But they will have to drive to Melbourne or one of four other capital cities to re-fuel. From late this month, Commodore

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

EPA Emissions Rules Could Hinder Ethanol

(Des Moines Register)  Biofuels producers don't like to think of themselves as a cause of global warming, but that's how they could be regulated under the Obama administration's regulations on greenhouse gases. The regulations, due to take effect in January, would

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Can Biofuels Beat Drugs Crops and Save Lives in Afghanistan?

by Dean Irvine (CNN)  ...Wayne Arden, who has a background in technology and finance, and John Fox whose career has been in the renewable energy field, published a White Paper on producing and using biodiesel in Afghanistan earlier this summer. ...With

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Where There's Bugs, There's Brass: UK Firm Lands $500m Biofuel Contract

by Shanta Barley  (The Guardian)  TMO Renewables wins contract with US firm Fiberight using its 'turbo-charged' GM bacteria that convert rubbish into biofuels. A British company that uses a genetically modified compost-heap bug to produce biofuel from rubbish has signed a

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

BlueFire Renewables Secures 15-Year Off-Take Agreement with Tenaska BioFuels for Mississippi Cellulosic Ethanol Facility

(PRNewswire)  Contract Is Among First of Its Kind in U.S. BlueFire Renewables, Inc., a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, has announced an off-take agreement with Tenaska BioFuels,

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Renewable Algal Energy Scores $3 Million from DOE

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Renewable Algal Energy, LLC of Kingsport, Tennessee, has announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded them $3,000,000 to develop “Algal Biodiesel via Innovative Harvesting and Aquaculture Systems.”   READ MORE  and MORE  (Department of Energy)

September 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Airbus and British Airways Join Cranfield U. on Algae for Aviation Fuel

(Algae Industry Magazine)  The Sustainable Use of Renewable Fuels (SURF) consortium, which brings together Airbus, British Airways, Rolls-Royce, Finnair, Gatwick Airport, IATA and Cranfield University was announced at this week’s Aviation and Environment Summit in Geneva. The consortium will take a

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

ISAAA Chief Said Biotech Crops Only Way out of Global Poverty, Food Crises

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Canada, Dr. Clive James, executive director of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), said that “In the next 50 years, the global population will consume two times as much food

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Hatcher Team Creates New Process to Boost Biofuel Production from Algae

(Old Dominion University)  ...During the past five years, researchers at Old Dominion University have devised ways to cultivate and harvest microscopic algae, and then to convert them into a biodiesel fuel by a proprietary one-step process. Now they have discovered

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

State Assists Laurel Ethanol Startup

by Dave Dreeszen (Sioux City Journal)  The state of Nebraska on Thursday awarded a half million dollars in infrastructure funds to assist a northeast Nebraska startup planning to turn an ethanol byproduct into plastics. Laurel BioComposite, a producer of what’s known as

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Three Fuel-Efficient Cars Win Automotive X Prize Competition

(Los Angeles Times)  ...The Edison2 entry Very Light Car #98 from Virginia won $5 million in the mainstream class, running on E85 ethanol fuel. The aerodynamic 4-wheeled auto demonstrated the equivalent of 102.5 miles per gallon on the test track

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Airlines Chief Urges More Investment in Biofuels

(AFP)  The head of the world's biggest airline association, IATA, berated the oil industry and governments on Friday for investing "peanuts" in cleaner biofuels. "Biofuels could break the tyranny of oil and lift millions from poverty along with providing a sustainable fuel

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

More Choices
 at Fueling Stations?

by Marc Katz  (Dayton Daily News)  ...“Ethanol is not the (total) answer,” said John DiMartini, Ethanol Marketing Manager of The Andersons, which has a plant in Greenville. “But together (with other alternative fuels) we can put a severe dent in

