Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/01/2009



Bill Gates (USA) - Times Online

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Bill Gates (USA)
Times Online, UK
He has also invested in ventures through his Cascade Investments operation, including a holding in Pacific Ethanol, a fuel company.More recently he invested in Sapphire Energy, a Californian company that intends to make motor fuel from algae. .
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EPAs Jackson Says Ethanol-Blend Decision Will Take EUR˜Months (Bloomberg)
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Environmental Protection Agency wont decide whether it supports raising the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline for EURœmonths,EUR agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said...

"Unpaid taxes may be the Lord working in mysterious ways"
Comments Archive Saturday, February 28, 2009 "Unpaid taxes may be the Lord working in mysterious ways" It was a packed house at today's town hall meeting with Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner and State ...

Budget proposes shift to green energy
President Barack Obama's first budget plan moves aggressively on several fronts to tackle climate change and shift the nation from reliance on foreign oil to green energy...

Pacific Ethanol Suspends Operations at Two Plants (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Ethanol Inc . said its suspending operations at 60-million-gallon-a-year distilleries at Burley, Idaho, and Stockton, California, because of unfavorable market conditions...

Biofuels Industries Form Global Renewable Fuels Alliance - MSNBC

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Biofuels Industries Form Global Renewable Fuels Alliance
MSNBC
The ethanol industry is credited with providing more than 200000 jobs in the United States and half a million direct jobs in Brazil alone. This represents an enormous opportunity for developing countries. In that regard, the Global Renewable Fuels .
Pair of new ethanol groups seek to right troubled industry Agriculture Online
New Organization Formed to Promote Bio-Ethanol Hoosier Ag Today
World biofuels associations form Global Renewable Fuels Alliance Feedstuffs
Biomass Magazine - AgWired
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Ethanol boom-bust scares off investors: analyst (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Investors burned by the recent boom and bust in the U.S. ethanol industry will be wary of pouring money into plants for the next generation of biofuels without more stable returns, a J.P. Morgan analyst said on Friday...

Interest sags in ethanol as fuel - Billings Gazette

Interest sags in ethanol as fuel
Billings Gazette,  USA
Ball, who founded alternative-fuel-friendly Ethanol Producers and Consumers group, was excited. The governor seemed excited too. He said: "The future of Montana energy will be a future made in part with ethanol fuel." Ethanol's role in Montana's energy .
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Showing entries for Category: cellulosic-ethanol - San Francisco Examiner
Domestic biofuel production meets multiple societal criteria. Recent developments in the biofuel story have given no guarantee that a biofuel industry will be set up in time to help the building environmental crisis (in fact many new reports say ...

Groups oppose idea to raise ethanol limit - Des Moines Register
Washington, D.C. - The government is considering allowing drivers of newer cars to put more ethanol into their tanks, boosting the market for the corn-based fuel. But a range of groups - automakers, makers of outdoor equipment and some ...

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

In Iowa its corn (Iowa Farmer)
When the topic of conversation turns to ethanol in Iowa, corn naturally comes to mind. Corn is not the only option for making ethanol. Energy crops, woody species and even beer waste can be converted into the energy source...

Propel Fuels leaves native Seattle for biofuel-friendlier California (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Propel Fuels, a local seller of biofuels, has appointed Matt Horton as its chief executive officer and moved its headquarters from Seattle to Sacramento, Calif...

Ethanol Fuels Big Three Bail Out Caravan - Domestic Fuel
Ethanol Fuels Big Three Bail Out Caravan. Posted by Cindy Zimmerman EUR December 4th, 2008. 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 ...

Unsuccessfully Greening Public Transport [Aardvarchaeology]
Category: Children NOIBN Posted on: February 28, 2009 8:20 AM, by Martin R Skiing Break was action packed for the kids...

Opinion: Obama: The CliffsNotes
See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now Any high-school kid with a set of CliffsNotes knows Moby Dick is so much more than just a whale...

Pacific Ethanol closing 2 plants for now
Pacific Ethanol said Friday that it is temporarily closing down its ethanol plants in Burley, Idaho, and Stockton, Calif., leaving only a partially owned plant in Colorado and its Boardman plant along the ...

Job growth likely in advanced biofuels
A report released by Biotechnology Industry Organization estimates that the full economic impact from advanced biofuels – renewable fuels derived from sources other than corn starch – could result ...

Pacific Ethanol Suspends Ope.
Pacific Ethanol Inc. said ita s suspending operations at 60-million-gallon-a-year distilleries at Burley, Idaho, and Stockton, California, because of unfavorable market conditions...

