Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 02/18/2009



Officials tout ethanol's future
Lars Hansen is North American president for Novozymes. Biofuels industry leaders see ethanol in North Carolina's future, even though a single drop has yet to be produced in the state...

D3120 Standard Test Method for Trace Quantities of Sulfur in Light.
ASTM D3120 - 08 ASTM D3120 - 08 Standard Test Method for Trace Quantities of Sulfur in Light Liquid Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Oxidative Microcoulometry Active Standard ASTM D3120 Developed by Subcommittee: ...

Biofuel battle: scientists, activists, industrialists argue about . - San Francisco Examiner
Gone are the simple days when environmentalists could simply unite against big oil. With the oil industry out of the Oval Office, faults have widened between proponents of competing alternatives, and especially this week, between those who favor or ...

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For years, the US has been inundated with claims that it should follow Brazil's lead on biofuels...

Ethanol industry feeling economic squeeze - Argus Leader
Bill Paulsen is board chairman of South Dakota Ethanol Producers Association and a vice president for Advanced Bioenergy, which owns the Heartland Grain Fuels ethanol plant in Aberdeen. Everyone in the ethanol industry is feeling the economic squeeze ...

Harvey Wasserman: Was George Washington a Gay Pot Smoker?
Did George Washington raise hemp? Did he smoke it? Was he gay? The easy answers are definitely, probably, and maybe...

Greens and gear head can find peace
Amid the gleaming chrome of the gas guzzlers at the Chicago Auto Show are a number of tree-hugging, planet-saving alternatives...

Scare Campaign Against Ethanol Fuel Continues - AZoCleantech

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Scare Campaign Against Ethanol Fuel Continues
AZoCleantech, Australia - Feb 16, 2009
. the coordinated PR campaign to abolish America's ethanol industry are seeking to throw cold water on the progress of Americas renewable fuels industry .
EWG, grocers use fear to attack ethanol Delta Farm Press
A new breed of biorefineries Examiner.com
The EUR˜holy grail of biofuels now in sight Truth about Trade & Technology
Stratfor - The Heartland Institute
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Ethanol Fuels Not Only Engines, But Also Urology Benefits .
Biodiesel stocks, ethanol stocks, biodiesel and ethanol plants, trends, and industry news...

Filling Out the Eco-Footprint: Gauging Resource Intensity and .
The ethanol fuels that are being developed from corn have very high levels of embedded water. It is often said that electricity from nuclear plants has little greenhouse gas emissions. However, the enrichment of the uranium used to fuel ...

Schock has eye on biofuel production
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock may not have voted for the stimulus package signed into law Tuesday, but he hopes to stimulate the central Illinois farm economy...

United States Considers Ethanol Blend Increase (Environmental News Network)
The United States, the world's largest ethanol producer, is weighing options to boost domestic use of the controversial fuel, according to the country's new agriculture administrator. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recommends that a higher percentage of ethanol be blended into gasoline to support the nation's struggling biofuel industry. The United States currently allows ...

Interest sags in ethanol as fuel - Billings Gazette

Interest sags in ethanol as fuel
Billings Gazette,  USA - Feb 2, 2009
He said: "The future of Montana energy will be a future made in part with ethanol fuel." Ethanol's role in Montana's energy future appears smaller today .
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Bob Dinneen: Ethanol Growth Unites OPEC and Environmental Fringe (HuffingtonPost)
For environmental activists to side with OPEC to protect the oil status quo is downright illogical and raises questions about the motives of such groups and the credibility of their arguments...

Forget corn farmers; kill ethanol's subsidies - Midwest Voices
This nation's massive and inefficient investment in ethanol has pleased Midwestern corn growers -- and fleeced U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Congress to end this madness. Now, some members of Congress -- which ignorantly passed a pro-ethanol bill ...

U.S. corn for ethanol to rise, growth to slow: USDA - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. corn used to produce ethanol will increase in 2009/10, but beyond that, growth is forecast to slow with demand mirroring changes in gasoline consumption, the Agriculture Department said on Thursday. USDA projected 4.2 ...

Direct Appliance to take over Rex - Gainesville Sun
The liquidation sale is advertised through Thursday, but Rex's store in Gainesville could be sold out of electronics and appliances as soon as today in preparation for its conversion to an Appliance Direct store, district manager Doug Prescott said ...

Senators: Nevada vehicle fleet not efficient
The state can set a good example in the use of fuel-efficient vehicles and alternative fuels by getting its own garage in order, the chairman of a state Senate subcommittee said Monday...

The Institute for Liberal Studies: ethanol fuels beginning of the .
From Small Dead Animals - here is something that never occurred to me, though it seems obvious now that I've thought about it - as research makes ethanol fuels more plausible, they are going up in demand, and the grains that are used to ...

Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
President Reagan's economic recovery plan included four specific components on which he explicitly campaigned over and over and then implemented once elected...

Cellulosic Ethanol: Hea s Not A Fan
It's time to challenge the notion that cellulosic ethanol would have less impact on food production and food prices than corn ethanol, says Matthew Roberts, Ohio State University extension grain marketing ...

