Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/12/2009

US producers want higher ethanol limits for gas - PR Inside
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. ethanol producers Friday asked the Environmental Protection Agency to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline, but automakers argued the increase could damage car engines and fuel lines. The ethanol ...

Intel finalist tackles the cellulosic ethanol problem (Scientific American)
WASHINGTON, DC -- When gas prices were sky high, lots of people talked about ethanol as a fuel of the future. In particular, many investors placed their hopes in cellulosic ethanol. Such ethanol is made from the non-edible parts of corn, such as the stalk and leaves, or from non-corn sources such as certain kinds of grasses.* Unlike the ethanol available today, it does not require the edible ...

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Ford downplays report it endorses midlevel ethanol - CNN Money
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. Thursday downplayed a report it had endorsed the use of higher blends of alternative motor fuel ethanol in gasoline. "Saying that we endorse that flat out would be premature," Ford's manager of corporate news ...

More On The Ethanol Fuel Hoax (Wizbang Blue)
Further ethanol is expensive to produce that fossil fuels, and not ethanol fuels are used to power the production of corn into this fuel. The process involves just 8% usable material for fuel that must be separated from 92% water, ...

Silobreaker: Boat owners fret over ethanol's effect on engines .
Ethanol fuels said to violate Islamic law. Plantagenet writes:A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be . - [3 hours ago - Peak Oil] ...

MARKET TALK: Equities, Ethanol Support Buoy CBOT Corn (INO News)
1234 EDT [Dow Jones] - CBOT corn futures are riding higher on bullish outside markets and government support for ethanol, analysts say. A climb of more than 300 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lifted corn and other commodities...

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...

Ethanol: Not dead yet (CNN Money)
The old kings of ethanol are struggling for survival but a new crop of companies are poised to ascend to the throne and hope to offer a superior product...

Industry Seeks to Raise Ethanol Levels in Fuel - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The ethanol industry is putting pressure on the Obama administration to allow higher levels of ethanol in gasoline, a step that auto makers and some public-health advocates have resisted amid concerns it could harm engines and air ...

CBOT Corn Review: Climbs On Equities, Support For Ethanol (INO News)
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Sharply higher equities and an improved outlook for ethanol helped Chicago Board of Trade corn futures post strong gains Tuesday, traders said...

Pelosi Backs Higher Ethanol-to-Gasoline Blend - Wisconsin Ag Connection
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that she supported a higher ethanol-to-gasoline blend rate as a way to reduce reliance on petroleum imports, Reuters News Service is reporting. "It seems to me we should be able to do that," Pelosi told ...

Green Car Congress: Growth Energy and Ethanol Producers Request .
Economic Impacts of Increasing the Ethanol Blend Limit · Preliminary Comments on the DOE report prepared for OPEI. March 7, 2009 in Ethanol, Fuels, Policy | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0) ...

BlueFire Ethanol Brings Aboard Dr. William Farone, Original Co-Founder . - PR Inside
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, today announced a Technology Development Services Agreement with Dr. William ...

Ethanol producers face tough road (Huntley Farmside)
Ethanol producers have a tall order in front of them in 2009: They have to produce more ethanol despite a rise in economic pressures and a drop in demand. EURœIts likely to be a tough year. Markets are not in good shape,EUR said Ron Miller, CEO of Pekin-based Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc...

BlueFire Ethanol Brings Aboard Dr. William Farone, Original Co-Founder of the Arkenol Process (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
IRVINE, Calif.----BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. , a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, today announced a Technology Development Services Agreement with Dr...

NewPage to finish biorefinery study by year's end - Daily Tribune
More than a year after garnering $30 million in federal grant money to build an ethanol plant in Wisconsin Rapids, NewPage officials continue to consider the project's viability, a company spokeswoman said. Although the Miamisburg, Ohio-based ...

Increase in ethanol cap sought - Coshocton Tribune
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to immediately raise the ethanol blend limit in gasoline as a way to bail out the ethanol industry. Echoing the views of the ethanol industry, Vilsack says EPA should ...

Pelosi Backs Raising Ethanol Blend to Reduce Use of Foreign Oil (Bloomberg)
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The percentage of corn-based ethanol used in gasoline should be increased as a way of reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...

Producers want higher ethanol limits for gasoline - Miami Herald
WASHINGTON -- Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline, but automakers argued the increase could damage car engines and fuel lines. The ethanol producers ...

US firms urge to increase ethanol limits in fuel - MENAFN
(MENAFN) Growth Energy, a group of US ethanol firms, urged the government to increase the 10 percent limit on ethanol in motor fuel to 15 percent or more, in order to generate further demand at a time when many distilleries are idle, Los Angeles ...

Green Car Congress: Study Finds Integrated Biorefinery Processes .
(2009) Comparative analysis of efficiency, environmental impact, and process economics for mature biomass refining scenarios. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 3:247EUR270 doi: 10.1002/bbb.136. March 8, 2009 in Cellulosic ethanol, Fuels, ...

Honda Builds New Facility for R&D of Bio Ethanol Technology .
Honda has announced its intention to establish a research and development facility in the Chiba prefecture of Japan that will enable the company to work towards establishing practical used of bio-ethanol fuels and the production ...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
July 19-22 · BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Partners With William Farone and Applied Power Concepts Inc. to Advance Arkenol Cellulosic Ethanol Technology · Intel Science Talent Search Entrant Studies Optimizing Cellulosic Ethanol ...

Ethanol producers push to increase blend in gasoline - Grand Island Independent
The Nebraska Ethanol Board is part of a national alliance of ethanol organizations that is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase the percentage of ethanol allowed in the nations fuel supply. Ethanol producers were in ...

Silobreaker: Focus on the Alternative Fuels Market
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, today announced a Technology Development Services Agreement with ...

USDA chief backs boost of ethanol blend in gasoline (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
An increase in the ethanol-gasoline blend rate to 12 or 13 percent could be accomplished quickly and with minimal scientific review, giving a needed boost to the future of the industry, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Monday...

US biofuel industry calls for rise in ethanol ceiling (vnunet.com)
BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen , Monday 9 March 2009 at 10:09:00 Having signalled his support for biofuels, Obama now faces calls to increase amount of ethanol that can be blended with conventional fuels The Obama administration is to face an early test of its commitment to the US biofuel industry, after a coalition of corn ethanol firms led by retired general and ...

Mozambique: Bio-Fuels May Provide 15 Percent of Fuel Consumption (AllAfrica.com)
Maputo EUR” Bio-fuels, particularly ethanol and bio-diesel, may contribute 15 per cent of Mozambique's national fuel consumption within the next five years, according to Energy Minister Salvador Namburete...

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 ...

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