Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/08/2009



Small towns debate value of ethanol plants (The Des Moines Register)
Albert City, Ia. - Bruce Nehring finished the lunch special of fish and chips at the Twisted Spoon Cafe and assessed the changes in his hometowns economy since one of the states largest ethanol plants opened three years ago...

U.S. senator addresses energy at forum
U.S. Sen. David Vitter has a plan to expand energy production and stimulate development of alternative energy...

VeraSun Closes Sale of Indiana Ethanol Site - Inside Indiana Business
South Dakota-based VeraSun Energy Corp. has sold its ethanol development site located in the White County community known as BioTown, USA. Valero Renewable Fuels will take control of the property in Reynolds. VeraSun notified U.S. Bankruptcy Court in ...

Statement By Growth Energy on California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
"Let me be clear, Growth Energy strongly supports efforts by Governor Schwarzenegger and the ARB to reduce carbon emissions, and we support the adoption of a Low Carbon Fuel Standard that treats all fuels equally...

Peak Oil News - Ethanol fuels said to violate Islamic law
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KAAPA's low debt, good managers not ethanol's norm (Kearney Hub)
KEARNEY EUR” Economic reality caught up with the ethanol industry in 2008, when 28 processing plants closed nationwide representing 20 percent of capacity...

January ethanol production lower than December - Farm Weekly
According to the Energy Information Administration, American ethanol facilities produced 630,000 barrels per day in January, an increase from 510,000b/d in January 2008, but a slight fall off from December 2008 production levels of 658,000b/d ...

Powerful Ideas: Wringing Oil From Algae
Algae come in all sizes and shapes: from single-celled microbes in pond scum to 100-foot-long seaweeds in kelp forests ...

January ethanol production lower than December (Queensland Country Life)
According to the Energy Information Administration, American ethanol facilities produced 630,000 barrels per day in January, an increase from 510,000b/d in January 2008, but a slight fall off from December 2008 production levels of 658,000b/d...

Expectations for Ethanol
You've seen the sticker on the pump, saying the gas you put into your car contains ethanol...

Comment on "Ethanol and Energy Balance"
Study says ethanol not worth the energy : This is a couple of weeks old, but still a bummer of a deal for the Midwest...

Producers look to next generation of biofuels
For America's biofuel industry, these are times of incredible promise - and serious pain...

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 ...

Fuel mix fight brewing - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
CHICAGO EUR” Picture a chain saw calmly idling. But then its blade suddenly starts spinning on its own, as if someone had goosed the throttle. The power equipment industry warns that such a scenario could happen if the federal government decides to ...

Senators propose loan guarantees for Midwest ethanol pipeline
It's no secret that corn-state Senator Tom Harkin is a fan of ethanol. In 2006, Harkin and Senator Richard Lugar proposed an ethanol pipeline study ...

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 ...

Sustainable Business: From alcohol to ethanol - San Jose Business Journal
Thomas Quinn, founder of E-Fuel Corp., piloted his MicroFueler at the Los Gatos Brewing Co. The brewery collected waste from its fermentation tanks and, using the home ethanol system, created fuel. If startup specialist Thomas Quinn has his way ...

Hoeven appoints Doug Goehring ag co...
Doug Goehring, a longtime Menoken farmer and rancher, was named agriculture commissioner Monday by Gov...

Ethanol Woes Continue: Pacific Ethanol Short on Cash, Nova Biosource Files for Bankruptcy
The ranks of biofuel producers facing bankruptcy continues to climb, with Pacific Ethanol the latest to add its name to the list...

Seminars, Seminar Topics, Notes on Engineering Computers .
Alcohol mixes with both petroleum and with water, so ethanol fuels are often diluted after the drying process by absorbing environmental moisture from the atmosphere. Water in alcohol-mix fuels reduces efficiency, makes engines harder ...

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

Can ethanol help save the U.S. economy?
As the Obama Administration searches for ways stimulate the economy and takes some unpopular positions, such as aiding banks, automakers, and in-over-their-head mortgage-holders, there may be an opportunity in another controversial area - ethanol...

Expectations for Ethanol (KAAL Austin)
(ABC 6 NEWS) - You've seen the sticker on the pump, saying the gas you put into your car contains ethanol. Those in the industry want to increase the amount that goes into gas, creating demand for biofuel...

InEnTec Chemical Strengthens Management Team with Appointments of Gary McDow and Alan Saggers
InEnTec Chemical LLC today announced the appointment of Gary E. McDow as Executive Vice President Business Development and the appointment of Alan Saggers as Plant Manager of InEnTec Chemical Midland, a facility located at Dow Corning's Midland, Michigan site scheduled to begin operations in Q4, 2009...

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. . - [03/26/2009 - ABC Online] ...

Pacific Ethanol's Troubles Signal More Bankruptcies to Come
Pacific Ethanol joined last week aA growing list of biofuel producers hurt by the trifecta of low gasoline prices, higher corn and energy costs and the global credit crunch...

Debate over ethanol continues - Southern Illinoisan
WASHINGTON - At St. Charles Boat & Motor, owner and service manager Jerry Sims used to oversee the rebuilding of 30 carburetors in a year's time. Last year, Sims says, he stopped counting at 750. They were victims, he claims, of ethanol in gas. "It's ...