MFA marks 80 years in Nevada
The MFA Oil Company will be celebrating 80 years of serving Nevada in 2009. The MFA company is a farmer-owned cooperative with more than 40,000 members that supplies fuels, lubricants and propane to customers ...

EUR¢ Pacific Ethanol closing 2 plants for now - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

EUR¢ Pacific Ethanol closing 2 plants for now
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR
Pacific Ethanol also owns a 42 percent interest in Front Range Energy, which owns an ethanol plant in Windsor, Colo. The Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry group, said this week that 23 of 171 ethanol plants are currently idled, .
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Pine waste may fuel Holden ethanol engines - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Forestry waste from south-east South Australia's pine plantations could produce fuel for Holden's proposed ethanol engines to be built at the Elizabeth plant in Adelaide. Fallen branches and stripped bark can be used to produce what is known as bio ...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog
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...

Peak Oil News >> Hydrocarbon Alternatives >> Ethanol fuels said to .
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Muslim Scholar Worries Biofuels Could Be Sinful
Ethanol and other alcohol-based fuel might be sinful if you're Muslim, a Saudi scholar warns...

Propel Fuels leaves native Seattle for biofuel-friendlier California - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Propel Fuels leaves native Seattle for biofuel-friendlier California
Seattle Post Intelligencer
"The state of Washington continues to choose petroleum over alternative fuels," he said. "That's not the case in California." Washington does require that ethanol make up 2 percent of gasoline and that biodiesel replace 2 percent of diesel in fuel sold .
Propel Fuels shifts headquarters to California Seattle Times
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Rare Fungus Discovered that Converts Plant Cellulose to Diesel Fuel
Researchers from Montana State University, Yale University and the Center for Lab Services in Pasco, Washington, have discovered a fungus that naturally synthesizes diesel compounds, according to a paper ...

Rare Fungus Discovered that Converts Plant Cellulose to Diesel Fuel - Natural News.com

Rare Fungus Discovered that Converts Plant Cellulose to Diesel Fuel
Natural News.com, AZ
With petroleum supplies dwindling, researchers are increasingly interested in biological sources of fuels such as ethanol. G. roseum may provide crucial in making many biofuel sources more realistic, due to its unique ability to produce diesel .
Genome Of Fungus With Biofuel Applications Sequenced RedOrbit
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Major ethanol producer to build cellulosic refinery in Iowa (Scientific American)
The nation's largest grain ethanol producer, Poet LLC, will use state and federal grants to start work on the company's first commercial cellulosic refinery in Iowa. [More]..

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse?
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. ...

Modern Ethanol Plant Has Negligible Impact on Land Use, New Scientific . - Biloxi Sun Herald
Proposed EPA and California renewable fuel standards relying upon incomplete science may threaten ethanol market and worsen global warming impact CHICAGO, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study announced today on ethanol land use impact found that a ...

Culver wants EPA to allow use of E-15 (Iowa Farmer)
BURLINGTON --- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant a waiver to allow the use of E-15, a 15 percent ethanol blend...

Ethanol Fuels Not Only Engines, But Also Urology Benefits
Renal & Urology News reports that Egyptian studies suggest that ethanol injection may be a treatment options for some men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). This new finding gives ethanol more versatility, and while there are a ...

Ethanol plan aims to fix 'huge mistake' - Argus Leader
Legislation that would allow producers to make cellulosic ethanol out of "woody biomass" such as downed trees, trimmings and brush from federal lands was introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D ...

From Driving Today
Cold weather and motor oil may not mix In single-digit winter temperatures your vehicle's oil and filter are put to the test in ways you might never imagine...

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...

Valero crossing over into ethanol field - Tulsa World
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. EUR” If federal renewable fuel mandates require ethanol to be mixed into gasoline, the nation's largest independent oil refiner figures it might as well just do it itself. The ethanol industry is under duress partly due to ...

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 ...

Propel Fuels Inc. hires @Ventures principal as CEO (BizJournals)
The biofuels retailer Propel Fuels Inc. has hired venture capital investor Matt Horton as its new chief executive officer...

New study paves path for sustainable second generation biofuels - San Francisco Examiner
Ethanol's sustainability is crrently a controversial topic. The world is addicted to oil. Like any addict who knows they should quit but just cant find a way how to do it, our collective global society is grasping at straws in the dark, hoping ...

Placing a bet on biodiesel
The future is coming to Port Manatee in the form of a tea-colored vegetable oil that can power a diesel engine...

Pacific Ethanol Halts Operations at Two More Plants Because of Recession
Pacific Ethanol Inc . said ita s suspending operations at 60-million-gallon-a-year distilleries at Burley, Idaho, and Stockton, California, because of unfavorable market conditions...

