by Anne Tazewell (NewsObserver.com) The ruptured well and unfolding catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico are reminders that we can't afford to wait for the perfect fuel to replace petroleum. The easy stuff is gone; U.S. oil production peaked in 1972. Not
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
Tea Party With a Difference
by Thomas Friedman (New York Times) ...I’m sure like all such protest movements the Tea Partiers will get their 10 to 20 percent of the vote. But should the Tea Partiers actually aspire to break out of that range, attract
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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
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DOE, USDA Announce Funding for Biomass Research and Development Initiative
(US Department of Energy) The U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) today jointly announced up to $33 million in funding for research and development of technologies and processes to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products, subject to annual
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Spill Response Should Include Comprehensive Oil Savings Policies
(Union of Concerned Scientists) The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder of the true cost of America's oil dependence, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said today. The federal government's response to this crisis must
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
Layered Algae Ponds Improve Biofuel Yield
(ChemInfo) OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae into a true competitor to petroleum, May 4, 2010, announced a breakthrough direct-solar growth design that uses growth layers to harness the sun’s energy more effectively than existing pond systems,
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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
Indiana Biodiesel Operation Could Lose USDA Incentives
by Andy Eubank (Hoosier Ag Today) USDA Rural Development has a proposed rule on the table that would exclude the Louis Dreyfus biodiesel plant from USDA Advanced Biofuel Payment Program eligibility because of its foreign ownership. Many in Indiana, including
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
American Soybean Association Advises NRC that Soy Oil Can Fulfill Demand for Food, Feed and Fuel
(American Soybean Association) The American Soybean Association (ASA) provided comments today to the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Economic and Environmental Impacts of Increasing Biofuels Production. ASA told the Committee that biodiesel made from soybean oil can play a vital
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
Till, Baby, Till: Syngest CEO Offers “Cornucopia” Vision for Food, Feed, Fuel, Fertilizer from Corn
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...“It allows us to produce a greater abundance of all three which are at the heart of the intersection of energy and agriculture. We can put an end to the “food vs. fuel” debate and
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
Construction of Bahamas Biodiesel Plant Begins
(TheBahamasWeekly.com/Biofuels International) Waste collection company Bahamas Waste has begun constructing its $750,000 (€563,000) biofuels facility that could see the production of biodiesel from as early as June this year. Over 50 rubbish trucks will switch from using fossil fuels and run
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
What Is Bioisoprene and Why Should You Master It? A Look at Genencor and GlycosBio
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) When we say bioisoprene, think synthetic rubber – but only for a start. Think “platform” for renewable diesel, jet fuel, renewable gasoline, and synthetic adhesives. It replaces fossil-based oils, can make money now, and can
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
The Best Peak Oil Investments, Part V: Algae
by Tom Konrad (RenewableEnergyWorld.com) There are many proposed solutions to the liquid fuels scarcity caused be stagnating (and eventually falling) oil supplies combined with growing demand in emerging economies. Some will be good investments, others won't. Here is where I'm putting
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Vitol Opens Florida Terminal to Increase Oil Product Supply for the U.S. Market
(PRNewswire) The Vitol Group today announced the opening of the Seaport Canaveral Terminal on the east coast of Florida. The state-of-the-art terminal, built at a cost of around $130 million, will deliver an independent supply of petroleum products to the state,
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
ASABE to Revise Biomass Terminology and Definition Standard
(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has initiated a project to revise its standard on biomass terminology and definitions to include additional terms and definitions. ANSI/ASABE S593, Terminology and Definitions for Biomass
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Neste Oil to Trial 100% Biofuel
(Neste Oil) Neste Oil has begun trials of Neste Green 100 diesel produced from 100% renewable raw materials and free of any fossil oil components in cars in Finland. "This is the first time anywhere that a premium renewable diesel fuel will
May 07, 2010 Read Full Article
Honeywell UOP Exec Holmgren Nabs CAAFI Leadership Award for Aviation Biofuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) At the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, the members of the Civil Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) gave their Leadership Award to Jennifer Holmgren, Director of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP
May 06, 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
Rentech’s Synthetic Jet Fuel Powers First U.S. Commercial Flight on Certified Alternative Fuels