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Convergence of Agriculture and Energy: IV. Infrastructure Considerations for Biomass Harvest, Transportation, and Storage

 by Jerry Fruin (Chair), Mark D. Stowers, Kelly Tiller  (Council for Agricultural Science and Technology)  The sustainable collection of biomass feedstocks is an important consideration for cellulosic ethanol production. The sustainable amount of biomass that can be removed from the

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

More Ethanol In Gasoline: 'Minimal Risk' To Old Cars, Study Says

by John Voelcker  (GreenCarReports.com)  We've written before about just how worried automakers are at proposals by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase the ethanol content of pump gasoline from 10 to 12 or even 15 percent. They fear it will damage

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

With No New Permits in Indonesia, Sinar Mas to Enter Liberia

(Jakarta Globe/Bloomberg/Reuters/AFP) Singapore palm oil producer Golden Agri-Resources, part of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group, said on Friday that its subsidiary Golden VerOleum would form a $1.6 billion partnership with the government of Liberia in a palm oil project. The move comes

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Big Oil and Biofuels Clash over UK’s 2020 Biofuels Target

by Joelle Dent (Biofuels Digest Asia)  There’s blast furnace heat but little light so far in the debate on the UK biofuels target for 2020. Some advisors have urged that the current target of 10 percent be halved or entirely

September 21, 2010 Read Full Article

The Amyris IPO: Will It Fly? Should It? The Risks and Rewards

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Documents filed with the SEC confirm what many voices in the industry have been saying about the Amyris, Gevo and PetroAlgae IPOs – they are “financing events” to fund these companies’ yawning capital requirements rather

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

RFA Disputes EPA’s Inclusion of Biogenic Carbon Emissions

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering equating biogenic carbon emissions with fossil fuel emissions under the Tailoring Rule, which requires the accounting and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). Biogenic

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Neutrons Helping Researchers Unlock Secrets to Cheaper Ethanol

(Science Daily)  New insight into the structure of switchgrass and poplars is fueling discussions that could result in more efficient methods to turn biomass into biofuel. Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech used small-angle

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

First General Aviation Engine Powers Light Aircraft with Biofuel

by Natasha Odendaal (Engineering News)  Local general aviation company Adept Airmotive has developed the first general aviation engine that is able to power a light aircraft with a range of environment-friendly alternative fuels, such as biofuels and liquid petroleum gas. The Adept

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Cassava and the Future of Thailand’s Biofuel Industry

by David Lonardo & Benjamin Lazarus  (American World Services Corporation/Biofuels Digest)  ...The country of Thailand, already one of the world’s leading agri-food exporters, believes it can attract investment in the advanced biofuel sector by providing a solution to this problem.

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Blairstown Ethanol Plant Gets $2.9 Million State Grant

by George Ford (SourceMedia Group News/Eastern Iowa Business)  The Iowa Power Fund Board awarded a $2.9 million grant to a cellulosic ethanol plant in Blairstown. Fiberight-Blairstown Operating LLC received the grant to demonstrate how municipal solid waste can be converted into cellulosic

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Glycos Biotechnologies Creates First Ever Metabolic Process for Synthesis of Biofuels and Biochemicals from Fatty Acids

(Glycos Biotechnologies)  Breakthrough Further Expands Industrial Biochemical Company’s Diversified Feedstock Platform Strategy Glycos Biotechnologies, Inc. (GlycosBio), an emerging biochemical company pioneering metabolic engineering and microbiology innovations for the production of sustainable biochemicals, today announced it has created the first ever microbial

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Classifying Biofuel Subsidies: Farm Bill and WTO Considerations

by Cindy O'Connor (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Report from a Washington DC, September 14, 2010 briefing sponsored by Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council With legislative work beginning on the next Farm Bill and new WTO rounds; the issue of biofuel subsidy classification

September 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels From Trash Could Replace Half of EU Gasoline by 2020, Study Says

by Alex Morales  (Bloomberg)  Biofuels made from plant waste and municipal trash rather than food crops could replace more than half of gasoline used in the European Union by 2020, industry analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance said today. The 27-nation bloc could

