Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/14/2009

Axial Vector Schedules First Customer Demonstration of Multi-Fuel Axial Engine and Generators
Axial Vector Energy Corporation will demonstrate its 325 hp , 1,140 lb-ft a oeWorkhorse 7.2a engine and 100 kW generator on March 16 and 17 to civilian and military buyers and possible licensees...

ICTSD EUR¢ WTO Calls on Brazil to Focus on Market Competition
Since 2003, production of ethanol fuels has increased by an average 11.7 percent per year; the WTO estimates that production reached almost 27 million cubic metres in 2008. Between 2002 and 2007, the market price of ethanol jumped by 45 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweden going "oil free" by 2030
Just 21 years from now, Sweden says it wants to have completely reduced its dependence on oil by becoming an "oil free" country by 2030...

High-ethanol fuel gets first buyers pumped - HamptonRoads.com
It looks like gasoline, though a little clearer. It smells like gas, though a little sweeter. But it's not gas. It's E85 - 85 percent ethanol - and, for the first time, this alternative fuel can be purchased in Hampton Roads. The first public E85 ...

Baize on ag: Some good, some bad for America
Sit down with John Baize, long-time Washington, D.C., observer, and there's generally "a whole lot of learning" going to happen...

Go renewable
Federal, state and local governments are planning to greatly expand the funding for a oealternativea energy sources...

What in the World is Well-to-Wheels and Why Does It Matter?
Since gasoline has been the predominant source of fuel for our cars and trucks for the last 80 years or so, you may not give a second thought to where it comes from and how it gets to the pump at your local ...

Clean Energy Trends 2009
In last year's Clean Energy Trends report, we noted that 2008 would prove to be another banner year for clean energy even in the face of a brooding economic storm...

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, ...

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 ...

Readers' comments on business news - St. Petersburg Times
Story Tools This article smears those of us who are in the business of buying precious metals, and you owe us an apology for publishing such a poor informational piece. It ignores important information such as the fact that the spot price of gold is ...

Truly Green Energy
The coffee pot was broken at Stellarwind BioEnergy. It was probably just as well, since most of the liquid percolating at its home-in the former Hoosier Orchid Co.-is green and algae-ridden. It's in ...

High-ethanol fuel gets first buyers pumped
Loading. Navy officials gather Friday for a ribbon-cutting at an E85 fuel pump at the Navy Exchange gas station near Oceana Naval Air Station...

Writing The Code Of Life
Some of the most interesting magic today is in the domain of genetic alchemy, where you can change one organism into another...

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...

Jolley: Hat In Hand, Renewable Fuels Association Pleads For Still More . - CattleNetwork.com
Burdened by falling gasoline consumption and excess production capacity, ethanol producers appealed to the government on Friday to raise the 10% limit on ethanol in most gasoline blends to as much as 15%. In a story published by the New York Times ...

Oil, Gas Transporters Rolling
In January 2008, dictator Hugo Chavez decreed that Venezuela would no longer export asphalt...

Peak Oil News >> Hydrocarbon Alternatives >> Ethanol fuels said to .
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Woody biomass is Nebraska's untapped resource
A recent study determined Nebraska has an assured wood supply to support strategically located woody biomass-based enterprises across the state...

South Dakota governor signs ethanol tax bill - MSN MoneyCentral
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Gov. Mike Rounds has signed a bill aimed at ending a controversy over how blends of ethanol fuel are taxed in South Dakota. The governor on Thursday signed the measure, which would tax ethanol at 8 cents a gallon at the wholesale ...

Producers want higher ethanol limits for gasoline - Bismarck Tribune
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 ...

Gas prices will jump again
On Feb. 25 the Interior Department locked away shale from ever being brought to market and four times the Saudi reserves put on a shelf...

Bigger dose of alcohol could be mixed with gas in future
So how's that working out for you? When I wrote about it late last year, you said: Not so good...

Ethanol producers told to make more despite obstacles
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...

When Is a 50% Drop Not Enough?
As the world debates exactly how bad things can get and how many trillions of dollars governments will need to spend to pull us out of this economic funk, last summer's spike in food prices has probably fallen ...

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) ...

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. Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, member of the ...

Gov. Rounds signs ethanol tax bill - Argus Leader
PIERRE EUR Gov. Mike Rounds has signed a bill aimed at ending a controversy over how blends of ethanol fuel are taxed in South Dakota. The governor on Thursday signed SB21, which would tax ethanol at 8 cents a gallon at the wholesale level. Current ...

Greenpeace report: Ditch nukes, fossil fuels
The United States, and the world, can cut global warming pollution without relying on nuclear power...

Learn all about 'Grassoline' at library
With rising energy costs and the move away from fossil fuels, you may one day "fill'er up" at the pumps with "grassoline" - a biofuel made from ordinary grass clippings...

BlueFire Ethanol receives 28 air permits for California waste .
In California, cellulosic ethanol pioneer BlueFire Ethanol Fuels secured 28 air permits from the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District. The permits are part of the final go-ahead process for the companys demonstration-scale ...

Ncba Withdraws from Food Before Fuel Coalition
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association announced Friday that as part of a revamped strategy to eliminate government intervention in the renewable energy market, it is withdrawing as a member of the Food ...

Greenpeace report: Ditch nukes, fossil fuels
The United States, and the world, can cut global warming pollution without relying on nuclear power...

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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Renewable energy incentives abound in recovery act
There is no doubt the current, nearly unprecedented world economic conditions are leading to extraordinary structural changes in the role of governments in the marketplace...

The coal disaster in everyday life
It's being called a huge environmental disaster but, unlike Katrina, the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash pond dam collapse disaster was not caused by the environment...

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