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Start-Ups Work to Reinvent the Combustion Engine

by Todd Woody    (New York Times)    ...As the first mass-produced electric cars hit the streets, Pinnacle is just one of several start-ups backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists aiming to reinvent the century-old internal combustion engine. The big

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Hoping for Surge

by Kate Galbraith  (New York Times)    Cellulosic ethanol could be poised for a surge — finally. Around the country and especially in the Midwest, a number of proposed plants that would turn corn cobs, wheat straw and other plant-based feedstocks

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

US 2011 Ethanol Exports Seen at 500 Mln gal

by Inae Riveras (Reuters)    U.S. ethanol exports in 2011 should surpass last year's record high as the fuel remains relatively cheaper than Brazilian cane-based ethanol in external markets, a director at the largest U.S. farm co-op, CHS,

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Spanish Government, Iberia Airlines, and Airbus Launch Aviation Biofuel Initiative

(Biofuels Journal)  The Spanish government, Iberia Airlines and Airbus have signed an agreement to develop a complete Spanish ‘value chain’ for sustainable and renewable aviation bio-fuel for commercial use. Other key members are expected to join the agreement shortly. Signatories to the agreement signed

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DOE Announces $12 Million in Available Funding to Support Advanced Biofuels Development

(US Department of Energy)  To support the goal announced by President Obama today to reduce America’s oil imports by one-third by 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will be accepting applications for $12 million in funding for

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Senate Hearing Examines Oil Price Spikes, Role of Biofuels

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)   During a U.S. Senate committee hearing on March 30, Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said that focusing on advanced biofuels for homegrown energy is in the best interest of the United States. “I think that

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Mozambique: Major Biofuel Project Under Way in Nacala-a-Velha

(AllAfrica.com)  A project to grow the shrub jatropha for ethanol production is providing jobs for about 500 people in the northern Mozambican district of Nacala-a-Velha, according to the district administrator, Daniel Chapo. The investor is the company Aviam, which is owned

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

State Alliance to Pump $200,000 into KU Biofuels Lab

(CheckBioTech)  The Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy (KABB) announced its investment Tuesday, of $200,000 in the Biofuels Testing Laboratory at the University of Kansas. The Biofuels Lab is a $1.2 million initiative to develop a full suite of testing facilities

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Leveling the Playing Field for Algae-Based Fuels

by Mary Rosenthal (Biofuels Digest/Algal Biomass Organization)  ...Our federal tax policy actually discourages the production of low-carbon, renewable algae-based fuels, including drop-in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, as well as ethanol, by failing to provide them the same incentives accorded

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Pinnacle Engines Introduces its Ultra-Efficient Combustion Engine

(Pinnacle Engines)  Top Investors Commit $13.5 Million; Former Cummins Executive Ron Hoge Named Chairman and CEO Pinnacle Engines today unveiled plans to commercialize a breakthrough ultra-efficient engine by 2013. The new engine design enables significant reductions in fuel consumption and greenhouse

March 31, 2011 Read Full Article

UGES Expands New York Rail-to-Rack Biodiesel Terminal

by Bryan Sims (Biodiesel Magazine)  Ultra Green Energy Services Inc. expanded operations at the New Hyde Park Fuel Terminal in New Hyde Park, N.Y., by increasing railcar storage capacity by 30 percent. The terminal, owned and operated by Hart Petroleum,

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Olives: A Feedstock for Food, Biodiesel, Ethanol and Medicine

by Michael Kanellos  (GreenTechMedia)  There are some valuable commodities in waste products. Professor Zeev Weisman and a team of researchers at Ben Gurion University here have adopted a low-power nuclear magnetic resonance device (NMR) along with predictive analysis software to scan

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

EPA Details Legal Avenues for E15 Sales

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...On March 24, the EPA sent a letter to leading stakeholders in the gasoline and ethanol industry to clarify what is legal and what isn’t legal at this time regarding the sale of E15 blends. 

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Obama Talks Energy Policy as Gas Prices Climb

(AP/MSNBC)  ...Even if Obama's efforts can reduce U.S. demand for foreign oil, experts say that is unlikely to bring down the cost of gasoline, since oil is priced globally and increased demand from China and other developing nations continues to

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Key Plant Traits Yield More Sugar for Biofuels

(University of California, Riverside)  Research by UC Riverside's Charles Wyman could lead to less expensive production of biofuels New clues about plant structure are helping researchers from the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center narrow down a large collection of poplar tree

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

More Psuedo-Science and the Preposterous Claims of Anti-Ethanol Activists

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  A new pseudo-analysis published by the controversial and discredited Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons claims that biofuels expansion is increasing hunger and poverty-related health risks in developing nations. The four-page article was written by

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Top 11 Algae Biofuel and Biochemical Trends From 2011-2020

by Will Thurmond (Renewable Energy World/Emerging Markets Online)  The following article is an excerpt from a technology, investment, and market study titled Algae 2020, Vol 2 (2011 update) from market research firm Emerging Markets Online. The excerpt provides a summary

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Dakota Spirit AgEnergy Biorefinery Evolves into Hybrid Concept Based on Study Results

(Dakota Spirit AgEnergy)   Dakota Spirit AgEnergy, a proposed cellulosic biorefinery near Spiritwood, N.D., has evolved from a 20 million gallon per year (MGY) cellulosic ethanol plant into a 58 MGY “hybrid” ethanol plant comprised of a 50 MGY dry mill ethanol

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Food and Fuel Debate Important to All Ethanol

