(GreenAir Online) The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG) has pledged continuing support to the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), the Swiss-based body that is seeking to develop internationally approved standards in biofuel sustainability. The RSB has been hit by
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Back TO HOMEEurope’s Sugar Beets Produce Twice as Much Ethanol in the Tropics
(ELMIA.se) Sugar beets from Europe can help solve the conflict between food and bioenergy in the developing world. “Sugar beets have greater energy content than sugar cane but require rotation with other crops,” explained Jan Öhrvall at the World Bioenergy conference
May 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Mississippi State University Wins Top Honors in Year Two of EcoCAR Competition
(General Motors) Student-Designed and Built Vehicles Put to the Test; Virginia Tech, Penn State Finish Second and Third. Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego today after designing and building
May 28, 2010 Read Full Article
Benefits of Sugarcane Ethanol to Hit U.S. Airwaves in New TV Ads during ‘Indy 500’ Telecast on ABC
(SweeterAlternative.com) Sugarcane ethanol is a clean, renewable fuel that reduces greenhouse gas emissions by over 60% compared to gasoline and can save money at the pump. These are just a couple of the points delivered by various race drivers that compete
May 27, 2010 Read Full Article
Funded with a Grant, Sullivan's Station's New Pumps Offer Drivers a Choice of ethanol Blends
by Chris Lusvardi (Herald-Review) Motorists driving through Sullivan (Illinois) now have a place to easily fill up their vehicles with their choice of ethanol blends. The renovated E-K Petro Mart at 305 S. Hamilton St. offers three types of ethanol-blended fuel and
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Anheuser-Busch Rejects $1.1M grant
by Pat Ferrier (Coloradoan.com) The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins has rejected a $1.1 million experimental energy grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to replace lead-acid batteries on its fleet of forklifts with cleaner fuel cell packs. The grant, announced
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Gene Discovery Potential Key to Cost-Competitive Cellulosic Ethanol
(Oak Ridge National Lab) Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving strains of microorganisms used to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol, including a recent modification that could improve the efficiency of the conversion process. Biofuels researchers and
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
A New Way to Make Methanol Fuel
(New Energy and Fuel) University of Oxford researchers are developing a method for the homogeneous conversion of CO2 to methanol, with methanol as the only resulting C1 product. With momentum building in the methanol powered fuel cell market there is good
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Methanol: Biofuel to love or hate?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...A lot of people refer to methanol as wood alcohol – referring to the ancient process of extracting methanol from wood, using pyrolysis. In recent years, it has been primarily extracted from methane — the
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S**t Hits the Fan(Belt): Manure, Sewage as Biofuel Materials
by John Timmer (ars technica) If you look at any single source of biofuels, the numbers can seem depressing, as it's very difficult to obtain enough raw material to account for more than a small percentage of the United States' liquid
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
Mascoma’s Plan for Ethanol Plant in Michigan Likely Delayed, CEO Says
by Ryan McBride (Xconomy.com) Lebanon, NH-based Mascoma has made strides with its process for producing ethanol from non-food plants such as wood chips and grass. Yet the firm is likely to delay the start of production at its first planned commercial
May 25, 2010 Read Full Article
90 US Scientists Demand Revision of Biofuels Carbon Accounting
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, 90 US scientists wrote to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to fix accounting standards for greenhouse gas emissions associated with bioenergy projects. The scientists said they wanted to
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Michelin Green X Challenge Returns to Mazda Raceway
(American LeMans Series) Environmental Race Within the Race Continues to Grow. The MICHELIN® GREEN X® Challenge returns to the hills of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (May 22) for the second season of competition having dramatically grown and expanded since its first
May 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Helping DC Drivers Save Money at the Pump this Memorial Day
by Joel Velasco (SweeterAlternative.com) ...One reason for higher fuel prices is a lack of competition in the market for ethanol. Economics 101 is pretty clear: consumers win when businesses compete in an open market, because competition produces higher quality products
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol and Bio-Diesel Could Help in Achieving Import Substitution: Neelam
(Online International News Network) Pakistan Provincial Minister for Population Welfare Punjab Neelam Jabbar Ch. has said that the government is paying full attention to develop the alternative fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel to overcome the energy crisis in the
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Novozymes and Ceres Partner on Biofuel Crops
(Ceres) Companies take step towards commercialization of low-carbon biofuels from switchgrass and other energy crops. Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. and Novozymes, the world’s largest enzyme provider, have entered a research collaboration to co-develop customized plant varieties and enzyme cocktails for
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Virginia Barley Plantings Surge, Ethanol Plant Credited
(Bloomberg Business Week, AP) ...Federal statistics show barley acres jumped from 67,000 in 2009 to 105,000 this year. David Coleman with the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation says Osage Bio Energy's plant in Hopewell has created a market for barley. In the
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Ethanol Pump Opening Celebrations
(DomesticFuel.com) ...Illinois legislative officials and corn ethanol representatives will be opening the first blender pump in southern Illinois. The pump in Sullivan is the first of 20 such pumps planned in the state in a pilot program approved by the
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Sen. Susan Collins: Great Care Needed in Introducing New Fuel Blends
by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) (Fosters.com) ...While ethanol does cut our use of fossil fuels and reduces some harmful air emissions, it also raises some serious concerns. It is a powerful solvent that can damage engines and fuel systems, break
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Gonzalez Gets Award for Finding Way to Turn E. coli into Biofuel
by Christine Hall (Houston Business Journal) Escherichia coli, E. coli for short, is best known as the bacterium that can cause foodborne illnesses, but to researcher Ramon Gonzalez, E. coli can also be an alternative energy source. Gonzalez, the William W. Akers
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Indiana Farmers Are Producing Ethanol for the Middle East
by Gary Truitt (Hoosier Ag Today) Indiana corn is regularly exported as food and feed; but, now, more and more Indiana corn is moving onto the world market as fuel. The US ethanol industry is experiencing rapid export growth. In
May 21, 2010 Read Full Article
Growing U.S. Export: Corn ethanol
by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register) The United States has a growing new export – ethanol fuel – and a lot is going to of all places the Middle East. New government data shows that nearly 46 million gallons of U.S.