(BusinessWire) Rentech, Inc., announced that a successful engineering validation flight was conducted today by United Airlines using Rentech’s certified synthetic jet fuel (RenJet®). The flight marks the first time a U.S. commercial airline has used synthetic jet fuel in flight
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
“You Have a Friend in Bioenergy”: Sustainability, Advanced Biofuels, Rural Incomes and the Developing World
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ...With respect to energy security, consider this: it is estimated that ten percent of all US military casualties come from the delivery of fuel. Even if it were true that none of the deployments of
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
The Renewable Fuel Standard and Cellulosic Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges
(Environmental and Energy Study Institute) On March 18, 2010, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing on the state of the cellulosic biofuel industry and its prospects for producing the volumes required by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Developing an Advanced Biofuels Industry: State Policy Options for Lean and Uncertain Times
(Environmental and Energy Study Institute) ...The purpose of this project was to determine what incentives best support the commercialization of environmentally sustainable, low carbon, renewable biofuel technologies, to identify ways federal and state incentives can work together, and to determine
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
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and the History of Biofuels
by Jeremy Shere (EnergyWorld.com) excerpts from his in-process book on the history of biofuels: ... Promoting alcohol as motor fuel would benefit not only the automobile industry, Ford thought, but also help farmers would find a ready and lucrative market for their surplus
May 06, 2010 Read Full Article
Taking Biofuels to the Next Level
by Jake Caldwell (Center for American Progress) ...There is no question that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil. One-fifth of the oil consumed in the United States is imported from nations that are “dangerous or unstable” for
May 04, 2010 Read Full Article
Weed Could Be the Future of Biofuel
by Shanna Shipman (Gatehouse News Service, HollandSentinel.com) ...(S)ientists and farmers are looking closer at one plant, formerly considered a mere botanical pest, and are discovering a world of beneficial possibilities. In short, this plant has the potential to yield unprecedented amounts
May 04, 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
U.S. and UAE Sign Agreement to Strengthen Cooperation on Clean Energy
(US Department of Energy) Department of Energy and Masdar to research, develop, and promote clean energy solutions. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted renewable energy initiative, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote collaboration
May 04, 2010 Read Full Article
Bio-Waste Targets “Could Save Europe £6 billion”
(LetsRecycle.com) Introducing ambitious Europe-wide targets for the separate collection of both food and garden waste could offer environmental and cost benefits worth more than €7billion (£6 billion) between 2013 and 2020, according to a report published as part of the
May 04, 2010 Read Full Article
New World Energy Supplies Jatropha Oil for BSH Cooking Stove Project in Lombok, Indonesia.
(New World Energy) Indonesia based PT New World Energy (NWE) and leading multi-national appliance manufacturer, Bosch and Siemens Home Appliance Group (BSH) of Germany recently partnered together on a pilot project to bring clean cooking technology to rural communities on
May 03, 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
City Vehicles Going "Green"
by Mike Voss (Washington (NC) Daily News) With rising fuel costs taking a toll on the city’s budget, Washington implemented a green-fleets policy to help combat those escalating costs. Under the policy, city-owned and operated cars and trucks use alternative fuels
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
Vice President Biden Announces Recovery Act Funding for 37 Transformational Energy Research Projects
(US Department of Energy) At a Recovery Act Cabinet Meeting today, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 ambitious research projects that
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Advance American Biofuels
U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Mark Schauer (D-MI) and Brian Bilbray (R-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation yesterday that will encourage the next generation of biofuels or fuels made from living things such as plants and algae. The GREEN JOB (Grow Renewable Energy
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Towards Sustainable Biofuel Development: Assessing the Local Impacts of Large-Scale Foreign Land Acquisitions in Ghana
by George C. Schoneveld, Laura A. German, and Eric Nutakor (World Bank) This paper assesses the effectiveness of the Ghanaian legal and institutional framework in managing the trade-offs of large-scale land acquisition, particularly for biofuel feedstock expansion. The research focuses
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
America Has Lost More Than Twenty-three Million Acres of Agricultural Land
(American Farmland Trust) —“The findings from the 2007 National Resources Inventory (NRI) serve as a stark reminder that our nation’s agricultural land base—and the benefits it supplies—is threatened by poorly planned development,” says Jon Scholl, President of American Farmland Trust
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
BP Biofuels Chief Calls Biofuels “The New Oil”