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/Biofuels Digest)   ...This faux debate is as important to future ethanol producers as it is to existing ethanol producers. And those looking to capitalize on starch-based ethanol’s public relations struggles need to be cognizant

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Will the DOE Loan Guarantee Program Be Chopped by Congress, as US Falls to 3rd in Cleantech Investment?

by Jim Lane  (Biofuels Digest)    In Washington, 34 cleantech CEOs, are trying to make sure the DOE doesn’t drop its loan guarantee program despite threats of budget cuts from Congress. Signatories to the letter include Abengoa Bioenergy EVP Christopher

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Fearing Ethanol Damage, Engine Makers Want Current Gas Blends to Stay

by Rick Barrett (Journal Sentinel)   Briggs & Stratton Co. and other engine manufacturers want the government to ensure that current grades of gasoline will remain available when fuel with a higher ethanol content - which could damage engines - is

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Rising Food Prices? Can't Blame Ethanol

by John Block (Chicago Tribune)  With food prices rising worldwide, some self-styled authorities on agriculture are claiming that producing ethanol in the Midwest causes food riots in the Middle East. Their story is simple: Biofuels are gobbling up the grains that

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil's Imports of 200 Mil Liters of Ethanol Not Enough: Traders

(Platts)  Brazil's imports of about 200 million liters of ethanol ahead of the official sugarcane harvest will fall short of demand for the fuel before mills around the country start the 2011-12 season by mid-April, sources said. According to traders, demand

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

University of Missouri FAPRI Delivers 2011 Agricultural Economic Baseline to U.S. Congress

(University of Missouri)  Food prices could increase by more than 4 percent in 2011 as the farm sector recovers from a sharp downturn in the recession, University of Missouri economists reported to Congress. An annual MU FAPRI baseline shows net farm income

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

World Advances on Cellulose Ethanol, Brazil Lags

by Inae Riveras   (Reuters)  Research to develop second-generation ethanol is advancing globally, but Brazil, which vaunts its sugar cane as the ideal raw material for such fuels, lags in the race, industry experts said on Monday. Investments from foreign companies associated

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Alt Energy Groups Ask Congress to Support DOE Programs

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  A multitude of leading energy trade associations today wrote to Congressional leaders with a request for Congress to maintain support and funding for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) including the Loan Guarantee Program. The program, in

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

S.Africa's Illovo Says May Opt to Produce Biofuels

by Ruona Agbroko   (Reuters Africa)    South Africa's Illovo Sugar may opt to produce biofuel from sugarcane if it makes commercial sense, its managing director said late on Wednesday. South Africa's Department of Energy said earlier this month it would make

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Farmers Urged to Grow Grass for Use as Biofuel

by John Colson (The Citizen Telegram)  A new kind of economic development is being pursued in the West. Area ranchers and farmers are being urged to grow grass that can be converted to a liquid “biofuel,” rather than relying solely on

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Benishek under Pressure to Block Federal Funding for Ethanol ‘Boondoggle’

by Eartha Jane Melzer  (The Michigan Messenger)  Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) campaigned on cutting federal spending. Now some of his constituents are asking him to keep the U.S. Dept. of Energy from spending $58 million on a project to

March 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Hold the Thin Green Line by Protecting Farmers

by Wesley Clark (Kansas City Star)  ...The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City credits agriculture with being at the forefront of the nation’s economic recovery. Unfortunately, the Fed also warns that farm debt is rising to dangerous levels, leaving the

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: USDA's Dr. Rick Barrows

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)    ...Fishmeal is a major source of protein and oil in the fish diet, and is also used heavily in pet foods, as well as for swine and poultry feed. Looking to address the

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Chicken Fat Studied by NASA as Eco-friendly Jet Fuel

by Michael Finneran   (Yahoo! News/PR NewsWire)  In an RV nicknamed after an urban assault vehicle, scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center traveled cross-country this month for an experiment with eco-friendly jet fuel. The Langley team drove 2,600 miles (4,184 km)

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Argonne Creating Life Cycle Analysis Tools for Algal Biofuels

(Algae Industry Magazine)   ...The objectives of the (Argonne National Laboratories) Algae LCA project include: Assemble a life cycle inventory for algal biofuels Implement an algae life cycle analysis (LCA) Enable and stimulate additional LCA communications The methods chosen to accomplish those objectives are: To

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Focus on Cost and Sustainability Issues as Aviation and Biofuel Sectors Meet Face to Face in Rotterdam

(GreenAirOnline)  Sustainability and economics dominated debate at last week’s World Biofuels Market (WBM) event in Rotterdam as airlines gathered to make the case for aviation biofuels commercialisation to a wider biofuels industry audience. In a keynote speech, KLM Managing Director

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Cheap Grain: Winners & Losers

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Here is dilemma of agricultural prices. Reducing demand, and commodity prices, benefits meat and dairy producers, and oil & gas companies. High prices benefit farmers, and technology companies creating new markets and co-products from land

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Florida Biodiesel, Inc. Delivers Biodiesel System To Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

(PR Log) Florida Biodiesel, Inc. has completed a B-60 Biodiesel Processor sale, made by 70centsagallon.com to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The Biodiesel production equipment will be used to demonstrate Green Fuel technology to students. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Archer Enhances Capability

(Zacks Equity Research)  The wholly-owned subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company's  ADM Agri-Industries announced that it is going to double its canola seed receiving capabilities and storage capacity at the company's Lloydminster, Alberta, processing facility, in an effort to meet the

