Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 02/20/2009



Scare Campaign Against Ethanol Fuel Continues - AZoCleantech

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Scare Campaign Against Ethanol Fuel Continues
AZoCleantech, Australia
Next generation technologies are deploying today, making the production of ethanol from grain as well as cellulosic material even more sustainable. In addition, forward looking public policy included in the Renewable Fuels Standard requires that .
EWG, grocers use fear to attack ethanol Delta Farm Press
Ethanol Industry Seeks Bailout Funds The Heartland Institute
Corn Ethanol: A Health Warning MIT Technology Review
SmartBrief - CattleNetwork.com
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Cleric: Biofuel may be sinful for Muslims (UPI)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- An Islamic scholar in Saudi Arabia said using ethanol or other alcohol-derived fuels in vehicles may be a sin for Muslims...

Tropical Forest Biomass Shrinking Or Growing?
Tropical forests hold more living biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem. A new report in the journal Nature by Lewis et al...

Cleric: Biofuel may be sinful for Muslims (Moldova.org)
An Islamic scholar in Saudi Arabia said using ethanol or other alcohol-derived fuels in vehicles may be a sin for Muslims.Sheik Mohamed al-Najimi of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy told Saudi newspaper Shams that the prophet Mohammed banned alcohol for all uses -- including buying, selling, carrying and manufacturing, Al-Arabiya reported Friday.Najimi said Muslims who use biofuel, which ...

Valdehuesa: Environment, Social Responsibility (Sun Star)
LOCAL environmentalists are aware of the national policy encouraging the production of alternative fuels in order to reduce petroleum imports. They are also aware of the controversial aspects of the hype around bio-ethanol (alcohol) as a fuel substitute...

BP Joins Verenium On New Ethanol Plant (Highlands Today)
The 140 full-time jobs and hundreds of construction jobs created in Highlands County to build a cellulose ethanol plant already are known, but now a big player is stepping up...

Register for FREE - Wall Street Journal
First, dont look to the federal Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 for guidance. That law calls for fuel wholesalers to use 1 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol by 2013. EURThere is no way at all that will happen,EUR says Ron Oster ...

Dupont Report on UK Ethanol Joint Venture Fuel Project - Azom.com

Azom.com

Dupont Report on UK Ethanol Joint Venture Fuel Project
Azom.com
Vivergo Fuels, a joint venture created by BP, British Sugar and DuPont announced progress in its efforts to build and operate a world-scale wheat-to-bioethanol plant in the United Kingdom. The company has signed exclusive contracts with grain marketing .
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*Big Oil brings fuel distribution, construction expertise - guardian.co.uk

Wall Street Journal Blogs

*Big Oil brings fuel distribution, construction expertise
guardian.co.uk, UK
Riva said biofuel companies, especially cellulosic companies, have focused on the science of making fuel. Cellulosic ethanol, made from such diverse sources as switchgrass and woodchips by breaking down tough cell walls into sugars that can be .
Worlds largest cellulosic ethanol facility to be built in Florida Business Facilities
BP Jumps Into Next-Generation Biofuels With Plans to Build Florida . Wall Street Journal
BP, Verenium plan major cellulosic-ethanol plant MarketWatch
Earth2Tech - 24/7 Wall St.
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A More Efficient Flex-Fuel Engine
Engineers at Ricardo have produced a more efficient flex-fuel engine that doesn't pay the usual 30-percent efficiency penalty for using E85, because it isn't optimized strictly for gasoline: Ricardo's new ...

Roush touting propane power
If Jack Roush has anything to say about it, propane soon will be used for more than grilling hamburgers and hot dogs at the infield cookout...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog
Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEUREUREURso what effect will that have on Beef? Price...

Ethanol plant fuels interest
New Jersey is known for its Jersey Fresh tomatoes, sweet corn and cranberries. But pond scum? That is the idea behind a proposal by Garden State Ethanol, a Bordentown company that wants to build a $100 million ...

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...

Green energy dollars wasted?
The federal government has been accused of not spending enough money on solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy as a way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions...

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 ...

Inside the Outdoors: Bad ethanol news may be good for wildlife - Pine And Lakes News
When the price of gasoline reached almost $4, one of my fishing friends had some advice for U.S. policy makers. "Let the Arabs drink their oil. We'll use our corn to make ethanol." My friend is a pretty outspoken guy, and his sentiment - while not ...