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The Paradox of Rising U.S. Ethanol Exports: Increased Market Opportunities at the Expense of Enhanced National Energy Security?
(Renewable Fuels Association) An industry founded in part on its ability to enhance national energy security is being forced to look beyond U.S. borders for new market growth opportunities. For three decades, the U.S. ethanol industry has contributed to a more
May 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Doyle Signs Renewable Fuels Bill into Law
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) A legislative proposal that would encourage the development, production and use of renewable fuels in Wisconsin is now the law of the land. On Tuesday, Governor Jim Doyle signed SB 279, also known as the 'ethanol bill,'
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles Find More Use among Fleets
by Dan Olson (Minnesota Public Radio) ...Coca-Cola started using alternative fuel vehicles in 2001. It has more than 250 fleet vehicles in the Twin Cities, and 10 of them are the hybrid-electric delivery trucks, along with a batch of smaller
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Lignol Achieves Important Pilot Plant Milestone
(Lignol) Lignol Energy Corporation, a leading technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Ltd. has successfully completed integrated production campaigns and met operability targets for the production of cellulosic ethanol
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Chempolis Develops a Unique Technology for Bioethanol Production
(Chempolis) Chempolis Oy, engaged in the development and delivery of environmentally sustainable biorefining technologies, has expanded its biorefinery and R&D centre in Oulu (Finland) to the production of bioethanol. This enables the company to strengthen its position in the market, as the
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Dresser Wayne Continues Warranty for E15
by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuel.com) Dresser Wayne has announced that all of their standard dispensers have always, and will continue to, cover the use of ethanol blends up to 15 percent ethanol. Warranties on higher blends of ethanol are increasingly important
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Next-Generation Biofuels: Near-Term Challenges
by William Coyle (Amber Waves) Next-generation biofuel companies are using a variety of strategies to overcome high initial capital costs, limited access to low-cost biomass, and other hurdles to remain financially viable during pre-commercial development. ...There are more than 30 U.S.
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Antibiotics Clarified in Grainy Picture
(SeparationsNow.com) The burgeoning alternative fuels industry has led to a paralleled increase in related industries based on the side products of fuels processing. A prime example of this is the production of bioethanol from corn in a dry grinding process, which
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Wine-Making Yeast Shows Promise for Bioethanol Production
(Science Centric) Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might be important for ethanol production from plant material, providing insights into the bioethanol alternative to 'fossil fuels.' Combining new high-throughput
May 18, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Has Pushed Up Meat Prices? Bull
by Larry and Judy Kay (Des Moines Register) Letter to the Editor Bloomberg ran a story about the rising price of meat on April 26, suggesting that the demand for ethanol was to blame. This is ridiculous. We are cattle feeders,
May 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Firms Eye Profits in Leftover Corn Plant Products
by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register) ...Now, agribusiness companies Monsanto Co., Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Deere and Co. see profits in stover and are collaborating on research into economical ways of harvesting, processing and using the stuff, including as
May 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Corn, Ethanol and the War on Terrorism
by Roy Roberson (Southeast Farm Press) American farmers are producing enough corn to meet food needs, livestock feed needs and to provide a start for the country’s effort to develop a sustainable energy source to offset the high cost of
May 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Sunoco Inc Ethanol Plant To Start-Up By July 1 -Spokesman
by Susan Daker (Dow Jones Newswire) ...Sunoco has signaled that it would be interested in delving into other biofuels ventures. On Friday, Golembeski said the company is conducting feasibility studies on whether or not it can turn its closed Eagle Point
May 17, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Industry Approaches the Blending Wall - Cellulosic Ethanol Investments Severely Threatened
Dr. Robert Wisner (AgMRC) A fuel ethanol blending wall has been anticipated for the last three years. When reached, it would halt growth of the ethanol industry or initially would cause demand growth to fall short of the rate of
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Helps Cut Imports of Foreign Oil
by Merle Anderson (Grand Forks Herald) ...Basically, three types of energy are used to produce ethanol: natural gas, electricity and fossil fuel. Most of the energy used to produce ethanol comes from natural gas and electricity. By using natural gas and electricity,
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Three Mile Island for Big Oil?