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Researchers: Develop Biofuels and Advanced Engines

by John Davis (DomesticFuel)   The next generation of biofuels must be developed in conjunction with advanced combustion engines, if there is to be long-term success of those biofuels. That word comes from researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories. The recommendations were made following

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Statoil Invests In Ethanol-From-Seaweed Venture In California

by Angel Gonzalez  (Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal)  Norwegian oil major Statoil ASA (STO) has agreed to invest in a San Francisco Bay Area start-up to develop ethanol from seaweed, and to potentially commercialize the fuel in Norway and other European countries. Under the

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Easing Lignocellulosic Biofuel Production

(RenewableEnergyFocus.com)  Following the discovery of the genes of two enzymes that toughen plants, researchers aim to breed non-food crops that require less processing, energy and chemicals to convert them into biofuel. ...Lead Researcher, Professor Paul Dupree, says: “There is a lot

September 16, 2010 Read Full Article

Hydrothermal Biofuels Research Pilot Plant Opens in Sydney

by Nicole Bleasdale (Biofuels Digest/AusBiotech)  ...The last of five integrated biofuels facilities funded under the Commonwealth Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Program was officially opened on Friday 9 September 2010. Located at the University of Sydney’s Darlington Campus,

September 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Russian Technologies to Build Biofuel Factory

(The Moscow Times)  Russian Technologies will begin construction of the country's first biofuel factory next spring, the state corporation's chief, Sergei Chemezov, said Monday. The factory — to be located in the Irkutsk region — will turn wood chips and other timber

September 15, 2010 Read Full Article

Join the Navy and Free the World: A Special Report on Military Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The Navy’s long term strategy is to supply 50% of its energy from renewables by 2020. How much is that? Well, statistics on energy consumption from the Department Energy Supply Center (DESC) generally are DoD-wide, but

September 15, 2010 Read Full Article

The A.I.M. Interview: Dr. Danny Kainer

by David Schwartz  (Algae Industry Magazine)  Training a workforce for the algae production industry is going to be a Catch 22 type of situation. It will take a large community of workers with highly developed skills to build the quantity of

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

His Corporate Strategy: The Scientific Method

by Andrew Pollack  (New York Times) ...Now Dr. Venter is turning from reading the genetic code to an even more audacious goal: writing it. At Synthetic Genomics, he wants to create living creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants —

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

The Pros & Cons of Miscanthus

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  ...The potential of miscanthus and switchgrass has been studied extensively by researchers Greg McIsaac, Mark B. David and Corey A. Mitchell... The study focused on two important environmental concerns surrounding biomass: water quantity and nitrogen “leeching”. When

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Sustainable Biochar to Mitigate Global Climate Change

by  By Dominic Woolf, James E. Amonette, et al.  (Nature Communications)  Production of biochar (the carbon (C)-rich solid formed by pyrolysis of biomass) and its storage in soils have been suggested as a means of abating climate change by sequestering carbon,

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuel and Bioenergy Production from Sugar Beets

The University of California-Davis is a recipient of a $10,000 EPA People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Phase I grant. They will design an integrated, efficient biological system that can be used to convert sugar beets into biofuel and bioenergy. Approach: Design industrial

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Extraction of Sugars from Algae for Direct Conversion to Butanol

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is a recipient of a $10,000 EPA People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Phase I grant. ...(A)lthough much research has been done on trying to convert algae oils into biodiesel, little has been done on

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

BioWinol Technologies: A Hybrid Green Process for Biofuel Production

Oklahoma State University is a recipient of a $10,000 EPA People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Phase I grant for a hybrid green process for biofuel production. BIOWINol Technologies proposed a unique hybrid technology that uses several renewable resources, specifically biomass,

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

EPA Awards Grants for Students to Design Sustainable Technologies to Help Environment and Economy

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded 55 grants to teams of college and university students across the country who will design creative solutions to sustainability challenges in the developed and developing world. The People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3)