EERC to receive $1 million for renewable fuel production
The Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota recently announced a $1 million project to evaluate renewable oil refining technologies for commercial production of diesel, jet, and ...

Brewery converts beer waste into ethanol fuel - TG Daily

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Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
President Reagan's economic recovery plan included four specific components on which he explicitly campaigned over and over and then implemented once elected...

Cellulosic Ethanol: Hea s Not A Fan
It's time to challenge the notion that cellulosic ethanol would have less impact on food production and food prices than corn ethanol, says Matthew Roberts, Ohio State University extension grain marketing ...

EERC to receive $1 million for renewable fuel production
The Energy & Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota recently announced a $1 million project to evaluate renewable oil refining technologies for commercial production of diesel, jet, and ...

Brewery converts beer waste into ethanol fuel - TG Daily

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Brewery converts beer waste into ethanol fuel
TG Daily - Feb 4, 2009
That's the idea, anyhow, behind a partnership between an ethanol gas company and a California brewery. E-Fuel, a maker of home ethanol systems, .
Beer fuels you, left over beer fuels your car CrunchGear
Left over beer fuels cars Slippery Brick
Beer to Fuels Cars of the Future DigitalJournal.com
U.S. News & World Report - DVICE
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Spotty times for ethanol (Aberdeen American News)
About 20 percent of the ethanol industry that helps keep vehicles zipping along the nation's highways has shifted to low gear, including some plants in South Dakota, a local ethanol leader said....

Ethanol plant files for bankruptcy (The Daily News)
Facing millions in debt and still unable to manufacture the finished product, the Clatskanie-areas new ethanol plant has filed for bankruptcy protection and has laid off 15 of its 59 workers...

Indiana Innovation Alliance Day at Statehouse
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:27 PM by Dave Russell Tuesday, February 17 was Indiana Innovation Alliance Day at the Indiana Statehouse...

Support for Increasing Ethanol Blend Levels - Domestic Fuel

Support for Increasing Ethanol Blend Levels
Domestic Fuel, MO - Feb 16, 2009
. as the only way to reach the Renewable Fuels Standard, which requires 11.1 billion gallons of renewable fuels, including ethanol, to be used this year. .
Ethanol Blend May Increase, Despite Concerns SustainableBusiness.com
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Truckin' | Lull in alternative-fuels market is probably temporary (Urban Tulsa)
Drivers across the nation may have rejoiced when gasoline prices took a nosedive last year after topping out in the $4-a-gallon range, but that drop has had a negative impact on the nation's fledgling alternative fuels market, according to many Oklahoma observers. With gasoline now selling for less. By Mike Easterling...

RFA: DDGS Exports Nearly Double in 2008 (Grainnet.com)
Exports in 2008 nearly quadrupled over 2006 export levels. Distillers grains are the livestock feed coproduct of ethanol production from grain...

Acreage and Biofuels
By Darrel Good Springfield, IL - Corn and soybean prices over the next several months will be influenced by several factors...

GM, Chrysler don't get it - Los Angeles Times

GM, Chrysler don't get it
Los Angeles Times, CA - 5 hours ago
Because ethanol is generally made from corn, the cars are advertised as using far less in the way of fossil fuels. In exchange for manufacturing the .
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Commentary: Tax-Cut Zombies from the Planet No
It is the stuff of nightmares. You hear the shabby shuffle of their somnambulant stutter and your skin begins to crawl...

EWG, grocers use fear to attack ethanol
New anti-ethanol commentary by environmental and food manufacturing organizations are 'stirring up fear' among consumers at a time when all segments of the economy should be pulling together to bring about ...

Genius Investor Dumps BlueFire Ethanol Fuels | BNET Energy Blog | BNET
Yesterday mornings Clean Technology Insight contains a tidbit on BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, a publicly-traded ethanol startup. Quercus Trust, one of its investors, is dumping shares in the company at a loss, according to CTI. ...

Biofuel Crops Seen As Threat To Tropical Forests
Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment...

The promise of biofue. - Energy Tribune

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The promise of biofue.
Energy Tribune, TX - 13 hours ago
Second, Brazil is not the epicenter of ethanol production, the US is. In 2008, the US produced about 9.1 billion gallons of the fuel, all of it from corn. .
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Ethanol fuel mix has Pinellas boat owners sputtering - Tampabay.com

Ethanol fuel mix has Pinellas boat owners sputtering
Tampabay.com, FL - Feb 7, 2009
The ethanol that pushed its way into Florida's gas tanks last year has rotted out fuel lines and filled carburetors with gunk, he said. .
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United States Considers Ethanol Blend Increase - Worldwatch Institute

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United States Considers Ethanol Blend Increase
Worldwatch Institute, DC - Feb 13, 2009
"The notion that [corn-based] ethanol fuels are carbon neutral has been proven false," said Jonathan Lewis, an environmental lawyer with the Clean Air Task .
On my way to the Green Energy Bank to Make a DepositEUR¦ KCTribune.com
Blame government, not oil companies Orangeburg Times Democrat
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Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction
Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. to Present at Kaufman Bros. Green . - Market Wire
OMAHA, NE--(Marketwire - February 18, 2009) - Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. ( NASDAQ : GPRE ) today announced that Jerry L. Peters, Chief Financial Officer, will be presenting at the Kaufman Bros. Green Investor Conference at the Langham Hotel ...