by Michael Vaughan (Globe and Mail) The ever worsening ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and on U.S. shorelines has undermined political support for offshore drilling and is focusing attention on greater reliance on renewable fuels. “This shows that the case
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
The Name is Bond: New Concepts in Bond Financing May Break Biofuels Finance Logjam
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) A team from the investment bank Stern Brothers, the law firms Mintz Levin and Kreig DeVault have developed a bond-oriented approach that has received favorable initial reaction from the USDA, and may well break the logjam
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
2010-2011: Pivotal Years for Next Generation Biofuels
(PRNewswire) The number of next generation biofuels projects reached 200 globally, a report from the Global Biofuels Center (GBC) recently announced, beyond the more than 100 Brazilian bioethanol facilities that will qualify as "Advanced Biofuels" in the U.S. These projects include
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Ethanol: Affordable, Clean and We Don’t Have to Wait
by Brian Jennings (The Hill) ...Today, conventional oil supplies are being tapped out and maintaining our current level of addiction forces us to hunt for scarce deposits in deepwater wells or in the Canadian tar sands. These unconventional sources of
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuel Combustion Chemistry More Complex than Petroleum-Based Fuels, Say Sandia and Lawrence Livermore Researchers
(Sandia National Laboratory) Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion is an important step toward insightful selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that’s exactly what researchers at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are doing. The journal Angewandte Chemie devotes its May
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Argentine State of the Biofuels Industry Report Published
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Argentina, the Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber has released its latest study in its State of the Biofuels Industry series, covering the B5 and E5 mandates that began this year. Ethanol highlights: The domestic market for ethanol
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Novozymes Again Sues Danisco
(the Cophenhagen Post) Danish companies Danisco and Novozymes retread infringement issue, but this time over a different patent. Patent infringements over enzymes used in biofuels are again at issue between Danish companies Danisco and Novozymes, with the latter suing Danisco for the
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Shell Says Share of Renewables in Transport Fuel Set to Double
by Eduard Gismatullin (Bloomberg Business Week) Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, expects the share of renewable energy in transport fuels worldwide to double over the next 10 years. The portion of renewables is already approaching 10 percent because of
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
The Presidential Biofuels Directive: One Year Later, Where Are We?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...The invite-only meeting, which attracted more than 100 attendees, was structured around two panels, one focused primarily on policy and led by USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber and featuring biofuels consortium head Jose Olivares (Los
May 14, 2010 Read Full Article
South Dakota State University Research: Re-Using Enzymes in Industry
(South Dakota State University) A South Dakota State University scientist is exploring ways to re-use enzymes in processes such as making cellulosic ethanol. The research could lead to big financial savings for industry. “Enzymes are usually very expensive items in chemistry or
May 12, 2010 Read Full Article
NC State Wins ARPA-E Grant To Study Extremophile Production Of Biofuels
(North Carolina State University) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) has awarded a grant for more than $2.7 million to North Carolina State University to support research into the creation of biofuels using microbial organisms, called extremophiles,
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Grants for Blender Pumps Are Available
(AP, KSFY.com) State officials say federal stimulus money is still available to help South Dakota retailers install ethanol blender pumps at gas stations. Blender pumps allow motorists to select the amount of ethanol in their fuel - from 10 percent
May 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Terminal Opens in Shreveport
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) A terminal to provide the ethanol needs of northwest Louisiana and the surrounding area has opened in Shreveport. Eco-Energy, Inc. of Franklin, Tennessee recently started operations at the ethanol distribution terminal, which is a joint project with Red
May 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels Industry Eyes Growth
by Thom Gabrukiewicz (ArgusLeader.com) ...Tom Vilsack, the president's agriculture secretary, said Thursday that much progress has been made - but more must be done. "We're conducting the first national on-energy production survey to find out among 20,000 farms and ranches precisely
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Seaweed-Based Biofuel Farm to Rise in Aurora
by Manny Galvez (The Philippean Star) The government plans to develop a $5-million (P220-million) ethanol farm at a 100-hectare site in the province using the Korean technology of extracting ethanol from seaweed. Sen. Edgardo Angara told The STAR that the Department of
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Plant Makes Fuel from Waste and Fiber
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) An Iowa corn ethanol plant has been converted to produce commercial cellulosic biofuels from fiber and municipal waste. Clean technology company Fiberight announced today that it has started “commenced production at the nation’s first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Cellulosic Ethanol Future of Sorghum
by Cary Blake (Delta Farm Press) The long-term growth of the U.S. sorghum industry depends in part with scientists unraveling paths to produce cellulosic ethanol economically. “We are very excited about the future of energy (forage — whole plant) sorghum as the
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Enerkem Announces Funding from Alberta Energy for Its Edmonton Waste-to-Biofuels Facility
(Enerkem) Enerkem announced that it has been selected by Alberta Energy to receive funding for its future Edmonton waste-to-biofuels facility, operated under the name of Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels. The $3.35 million funding will come from the Biorefining Commercialization and Market