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In the Opening Address at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, BP Biofuels CEO Philip New said that advanced biofuels “will require partnerships if it is to succeed,” but described biofuels as “the new
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
Chromatin Opts for Sorghum as Key Advantaged Biofuel Feedstock; Acquires Sorghum Partners, Milo Genetics
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) At the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, Chromatin CEO Daphne Preuss announced that the company is expanding its technology development portfolio to produce fit-for-purpose sorghum as a biofuels feedstock, and also announced that it
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
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
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
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 E85 Stations Open in North Florida
by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com) Thanks to the efforts of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Protec Fuel there are now two new E85 fueling stations near I-10 just west of Jacksonville, Florida. R H Davis Oil Exxon in Macclenny and Citgo
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
Carbon Mitigation, Carbon Market Opportunities for Biofuels
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, Rick Gilmore, President/CEO of The GIC Group discussed possible carbon mitigation strategies which the biofuel industry could pursue as U.S. regulations and mandates come online. Of key
May 03, 2010 Read Full Article
USDA – Strategies for Promoting the Production of Advanced Biofuels
by Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. (Director, Office of the USDA Chief Scientist) The USDA has a diverse protfolio of programs supporting the production of advanced biofuels. In this presentation to the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, DC in April 2010,
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
NY Study Shows Biofuel Could Decrease Pollution, Create Jobs, and Increase Energy Security
(News Channel 34) New York sources of biofuel made from wood, grass and other forms of biomass could reduce New York’s gasoline consumption by as much as 16 percent of projected use in 2020 and play a significant role in
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
Is Europe's Transport Getting Greener? Partly
(European Environment Agency) While technological advances produce cleaner vehicles, more and more passengers and goods are travelling further distances, thereby offsetting efficiency gains. Based on analysis of long-term trends, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report calls for a clear
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Amtrak Runs Heartland Flyer on Biodiesel
(UPI) Amtrak plans to operate its Heartland Flyer Oklahoma-Texas service on animal-based biodiesel for the next year, officials say. The first biodiesel-powered train pulled into Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said. The train does a daily 400-mile round
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Aviation Alt Fuel Hopes to Get the Lead Out
by Jason Paur (Wired) ...A small company in Indiana is leading the way for creating an alternative fuel for piston-powered airplanes around the world. Swift Enterprises has created a biomass-derived, synthetic fuel that has already been successfully tested in several
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Your "Sustainable" Mantra -- Organic, Local, and Slow -- Is No Recipe for Saving the World's Hungry Millions
by Robert Paarlberg (Foreign Policy) ... Food has become an elite preoccupation in the West, ironically, just as the most effective ways to address hunger in poor countries have fallen out of fashion. Helping the world's poor feed themselves is no longer
April 30, 2010 Read Full Article
Racecar Driver Leilani Munter Featured in Discovery's new Planet Green Network TV Series
Race car driver and environmental activist Leilani Münter is featured in the new tv series "Fast Forward" on Discovery's Planet Green Network. The series tells the stories of thirteen unique visionaries in their quest to build a greener and healthier
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
Millions Exposed to Unflattering View of First & Second Generation Biofuels Interests
by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA) In the 40th Earth Day Anniversary episode of "The Simpsons," millions of viewers got an unflattering presentation of "switchgrass vs. corn" biofuels interests. Knock down, drag out fight illustration of the relationship. Talk about need for image
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
New Laboratory to Help Chemical Revolution
(University of York) A major new suite of laboratories, to be opened this week, will help scientists in the Green Chemistry group at the University of York to advance research into clean synthesis, catalysis, novel materials and the application of
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
The Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment Awards over $5.1 Million to 24 Energy Projects at the University of Minnesota
(University of Minnesota) The Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE) recently awarded over $5.1 million to 24 renewable energy research and demonstration projects at the University of Minnesota. The selected projects focus on a wide-range of topics including solar
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
G-Oil Debuts First Commercial - a Dukes "Homage" - during American Le Mans Race
by Nik Bristow (AutoBlogGreen) Green Earth Technologies, maker of G-Oil, the "world's first and only bio-based and ultimate biodegradable motor oil approved by the American Petroleum Institute," aired their first-ever television commercial on Saturday, April 17 during SPEED TV's live