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Microfuelers: Biofuels Companies Aim Big, by Thinking Small

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...NGOs in Africa have been touting for some time the use of ethanol cook stoves, to replace three-stone, wood based stoves that can trigger local deforestation and expose women and girls (who do much of

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Delayed Biofuel Approval Expected By August

by Graham Warwick   (Aviation Week)  Approval of biofuels for use in commercial aircraft is now expected by August, a glitch in fuel testing having pushed back a final vote on the new specification by the aviation fuels subcommittee of

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Combatting Today’s High Gas Prices

by Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Waterloo)  (GlobeGazette) ...For too long, we’ve depended on foreign countries for our oil — and we’ve sacrificed our independence and our national security in the process. But there’s no one, easy solution to the problem. We need

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Qteros CEO John McCarthy Offers Space in New Chicopee Plant for Biofuel Start-Ups

by Kyle Alspach  (Boston Business Journal)  With the major costs associated with proving out new biofuels technologies, John McCarthy says he’s seen a number of Massachusetts startups in the space enticed to do larger-scale work in other states. McCarthy, CEO of

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Argonne National Lab, Nalco Ink Technology License Agreement

by Bryan Sims (Biorefining Magazine)  The U.S. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and industrial processing firm Nalco Co. struck a licensing agreement for a novel electrodeionization technology that can be integrated into biorefineries to convert biomass into fuels and chemicals. According to

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Builders Erect Cellulosic Ethanol Plant at Port of Morrow

by Dean Brickley  (East Oregonian)  Zea-Chem’s cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant is more than one-third finished. Builders erected three 40,000-gallon fermentation tanks this week and continued bolting together the steel structure for the two-story operations building. Excavation began last fall, and contractors poured

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Critic of Ethanol Got It All Wrong

by Jeff Zueger  (Inforum.com)  To read Ross Nelson’s column on ethanol (“Ethanol’s promise is empty, “ March 14, Forum), one could come away with the impression that ethanol production is an inefficient and outdated technology. The truth is, ethanol is more

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil May Import U.S. Ethanol After Rule Change, Folha Says

by Iuri Dantas   (Bloomberg)  Brazil may import ethanol from the U.S. in the short term in a bid to contain rising prices, Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported, citing a decision by the oil regulator. Brazil’s oil regulator allowed an increase

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Systematic Use of Fertilizers Can Save Forests, Fight Climate Change

(IITA)  As the world grapples with the challenge of feeding an ever growing population in the face of dwindling natural resources confounded by climate change, findings from a recent research by IITA show that science-based farming methods integrating the systematic

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Board Member Works toward Renewable Energy

by Ike Wilson (Frederick News Post)  Donald C. Erbach recently became the newest board member of Advanced Biofuels USA in Frederick. Erbach has clocked 40 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service with a focus on technologies related

March 28, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Not Supporting NGOs Against Palm Oil

by Rupa Damodaran   (Business Times)    The European Union is not using environmental non-government organisations as a "fifth column" to help it achieve its Renewable Energy Directive (RED) which places palm oil for biofuel at a disadvantage, says Trade Commissioner Karel

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Plant to Extract Oil from Jatropha for Bio-Diesel

by Surbhi Khyati  (IndianExpress.com)  The state department of science and technology is establishing a bio-diesel plant here for extraction of jatropha oil and its conversion into bio-diesel. The plant, funded by the department of science and technology, Government of India, will

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Soybean Growers Seeing Positive Results from Biodiesel

(Southeast Farm Press/United Soybean Board)  An updated, independent study funded by the United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff shows production of biodiesel continues to positively impact U.S. soybean farmers’ on-farm profitability, as well as the bottom lines of U.S.

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainable Development Technology Canada's Round 19 Accepting Statements of Interest Until April 20th

(Sustainable Development Technology Canada)  SDTC’s SD Tech Fund™ invests in late-stage development and pre-commercial demonstration of clean technologies by Canadian companies. The Statement of Interest (SOI) is an initial application used for preliminary screening and is subject to a competitive review

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

ABO Member Spotlight: Tim Burns, Chief Executive Officer, BioProcess Algae

(Algal Biomass Organization February 25 Newsletter)  ...We are designing, manufacturing and operating systems that enable controlled, economical cultivation of algal biomass using attached growth technology.  We are currently beginning the second phase of a project that utilizes waste products - including

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Congressional Budget Office Publishes Alternative Approaches to Funding Highways

(Congressional Budget Office)  The federal government collects revenues from taxes paid by highway users, mostly from those levied on gasoline and diesel fuel, and credits them to the Highway Trust Fund. Those revenues and others are subsequently used for federal spending on

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Update from the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification Association

(Task 39)    Around 140 guests followed the invitation of ISCC to the first General Assembly and discussed the status quo and development of sustainability certification with speakers like Ron van Erck from the European Commission and Dr. Hans-Jürgen Froese

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

New Report Tracks Aviation Biofuels Collaboration

(Air Transport Action Group)  The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has released a new report, Powering the Future of Flight, which tracks progress in some key aviation biofuels projects worldwide and provides policymakers with a few examples of how they can

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Bus Idea Developed By Grad Student

by Caleb Denison  (IBTimes.com)   ...(David) Correll, (a Ph.D. student at Iowa State University’s College of Business) ... is the co-founder and president of “ISU BioBus” – a program created to convert spent cooking oil from one of the university’s