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Novozymes and Nedalco to Improve Biofuel Production
(Novozymes) Novozymes, the world leader in biofuel enzymes, and Royal Nedalco, a leading yeast developer and ethanol producer, collaborate to develop a new fermentation process that can efficiently ferment C5 and C6 sugars. Fermentation of both types of sugars is essential
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Push Is on for Higher Ethanol Blends
by Chris Lusvardi (Herald-Review.com) ...(T)he Illinois Senate has approved a measure that will eventually allow higher blends of ethanol to receive the state sales tax exemption. Marketers can sell ethanol blended fuel with a sales tax reduction of 20 percent
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Plant Funding Delayed
by Ed Baldridge (NewsSun.com) County commissioners voted 5-0 to withdraw their application for a grant supporting the new ethanol plant project, but it was merely a formality according to County Administrator Michael Wright. The Community Development Black Grant in the amount of
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Smith Advocates Stronger Energy Focus in New Farm Bill
by Robert Pore (The Independent) The 2012 Farm Bill was the focus of attention Tuesday in Cheyenne, Wyo., as members of the House Agriculture Committee, including U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., heard from farmers and ranchers on a variety of
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
New DOE Video Highlights Impact of Biofuels on Rural Communities
(US Department of Energy) DOE also released May 6, 2010, a new video which showcases how cellulosic biofuel technologies can help decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil, spur growth in the domestic biofuels industry, and provide new revenue opportunities to farmers in many
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
Duckweed a Possible Solution to Energy Needs, Researchers Say
by Daniel Walsh (pressofAtlanticCity.com) Mike Smith wants to bring the green energy revolution to Vineland. He plans to take the world’s fastest growing plant and make it grow even faster. Then burn it to create a natural gas and transform that
May 11, 2010 Read Full Article
The AIM Interview: Dr. John Benemann
by David Schwartz (AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com) As pioneers go, in the modern business of algae biofuels and co-products, possibly no one has built a longer record of accomplishment than Dr. John Benemann. Involved in algae biofuels and related research since the early seventies,
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Funding for Next Wave of Biofuels Trickling In, Finally
by Katie Fehrenbacher (earth2tech) It was about this time last year that the economic downturn’s effects on the ability of next-generation biofuel companies to raise funds became really apparent. Companies that could have more easily snagged funds in better economic times
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Co-Product Boosts Nutrition in Asian Flatbread
(PhysOrg.com) South Dakota State University food scientist Padu Krishnan said it is one example of the ways in which distillers dried grains with solubles, or DDGS, can help improve human nutrition worldwide. DDGS is produced as a co-product when processing corn
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Automakers Seek to Delay Ethanol Blending Raise
by Matthew L. Wald (New York Times) Citing new test data, the auto industry says the federal government’s plan to raise the amount of ethanol mixed into gasoline will damage cars and increase the amount of pollution they emit. The Environmental
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels No Conflict with Food Prices - Update
(Biofuels Association of Australia) The Biofuels Association of Australia fired back at claims made by the Australian Lot Feeder's Association that biofuels are diverting crops away from food sources or pushing up food prices in Australia. "These sorts of comments by the
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Ford Delivers on 2006 Pledge to Double Flexible-Fuel Vehicle Production in America by End of 2010
(The Ford Motor Company) Ford is delivering on its 2006 pledge to double the number of flexible-fuel vehicles produced in the U.S. by the end of 2010. Ford produced nearly 185,000 2006 model year flexible-fuel vehicles. The development and use of renewable
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Update for Boat Owners: Ethanol-Blended Fuels for Use in Marine Equipment
(Renewable Fuel Association) The Renewable Fuel Association has put together an informational boating document concerning ethanol-blended fuels and marine equipment. Many areas across the country successfully utilize only ethanol-blended fuels year-round and across all octane grades, proving that ethanol blended
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
All 2011 Buick Regals to Be Flex-Fuel Capable from This Fall
by Sam Abuelsamid (AutoBlogGreen) ...According Jim Federico, vehicle line executive for the global mid-size platform, combining direct injection and turbocharging will allow the new engine to get much closer to the volumetric fuel efficiency of gasoline while running on ethanol.
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Sustainable Biofuels from Forests, Grasslands and Rangelands
(Ecological Society of America) Analyzing biofuel sources and predicting effects on water, soil and the atmosphere: The promise of switchgrass, the challenges for forests and the costs of corn-based ethanol production: Ecological scientists review the many factors surrounding biofuel crop production
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Abengoa Takes on Myths about Biofuels with Evidence
(Abengoa Bioenergy) Biofuels are being attacked. The claim "Bioethanol is the main cause of increased food prices is one of the many falsehoods that are being made to reach the public. Therefore, we decided to defend the sector and remove
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Production of Ethanol from Winter Barley by the EDGE (Enhanced Dry Grind Enzymatic) Process
by N P Nghiem, K B Hicks, D B Johnston, G Senske, M Kurantz, M Li, J Shetty and G Konieczny-Janda (Biotechnology for Biofuels) Background : US legislation requires the use of advanced biofuels to be made from non-food feedstocks. However,
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Purdue Report Refutes Indirect Land Use Numbers
(Farm Futures) A recently completed analysis from Purdue University concluded that the California Air Resources Board overestimated the indirect land use change impact of grain-based ethanol by a factor of two in developing its Low Carbon Fuels Standard one year