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
Iowans Urged to Celebrate Earth Day by Pumping E85
by Ken Anderson (Brownfield Ag News) ...IRFA managing director Lucy Norton says E85 is currently running about 90 cents less than E10 gasoline in Iowa. Even factoring in a 15 percent decrease in fuel economy, Norton says E85 is a
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuel Pilot Scheme Faces Winding Road
by Nina Fowler (National Business Review) Queenstown tourism operators are scrambling to establish a viable local biofuel industry before government assistance expires. The Queenstown Lakes Biodiesel Consortium’s pilot scheme has been the beneficiary of a two-year government manufacturing subsidy of 42.5c a
April 26, 2010 Read Full Article
New Biofuel Plant Turns Garbage to Gas
(The Province) ...Food and yard waste from residential and commercial sources will be converted at the plant into a low-cost natural gas that will be used as an alternative fuel to power the city's waste-collection fleet. The plant will be located
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
Algae Industry Magazine Interview: National Algae Association’s Barry Cohen
by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine) Since forming the National Algae Association over two years ago, Barry has concentrated on creating and establishing strong working relationships with what he calls “algaepreneurs” throughout the U.S. Starting the NAA was a direct result
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Ecotech Institute Launches as First and Only College Entirely Focused on Careers in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design
(Educational Corporation of America) Education Corporation of America (ECA), a leading owner and operator of private higher education institutions in the United States, announced today the launch of Ecotech Institute, the first and only college focused entirely on preparing America's
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
New Biofuel Process May Change Chemical Industry
(University of Massachusetts Amherst) A new method of converting biomass feedstock into sustainable fuel developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Minnesota has the potential to have a profound effect on the chemical industry. The
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
BC Ferries Introduces Biodiesel to Its Fleet
(The Motorship) BC Ferries in Canada is now using 5 percent blend of B5 biodiesel to fuel its vessels, making the company one of the largest consumers of biodiesel in British Columbia. The ferry company is now burning a B5 fuel
April 23, 2010 Read Full Article
Will Traditional Gasoline/Diesel Combustion for Light Vehicles Be Obsoleted by Critical Fuel System
by Bob Brook (Automotive Industries) New information and comment by combustion experts at the recent SAE Congress meeting here provide substantial reasons to believe critical fuel combustion could be the first fundamental combustion advance for IC engines in a very
April 23, 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
Fort Worth's Amtrak Rail Service Beefs Up with Animal-Based Biodiesel
by Gordon Dickson (Star-Telegram) Where's the beef? It's in the belly of that Amtrak locomotive. Shortly after noon Tuesday, the Amtrak Heartland Flyer pulled into downtown Fort Worth. It looked and smelled like pretty much any other train at the Intermodal
April 22, 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
University of Michigan Pressure-Cooking Algae Into Better Biofuel
(Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report) Heating and squishing microalgae in a pressure-cooker can fast-forward the crude-oil-making process from millennia to minutes. University of Michigan professors are working to understand and improve this procedure in an effort to speed up development
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Namibia to Produce Own Biodiesel
by Chrispin Inambao (New Era) LL Biofuels Namibia, a highly ambitious foreign-initiated and multi-billion-dollar venture, has secured 300 000 hectares of land from chiefs in Caprivi to plant jatropha, whose seeds will be press-crushed to produce much-sought-after biodiesel. Biodiesel that could be
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Honduras Successfully Harvests Biofuel
(Honduras News) Agroipsa Farm in Choluteca has deployed the “BEI Jatropha Wave Harvester”, a mechanical harvesting system for jatropha which has successfully completed an eight-month trial. The system was used for a mechanical harvest of a 550 hectare plantation of three-year
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
230 MPG For Chevy Volt? Not Likely
by Reilly Brennan (AOL Autos) EPA Mulls New Fuel Economy Guidelines The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon draft a new regulation for the way it calculates fuel efficiency for electric cars, potentially deflating the stratospheric fuel economy numbers trumpeted by
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Pew Study: Department of Defense Embracing Clean Energy
(Pew Charitable Trusts) Pentagon, Service Agencies Working to Enhance Security, Save Money and Reduce Emissions The Department of Defense has initiated ambitious clean energy programs in service of economic, security and environmental goals according to "Reenergizing America's Defense," a report released today
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) Powers U.S. Navy Green Hornet for Biofuels Certification Flight
(UOP) Fuel produced using process technology from Honeywell's UOP under contract from U.S. Defense Energy Support Center. UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced April 22, 2010, that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel(TM) produced using Honeywell UOP's renewable jet fuel process technology powered a U.S.