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Farmers Show Their Support for Homegrown Biodiesel "Powered by Biodiesel" Bumper Sticker Campaign Launched

(MarketWire/Canadian Renewable Fuels Association)  The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association in partnership with the Grain Farmers of Ontario, Koch Farms and Koch Logistics, and biodiesel blender and marketer FS PARTNERS, today launched a "Powered by Biodiesel" bumper sticker campaign to show

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Budget Cuts May Target MSU-N Biodiesel Facility

by Kay Rossi    (KXLH.com)  ...Five years ago, Montana State University-Northern received $800,000 in grant funding for infrastructure and staffing for a new biofuel lab at the MSU-N Bio-Energy Center Now the nationally-certified facility performs a variety of functions, from researching

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Policy Causing Starvation: Nestle Boss

by Stephen Foley (New Zealand Herald)  Soaring food inflation is the result of "immoral" policies in the United States which divert crops for use in the production of biofuels instead of food, according to the chairman of one of the

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard Signs Bill to Boost Ethanol Industry, Development Loans

by Chet Brokaw  (AP/The Republic)  Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed into law Thursday a measure aimed at boosting ethanol sales at South Dakota gas stations and providing extra money for economic development loans. ...The ethanol measure was proposed by the governor and

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazilalot: Heard on the Floor at World Biofuels Markets

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The hottest companies in bioenergy all know it – the name of the game is low-cost sugars, or affordable syngas that competes with natural gas. For those who don’t make or use syngas and need

March 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Ford, New York City, Disneyland among Winners of "Eye on Biodiesel" Awards

(National Biodiesel Board)  The Disneyland Resort is built on imagination, and the steam-powered trains that circle the park are an iconic image. That image recently received a new twist; the 56-year-old trains are now running on biodiesel. In March 2007 the

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Gen-X Moves Forward with Advanced Biorefinery Plans

by Erin Voegele  (Biodiesel Magazine)  A unique biorefinery being developed by Gen-X Energy Group Inc. in Moses Lake, Wash., is nearly complete. According to Ramon Benavides, the company’s co-founder and vice president of business development, Gen-X is in the final

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Algae Biomass Summit October 25-27, 2011 Minneapolis, MN Speaker and Poster Abstract Solicitation

The Algal Biomass Organization is now accepting abstracts for speaking opportunities in breakout or panel sessions and poster presentations for the 2011 Algae Biomass Summit. Abstracts are due by May 30, 2011. All subjects of relevance to algal biomass technologies,

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

New Hampshire House Bans Ethanol

(KRVN)  The New Hampshire House has passed a bill that would ban the sale of corn-based ethanol in the state. Earlier the House Science Technology and Energy Committee voted down the piece of legislation, however, Representative David Campbell spoke up

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

How to Avoid a Global Food Price Crisis

by Tom Vilsack (Financial Times/US Department of Agriculture)  Recent news stories have stoked fears about rising global food prices. But today, only a few years after a devastating food crisis, we can avoid the mistakes of 2007 and 2008 and respond

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Volvo's Ethanol-Powered Electric Car

by Gary Gastelu  (Fox News)  ...Starting in 2012 the Swedish automaker will begin selling a plug-in hybrid version of the V60 - a wagon version of the S60 sedan that is not offered in the United States. Not only will the

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Butamax Issued Another Biobutanol Patent

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)   Butamax has received another patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) number 7,910,342 entitled “FERMENTIVE PRODUCTION OF ISOBUTANOL USING HIGHLY ACTIVE KETOL-ACID REDUCTOISOMERASE ENZYMES.” The patent was awarded to protect a key step

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

BARD Moves towards Commercial Algae Production

by Erin Voegele (Biorefining Magazine)    Morrisville, Penn.-based BARD Holdings Inc. recently announced its shift from research and development to the commercialization phase of its algae production technology. According to Avery Hong, BARD’s chief global strategist, the company has completed

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol-Powered Plane Takes Us Up Before Airshow Performance

by Chad Mira  (WJHG)  If you've seen a few unusual-looking aircraft in the skies, there's a good chance they're here for this weekend's Tyndall Gulf Coast Salute to freedom airshow. One of those here for the show is Greg Poe

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

An Interview with General Wesley Clark

(Novozymes)  General Wesley Clark: retired US Army general, 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate, and now Co-Chairman of Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group. A lot of people, when they think of biofuels – ethanol – have a picture of good grain

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Taking the American Biofuel Industry to the Next Level; From Talk to Action

(Novozymes)  The United States has a lot riding on the success of its biofuel industry – energy independence, job creation, and environmental stewardship. But really, how far is the country in achieving its goals? There is no definitive answer to

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Saint Michael’s Receives $766,000 NSF Grant as Part of Plant Genome Project

(VermontBiz.com)  Saint Michael's College biologist Dr Mark Lubkowitz and his students join a team of researchers from the University of Missouri, University of Florida, Purdue University and the University Nebraska-Lincoln, on a five-year project to study the genes that control

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Jatropha Biofuels More Harmful than Oil

by Ricardo Sequeiros Coelho   (CoolTheEarth)  A report by ActionAid, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature Kenya revealed that using biofuels from jatropha results in more greenhouse gas emissions than using oil (PDF). More specifically, taking into

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil’s BNDES Bank Offers $1 Billion to Ethanol R&D

(Forbes)  Brazil’s behemoth development bank, BNDES, offered $1 billion to the Brazilian Innovation Agency to fund research and development into second generation ethanol, the bank said late Tuesday. The money goes to support companies working on turning sugarcane biomass and sugarcane