May 04, 2010 Read Full Article
President’s Ethanol Speech Lacks Substance
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) Ethanol producers and corn farmers who were hoping for President Obama to make a strong show of support for the ethanol industry when he appeared at a POET plant in Missouri on Wednesday were probably a
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
NASCAR Sets Sights on E15 Use by 2011
(Fox News) When NASCAR takes the green flag in 2011, race cars are expected to be fueled by E15 -- a mixture of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline. Hendrick Motorsports is already testing the fuel and Roush Yates engines
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Maryland Researchers Turn Poplar Trees into Biofuel
by Meredith Cohn (The Baltimore Sun) In response to a national call for homegrown, Earth-friendly fuels to fill Americans' gas tanks, a couple of University of Maryland researchers are planting trees. Fuel derived from the hardy, fast-growing common poplar could eventually
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels Basics
Table of Contents Science Leads the Way Policy Reasons for Advanced Biofuels Technical ChallengesIf It's Such a Great Idea, Why Hasn't It Been Done Before? Generations 1, 2, 3 and 4: Talking about biofuels Making Advanced Biofuels: Biomass to Building Blocks;
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Clean Liquid Fuel Technology Goes International
LPP Combustion, LLC, a Columbia, Maryland based innovator in liquid fuel technology, has teamed up with several international partners to market their equipment overseas. The LPP Technology enables liquid fuels, such as naphtha, kerosene, diesel, biodiesel, or ethanol to be
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Future of Cellulosic Ethanol Remains Uncertain
by Mark Steil (Minnesota Public Radio) The idea of a biofuel made from something other than food was one of the stars of both the Bush and Obama administration's energy programs, but the future of cellulosic ethanol is in doubt. Cellulosic
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
New Yorkers' Quest for Ethanol Fuel Being Answered
by James Pratt (Detroit Alternative Energy Examiner, Examiner.com) While American-made E85 fuel stations in the Midwest are taking off, E85 fuel availability on the east coast is still lagging. A new program is trying to change that. ...one can drive anywhere
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Surprise Departure of European Biodiesel Board & the European Bioethanol Fuel Association
(PetroWorld.com) It has been reported that the European Biodiesel Board and the European Bioethanol Fuel Association based in Brussels have both withdrawn their membership from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels based in Switzerland. According to Biodigest, the European Biodiesel Board has
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Butamax: Portrait of a Biobutanol Strategic Investment by BP and Dupont
by Jim Lane (BiofuelsDigest) ...Also, what exactly is up with biobutanol, perhaps the most important fuel you never heard of — one that is gaining serious traction among bioenergy cognoscenti as a more perfect solution to the ethanol blend wall
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Newton Falls Mill Eyeing New Technology
by Martha Ellen (Watertown Daily Times) Newton Falls Fine Paper could be the first commercial plant to use a breakthrough technology that turns waste into ethanol. "It's a possibility. It's well down the road," said Donald H. Schnackel, vice president of
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Nebraska Holds FFV Awareness Campaign
by Michelle Kautz (DomesticFuels) Tomorrow (April 22, 2010) will kick of the National Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) Awareness Campaign across the state of Nebraska. The educational campaign is a joint project of the Clean Fuels Fuondation, the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, the
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Using Ionic Liquids Without Acids for Biomass Conversion into Biofuel Saves Time, Energy, Colorado State University Professors Discover
(Colorado State University) Dissolving plant biomass in “green” solvent ionic liquids - salts that melt at low temperatures - converts more sugars needed for biofuel more quickly than traditional methods, according to a new study by Colorado State University professors. The
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
TR10: Solar Fuel: Designing the Perfect Renewable Fuel
by Kevin Bullis (Technology Review, MIT) When Noubar Afeyan, the CEO of Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, MA, set out to invent the ideal renewable fuel, he decided to eliminate the middleman. Biofuels ultimately come from carbon dioxide and water, so
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
King of Fuel Alternatives: Ethanol Remains Major Player, but Future Unclear
by Rod Walton (Tulsa World) Ethanol is running strong in Oklahoma and nationwide, filling up storage terminals and flowing through most cars in some blended way. The corn-based variety, however, may be hitting a wall in the race for renewable fuels,
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Website Aims to Forge Ethanol Partnerships
by Kathrine Schmidt (dailycomet.com) A businessman from New Iberia is starting a national website that aims to match renewable-energy investors with local landowners and farmers. Kevin Caffery believes the state of the ethanol industry, which makes fuels from plant matter, is
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Is Switchgrass In Your Future, And If So, Will It Be Profitable?
(Cattle Network) ...One of the first products that may be digested in a cellulosic ethanol plant is switchgrass, which is a warm-season grass native to this part of the world. Agronomically it can be produced, but will it be economically
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
ZeaChem Validates Its Core Biorefining Technology
(ZeaChem) Company Produces Commercial Grade Ethyl Acetate ZeaChem Inc., a developer of biorefineries for the conversion of renewable biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has produced commercial grade ethyl acetate, thereby proving its core technology platform. Ethyl acetate is
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
POET Announces Plans for 3.5 Billion Gallons of Cellulosic Ethanol in 2022
(POET) Technology ready, CEO says, but loan guarantee, policy stability and market access still needed to achieve vision. POET plans to have a hand in producing 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year by 2022, POET CEO Jeff Broin said