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Petrobras Signs $250 Million Contract for 20 Ethanol Barge Trains

(Platts) Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras said Friday that it chose a Brazilian shipyard to build a reais 432.3 million ($251 million) fleet of 20 river-barge trains to cut the cost of shipping ethanol to refiners and export terminals.      The 20 pusher-tugs and

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Flex Fuel US Can Sell to Fleets

by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuel)  Flex Fuel U.S.®, a company dedicated to the development of future fuel solutions and alternative fuel conversion systems, has been awarded approval to sell and install E85 Flex Fuel conversion systems to Federal Government Fleets through the Federal

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Mendota Sugar Beets Could Be Used for Energy

by Robert Rodriquez (The Fresno Bee)  Mendota operation could employ about 100 people. ...The proposed plant would use sugar beets and orchard prunings to make ethanol, electricity and compressed natural gas. Another element of the project would involve treating urban and

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

How to Ruin OPEC's Birthday

by Gal Luft (Foreign Policy)  The Middle Eastern oil cartel celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. Here's how to keep it from running our lives for another half-century. ...To weaken OPEC we must change the playing field altogether -- we must

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Global Fuels Receives Feasibility Study Grant

by Erin Voegele (Biorefining Magazine)  Dexter, Mo.-based Global Fuels LLC recently received a $48,833 grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to explore the technical and economic possibility of producing next generation biofuels. “We are going to use the feasibility

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Biorefinery Town of Tomorrow

by Luke Geiver  (Biorefining Magazine)  The work of ThermoChem Recovery International has already changed the future for one small Wisconsin community. A small town in the woods of Wisconsin, fresh off the bankruptcy and closing of its century-old paper mill, might

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

BBI International Launches Biorefining Magazine and Conference

(BBI International)  BBI International, a leader in globally recognized bioenergy events and trade magazines, has launched a new magazine and international conference. Biorefining magazine and the aligned International Biorefining Conference & Trade Show will provide a new communications avenue for

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

SRSenergy and Partners Secure $6.2 Million DOE Contract

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Solution Recovery Services, of Dexter Michigan, an employee owned industry leader in oil separation and purification systems has partnered with Touchstone Research Laboratory, a privately owned U.S. company with principal operations in Triadelphia, W.V. The project team together

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

UMass Professor Develops Improved Biofuel Processing Method

by Matthew M. Robare  (Daily Collegian)     A chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts developed an improved method of converting wood into synthetic fuels. “We’re focused on lignocellulosic biomass,” said Assistant Professor Paul Dauenhauer. “What I mean by that is trees and grasses

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Agro2 Pioneers Ethanol from Cassava in Panama

(Agro2/PR.com)  Agro2 announces it will be the first company to research and produce ethanol from cassava in Panama, thanks to funding from FACT Foundation and the Global Sustainable Biomass Fund of NL Agency, a division of the Dutch Ministry of

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Carbon Dioxide Recycling in the Biofuels Industry,” a Special Digest report

by Sam A. Rushing (Biofuels Digest)  ...Since CO2 has been shown to be the globe’s worst offender as a greenhouse gas, the very use of this gas in a technology which would foster the production of viable basic chemicals, plastics,

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Jatropha 2.0 Arrives: Koch’s FHR, LIFE Technologies Invest in SG Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Earlier this year, SG Biofuels and Life Technologies formed a strategic alliance, and recently announced they have completed the sequence of the Jatropha genome. The company’s integrated breeding and biotechnology approach forms the foundation for its

September 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Green Jet Fuel Takes Flight

by Tyler Hamilton (Toronto Star) Could a unique microorganism found in the waters of Atlantic Canada represent the future of jet fuel production? That’s what Halifax-based Ocean Nutrition Canada is hoping to find out as part of a four-year demonstration project funded

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Fiberight Receives $2.9M Grant for Cellulosic Plant

