Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/25/2009



Trucker charged for dumping fuel in Ozarks ditch - KSPR.com
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Attorney General's Office says an Oklahoma trucker is charged with dumping ethanol in a ditch along U.S. 60 in southwest Missouri. The March 2008 incident near Willow Springs led to a charge of unlawful ...

Taylor to pull biofuels zoning change - Scranton Times
TAYLOR EUR” Borough council plans to withdraw a proposed zoning ordinance amendment that was requested by a developer who wants to build a biofuels plant. EURśThe request for the amendment is, for lack of a better term, dead,EURť council President Ken ...

Sweet Sorghum Could Be Ingredient In NC Ethanol Production (MyNC.com)
Researchers are studying how to use sweet sorghum in large-scale ethanol production...

Ethanol's African Land Grab | Mother Jones
Mozambique has survived colonialism and civil war. But can it survive the ethanol industry?..

Danish royalty visits Neb., touts green power - Boston Globe
BLAIR, Neb.EUR” Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik encouraged Americans to pursue sustainable, efficient energy options such as wind power and ethanol during a visit to a Danish outpost in Nebraska on Tuesday. The crown prince said environmentally ...

Novozymes will invest up to $200M in enzyme plant to prepare for ethanol boom (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
OMAHA, Neb. - Novozymes will double its investment in a new enzyme plant in Nebraska up to $200 million, so the Danish company will be ready for the ethanol boom that company officials still expect...

Bill addresses ethanol usage - Morning Sentinel
A Kennebec County senator is proposing that oil companies provide an ethanol-free fuel across Maine, less than a year after the additive appeared in the state. Sen. Lisa MarrachĹ˝, a Waterville Democrat, announced Tuesday she submitted the bill ...

Novozymes to Bet Up to $200 Million on Ethanol-Tied Plant (New York Times)
Novozymes will double its investment in a new enzyme plant in Nebraska up to $200 million, so the Danish company will be ready for the ethanol boom that company officials still expect, The Associated Press reported...

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. ...

Danish royalty visits Neb., touts green power (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik encouraged Americans to pursue sustainable, efficient energy options such as wind power and ethanol during a visit to a Danish outpost in Nebraska on Tuesday...

newnet news - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to develop biofuel technology...

Cellulosic ethanol suffers in down economy (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. - The economic downturn that has slowed the ethanol industry also is putting the brakes on the next generation of biofuels...

California regulators rile ethanol producers - SciTechBlog - CNN .
Engines can easily be manufactured that handle ethanol fuels properly. With proper design and tuning, they can be every bit as reliable, durable, and fuel efficient as petrofuel engines - and cleaner! Detroit: sell me a hybrid car that ...

Tulsa Trucker Faces Charges After Dumping Ethanol - KTUL
Willow Springs, MO - A Tulsa truck driver is in a lot of trouble after dumping hundreds of gallons of ethanol so he could meet truck weight limits. Forty-nine-year-old Carl Wescott is charged with unlawful discharge of water contaminants for the ...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. to Present at Wall Street Analyst . - TradingMarkets.com
Green Plains, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is a vertically-integrated, low-cost ethanol producer. Green Plains' Ethanol segment operates four ethanol plants in Iowa, Indiana and Tennessee with a combined expected operating capacity of 330 million ...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Partners With William Farone and .
Irvine, CAEUR”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, announced March 10 a Technology Development Services ...

Scientists create new enzymes for biofuel production (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and world-leading gene-synthesis company DNA2.0 have taken an important step toward the development of a cost-efficient process to extract sugars from cellulose--the world's most abundant organic material and cheapest form of solar-energy storage. Plant sugars are easily converted into a variety of renewable fuels such as ethanol or ...

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 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 ...

Sweet Sorghum Could Be Ingredient In NC Ethanol Production (NBC 17 Raleigh)
Matthew Veal, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, is leading the research into using sweet sorghum for ethanol production in North Carolina. "Most people only grow it to make molasses. So making fuel out of it is a whole new procedure," he said. Here's how it works: you crush the stalk, get a sugar juice, add yeast to it, the yeast metabolizes it and produces ethanol. The ...

Cellulosic firms back higher ethanol blends (Queensland Country Life)
The effort in the United States to encourage an increase in the ethanol blend rate from 10pc to 15pc has received new support, but also a diverse group of opposition...

Third group adds voice to chorus backing ethanol - Sioux City Journal
SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A new ethanol advocacy group, Growth Energy, has been created to help educate people on how ethanol and agriculture can provide both fuel and feed, its supporters say. "All of agriculture is struggling to define ourselves in that ...

Gulf Ethanol Evolves to Gulf Alternative Energy Corporation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HOUSTON----Gulf Alternative Energy Corporation announced today that it has completed the process of changing its name from Gulf Ethanol Corp. The change is indicative of the Company's move to advance its biomass processing technology beyond the ethanol industry...

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. ...

Third group adds voice to chorus backing ethanol (The Argus Leader)
In a week during which a Wall Street Journal opinion piece claimed that "everybody hates ethanol," the chief executive officer of a new ethanol advocacy group figures his key challenge is to take back the megaphone for the renewable fuels industry. "All of agriculture is struggling to define ourselves in that positive light," said Tom Buis of Growth Energy. "We can't let vested interests and ...

Cellulosic ethanol suffers in down economy - Des Moines Register
Washington, D.C. - The economic downturn that has slowed the ethanol industry also is putting the brakes on the next generation of biofuels. Making ethanol from plant cellulose - such as crop residue and wood chips - could help reduce the nation's ...

Ethanol Groups Endorse Higher Blends, OPEI Not So Sure .
The studies also will provide information necessary to educate consumers about the use of mid-level ethanol fuels on existing and future products. Printable Format |; E-mail this article ...

Valero Plunges Into Ethanol - Motley Fool
I've been attempting to teach an old dog new tricks lately, and I can confirm that the old adage is tried and true. But Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO ) proved it's no old dog this week, by delving into the ethanol business in a major way. Beating out ...

Nozozymes invests $200m in bioethanol facility - Food Navigator
We expect strong growth for first and second generation fuel ethanol, and we have to be ready to deliver the required quantities of enzymes to support such growth. We are therefore building a much larger production plant than initially announced ...

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