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Airbus Teams up with Tarom to Build Biofuel Plant in Romania

by Kerry Reals (FlightGlobal)  Airbus has teamed with Tarom to establish a facility in Romania to produce aviation biofuel from the camelina crop, as part of the European airframer's plan to develop at least one such facility on every continent. The

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Playing “Clue” at World Biofuels Markets

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...At World Biofuels Markets 2011 in Rotterdam, the overwhelmingly remarkable impression is the ramp-up in the quality and quantity of strategic investment and off-take partners. Closely followed by the rise of renewable chemicals, and the

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Logos and EdeniQ Receive Department of Energy Funding for Corn-to-Cellulosic Pilot Biorefinery

(Logos Technologies)  DOE commits full $20.5 million to retrofit and build pilot plant in Visalia, CA Logos Technologies®, Inc. and EdeniQ, Inc., announced U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approval to fully fund $20.5 million in federal cost share under DOE's Integrated

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

The Great Green Fleet

by James Marvin (The Virginia Pilot)  ...Off the capes of Virginia, a modern Navy swift boat cuts a wake at more than 50 miles per hour on fuel made from algae and petroleum. High over Maryland's Patuxent River, a Navy

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

U.S. Military Supports Hawaii Biodiesel Demonstration Program

by Bryan Sims  (Pacific Biodiesel/Biodiesel Magazine)  This month Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie introduced a new oilseed crop research program—the Biodiesel Crop Demonstration Project—that will span two years as part of the state’s effort to promote energy security and sustainable local

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Proposed Senate Bill S.559: Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act Comment on the Bill from an Advanced Biofuels Perspective

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) recently introduced Senate Bill S.599, the “Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act” or SAFESTA. This bill contains numerous amendments to existing

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Book Review – The Green Miracle

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)   This week I read the book called “The Green Miracle,” by Clayton McNeff who is one of the creators of the Mcgyan Process. It’s the story of how in less than four years, with the inkling

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Whole New World of Corn

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  Everything you ever wanted to know about corn is contained in the latest edition of the World of Corn from the National Corn Growers Association. This year’s publication, available online now, highlights the wide variety of roles that farmers

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Isuzu Debuts Biodiesel-Compatible Van

by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com)  Japan-based auto maker Isuzu has debuted a utility van that will be more compatible with higher blends of biodiesel. This company press release says the new Reach will not only be green, but it will last a

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Companies to Produce Edible Ethanol Co-Product

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)   ...Prairie Gold (PGI) of Bloomington, and GTL Resources USA of Itasca, Illinois have agreed to collaborate on the construction of a zein protein production plant. Zein is a high valued co-product that can be produced from

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Alternative Form of Gasoline is Now Available at Sheetz

by Karen Kiley (WDBJ7.com)  Americans are paying more than $3.50, on average, for a gallon of gasoline. In Virginia, the average gallon of gas is $3.45. The prices have been on the rise for weeks with no end in sight.   But

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Ethanol to Reduce GHGs by 105 Million Tonnes in 2011 Forecasted Reductions Will Offset the Emissions of 19.4 Million Cars

(Global Renewable Fuels Alliance)  As the biofuels industry gathers at the annual World Biofuels Markets conference, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) is highlighting the positive influence ethanol production is having on reducing global Green House Gas emissions. (S&T)2 Consultants Inc.,

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Amyris Lands More Production, Distribution Agreements

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(T)he company (Amyris) entered into a manufacturing agreement with Paraíso Bioenergia S.A., a renewable energy company producing sugar, ethanol and electricity headquartered in São Paulo State, Brazil. Under the agreement, Amyris will construct fermentation and

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels Launches Third-Party Sustainable Biofuels Certification System

(Biofuels Journal/National Wildlife Federation)  The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) launched March 22 the first global third-party certification system for sustainable biofuels. The RSB Certification System includes environmental, social and economic principles and criteria and features a unique set of online tools

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Dyadic International Introduces Advanced Biofuels Enzyme AlternaFuel® CMAX™ at the World Biofuels Markets

(Dyadic International)  Dyadic International, Inc., a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzyme and protein products for the bioenergy, industrial enzyme and biopharmaceutical industries, announced today the introduction of its most advanced biofuels enzyme, AlternaFuel®

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

2011 AiChE Annual Meeting October 16-21 Minneapolis, MN Call For Papers

Please consider submitting an abstract to the session on Bio-Based Alternative Fuels at the annual AICHE meeting that is coming up on October 16-21, 2011, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN. The session is: 23B03 Developments in Biobased Alternative Fuels. Sponsor:   Sustainable Biorefineries Co-Sponsor(s):   Catalysis

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

OriginOil Announces Breakthrough Innovation to Increase Algae Yield

(OriginOil)  Algae Screen technology protects algae from microscopic predators, integrates with Live Extraction OriginOil, Inc., the developer of breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced Algae Screen™, a process

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Marines Trying to Get Afghan Farmers Hooked on Energy Crops

by Annie Snider  (Greenwire/New York Times)   ...Nelson, who has already served two tours in Iraq, spent this past winter tinkering with combinations of cottonseed oil and JP-8, the military's universal fuel, to find a blend that works best in

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biomass-Powered Ethanol Plants

by Lisa Gibson (Biomass Power and Thermal Magazine)   A growing number of U.S. ethanol plants are reaping the benefits of using biomass for power. The demand for ethanol with a lower carbon footprint seems to be spurring a movement in

