Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 02/22/2009



Distillers grains from ethanol snare place in export markets - DesMoinesRegister.com

Distillers grains from ethanol snare place in export markets
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
In the current tight market for ethanol, distillers grains are credited with helping keep the ethanol industry afloat. "Distillers grains are an exceptionally valuable co-product of US ethanol production from grain," said Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels .
Exports of distillers grains a record Grand Island Independent
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U of M research fuels growth in biofuels
As politicians and environmentalists clamor for the development of new, alternative fuels, scientists and researchers across the country are working to develop and analyze new biofuels...

California Focus: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events BLOGGING CALIFORNIA: Here are some blogs covering California Politics Calitics is an open source news organization for California...

TOPIC | Alternative Fuel Vehicles - Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma bills offering tax incentives for using alternative energy pass committee 1 hr ago | Add a comment BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Capitol Bureau mmcnutt@opubco.com Two bills that would give tax credits as a way to encourage Oklahomans to use alternative ...

World's first hydrogen fuel cell tractor debuts in Italy
What fuel will power agricultural equipment in the future? There are a number of alternatives to the tried and true fossil fuels that we're currently favoring, and many of them use crops that can be gathered ...

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...

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 ...

The sun is a star when it comes to sustainable energy
Numerous sessions on energy and climate change at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement in Science , held Feb...

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 ...

Vivergo Fuels: Progress Report on Commercial Scale Ethanol Plant in . - WebWire
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 ...

Ethanol industry feeling economic squeeze - and weather

Ethanol industry feeling economic squeeze
and weather, IL
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, .
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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 ...

Underwriters Laboratories Shifts Stance, Supports Existing UL Gasoline Dispensers for up to E15
Reversing an earlier position, Underwriters Laboratories announced that it supports UL 87 gasoline pumps to be used with fuel blends containing a maximum ethanol content of 15% . In January, Underwriters ...

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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U of Minnesota research fuels growth in biofuels (The Bismarck Tribune)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As politicians and environmentalists clamor for the development of new, alternative fuels, scientists and researchers across the country are working to develop and analyze new biofuels...

Keeping Ethanol Production Green
In the effort to reduce the worlda s dependence on fossil fuels, there has been a major push towards alternatives...

Groups trying to drive wedge between consumers, ethanol
New anti-ethanol commentary by environmental and food manufacturing organizations are EURstirring up fearEUR among consumers at a time when all segments of the economy should be pulling together to bring about recovery...

Philippine Ethanol Industry Strong Despite Falling Demand For Oil - All Headline News
Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Despite the downturn in the ethanol industry in the U.S. due to falling demand for oil, the ethanol industry in the Philippines is still pushing through with the operation or construction of production facilities in ...

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 ...

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. ...

Veggie oil fuels self-reliance - Columbia Missourian

Veggie oil fuels self-reliance
Columbia Missourian, MO
Ethanol is an alcohol and biodiesel uses chemicals to decrease vegetable oils viscosity. Like other vegetable oil fuel enthusiasts, Anderson doesn't have much nice to say about ethanol or biodiesel, fuels he considers inefficient and .
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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...

Area ethanol company seeking investors
Otter Tail Ag Enterprises, LCC in Fergus Falls has announced its intent to raise additional capital through its membership or additional investors...

Ethanol blending runs on empty as supplies dry up
A shortfall in production has thrown out of gear the government's plans to blend ethanol with petrol...

Stockton Biodiesel Plant Counts On Stimulus To Expand
President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address, a oeWe will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.a Lisa Mortenson and her company, Community Fuels, does just ...

US weekly ethanol margins hold just over break even - Reuters UK
NEW YORK, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Average U.S. ethanol distiller profits held at slightly above break even this week as softer prices for the alternative motor fuel balanced weaker prices for corn, the main input cost for producers. March corn CH9 closed ...

Challenges of corn ethanol make sugar more attractive - Daily Comet

Challenges of corn ethanol make sugar more attractive
Daily Comet, LA
BATON ROUGE EUR The corn-based ethanol industry has gone from the prince of renewable energy to the pauper of alternative fuels in a short period of time, thanks to an ailing economy. Stepping up in its place is another form of ethanol that relies on .
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New Approach to 'Freezing' Water
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 ...

Distillers grains from ethanol snare place in export markets
Distillers grains, the byproduct of ethanol production, are becoming a factor in agriculture exports...

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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Farmer is pioneer with ethanol plant - Argus Leader
A new ethanol plant just starting on the Minnehaha-Turner county line southwest of Wall Lake is less about America's fuel needs than it is about the feed needs of Walt Bones Jr. But it also could be the newest wave in livestock feed and ethanol ...

Showing entries for Category: ethanol - 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 ...

Veggie oil fuels self-reliance
Charles Anderson gets excited when gas prices go up. "Last summer was just stupid, it was so busy," he said with a laugh...

Ethanol blending runs on empty as supplies dry up (Business Standard India)
A shortfall in production has thrown out of gear the governments plans to blend ethanol with petrol. The government made it mandatory to blend petrol with 5 per cent ethanol 16 months ago but the plan never stabilised and the October-2008 deadline to raise it to 10 per cent has been missed...

Minnesota Farm Bureau President Paap defends renewable fuels - Bemidji Pioneer

Minnesota Farm Bureau President Paap defends renewable fuels
Bemidji Pioneer, MN
EURBut we need to keep that renewable fuels,EUR he added. EURThat adds value to the economy, that adds value to the communities, its good for the environment. Weve got to continue to have a robust renewable fuels industry. Not only the corn ethanol but the .
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Tar Sands: How Much Is Out There and Can Nuclear Help?
President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week have been enjoying each other's company...

BTC hopes to turn blue collars into environmentally friendly color
Now these ideas are gaining even more credence with Obama's push for energy independence and green jobs...

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 ...

U of M research fuels growth in biofuels - Daily Republic

U of M research fuels growth in biofuels
Daily Republic, SD
But corn ethanol is being challenged by new research questioning its actual benefits, and there are a host of other biofuels being researched and developed that could replace corn ethanol as the alternative fuel of the future.