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel)  Fiberight-Blairstown Operating LLC has received a $2.9 million grant to help build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Blairstown, Iowa. The award was given by the Iowa Power Board Fund yesterday. Fiberight is developing technology to convert

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Ban on Field Burning Prompts Plan to Convert Straw to Energy

by Dana Tims (The Oregonian)  ...They propose breaking ground next year on a $25 million bioenergy park somewhere in the Willamette Valley. The multi-faceted facility would convert straw and other waste materials into saleable products such as ethanol, electricity, fertilizer, compost

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Fulcrum Bioenergy Begins Work on Ethanol Plant

(Bloomberg BusinessWeek)   Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc. will begin construction and engineering work on a new plant in Nevada to convert household garbage into ethanol fuel. The Sierra Biofuels plant, which will produce fuel for cars and trucks, is due to begin operations in

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Gets Iowa Football Fans Pumped Up

by Joanna Schroeder  (DomesticFuel)  Did you know that 60 cents of each gallon of E85 purchased stays in the state of Iowa? I didn’t know that until I participated in the Iowa Corn Fed Game Day pump rally at Riverside,

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Breaking the Chains: 6 Solutions for Ending Dependence on Foreign Oil

by Lewis Reynolds  (Politics Daily)  America doesn't have to depend on overseas sources for one of its most vital national needs. A move toward energy independence, aside from creating as many as 14 million new jobs, can help rebuild our

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Mandates Cast Cloud Over Gasoline Retailing

by Barbara Grondin Francella  (Convenience Store News)  ...The EPA is considering a request to authorize the use of E15, while ethanol advocates are calling for the immediate approval of E12 and longer-term, even higher ethanol blends (E25, etc.) However, the

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Plant and MicroBiology Scientists Receive Corn Biofuel Grant

by Karyn Houston  (UC Berkley College of Natural Resources)  ...The $793,000 grant from the Department of Energy looks at how to utilize the tons of leftover “crop residue” left behind after the kernel is used. Dr. Markus Pauly and Dr.

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Engineering Yeast Can Make Biofuels Commercially Viable

by John Timmer (Ars Technica)  ...Cellulose is a very long polymer of sugar molecules. Yeast will happily use those sugars to produce ethanol, but it can't get at them while they're trapped in cellulose. As a result, a suite of

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae-Based Biofuel Plant to Be Built in Puerto Rico

by By Jorge J. Muñiz Ortiz   (Latin American Herald Tribune)   State-owned utility AEE and the firm Bio-Lipidos on Thursday announced plans to build a plant in northern Puerto Rico that will produce a pure fuel based on tropical marine micro-algae. AEE’s executive

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Drayson Racing Flex-Fuel Lola-Judd Qualifies 7th at Silverstone

(Drayson Racing)   Drayson Racing is again using international sportscar racing to prove the overall performance a Flex-Fuel race car can achieve. Jonny Cocker (Guisborough, Yorks, UK) used the No.11 Drayson Racing Lola Coupé with Judd Power to qualify seventh overall

September 13, 2010 Read Full Article

LMS: A Greener ILMC?

by John Dagys  (Speed TV)  Paul Drayson calls for green initiatives to be integrated into Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. ...But the jump into the ILMC hasn’t come without some sacrifice. Drayson’s Lola B09/60 Judd is unable to utilize the Cellulosic E85

September 11, 2010 Read Full Article

Thailand Energy Authorities to Finance Research on Algae Biofuel

(AzoCleanTech)  ...The two universities currently conducting the algae research are the Kasetsart University in the area of freshwater algae and the Burapha University in the area of marine algae. The Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency Department will not only provide financial

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Carbon2Green Will Produce Biodiesel

(MarketWatch)  ...Carbon2Green is currently conducting a pilot project in the Bandundu region of DRC and wants to achieve a funding enabling it, by the end of the year, to proceed with the hiring of over 300 people and planting nearly

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Public Consultation on Version 1.1 of the RSB Principles & Criteria and Guidance for P&Cs

(Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels)  In November 2009, the RSB Steering Board approved Version One of the RSB Principles & Criteria (P&Cs) and the Certification System for pilot testing after public regional outreaches and extensive consultation of the RSB Chambers. While

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Ford Incorporates B20 Discussion in Super Duty Pickup Truck Marketing

Ford designed its 2011 Super Duty® diesel pickup trucks to run on 20 percent biodiesel, and has included a discussion of biodiesel in their diesel truck marketing campaign. Mike Rowe of TV's "Dirty Jobs" fame tells the story of the Ford

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Piper Jaffray Monthly Bio-Industrials Update: Energy Crop &

(Piper Jaffray) ...Energy crops are designed to use marginal land, or in the case of Brazil, extend the growing season. Sugarcane-ethanol facilities in Brazil typically run for 6-8 months due to the relatively long growing season of cane. Energy crops

September 10, 2010 Read Full Article

American Jianye to Convert Waste to Alcohol-Based Fuels

by Anuradha Shukla  (Smart-Products TMCnet) ...American Jianye Greentech Holdings, Ltd., a China-based developer, manufacturer and distributor of alcohol-based automobile fuels and civil-use fuels, including methanol, ethanol, and blended fuels, announced plans to build a second waste conversion facility, this one

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Bioethanol Effort Gets Boost in Florida

by Diane Krieger Spivak (Post-Tribune)  Project in south Lake County based on same technology.   A proposed Florida bioethanol plant that will use the same process as a planned Schneider plant will use has been issued an air permit for the project. The

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Old Braddock Gas Station May Be Converted to Pump 'Biofuels'

by Joe Napsha (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)   A business that collects used cooking oil and processes it into fuel for diesel-powered vehicles plans to convert a dilapidated gas station in Braddock into a biofuels filling station next year. Fossil Free Fuel LLC in Braddock

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Sundrop’s Solar Gasification Uses Total Concentration

by Eric Lane (Green Tech Media)  Sundrop Fuels is a Colorado company that combines concentrated solar power (CSP) technology with biofuels production processes. While most biomass-to-biofuels systems burn feedstocks as the first step in biofuel production, Sundrop uses concentrated solar energy to gasify the

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Drayson Racing Brings Innovative Flex-Fuel Race Car Home to Silverstone

(Drayson Racing) Drayson Racing's No.11 Drayson Racing Lola Coupé with Judd Power returns to the United Kingdom 12 September for the Autosport 1000Km of Silverstone in the Le Mans Prototype One (LMP1) Class. The UK-based organisation is spending 2010 on an

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Senate Must Pass Small-Business Incentives, Voinovich Says

by Lori Montgomery  (The Washington Post) ... The senator is a strong advocate of responsible budgeting and has long called for increasing the gas tax, the traditional financing source for the nation's roadways. He said he mentioned that in his phone

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

USDA Seeks Applications from Producers to Conduct Renewable Energy Feasibility Studies

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced September 7, 2010, the availability of funding under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy systems for agriculture producers and rural small businesses. "Renewable energy production represents a promising

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Repowering Assistance Support to Reduce Biorefinery Fossil Fuel Use

(U.S. Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced September 9, 2010, the selection of a biorefinery producer to receive payments under a program to encourage the use of renewable biomass as a replacement for fossil fuels that provide process heat

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson Discusses Farm Bill Issues with Saratoga County Farmers

by Paul Post  (The Saratogan)  ...For local dairy producers, one of the most pressing concerns is ethanol production that drives up corn prices — hurting small family farms in the process. ..."We’ve got a big problem in the ethanol industry," (House

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

China May Absorb South Africa’s Grain Surplus - Agriculture Ministry

by Hopewell Radebe (Business Day/Reuters) The government yesterday brought hope to grain farmers who are struggling to find alternative markets to dispose of surplus maize following a bumper crop that drove prices down. ... Last month, Grain SA chairman Neels Ferreira called for the

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Doubt Cast on Cob-Based Biofuels