BP to Produce Cellulosic Ethanol by 2012 - Street.Com
BP ( BP Quote - Cramer on BP - Stock Picks ) and Verenium ( VRNM Quote - Cramer on VRNM - Stock Picks ) announced a new joint venture to produce cellulosic ethanol on a commercial scale by 2012. The initiative aims to begin construction on a large ...

Gasoila Announces Immediate Availability Of Highly Accurate,.
A complete line of gauging pastes for the petroleum market is now available from Gasoila Chemicals...

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. ...

Roush promotes propane power
If Jack Roush has anything to say about it, propane soon will be used for more than grilling hamburgers and hot dogs at the infield cookout...

Ethanol plant fuels interest - Press of Atlantic City

Press of Atlantic City

Ethanol plant fuels interest
Press of Atlantic City, NJ
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A complete line of gauging pastes for the petroleum market is now available from Gasoila Chemicals...

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. ...

Roush promotes propane power
If Jack Roush has anything to say about it, propane soon will be used for more than grilling hamburgers and hot dogs at the infield cookout...

Ethanol plant fuels interest - Press of Atlantic City

Press of Atlantic City

Ethanol plant fuels interest
Press of Atlantic City, NJ
This has promise to be a more efficient fuel for ethanol production, Etsch said. The company could use algae during the summer growing season and switch to corn in the sun-deprived winter, he said. The company hopes to work with New Jersey's colleges .
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Nevada Focus: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
Thursday, February 19, 2009 NEVADA FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events Every Fourth Sunday , 5pm a ' 7pm 138 Winnemucca Blvd...

Regional Report / Bankruptcy judge sets date for Polaroid auction
An auction of the Polaroid Group received approval from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Thursday, setting the stage for the sale of the iconic company caught up in the fraud case surrounding Twin Cities ...

BP to Produce Cellulosic Ethanol by 2012 (TheStreet.com)
The joint venture with Verenium will eventually yield 36 million barrels of ethanol per year...

Sheikh says ethanol bio fuel use prohibited by Islam
An Islamic scholar in Saudi Arabia said using ethanol or other alcohol-derived fuels in vehicles may be a sin for Muslims...

A More Efficient Ethanol Engine (Technology Review)
An "adaptive" engine promises to make ethanol more competitive...

E85 Vs Conventional Gasoline
This Ain't Your Daddy's Moonshine For years now, scientists have warned of global warming and the harmful effects caused by automotive emissions being pumped into our atmosphere on a daily basis...

TABLE-Open and planned US cellulosic ethanol plants - Reuters

TABLE-Open and planned US cellulosic ethanol plants
Reuters
A few companies have opened pilot plants to make cellulosic but no commercial amounts of the fuel are being made. The industry risks failing the US Renewable Fuels Standard, which requires the blending of 100 million gallons of cellulosic into the .
Illinois ethanol company must adapt to evolving industry Medill Reports
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National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
The rapid whop, whop, whop of a wind turbine outside the New Mexico National Guard headquarters hints at a new mission for the homefront military: Going green...

New study: Ethanol is worst form of renewable energy - Midwest Voices
A fascinating new study ranks alternative energies from best to worst -- and showing up last is ethanol. It's time to ban all federal subsidies for this wasteful taxpayer investment in Midwest farmers and this inefficient use of corn to power ...

United States Considers Ethanol Blend Increase | Worldwatch Institute
"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 ...

The Ethanol Menace
Lastly, this additive will also help prevent fuel oxidation and varnishing during the periods the vehicle/equipment is not in use; effectively dealing with three of the major issues that ethanol fuels present. ...

A New North American Consensus in Biofuels - MSNBC

A New North American Consensus in Biofuels
MSNBC
In addition, renewable fuels can help reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, a leading contributor to climate change. For instance, newly published work in the Journal of Industrial Ecology notes that ethanol technology today .
CRFA Applauds 'US-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue' Market Wire (press release)
University Climate Center leads in renewable energy research project Pace University The Pace Press (subscription)
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Can The Ethanol Industry Be Sustained At Current Corn And Oil Prices? (CattleNetwork.com)
The US ethanol industry is in a financial pinch. Some plants and some multi-plant companies have had some fits, and starts, and burps in the past year. Some are history and others are living on their past financial laurels...

Ethanol, just recently a savior, is struggling - Grand Forks Herald
Barely a year after Congress enacted an energy law meant to foster a huge national enterprise capable of converting plants and agricultural wastes into automotive fuel, the goals lawmakers set for the ethanol industry are in serious jeopardy. As ...