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Who Wins with Higher Gas Prices?

by Dan Chapman   (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)  ...Higher gas prices could finally translate into a sustainable market for Georgia’s alternative energy industry. ...And, finally, a shift from gas and diesel to home-grown energy, i.e. ethanol for cars and biodiesel for trucks, could lessen

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

State of Wisconsin Issues Air Permit for United Ethanol

by Maureen White  (Eisenmann Corporation/Renewable Energy World)  The Air Permit was recently approved by the State of Wisconsin for United Ethanol to begin construction of the EISENMANN BIOGAS-TS Anaerobic Digester. The $6.75 million project will install an anaerobic digester and

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Airline Industry Last in Line to Sign up for Algae Fuel: Sapphire CEO

by Kerry Reals   (FlightGlobal)   One or two pioneering airlines may begin using jet fuel derived from algae and use it to create a competitive advantage in the nearer term, but the commercial airline industry as a whole will

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing And EPFL Join Forces To Lower Sustainability Certification Costs

(DailyMarkets/PR Newswire)  Boeing  and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) today announced the creation of the Sustainable Biomass Consortium, a research initiative focused on increasing collaboration between voluntary standards and regulatory requirements for biomass used to create jet fuel and

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing and Algae Fuels, a Euro Perspective

(Algae Industry Magazine)  In the aviation biofuels market, as goes Boeing, so goes the industry. Boeing was a founding member of the Algal Biomess Organization (ABO) and is committed to a future of renewable fuels. “Without biofuels we cannot get

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Proposal: VEETC Phased Out, Replaced with Variable Tax Credit

(OPIS)  ...According to sources familiar with the proposal, the Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, the American Coalition for Ethanol and the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) have agreed to phase down the current 45 cts/gal ethanol tax credit over three

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

UConn Reactor Uses More Efficient Process to Make Biodiesel Fuel

(PhysOrg.com)  Deep inside the University of Connecticut’s chemical engineering building in Storrs, Professor Richard Parnas and a team of students quietly monitor a murky brown emulsion bubbling inside an enormous 6-inch diameter glass tube like doctors carefully observing a patient

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil and US to Deepen Cooperation on Energy; Aviation Biofuels

(Green Car Congress/FavStocks)  ...Noted President Obama,...Now, even as we focus on oil in the near term, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the only long-term solution to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels is clean energy technology. And

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Excalibur: Mighty Claims, Mighty Prizes, and the Problem of Myth in Bioenergy

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  There are no shortage of reasons why high-yield biofuels, particularly microalgae, continue to fascinate practically everyone in the pursuit of alternative energy.  Carbon fixation, water remediation, local economic opportunity are among the many offered fruits. But

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Betting on Green

(The Economist)  Vinod Khosla thinks most venture capitalists are being too cautious with their green investments. But is his own approach too risky? “ENVIRONMENTALISTS are fiddling while Rome burns,” says Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm.

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

AWMA Student Competition Seeks Scenarios Leading to 25x'25 Energy Future

(25 x '25/Air & Waste Management Association)   A single, plausible scenario under which at least 25 percent of the energy consumed annually in the United States must be produced or generated from renewable sources of energy by 2025 is the

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Algae.Tec Opens in Atlanta

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Perth, Australia-based Algae.Tec Ltd. has announced the opening of their Algae Development & Manufacturing Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, where their photo-bioreactor algae growth and harvesting system—termed the McConchie-Stroud System—will serve the international market from an 18,200 square foot fabrication facility. “The Centre

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Industry Has Come a Long Way Since Its Iowa Roots

by Richard Johnson  (Globe Gazette)  ...And, he (Walt Wendland) said, his industry can adapt to technological changes, such as cellulosic ethanol, a biofuel derived from cellulose plant fiber. “We think there’s great synergy between cellulosic production and what we’re doing now,” Wendland

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Obama's Visit to Brazil Yields 'Encouraging' Renewable Fuels Cooperation, According to Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association

(PR Newswire/EIN News/UNICA)  Two important announcements involving renewable energy made on the opening day of U.S. President Barack Obama's official visit to Brazil, both directly relevant to Brazil's successful sugarcane ethanol industry, are encouraging signs that Brazil and the U.S. are on a

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

F-22 Raptor Flown on Synthetic Biofuel

by 95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs  (Edwards Airforce Base)  An F-22 Raptor successfully flew at supercruise March 18 on a 50/50 fuel blend of conventional petroleum-based JP-8 and biofuel derived from camelina, a weed-like plant not used for food. The

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Jatropha to Be Planted in Jordan

by Raed Omari   (The Jordan Times)  An oil producing plant which can generate bio-fuel will be cultivated in the Kingdom on an experimental basis as part of a Jordanian-Brazilian partnership, an agriculture official said on Tuesday. Ministry of Agriculture Spokesperson

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Turning Grease Into Gold: Two Startups Making Big Leaps in Biofuels

by Allison Arieff  (Good)  Two innovative companies, Blackgold Biofuels and FogBusters, are unlocking the power of fat, oil, and grease (more pleasingly referred to in aggregate as "FOG"). The two startups are the runners-up in Imagine H20's Water-Energy Nexus Prize, which

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Putnam: Highlands County Is 'Cradle of Innovation' in Biofuels

By Christopher Tuffley   (News Sun)  Highlands County is well positioned to benefit from the new push toward alternative fuels, local growers and investors were told Friday during a visit to the county by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. The shift to