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
US Farm State Senators Offer Bill to Extend Ethanol Tax Credit
Nick Snow (Oil and Gas Journal) US senators from agricultural states introduced legislation on Apr. 20 that would extend the federal ethanol tax credit through 2015. Failure to do so would cost 112,000 jobs nationwide and reduce domestic fuel ethanol
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Scientists Say Growing Grain for Food Is More Energy Efficient
(Michigan State University) Using productive farmland to grow crops for food instead of fuel is more energy efficient, Michigan State University scientists concluded, after poring over 17 years’ worth of data to help settle the food versus fuel debate. "It's 36
April 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuel Company Builds Test Plant
(CBC News) An Ontario biofuels company is building a test plant in Sarnia to produce ethanol from wood and farm waste rather than corn. Don Hewson, managing director of the Sarnia-Lambton research park where the facility will be located, said the
April 20, 2010 Read Full Article
Implications Of The U.S. Ethanol Tariff
by Robert Rapier (Forbes) ...In order to better understand the intricacies of the issues involved, I have been engaged in dialogue with a number of industry groups and economists. Here I will try to shed some light on the tariff
April 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Corn Oil from Ethanol Plant to Feed Biodiesel Refinery
by John Davis (DomesticFuel.com) Mansfield Oil Company has acquired East Fork Biodiesel of Algona, Iowa … a 60-million-gallon-a-year refinery that will get its feedstock of corn oil from Mansdfield’s network of C&N Companies ethanol plants in the Midwest. ...this will give
April 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Time To Reinforce Distillers Grains Value
(CattleNetwork) ...U.S. ethanol industry exported 5.64 million metric tons (mmt) of distillers grains worth nearly $1 billion in 2009, which was 24 percent above 2008 levels. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) touts the worldwide livestock feeding of distillers grains as displacing
April 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Pilot Trash-to-Ethanol Plant Located Off the Beaten Path
by Sarah Tompkins (The Times, Munster, Ind.) ... The process that will be used in Lake County's plant to produce ethanol from trash was developed in Fayetteville more than 17 years ago. It has been tested in a pilot plant there
April 19, 2010 Read Full Article
Interning is the Pits (and Garages) for UNOH High Performance Motorsports Students
[caption id="attachment_8151" align="alignright" width="190" caption="Stephanie Thomas, UNOH ARCA intern"][/caption] by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA) Stephanie Thomas is a very smart young woman. Everyone in the High Performance Motorsports Program at University of Northwestern Ohio says so. If you ask for
April 15, 2010 Read Full Article
Pickens Encourages Investment in American Energy
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel) “When do we stop investing in OPEC and start investing in America?” That’s the question that oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens asked at a House Ways and Means committee hearing Wednesday (April 14, 2010) on “Energy Tax
April 15, 2010 Read Full Article
How to End America's Addiction to Oil
by R. James Woolsey (Wall Street Journal editorial) By using more electricity, natural gas and biofuels in our transportation fleet, we can quickly reduce our dependence on OPEC. ...About 95% of transportation fuel in the U.S. is derived from petroleum. And over three-quarters
April 15, 2010 Read Full Article
IntAct Targets Energy-Neutral Water Treatment
by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine) ...IntAct Labs LLC has been awarded a $46,770 U.S. EPA grant to further research ethanol stillage treatment using a microbial fuel cell process, according to Justin Buck, chief technology officer for the company. The microbial
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Mazda RX-8 SP Goes E85 at Targa
(The AutoChannel) Mazda Australia will use ethanol blend fuel to power its turbo rotary Mazda RX-8 SP at the upcoming Targa Tasmania rally. With event regulations now encouraging competitors to go green and consider alternate fuels, Mazda Motorsport has opted to
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Grilling with Ethanol
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel) Grilling enthusiasts will find a new product that uses ethanol as an alternative to charcoal or propane on the shelves of many grocery and hardware stores this summer. The FlameDisk® actually utilizes proprietary solidified ethanol and is
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
S. Korea's EN3 Green Energy to Produce Bio-Ethanol
(TradingMarkets.com) South Korea's EN3 Green Energy Co. Ltd plans to produce bio-ethanol using cassava root as the basic material in South Sulawesi. EN3 already have three factories in Gowa and Takalar in that province producing cassava chips and tapioca flour exported
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Korean Biofuel Banggi Venture
(Daily Express) Two South Korean companies will set up a multi-million dollar project to produce biofuel using cassava, starting with a plantation in Banggi Island, off Kudat , middle of this year. Jusin Group, a South Korean company, and counterpart Gaiax
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Pulstar and E-Fuel Announce Pulse Plugs for Ethanol
(e-releases) High-power sparkplug promises to improve combustion efficiency in ethanol-fueled vehicles with fuel provided by E-Fuel equipment. Ignition products company ENERPULSE, Inc. announced that their proprietary Pulstar(R) pulse plugs have been adopted by E-Fuel of Los Gatos, California. The Pulstar plugs
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Circling the Wagons, the Firing Squads and the Arguments: Ethanol Wars Explode in Print, TV
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...The ethanol cold war developed into a hot one this week when television and print advertising campaigns debuted both from Brazil’s UNICA and the US-based Growth Energy. ...The Growth Energy campaign is featuring six television spots
April 14, 2010 Read Full Article
Sustainable Feedstock Resource Availability
Crop Residue- What’s It Worth? Robert Fireovid (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service) explained the interest in crop residues, concerns about crop residues, how USDA-ARS is addressing these concerns, what research it has shown, and what would be the next