April 22, 2010 Read Full Article
Biofuel and Tires from the Same Bug
by Michael Kanellos (GreenTechMedia) Isoprene’s a large-volume, high-energy fossil chemical. Genencor says it can get microbes to make it. ...Genencor, the industrial enzyme specialist, has engineered a microorganism that can produce a version of isoprene that is chemically identical to the
April 20, 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
Economic Researcher: EU Biofuel Policy Not Based on Science
(Environmental Protection) Gernot Pehnelt, Ph.D., director of GlobEcon, released a study that says the Renewable Energy Directive discriminates against foreign biofuels. “European Policies Towards Palm Oil: Sorting Out Some Facts,” demonstrates that the default assumptions embedded in the directive about the
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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
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Scientists Try Algae ‘Alchemy’ to Grow Oil in Paddies
by Shigeru Sato and Yuji Okada (Bloomberg Business Week) As Japan’s rice fields turn fallow and its farming communities decline, a new army of workers is preparing to make the countryside fertile again. This time the crop is motor fuel and
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Brookhaven Selects SG Biofuels for Jatropha Testing Program
(SG Biofuels) SG Biofuels announced it has established a strategic partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory to accelerate the analysis and testing of oil produced by its Latin American Jatropha plantations. The company was selected by Brookhaven National Laboratory to provide
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Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Invites Public Comment on Proposed Rules for USDA Renewable Energy Programs
(USDA) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack April 16, 2010, invited public comment on several proposed rules designed to increase the production of advanced biofuels and the development of biorefineries. The programs are authorized under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (The
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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
The Best Peak Oil Investments, Part I: Biofuels
by Tom Konrad (RenewableEnergyWorld.com) ... The most obvious strategy for dealing with peak oil is substitution. If we can find another form of energy in place of oil, then our economy can grow without more painful adjustments. These strategies are among the
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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
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X PRIZE Foundation Reveals Expanded Vision for Future; Prize Groups Aim to Solve World's Most Urgent Problems by Targeting Four Key Areas
(XPrize Foundation, Marketwire) ...X PRIZE is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs, inspiring the formation of new industries, jobs and the revitalization of markets that are currently stalled. Through strategic design of ground-breaking competitions with
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Jatropha: Mozambique's New Biofuel Hope
by Jeffrey Barbee (Global Post) ...Sun Biofuels, a British company, has been planting thousands of acres of jatropha at a former tobacco farm here and in other sites in Africa. The company hopes the jatropha oil will help it cash
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Secretary Chu Announces New Partnerships Under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas
(US DOE) The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a series of partnerships and other initiatives to address clean energy and energy security in the Western Hemisphere as part of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA). Secretary
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Lack of Raw Material, Govt Pricing Dash Biofuel dreams
(The Business Standard) The biofuel industry is finding it tough to remain in business, with both government pricing and raw material availability working against them. ...Senior officials of the National Oilseeds and Development Board (NOVOD) said 76 institutions across the country
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BIO Urges Recognition of Biotechology Solutions in Climate Change Legislation
by Brent Erickson (Executive Vice President, Biotechnology Industry Organization) From a letter to Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman: ...BIO urges, therefore, that any comprehensive climate change legislation include appropriate incentives for, and recognition of, biotechnology solutions that
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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
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Senate Trio Hopes to Hit Pay Dirt With Carbon 'Fee' on Fuels
by Darren Samuelsohn (New York Times) Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy. If accepted,
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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
Biofuels that Save Water and Land
by Brett Walton (Circle of Blue) ...That tilt may soon be righted by researchers at the University of Virginia and the Seawater Foundation, who discovered that the most important source of the risk-benefit imbalance was the heavy reliance on fresh
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Bill Ford: Few, If Any, Trade-Offs in Going Green
by Martin LaMonica (cnet News) The U.S. auto industry needs to "go green" in more than one way, says Bill Ford. Ford is committed to making its vehicles more fuel efficient by investing in a number of technologies, including electrification,
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Saving Energy When Pre-Processing Biofuels
by Matt Ford (Ars Technica) ...When it comes to the processing of organic feedstocks for use in biofuel operations, getting plant matter down to size often represents a significant cost, as grinding and milling do not come cheap. New work by
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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
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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
Norfolk Southern Railway and Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. (EMD) Partnering to Test Biodiesel for Locomotive Fuel Applications
(Progressive Railroading) Under “one of the most extensive testing programs to date on the use of biodiesel fuel for locomotives,” eight SD70M-2 units and two MP15 switchers manufactured by EMD and owned/operated by NS will be used during the testing
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Spanish Company to Build First Biodiesel Plant in Dominican Republic with US$40M
(Dominican Today) The company Globasol signed an agreement on Monday with TSK-Ingemas, of the Spanish group Globalia, to build Dominican Republic’s first biodiesel plant, at a cost of 40 million dollars. The agreement includes the construction of a plant within 14