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Firm Eyes Sarawak for RM555mil Move to Help Natives Plant Jatropha on NCR Land

by Stephen Then (The Star Sarawak)  A leading biofuel company with global links wants to turn Sarawak into a producer of green jet fuel, diesel and petrol and is willing to invest RM555mil in the state for the purpose. Bio Oil

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

BoI Okays P5.2-B Negros Ethanol Plant

By Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat   (Manila Bulletin)  Canlaon Alco Green Agro Industrial Corp. is investing P5.192 billion for the establishment of a bioethanol plant and production of by products in Bago, Negros Occidental. The project has been approved by the Board of

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

American Soybean Association Expresses Concerns about EU Renewable Energy Directive to USDA and USTR

(American Soybean Association)  The American Soybean Association (ASA), joined by other U.S. oilseed producer and industry organizations, has expressed serious concerns to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk about the requirements

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels at the Crossroads

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Good news: Advances in processing technology In the past year, we’ve seen costs coming down across the line. Last spring, new cellulosic ethanol enzyme collections appeared from the likes of Novozymes and Genencor, with the

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Americans Expect Rising Gas Prices, Slow to React in Comparison

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Twenty-seven percent of Americans expect that gas prices will reach $5 or more a gallon this year and another 37 percent anticipate prices to reach $3.75 to $4 a gallon. Only 8 percent of

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Who Gets Your Food Dollar?

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...As a result, many in the industrial meat sector, along with junk food processers and other food manufacturers are once again seeking to blame ethanol for the spike in corn prices and the subsequent

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Bioenergy Crops Could Lower Surface Temperatures, Stanford Researchers Say

(Stanford University News)  Concerns about the impact of corn ethanol on global warming have raised interest in more eco-friendly perennial grasses. A new study finds that large-scale cultivation of perennials could actually reduce regional surface temperatures. Converting large swaths of farmland

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Lignol Provides Update on Cellulosic Ethanol Project with Novozymes

(Lignol)  Lignol Energy Corporation, a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Ltd., has recently completed a major body of work with Novozymes in producing cellulosic ethanol at Lignol's pilot-scale biorefinery. Lignol and

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Foster Wheeler Provides Engineering Services to Cynar for Conversion of Waste Plastics into Liquid Fuels in Ireland

Foster Wheeler AG  announced that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Cynar Plc to provide basic process engineering design services for a 6,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) plant to convert non-recyclable waste plastics into

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Syntroleum Reports $9.6M Loss for 2010, Bullish for 2011

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Syntroleum reported a $9.6 million loss for fiscal 2010 in its 10K SEC form, with revenues having declined $19 million compared to 2009.  In a teleconference to discuss Syntroleum’s report, Gary Roth, Syntroleum’s President and

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Google Ventures Backs CoolPlanetBiofuels

(peHUB)  CoolPlanetBiofuels Gets Series B Funding from Google Ventures Imagine a world where fuel doesn’t have to be pumped, dug out or extracted from the ground, and can be locally sourced. CoolPlanetBiofuels, located in Camarillo, Calif., is developing an innovative solution

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Bracketology: Which 3 of 6 Will Win in NABC Drop-In Fuels Consortium Cut-Off?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...Amongst the various projects that received support under the 2009 Recovery Act were an algal R&D consortium called the NAABB, and a drop-in biofuels R&D consortium called the NABC, of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium. ...Within

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

DuPont Leader: Renewables at the Heart of Clean Technology Market Opportunity

(DuPont)  DuPont is uniquely positioned to deliver clean technology opportunities, including both advanced biomaterials and biofuels, DuPont Applied BioSciences President Craig F. Binetti told attendees at the Jeffries 11th Annual Clean Technology Conference. “We are meeting the growing demand for reducing dependence

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

California Should Promote the Use of Diesel and Biodiesel-Powered Vehicles

(Diesel Technology Forum)  An interesting White Paper by Serj Berelson concludes that the State of California would benefit from implementing new policies to promote the use of diesel and biodiesel-powered vehicles to assist California’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Governors Call for Improved Corn-for-Ethanol Reporting

(Western Farm Press)  A coalition of 34 U.S. governors from Washington to New York to Texas have called on U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to alter the way his department reports the use of corn for ethanol production. They argue

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

A Flock of Speculation: How Paper Bushels, Not Ethanol, Are Driving Corn Prices

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...If you needed any more proof that large speculative investors are toying with the agricultural commodities markets and causing wild volatility, you need look no further than the erratic behavior of the corn market

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

US Oilseed Growers Protest EU Biofuel Requirement

by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com)   Oilseed growers, led by the American Soybean Association (ASA), have raised concerns with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk over the European Union’s (EU) Renewable Energy

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Genifuel Patents Sugar to Heterotrophs to Oil

(Algae Industry Magazine)  ...(P)atent attorney Lawrence B. Ebert notes the first claim of US 7,905,930 issued to Genifuel on March 15, 2011 for “A process for production of biofuels from algae, comprising: a) cultivating an oil-producing algae by promoting sequential

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Calls March 21 Meeting with Major US Biofuels Trade Association Heads

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, the USDA has called the heads of nearly every major biofuels association into a “friendly, open” discussion, but on an urgent timetable, to discuss opportunities to find common ground and synchronize biofuels industry

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Swazi Biofuels Strategy Complete, Awaiting Cabinet Approval

by Winile Mavuso  (The Swazi Observer)  ...Director of Energy Henry Shongwe said the document was basically a policy which would guide companies which want to venture into the bio fuels industry. Such companies include among others; D1 Oils and others. 