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Biodiesel Plant in Bireuen to Operate This Year
(Antara News) A biodiesel and ethanol plant under construction in Beunyot village, Juli subdistrict, Bireuen regency, Aceh province, is scheduled for operation in the middle of this year. Bireuen regent Nurdin AR said, ... "The biodiesel and etahnol plant which
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Economists Duke It Out Over Ethanol’s Benefits, Impact of Loss of Ethanol Tax Credits
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In New York, a battle royal has been joined on the comments page of the Natural Resources Defense League (sic) following posts on the economic and greenhouse gas benefits (or lack thereof, according to NRDC’s Nathanael
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
The US Should Not Exchange Reliance on One Kind of Transportation Essential for Another
by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA) It doesn't make sense to exchange reliance on one kind of imported transportation essential for another. This is as true for foreign oil; fossil fuels; batteries and rare earth metals for electric cars; as
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Launches Marketing Blitz in Face of U.S. Tariffs
by Nick Chambers (Gas2.0) Calling themselves the “underdogs,” the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has today launched an advertising campaign and a new website, sweeteralternative.com, to bring awareness of the successes of the Brazilian ethanol industry to a U.S. audience. The
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Forage Sorghum Shows Promise as Energy Crop
In their continuing effort to evaluate crops that can serve as biofuel feedstocks as well as cover crops (and that can fit into crop rotations in Pennsylvania and the Northeast) researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have found
April 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Bio-Based Potential for Delta Ag
by Hembree Brandon (Delta Farm Press) As Mid-South states continue to lose much of the traditional manufacturing-based industries that migrated to the areas beginning in the 1950s, new bio-based opportunities are emerging, says Pete Nelson. “We’re among the best in the
April 12, 2010 Read Full Article
The Dirty Underside of Lula's Clean Energy Revolution
by Nikolas Kozloff (Foreign Policy) ...Buffeted by the oil price shock of 1973, the country's military dictators grew concerned about Brazil's reliance on foreign imports of fossil fuels. Their solution: Pour government subsidies into the sugar industry and mandate ethanol
April 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Scientists Developing Algae as Renewable Energy Source
by Loretta Sorensen (Farm & Ranch Guide) ...“There are numerous benefits to extracting oil from algae,” said Todd Hylden, vice president of marketing and investor relations for Energae LP. “I'm a farm boy from North Dakota and have no axe to
April 12, 2010 Read Full Article
Cellulosic Ethanol: Expanding Options, Identifying Obstacles
by Ann Perry (USDA ARS) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are figuring out how to turn wheat straw into ethanol “gold,” and learning more about the bacteria that can “infect” ethanol plants and interfere with fuel production. ...But the same environments
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
South Dakota State University Studies Corn Stover Pretreatment
(Biomass Magazine) Using a high shear bioreactor (extrusion) pretreatment process can help prepare corn stover as a feedstock for making cellulosic ethanol, a South Dakota State University study finds. The SDSU study explored different temperatures, screw speeds, and enzymes to learn
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Boaters Fear Ethanol Bump Will Hurt Their Boats
by Gary Chittim (King5News) The nation's largest boat owners' group wants the federal Environmental Protection Agency to slow down on plans to increase the ethanol content in the nation's gasoline supply. U.S. gasoline currently contains about 10 percent ethanol and most
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Scott Carpenter once noted that we know more about the heavens than the sea — but for biofuels, there is every urgent reason to look carefully to salt-friendly projects that can utilize brackish water, or
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Woodland Biofuels Awarded $4 Million by Ontario For Revolutionary Cellulosic Ethanol Demonstration Plant
Ontario is investing $4 million through the Innovation Demonstration Fund (IDF) to help Woodland Biofuels Inc. and its partners build a groundbreaking demonstration plant that will efficiently produce cellulosic ethanol from renewable wastes. The plant will use Woodland’s patented technology, which
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Ethanol Fumes
by Patrick Westhoff (Washington Times letter to editor) The editorial "Stop 'Big Corn' " (Opinion, Monday) did not accurately describe the analysis of ethanol policy conducted by our institute. The editorial says we at the University of Missouri's Food and Agricultural
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Cellulosic Ethanol and Sorghum Expansion
by Cary Blake (Western Farm Press) The long-term growth of the U.S. sorghum industry lies in part with scientists unraveling paths to economically produce cellulosic ethanol. “We are very excited about the future of energy (forage-whole plant) sorghum as the cellulosic
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Growth Energy: Oil Companies Should Not Dismiss Intent of Congress to Increase Renewable Fuel in 2010
Growth Energy, the coalition of US ethanol supporters, announced today that it has filed papers to intervene on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a lawsuit filed against EPA by the petroleum industry challenging a key part
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Verdezyne and Lallemand Ethanol Technology Partner to Develop and Commercialize Novel Yeast for Enhanced Ethanol Production
Verdezyne, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company, and Lallemand Ethanol Technology, a global provider of yeast to the fuel ethanol industry, April 7, 2010, announced they have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize a genetically enhanced high-yield ethanol producing yeast. Verdezyne
April 09, 2010 Read Full Article
Flex Fuel Vehicles Hold the Key
by Gal Luft (The Baltimore Sun) ...While both drilling and efficiency promise little relief, with growing instability in the Middle East and millions of Chinese and Indians moving from bicycles to cars, it is almost a given that we will
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels; More Than Fulfilling Early Promises.