(JCOnline)   ...But a new study from Purdue University, funded by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, suggests that farmers will have to make more money off corn cobs than is currently available to cover their costs and actually turn a profit

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Potato Power Future of Biofuels, Vodka Maker Says

by Emma Jackson (WardsAuto.com)   First scotch, now vodka.  William Chase, founder of Chase Vodka, has launched a plan to convert waste potatoes from his U.K. distillery into a high-grade biofuel for vehicles. “We have known for a long time that potato starch

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Cheers to Biomass in Boston; CARB States Petroleum Has No Indirect Effects

by Anna Austin and Lisa Gibson  (Biomass Magazine)  ...Director of the Northeast Regional New Fuels Alliance Andrew Schuyler, who followed Cleaves, explained some policies the organization has been working on, primarily the development of a Low Carbon Fuel Standard similar

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Florida Farm Service Agency Holding Feedstocks for Florida Biofuels Townhall Meetings

by Julie (SoutheastAGNet)  Florida Farm Service Agency State Director, Tim Manning, wants to inform and educate producers about the need to decrease our dependency on fossil fuels through their statewide “Feedstocks for Florida Biofuels” town hall meetings. ...The next Feedstocks for

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Valero is Expanding the Availability of E85, a Blend of 85 Percent Ethanol and 15 Percent Conventional Gasoline, throughout Its System

by Vicki Vaughan (San Antionio Express-News)  ...The use of E85 is about to get more exposure, as San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. recently announced it will add E85 pumps to all of its new Valero Corner Stores as they're built

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation Qualifies for Biofuel Tax Credit

(GlobalPaperMoney)  KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation (NYSE: KS) announced that the company was notified that its registration as a producer of cellulosic biofuel for the tax year 2009 has been approved. With this registration, KapStone may apply for a nonrefundable income

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

DOE Announces Awards for up to $16.5 Million for Biomass Research and Development

(US Department of Energy)  U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced September 8, 2010, the investment of up to $16.5 million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. The first initiative

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Rutgers–Camden Professor Engineers E. coli to Produce Biodiesel

(Rutgers)  One mention of E. coli conjures images of sickness and food poisoning, but the malevolent bacteria may also be the key to the future of renewable energy. Desmond Lun, an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers University–Camden, is researching how

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Neste Oil to use surplus Raisio Rapeseed Oil to Produce Renewable Diesel

(New Energy World Network)  Finland-based food company Raisio has agreed to provide local low-emission fuel refiner Neste Oil with surplus rapeseed oil on a long-term basis, which it will use as a raw material to produce renewable diesel. The rapeseed oil at

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Russia Wants to Export Biofuels and Game to EU

(RiaNovosti)  The European market is attractive for Russia due to its proximity and high prices. "Russia could become a supplier of oilseeds, oil, biodiesel and ethanol as alternative fuel, cattle and goat meat, game and aquaculture products to the European

September 09, 2010 Read Full Article

Locals Eyeing Sorghum for Fuel

by Kevin Welch (Amarillo Globe News)  ...Agronomist Brent Bean with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service put three of the stalks in a press Thursday during the summer field day at the agriculture research complex at Bushland. The nearly 9-foot stalks

September 07, 2010 Read Full Article

South Dakota Gubernatorial Hopefuls Clash Over Environment

by Chet Brokaw  (AP/Yankton Press & Dakotan)  ...The candidates also discussed state budget issues and education, but much of the debate focused on renewable energy. (Democrat Scott) Heidepriem criticized (Republican Gov. Mike) Rounds and (Republican Dennis) Daugaard for failing to use

September 07, 2010 Read Full Article

Ethanol Co-Product Hitting “Feed Wall”

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel)  We hear a lot about the blend wall for ethanol in the United States market, but there’s also a wall that the ethanol co-product Dried Distillers Grains (DDGS) in hitting with the livestock industry. “We’ve already run into

September 07, 2010 Read Full Article
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