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Diester Sees No Respite for EU Biodiesel Industry

by Sybille de La Hamaide (Reuters)  Overcapacity, squeezed margins and massive imports should continue to hurt Europe's biodiesel industry this year and lead to further consolidation, the chief executive of EU giant Diester Industrie said on Monday. Several biodiesel firms in

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Bioethanol Group Weighs U.S. Subsidy Lawsuit

By Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck (Reuters/Forexyard)  European bioethanol producers will decide by the end of March whether to file a legal complaint with the European Commission over U.S. subsidies, the EU's main bioethanol lobby said. Producers such as Germany's CropEnergies and Spain's

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Lake Mayors Range from Optimistic to Concerned on Trash-to-Ethanol

by Marc Chase (NWI Times)  Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. expressed reservation at signing a 20-year agreement to commit his city's trash to a process that remains commercially unproven. "I talk to smart people that know what they're talking about, and

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

DOE’s Duff Warns that Asian Industrial Buildup Threatens “Our Way of Life” if US Does Not Reduce Oil Consumption

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  DOE’s Biomass Program Lead Engineer warns that, when it comes to biofuels, “it’s the economy, stupid”. In Georgia, DOE Biomass Program Lead Engineer Brian Duff, keynoting the BioPro Expo in Atlanta, said that “dependence on

March 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Delay to Certification of Aviation Jet Biofuels May Damage Investor Confidence, Claims Lufthansa

(GreenAirOnline)  The approval of Bio-SPK jet fuels for use in commercial aircraft operations is not now expected until the middle of the year at earliest and could possibly be delayed until the end of 2011, says the FAA representative on

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Action Required Now if Alternative Aviation Fuels Are to Help Meet Emissions Targets, Concludes Major European Study

(GreenAirOnline)  The transfer from fossil fuels to biofuels is a must if the air transport industry is to survive beyond the middle of century, was the stark message from Dirk van Vreckem of the European Commission’s mobility and transport directorate

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

New UT/ORNL Center: Taking on the World's Energy Problems and Translating Intellectual Capital into Economic Investment

(University of Tennessee)  The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is launching an academic unit that seeks to transform the energy industry in our country and the world, as well as the state and

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Uncertainty in Indirect Land Use Change in the Life Cycle of Biofuels: Impacts for Legislation

by Adam J. Liska (Department of Biological Systems Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)   Liska opens his presentation with the formerly impending climate change legislation H.R. 2454, and states that the act would have done away with the inclusion of

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Bioenergy & Climate: the Long, Medium, and Short of It

by Nathanael Greene (Natural Resources Defense Council Representative)   Greene begins by making the point that “long-term environmental imperatives” need to be applied at a global level, and that bioenergy must be an integral part of a sustainable future. Bioenergy needs to

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sustainability and the Environment I: Advanced Biofuels: Technology Trends and Policy Opportunities

by Amy Ehlers (Biotechnology Industry Organization)   The group BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization) is a trade association which is located in Washington D.C. and has over 1,200 member companies in both the U.S. and 31 other countries. Their industrial biotechnology member companies

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Budgets & Biotech: Congress Urged to Continue Supporting Advanced Biofuels

(BIOtechNOW)  Industry leaders point out that biotech-enabled advanced biofuels spur job growth and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil. Three leading biotechnology trade groups are urging Congress to protect important bioenergy program funding. In a Feb. 25 letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

E85 Sales in Iowa Break Records

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  E85 sales in Iowa have broken all records reaching an all-time high for the state. According to the Iowa Department of Revenue, sales of E85 by Iowa retailers reached 9,311,908 gallons last year representing a 43%

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

U.S. Sen. Grassley: Ethanol and Energy

(IowaPolitics.com)  Floor Speech of Sen. Chuck Grassley Ethanol and Energy Independence Delivered Monday, March 07, 2011 ...We must look to alternative and renewable resources so we can improve our energy and national security. This includes supporting energy from wind, biomass, hydroelectric, solar,

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

North Dakota's Ag Commissioner Confident in Hybrid Ethanol Plant

(The Republic)  ...Doug Goehring earlier this month led a North Dakota delegation on a trip to Denmark to learn about that country's efforts to develop a cellulosic ethanol industry. ...Goehring tells Prairie Public Radio that there's going to be more of

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol Helps Stabilize Energy Prices

by Matt Hartwig (Renewable Fuels Association/Baltimore Sun)  The Sun may have cut back its foreign bureaus, but your editorial writers ("End subsidies for corn-based ethanol," March 14) must still be aware of the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Corn Growers To Explore Payment Shift

(Wallaces Farmer)  ...NCGA (National Corn Growers Association) delegates attending the meeting in Tampa, Fla., adopted ethanol policy that states "NCGA supports reforming existing ethanol tax policy. Ideas to replace existing tax law, in the following priority order, should be a variable

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Sugar Beet Acreage Could Rise as Alternative Uses Are Developed

by Philip Case (Farmers Weekly Interactive)  Sugar beet is on the cusp of benefitting from a host of technological advances that could increasingly see it grown for uses other than to create sugar, according to the director of Rothamsted Research. Maurice Moloney said

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

National Agricultural Statistics Service Seeks Public Input on Distillers By-products Survey

(US Department of Agriculture)  The Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is seeking stakeholder input as it develops its survey focused on the use of distiller’s grains and by-products. The Distillers’ By-products Survey will gather information from livestock producers

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article
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