Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/26/2009



Waiting for Next-Gen Ethanol in 2009? Forget It - CNN Money
( gigaom.com ) -- In the summer of 2008, 2009 looked like it could be a breakout year for the next generation of ethanol. There were dozens of companies racing to be the first to churn out cellulosic ethanol made from non-food crops and plant waste ...

New Enzymes Created For Biofuel Production (Science Daily)
Researchers 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 butanol...

OCGA applauds UL decision to allow higher ethanol blends in pumps - Norwalk Reflector
Drivers may soon be able to get 15 percent ethanol blends at the gas pump, which is beneficial in several ways. "For the country, it helps us be less dependent on foreign oil. For the consumer, it sometimes actually makes the fuel cheaper," said Bob ...

P&W posts $166,000 profit for 2008 - Providence Business News
AN INCREASE IN SHIPMENTS of conventional freight EUR including automobiles, ethanol, coal and steel ingots EUR was partly offset by a EURœsharp decrease in container revenue EURŠ from a continuing decline in container traffic volume, which began midway ...

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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...

Fmr. NATO Commander Wants Increased Ethanol Demand - KELOLAND TV
A former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO was in Sioux Falls Thursday promoting a higher demand for ethanol. Ethanol roots run deep in the heart of America and General Wesley Clark is pushing for change. He wants pumps around the country to carry a ...

Third Group Adds Voice To Chorus Backing Ethanol - KELOLAND TV
Supporters of a new ethanol advocacy group, Growth Energy, say it was created to help educate people on how ethanol and agriculture can provide both fuel and feed. Growth Energy joins two other ethanol advocacy groups: the American Coalition for ...

New Energy Economics: Markets For Traditional Corn Ethanol Narrowing (CattleNetwork.com)
Last December, one of my newsletters discussed the California Air Resources Board's adoption of a new "Scoping Plan" that was passed Dec. 11, 2008. This legislation is the state's energy blueprint for the future and has been in development since 2006. On March 5, 2009, California defined which renewable fuels qualify for the plan and the prospects for traditional corn grain ethanol are not bright...

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

Canada: Man says Canola is 'energy future' - Last News from Earth .
Passionate about the environment and intrigued by ethanol fuels for more than three decades, Koucky (pronounced Kooski) envisions that this edible oil -- a variant of rapeseed bred by . , Continents ...

FUEL Screening At Boulder Theater Postponed Until 4/14 - Broadway World
FUEL is an insightful portrait of America's addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the ...

Waiting for Next-Gen Ethanol in 2009? Forget It (Salon.com)
In the summer of 2008, 2009 looked like it could be a breakout year for the next generation of ethanol. There were dozens of companies racing to be the first to churn out cellulosic ethanol made from non-food crops and plant waste from pilot and even commercial-scale plants...

Silobreaker: Organic Fuels of the Today and Future
SA farmers want ethanol mandate. The South Australian Farmers Federation Grains Industry Committee is calling on the state and federal governments to mandate the use of grain-based ethanol fuels. . - [18 hours ago - ABC Online] ...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog
Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEURŠEURŠEURŠso what effect will that have on Beef? Price...

Algae-to-Oil Pioneer OriginOil Appoints Adam Meislik to Company .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTCBB: 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 ...

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

Honda introduces hybrid motorcycle in Brazil | Biodiesel and .
Written on March 26, 2009. Motorcycle-USA.com reports that Honda released the CG150 TITAN MIX ES flex-fuel motorcycle in Brazil. The motorcycle uses bio-ethanol fuels. Honda expects to sell 200000 of these motorcycles annually. ...

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...

AE Biofuels, Merrick in strategic partnership - San Jose Business Journal
AE Biofuels Inc. said Thursday its enzyme-based technology for the conversion of non-food biomass into ethanol and other materials will get a boost through a new strategic agreement with Merrick & Co. Cupertino-based AE (OTCBB:AEBF) said it will work ...

Bipartisan Act Would Cut Tariffs on Imported Ethanol - Wisconsin Ag Connection
The Imported Ethanol Parity Act, S.622, was re-introduced last week by U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Judd Gregg, R-N.H., Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. and Mel Martinez, R-Fla. According to ...

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 ...

Sweet Sorghum Part Of 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 ...

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...

Canada: Man says Canola is 'energy future'
Passionate about the environment and intrigued by ethanol fuels for more than three decades, Koucky (pronounced Kooski) envisions that this edible oil -- a variant of rapeseed bred by Canadian researchers -- could hold the key to a ...

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

Ag Hall presents event focused on ethanol (Basehor Sentinel)
The National Agriculture Hall of Fame will play host to its first "Ask the Expert" event from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 28...

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 ...

AE Biofuels Announces Strategic Agreement With Merrick & Co. - Earthtimes
CUPERTINO, Calif. - (Business Wire) AE Biofuels, Inc., (OTCBB:AEBF) , a global vertically integrated biofuels company, today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Merrick & Company to commercially implement AE Biofuels patent ...

Brazil Sugar Mills May Use 55% of Cane for Sweetener: Biagi - Bloomberg
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian sugar and ethanol mills may turn as much as 55 percent of their crops into sweetener as a slumping currency encourages exports and prices for the alternative fuel slump, producer Maurilio Biagi Filho said. The world ...



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