Green diesel: Oxymoron or real promise?
Burning gasoline and diesel in cars is the second-largest cause of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions ...

Lignol Awarded $3.4 Million in Funding from British Columbia's Liquid Fuels from Biomass Program (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Lignol Energy Corporation , a leading technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Ltd., has been awarded $3.4 million in funding to produce cellulosic ethanol and other biochemical products from under-utilized forest resources, including lodgepole pine killed by mountain pine beetle...

Algae-Based Biofuels Part II: Algenol, the Ethanol Innovator (HispanicBusiness.com)
In part one of our series on algae-based biofuels, we posited that algae has the potential to make petroleum a thing of the past. In part two, we look at traditional ethanol -- and why a blue-green algae version might fulfill ethanol's promise...

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. ...

Mike Cheokas: Weekly report to the people
As we began our final week of the 2009 Legislative Session, my colleagues and I were busy racing against time to move legislation through both bodies before Sine Die...

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...

Slimed, Pt. 1: Biofuels and the Aquatic Species Program
Scores of firms, startups and Fortune 500 companies alike, are working on algae-based biofuels...

Brazil: who gets the cake?
Situated a few kilometres outside Andradina in the western part of SA o Paulo state, the Tres Irmaoes factory is part of the Cosan group, Brazil's largest sugarcane processor...

Ethanol not sitting well with older boat engines - HometownAnnapolis.com
Two years ago a mixture of 10 percent ethanol was added to gasoline at the pump, as well as at most marine fueling stations. The problem is that many boats, mostly older models, were not suited to use the new fuel blend. Now, under pressure from the ...

Ethanol Plant Going Strong in Recession
The day-to-day routine for the ethanol plant since December 2007 is 24-hours a day, year-around--transforming corn into ethanol, nearly all of it from local farmers' fields...

OPEI Concerned About E15 Fuel
The DOE report, in fact, indicates that mid-level ethanol fuels could damage millions of forestry, lawn and garden, and other small engine products currently housed in consumers garages, boat slips, warehouses or being used by small ...

Ethanol Fuels Iowa Caucuses » Market to Market - Feature
Ethanol Fuels Iowa Caucuses. Last week, the state of Florida proposed new ethanol blending rules that would open the door to the nation's third-largest gasoline market. Despite the Sunshine State's dominant role in sugar production, ...

The renewable energy potential of forests
EarthSky spoke with Janaki Alavalapati, head of Virginia Tech's Department of Forestry...

Biofuels Deathwatch: Pacific Ethanol, Nova Biosource Join the Bandwagon (Salon.com)
The ethanol industry just cant catch a break. We started tracking plant closures more than a year ago, when record-high corn and soy prices and an ethanol glut had squeezed ethanols profit margin to a slim 25 cents per gallon, down from $2.30 a gallon in 2006...

Refiners: Halt ethanol mandate - Des Moines Register
Washington, D.C. EUR” Oil refiners want the government's biofuels mandates suspended, citing the limits on how much ethanol can be blended into gasoline. Charles Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, also labeled as ...

Amid Recession, Credit Crunch, Big Oil Pipes Into Ethanol Field (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of biofuels. With ethanol producers and developers hurting, only Big Oil, it almost seems, has the green to go green...

Algae-Based Biofuels Part II: Algenol, the Ethanol Innovator
In part one of our series on algae-based biofuels, we posited that algae has the potential to make petroleum a thing of the past...

GAEC Brings Crops to Fuels to Reality (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HOUSTON----Gulf Alternative Energy Corporation . Transforming cellulose to ethanol efficiently is a technical challenge that will transform the biofuels industry. Gulf Alternative Energy believes it has moved the industry much closer to economic viability with its preprocessing technology that turns non-food plant material into extremely small particles that can more quickly and more cheaply be ...

Vancouver biodiesel firm, U.S. agriculture giant plan Alta. fuel . - Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
CALGARY - Vancouver-based renewable fuel supplier Canadian Bioenergy Corp. is considering building a biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Alta., with major U.S. crop processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. The plant, which would produce 265 million litres ...

The Corn Ethanol Debate Continues - WOKR 13
In Kent Gardner of the Center for Governmental Research you have one of the more highly educated men in our community when it comes to all things EURśGovernment SpendingEURť and otherwise. In Mike Sawyer you have the owner of the only Corn Ethanol ...

Study finds no performance problems with E20 fuel
A new study has found no performance problems with doubling the amount of ethanol allowed in motor fuel...

Ethanol Plant Going Strong in Recession (13WHAM Rochester)
Shelby, N.Y. - The day-to-day routine for the ethanol plant since December '07 is 24-hours a day, year-around, transforming corn into ethanol...

My Voice: Raising ethanol blend will create jobs in S.D. - Argus Leader
America has a real opportunity to create more than 130,000 new jobs and pump billions of dollars into our economy at no cost to taxpayers. It's a solution with which South Dakotans are familiar, one that already has injected new revenue, new hope and ...



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