(Gerson Lehman Group) Needless to say, as the ethanol industry continues to grow, the level of opposition continues to increase and the battle has become much more visible. Historically anti-ethanol rhetoric has originated from the American Petroleum Association (API) and associated “Big oil” companies but
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
America's Biofuel Muddle Coming Up Empty: America Will Have Trouble Meeting Its Ambitious Goals for Biofuels
(The Economist) The renewable-fuel standard released in February by America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) paints an ambitious picture of biofuels’ future. It wants the amount of the stuff used as transport fuel to climb from 13 billion gallons (49 billion
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Pennycress: Able to Double Yields in 10 Million+ Northern Soy Acres?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...The source of (Jack) Oswald’s excitement? An analysis from ex-USDA Peoria Lab director Peter Johnson, now CTO at BMI Biodiesel. Oswald relates: “Claim is that in any given year switching from corn to soybeans, those acres
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Cobalt Technologies is First to Create Renewable Biobutanol Fuel from Beetle-Killed Pine
Cobalt Technologies, the leader in commercializing biobutanol as a renewable chemical and fuel, April 7, 2010, announced a breakthrough in producing biobutanol from beetle-killed lodgepole pine feedstock. Cobalt is the first company to produce a drop-in replacement for petroleum and petrochemicals from
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Cellulosic Ethanol Dealt a Blow
by Alyssa Danigelis (Discovery News) ...Humberto Blanco-Canqui, assistant professor at Kansas State University's Agricultural Research Center-Hays, published an article in a recent issue of Agronomy Journal (abstract) arguing convincingly that we shouldn't use crop residue to make cellulosic ethanol. Blanco-Canqui
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Soy Races to New Land Speed Record
Hajek Motorsports raced to a new land-speed record thanks in part to the soy-based components of the car that owner Brent Hajek helped grow on his northwest Oklahoma farm. …Hajek read about soy plastics developed for agricultural combine panels in the
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
As E15 Receives the Full Court Press from Ethanol Lobbies, E85 Languishes
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) There is hardly an organization in the world that has done more of the heavy lifting and hard work for ethanol than Growth Energy, but it takes a fair bit of effort to find the
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
New Barley Market Spurs Research Effort
by Roy Roberson (Southeast Farm Press) Research under way at Virginia Tech Universitiy’s Tidewater Research and Extension Center near Suffolk, Va., is geared to giving area growers better information on the benefits of barley/soybean double-crop rotations versus wheat/soybean double-crop, full-season
April 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Agrivida is Trying to Develop Plants that Help Turn Themselves into Biofuel
by Jonathan Fahey (Forbes) Plants wouldn't have been able to thrive for hundreds of millions of years if they weren't tough. Which is why humans are having such difficulty breaking down plants in the quest to turn plant matter into
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
The Role of Demand for Biofuel in the Agricultural Commodity Price Spikes of 2007/08
by Simone Pfuderer, Grant Davies, Ian Mitchell (Food and Farming Analysis, Defra) This paper is part of a larger body of work that aims to shed more light on what led to the high agricultural commodity prices in 2008. The
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Southern Research Institute Signs an Agreement with HCL CleanTech to Help Develop a New Biofuel Production Process in Durham, North Carolina
HCL CleanTech, a US-Israeli biofuels technology development company, has selected Southern Research Institute in North Carolina as the hosting site and operator of its first pilot plant to produce low cost fermentable sugars, high-quality lignin and tall oils from North
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
High Schoolers win Gold for Vehicle that Gets 345 mpg Using Ethanol
by Megan Peterson (WEAU.com) A group of Durand High School (Wisconsin) students made the trip to Texas this past weekend to compete in a national competition to see who can build the most fuel efficient vehicle. The team ended up bringing
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Second Plant Pathway Could Improve Nutrition, Biofuel Production
Purdue University scientists have defined a hidden second option plants have for making an essential amino acid that could be the first step in boosting plants' nutritional value and improving biofuel production potential. The amino acid phenylalanine is required to build
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuels and Global Trade Study Goes Online
"Global trade and environmental impact of the EU biofuels mandate" is the title of a study finalised by the International Food Policy Research Institute this 25 March 2010. The report is one of four studies commissioned by the European Commission
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Massachusetts City Agrees to Begin Talks on Waste-to-Ethanol Project
by Charles Winokoor (Tauton Daily Gazette) The city’s plans for what would be a landmark ethanol-based waste treatment plant cleared an important hurdle at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. The Council and its Committee on Solid Waste voted unanimously to enter
April 06, 2010 Read Full Article
E20 Fuel Reduces Carbon Monoxide and Hydrocarbon Emissions in Automobiles, Has No Measurable Impact on Drivability or Maintenance
A new study by the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the use of E20 fuel, which blends 20 percent ethanol with gasoline, reduces the tail pipe emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, compared
April 05, 2010 Read Full Article
Company Promotes In-Field Production of “Sorganol”
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) An Iowa inventor and entrepreneur is promoting a harvester he developed that can produce ethanol from sweet sorghum right in the field. Lee McClune of Knoxville, Iowa invented the SORGANOL® Process (PatPend) and Sor-Cane Harvester after studying
April 05, 2010 Read Full Article
South Dakota Advocate: Use Ethanol to Save Your Kids' Lives
by Mikkel Pates (AgWeek) For Orrie Swayze, all roads eventually lead to ethanol. They have for a long time. As the still-young ethanol fuel industry returns to profitability in the wake of the financial crisis in the industry two years ago, this
April 05, 2010 Read Full Article
EPA Awards Small Business Grants for Biofuels and Vehicle Emissions Reduction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $2.38 million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. These efforts will help improve air quality, protect our water, work to decrease the
April 05, 2010 Read Full Article
Federal Legislation for Ethanol Pipeline Being Introduced
March 29, 2010, Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-IA) and Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE) held a news conference to highlight a bipartisan effort to boost our country’s homegrown energy industry by improving infrastructure for moving ethanol from the Midwest to the rest
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
GM Partners with U.S. Department of Energy to Develop Jatropha-to-Biodiesel Project in India
General Motors Co. announced on March 30, 2010, a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop the potential of the jatropha plant as a sustainable biofuel energy crop. Traditionally considered a weed, jatropha plants produce
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
Global Ethanol Production to Reach 85.9 Billion Litres in 2010: Global Renewable Fuels Alliance Releases 2010 Biofuels Production Forecast
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) March 21, 2010, released its 2010 production forecast for ethanol and the future continues to look positive for growth in the industry. Total fuel ethanol production for 2009 was 73.9 billion litres according to data assembled by
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
New Fuel Economy Standards May Benefit Ethanol
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) ...The easiest way to gain the improved fuel economy is through “engine downsizing,” in other words, using smaller engines. But the new smaller engine technologies will not mean less power, like in the past. According to
April 02, 2010 Read Full Article
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