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: ...

UL supports 15 percent ethanol in legacy pumps - Ethanol Producer Magazine

UL supports 15 percent ethanol in legacy pumps
Ethanol Producer Magazine, ND
EURUL determined that there is no significant incremental risk of damage between E10 and fuels with a maximum of 15 percent ethanol,EUR said John Drengenberg, Consumer Affairs Manager for UL. However, he added, E10 has been known to consist of up to 13 .
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CRFA Applauds 'U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue'
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association today applauded the announcement of a 'U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue' coming out of the meeting in Ottawa between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen ...

Ethanol plant fuels interest (Press of Atlantic City)
WOODBINE - New Jersey is known for its Jersey Fresh tomatoes, sweet corn and cranberries...

Not All Commodities Are Treated Equal
I wouldn't be letting the cat out of the bag if I mentioned that I'm a commodity bull in both the near and long terms...

Ethanol Fuels Not Only Engines, But Also Urology Benefits .
Biodiesel stocks, ethanol stocks, biodiesel and ethanol plants, trends, and industry news...

NASCAR's Roush big on propane power
If Jack Roush has anything to say about it, propane soon will be used for more than grilling hamburgers and hot dogs at the infield cookout...

Types of Ethanol Fuels.
Usually the substance is gasoline, which no one in their right mind would consider drinking. Many people are unaware that there are three different types of ethanol fuels that can be used in vehicles. Tags: ethanol fuels, ethanol fuels, ...

BP and Verenium Announce Cellulosic Joint Venture
BP and Verenium Corporation recently announced the formation of a 50- 50 joint venture to develop and commercialize cellulosic ethanol from non-food feedstocks...

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 ...

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 ...

Becker and Gerstenzang: How to retool GM and Chrysler
General Motors and Chrysler returned to Washington this week to present the Treasury Department with plans for how they will get back on their feet...

Manufacturer hopes to lead high-tech, green charge - Engineering News
Automotive manufacturer EUR Ford Motor Company has EUR launched an aggressive plan to bring pure battery-electric vehicles, next-generation EURhybrids and a plug-in hybrid to the market quickly and more affordably within the next four years. This is ...

Sierra Nevada believes in E-Fuel, a brew-your-own ethanol machine - Green Right Now

Sierra Nevada believes in E-Fuel, a brew-your-own ethanol machine
Green Right Now, CA
The E-Fuel Corporation is well underway in pre-marketing efforts for a large appliance that could sit near your house or in the garage and, with the press of a button and the addition of a EURfeedstockEUR composed of table sugar and ethanol yeast mix, .
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Agriculture stands out in uncertain economy
Agriculture stands out in uncertain economy by T.J. GILLES - For The Outpost Agriculture, always at the whims of weather and global economic forces far beyond producers' control, may be the one solid straw of ...

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 ...

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

GM, Chrysler don't get it
Los Angeles Times, CA
GM and Chrysler make millions of vehicles that can run on E85 ethanol. 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 vehicles, auto manufacturers .
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Forget the freezer: Research suggests novel way to control water behavior
Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team ...

The New Age Fuel
With gasoline prices soaring each day, many individuals are seeking alternative options to fuel his/her beloved automobiles...

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 ...

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse? - Care2 News Network
This week the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has made a recommendation to the government to increase the percentage of ethanol that can be blended into our fuel in order to boost the ailing biofuel industry...

Ethanol companies run into trouble, but experts say the industry will survive (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
Not so long ago, the biofuel ethanol was a political and policy darling as gas prices soared and the world focused on reducing emissions...

An Unlikely Mix Of Oil And Ethanol - KELOLAND TV
It's been touted as the alternative to oil, but after the country's largest ethanol producer went bankrupt America's biggest oil refiner is looking to invest in the renewable fuel. VeraSun announced this week that Valero Energy of San Antonio Texas ...

E85 Vs Conventional Gasoline - Import Tuner Magazine

E85 Vs Conventional Gasoline
Import Tuner Magazine
Comprised of roughly 85 percent denaturated alcohol-made by fermenting and distilling starch crops such as corn (one acre of which, can be processed into about 330 gallons of combustible ethanol)-high-concentration ethanol fuels like E85 have been slow .
A More Efficient Ethanol Engine MIT Technology Review
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