Huntsville Butterball plant cuts 150 jobs
The Butterball LLC plant in Huntsville is cutting 150 of the 750 positions it has at the Madison County facility...

Ethanol industry feeling economic squeeze (The Bismarck Tribune)
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - An ethanol industry leader from Aberdeen says about 20 percent of the industry has shifted to low gear...

Grindstone Financial: The Ethanol Bust
Maybe I'm just bitter because I got a notice from my auto manufacturer that "it has been determined that ethanol fuels with low moisture content will CORRODE the internal surface of the fuel rails. Over time, the corrosion will create a ...

How Renewable Energy and Storage Solutions Stack Up (Scientific American)
Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption. If we leave aside hydroelectric power, it is under 4.5 percent. Globally, renewables provide only about 3.5 percent of electricity and even less of transportation fuels. But increasing that fraction for the U.S.--as seems necessary for managing greenhouse gases, trade ...

Corn Ethanol: A Health Warning (Technology Review)
Pollutants emitted as a result of corn biofuel production could have serious impacts. Presented By: Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Team System helps teams of every size collaborate better for faster app development. Learn More at microsoft.com/defyallchallenges/team   Ads by Pheedo..

Ethanol-gas mix may ground some pilots - Bangor Daily News
OWLS HEAD, Maine EUR” The mandate to mix ethanol with gasoline has left pilots of small aircraft high in the clouds with worry. As is the case with other small engines, the requirement to blend gas with 10 percent ethanol affects performance and ...

Corn Ethanol: A Health Warning
Switching from gasoline or corn-based biofuels to cellulosic ethanol--made from the stalks and stems of plants--could have more health and environmental benefits than previously recognized, according to a study ...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn
Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEUR¦EUR¦EUR¦so what effect will that have on Beef? Price increase first, or Price decreased first, or demand increase first, or Supply increase ...

Firm Acquires IP For Researching Renewable Liquid Fuels (ChemicalOnline)
AdvanceBio Systems LLC, a Cincinnati-based technology company, has acquired exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights to provide pre-treatment equipment and systems on a turnkey basis to the next-generation cellulosic ethanol and renewable chemicals industries...

Renewable energy left blowing in the wind - Globe and Mail

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Renewable energy left blowing in the wind
Globe and Mail, Canada - Feb 17, 2009
. natural gas and technologies to scrub greenhouse gases from fossil fuels like coal and oil. The federal government has backed the ethanol industry - as .
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Technology gives ethanol-fuelled engines a headstart - Independent
New technology was this week claimed to make ethanol-fuelled engines better than petrols. The research work is claimed to show that a special way of boosting injection pushes ethanol to near-diesel performance and efficiency levels. The technology is ...

BlueFire Issues Annual Letter to the Shareholders
IRVINE, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 23, 2008 -- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB - News) CEO and President Arnold R. Klann issues the following letter to the company's shareholders: Dear Fellow Shareholders: ...

The "Shop"Anthropy Revolution Blog!: Green LA girls recent post .
. as the immediate eco-fuel solution we can use now, Fuel in the end showcases the most environmentally viable biofuels as algae-based biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol EUR” fuels that arent even commercially available or viable yet. ...

Cellulosic ethanol could compete with gas - CNET News
Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors released the results of a study on Wednesday that concluded the U.S. has the means to replace a third of its yearly total gasoline use with ethanol fuel by 2030. Of the 90 billion gallons total that ...

Discuss
Posted By STONERS 5 hours, 2 minutes ago in Health & Fitness Pollutants emitted as a result of corn biofuel production could have serious impacts.Switching from gasoline or corn-based biofuels to cellulosic ...

US considers ethanol blend increase - Science & Articles
'The notion that [corn-based] ethanol fuels are carbon neutral has been proven false,' said Jonathan Lewis, an environmental lawyer with the Clean Air Task Force. The United States is slated to increase its use of biofuels from 9 ...

Obama should stimulate gas guzzler alternatives
Now that the $787 billion stimulus package has become law, a key emphasis is "green jobs" and energy rescue...

New study praises corn as source for ethanol - Minneapolis Star Tribune
A University of Minnesota study released last week played nicely into the hands of the anti-ethanol crowd and upset the state's powerful corn lobby, which extols the corn-based gasoline supplement as a cleaner-burning domestic fuel that is blended ...

Domestic Fuel » Archives » Ethanol Fuels Big Three Bail Out Caravan
Ethanol Fuels Big Three Bail Out Caravan. Posted by Cindy Zimmerman. The Big Three auto makers traveled to Washington this week to ask for a bailout in fuel efficient, high mileage cars, including flex fuel vehicles that run on up to 85 ...

Biofuel officials want NC to develop 'homegrown fuel' - Bizjournals.com

Biofuel officials want NC to develop 'homegrown fuel'
Bizjournals.com, NC - 15 hours ago
Lars Hansen, president of Novozymes North America, said that having a renewable fuel standard is important to ethanol producers because it ensures a market .
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