Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/09/2009

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...

Aventine files Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - Sioux City Journal
SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, the latest victim in an industry stung by volatile commodity prices and shrinking profit margins. The Pekin, Ill ...

Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise (The Washington Times)
Federal ethanol-fuel policies forced consumers to pay an extra 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent in increased food prices in 2008, and the government itself could end up paying nearly $1 billion more this year for food stamps because of ethanol use, according to a new government report. The report by the Congressional Budget Office helps answer questions raised by Congress last year as food prices shot ...

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update2) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

Where can I buy E85 ethanol gasoline? - San Francisco Examiner
New sports cars are now being made to run on E85 ethanol gasoline. There is over 1900 E85 gas stations located in the United States. Finding gas stations that sell E85 ethanol gasoline can still be a hard task. Several locations around the country ...

Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise - The Washington Times
Federal ethanol-fuel policies forced consumers to pay an extra 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent in increased food prices in 2008, and the government itself could end up paying nearly $1 billion more this year for food stamps because of ethanol use ...

Pacific Ethanol fires its CFO in cost-cut move (The Sacramento Bee)
Sacramento-based Pacific Ethanol Inc. fired its chief financial officer on Friday, according to a fi..

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...

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, ...

Ethanol Plant Going Strong in Recession; Debate Continues (13WHAM Rochester)
Shelby, N.Y. -..

Owner of Aurora ethanol plants files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Lincoln Journal Star
Ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, the latest victim in an industry stung by volatile commodity prices and shrinking profit margins. It has three Nebraska companies among ...

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] ...

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. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

Tiny aquatic plant can clean up hog farms and be used for ethanol . - New Kerala
Washington, April 8: Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and be used for ethanol production, thus contributing to solve the global energy ...

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 ...

Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel - Wired
The tiniest flowering plant could prove well-suited to two very big jobs: cleaning industrial animal pollution and providing clean biofuel. Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say ...

Big firms staking claims in ethanol - Chicago Tribune
GIBSON CITY, Ill. - EUR” A smooth road curves toward the hulking ethanol mill that One Earth Energy LLC will open in June. But the path to profitability might be rocky, as the fledgling company could face much larger rivals that have snapped up ...

Weak crop prices end feast in farm states - Akron Beacon Journal
Farming communities that were largely insulated from the recession last year by high crop prices and other factors are now feeling the nation's economic chill more acutely as corn, wheat and soybeans become cheaper, and land values fall. Farmers ...

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. Corn ...

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 EURœGovernment SpendingEUR and otherwise. In Mike Sawyer you have the owner of the only Corn Ethanol ...

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update4) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer that counts a unit of Citigroup Inc. among its biggest investors, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

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 ...

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update3) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer whose biggest investor is a unit of Citigroup Inc., sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

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

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