Businessman Bets on Biodiesel
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 10:20 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 10:32 p.m. PORT MANATEE The future is coming to Port Manatee in the form of a tea-colored vegetable oil that ...

Oil Companies and Ethanol Plants: Slash, Burn and Buy - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Oil Companies and Ethanol Plants: Slash, Burn and Buy
RenewableEnergyWorld.com, NH
Declaring bankruptcy recently in a federal court in Delaware, VeraSun represents a considerable failure for the alcohol fuel industry. Having fallen from the vanguard of ethanol plants funded by venture capital, its collapse is having a rip-tide effect .
IIEA launches campaign against Valero acquisition Ethanol Producer Magazine
Corn's link to oil exposes market risks, ag specialist says DesMoinesRegister.com
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The burning question: Is ethanol a viable alternative fuel? Pro- - Daily O'Collegian

The burning question: Is ethanol a viable alternative fuel? Pro-
Daily O'Collegian, OK
For instance, research is currently being done by the OSU Biofuels Team and others to develop new technology for the use of switchgrass to produce ethanol for fuel. Switchgrass requires minimal fertilizer, has a life span of about 10 years (so it does .
The burning question: Is ethanol a viable alternative fuel? Anti- Daily O'Collegian
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What: Milestone AV Technologies LCD television wall mounts for flat-screen TVs, sold at Best Buy from June 2007 through December 2008 for $60 to $90 . Why: The mount can crack when used with televisions 26 ...

E85 Vs Conventional Gasoline - Tech Knowledge
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 ...

California Focus: Blogs, Stonewall Democrats, Alternative Energy,.
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Blogs, Stonewall Democrats, Alternative Energy, Biofuels, Democracy for America, Groups and Events BLOGGING CALIFORNIA: Here are some blogs covering California Politics Calitics is an open ...

Eco fuels are unislamic, Saudi cleric says
It's taken a week or so for this story to go viral, but as of today it is one of the most Digged environmental story on the web, with over 500 Diggs...

Ethanol fuels said to violate Islamic law
A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be committing a sin, local press reported Thursday...

Knoxville groups buys former ethanol plant, property (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
The former Tennol ethanol plant, lying fallow for the last 20 years, was purchased this month for $2.6 million by a group of investors for a Knoxville-based firm...

BlueFire Ethanol Granted Air Permit for Lancaster, CA Ethanol Plant - MSN MoneyCentral
Today, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB - News), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management ...

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. ...

Ethanol plan aims to fix 'huge mistake' - Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Ethanol plan aims to fix 'huge mistake'
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD
That act prevents producers from making cellulosic ethanol out of nearly all federal forest waste. The fuels standard now calls for blending 10.5 billion gallons of renewables this year, 15 billion gallons by 2015 and 36 billion gallons by 2022. .
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Silobreaker: RFA Chairman Previews National Ethanol Conference
Today, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB - News), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food . - [3 hours ago - PR inside] ...

Answers on energy to be offered at expo
With summer just over the horizon and the economy being what it is, figuring out ways to curb energy costs is going to be even more popular this year...

Stockguru.com: Stocks to Watch for February 25, 2009 - MTVO, MITK . - Trading Markets (press release)

Stockguru.com: Stocks to Watch for February 25, 2009 - MTVO, MITK .
Trading Markets (press release), CA
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., a development-stage company, together with its subsidiary, develops, owns, and operates carbohydrate-based transportation fuel plants to produce a viable alternative to fossil fuels in North America. .
BlueFire Ethanol Granted Air Permit for Lancaster, CA Ethanol Plant Business Wire (press release)
Ethanol Plant Given Green Light by Air District San Fernando Valley Business Journal Online
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Ethanol plan aims to fix 'huge mistake' (The Argus Leader)
Legislation that would allow producers to make cellulosic ethanol out of "woody biomass" such as downed trees, trimmings and brush from federal lands was introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., are co-sponsoring the Renewable Biofuels Facilitation Act. The measure seeks to fix a flaw in the Energy ...

Honda to Open Bio-ethanol Research Center - Industry Week
Honda Motor Co., seeking a boost in the race to build greener automobiles, said on Feb. 26 it would open a research center to develop and produce bio-ethanol fuel from non-edible plant matter. The company said it aims to start building the facility ...

How Jamaica Can Beat The Energy Crisis - Jamaica Observer
With close to zero growth over the last six months and our major trading partner having difficulties of its own, one way to obtain growth is to reduce our outlay for energy. Jamaica cannot sit and wait for new technologies. We must act now with what ...



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