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LS9 Fuel Receives EPA Registration
by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine) LS9 Inc. announced that its trademarked UltraClean Diesel fuel has been officially registered with the U.S. EPA, now making it eligible for commercial sale in the U.S. ...The company's technology is a one-step conversion process that
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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
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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
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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
US Military Warns Oil Output May Dip Causing Massive Shortages by 2015
by Terry Macalister (The Guardian) ...The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. The energy crisis outlined in a
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Agricultural Research Service Researching Camelina as a New Biofuel Crop
by Stephanie Yao (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have long-term studies underway to examine growing camelina as a bioenergy crop for producing jet fuel for the military and the aviation industry. This research supports the recently signed memorandum of
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Re-Engineering Algae for Biodiesel Production
by Green Liver (Imperial Valley News) A Purdue University researcher will lead a portion of a federally funded effort based at Iowa State University aimed at creating genetically engineered algae for environmentally friendly biodiesel production. Currently, hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel
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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
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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
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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
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Sustainable Feedstock Resource Availability:The Regional Feedstock Partnership: Herbaceous Energy Crops and CRP Land for Biomass Production Across Environmental Gradients
by Vance Owens (South Dakota State University). He stated that the overall objective was to” perform replicated field trials of diverse biomass feedstocks at different locations,” and in this way to determine the most promising feedstock as a future bioenergy
April 13, 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
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Sustainable Feedstock Resource Availability: Increasing Feedstock Production for Biofuels
Zia Haq (Biomass Program, U.S. Department of Energy) focused his presentation on efforts that the Biomass R&D Board Interagency Working Group makes in order to increase the feedstock production. The priorities he pointed out in his talk are sustainability, modeling,
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Sustainable Feedstock Resource Availability: Overview
Moderator Laura Neal (Biomass Program, U.S. Department of Energy) emphasized the resources availability to ensure a sustainable supply of feedstock in order to meet increased biofuels demand. The presentation mainly pointed out three focused areas of feedstock platform: feedstock analysis, feedstock
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Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Modeling Land Use and Land Use Change in Brazil
By Leila Harfuch (Brazilian Institute for International Trade Negotiations). In her talk she underlined the modeling land use and land use change in Brazil, stressing out deforestation as a serious issue. Deforestation causes and affects cattle and pasture land expansion. The
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Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Assessing the Impact of Ecological Consideration on Forest Biomass Projections
By Jocelyn Tutak (Conservation Biology Institute). This presentation was mostly focused on developing a method of incorporating ecological considerations into woody biomass. The presentation contains many slides of the studied area, the data, methods of ecological consideration, ecological values and
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Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: A Systems Approach to Biomass Sustainability
M. Cristina Negri (Argonne National Laboratory) directed her talk toward the Laboratory’s system perspective; “waste as another sector’s resource” in biomass production. The growth of biofuels needs to be sustainable meeting economic, environmental, and social standards. An important research question in
April 13, 2010 Read Full Article
Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Using Geospatial Technology to Map Potential Biofeedstock Crop Cultivation Zones and Identify Potential Areas of High Biodiversity or Ecosystem Service Value
Jenny Hewson (Conservation International/CI) presented the multi- tiered sustainable biofuels crops projects funded by DOE. CI is building global and regional scale maps for potential biofuel cultivation. In other words, CI is looking for areas most suitable for biofeedstock cultivation
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Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Sustainable Bioenergy: Role of Geospatial Science and Technology
Budhedra Bhaduri (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) This session started with a talk given by moderator Budhedra Bhaduri who emphasized the role of geospatial science and technology in sustainable bioenergy. She presented the Geographic Information System (GIS) that includes computer software and
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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
Verizon Launches Comprehensive Sustainability Program to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Conserve Energy
To deliver on its commitment to find practical and innovative ways to reduce the carbon footprint of its global operations, Verizon has launched a comprehensive sustainability program consisting of a series of new initiatives and an expansion of existing efforts. The
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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
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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
UOP: An Unlikely Cleantech Leader
by Joshua Kagan (GreenTechMedia) The petro-chemical company uses its core competency to expand into biofuels. Unlikely as it may seem, UOP is leading the charge in developing catalysts required to transform feedstocks into "drop in" fuels like renewable diesel, jet fuel,
April 12, 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
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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
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