Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/15/2009

Thirsty Biofuel
It's corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl "Buck" Rexford is worrying about the weather a ' and hoping there is enough water...

Northwind sets sights high
Northwind Ethanol plans to produce 500,000 gallons of fuel ethanol from wood residue in Prince George by next year...

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...

New plant announced for Pike County
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Government receives P80-billion worth ethanol projects application (GMA News)
MANILA, Philippines - There are 20 applications for ethanol projects pending before the National Biofuels Board (NBB) amounting to P80 billion, its vice chairman and Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) administrator Rafael Coscolluela said...

U.S. will approve higher ethanol blend: group
The U.S. government will eventually allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into gasoline, Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen said on Tuesday...

Valero closes on all but 1 of VeraSun plants
Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. said Tuesday it has closed on the sale of all but one of the seven ethanol plants it's purchasing from VeraSun Energy Corp., part of the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity...

Water worries cloud future for biofuels
By Carey Gillam Kansas City - It's corn planting time in the United States Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl "Buck" Rexford is worrying about the weather - and hoping there is enough water...

Valero still hasn't closed deal on Neb. plant (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. said Tuesday it has closed the deal on all but one of the seven ethanol plants it's purchasing from VeraSun Energy Corp...

CBO: Ethanol production pushed food prices up - Thehill.com
Wider use of ethanol caused a 10 to 15 percent increase in food prices from 2007 to 2008 but reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector by less than 1 percent, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released this week ...

Some Fear Biofuel Production Will Dry Up Water Supplies
As corn farmers in the U.S. begin readying their crops, many critics claim that increased pressure to produce large portions of crops for biofuels is robbing the publica s water resources...

WebberEnergyBlog: Ethanol Fuel vs. U.S.'s Food Supply
By trying to help the U.S.s stance on alternative energy by ethanol fuels, the government is really hurting those who are affected most, its own people. While alternative energy is an important focus for not only our nations future, ...

Study sees water risk in ethanol - Pioneer Press
Policies that push ethanol production far beyond the Corn Belt are fostering a troubling increase in water use, says a new study from the University of Minnesota. In semi-arid regions like California, New Mexico and Colorado, more than 1,000 gallons ...

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 ...

Biofuels 'may have created an extra 1.3m tonnes of Co2' BIOFUELS.
BIOFUELS could produce twice the carbon emissions of fossil fuels they replace, environmentalists claimed...

Ethanol Startup Puts Down Roots In Marlborough
Qteros Inc.'s scientists and employees are busy working from their new Marlborough headquarters on turning a microbe discovered in the wetlands near the Quabbin Reservoir into the next big thing in ethanol production...

Jasper plant eyed for ethanol refinery (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
A Memphis-based biofuel company is seeking $20 million toward construction of an alternative fuel refinery dubbed EURœProject Tennessee.EUR..

Work likely to proceed on ethanol plant, despite bankruptcy - Evansville Courier-Press
Work will progress on a ethanol plant in Mount Vernon, Ind., even though the company building it declared bankruptcy this week. So says Jody Peacock, the director of public affairs for the Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon, where Aventine Renewable ...

CHS Posts Six-Month Earnings of $219.5 Million
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 9, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----CHS Inc. , a leading energy, grains and foods company, today reported earnings of $219.5 million for the first half of its 2009 fiscal year...

Report: Brazil falling short on renewables investment
Brazil gets 46 percent of its energy from renewables, but its plans to increase its dependence on fossil-fuel based energy threaten to derail environmental efforts...

CPPI supports University of Waterloo research on pollution prevention
OTTAWA, April 14 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Petroleum Products Institute today announced that it would provide $12,000 in support of continuing research by Dr...

Anna Autrey: Biofuels are the answer
Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 8:41 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 8:41 p.m. With war in the oil-producing overseas nations, soaring fuel prices, knowledge of immense environmental impacts of petroleum and coal, and their finite supply, it's apparent that an alternative energy source needs to be implemented...

As industry struggles, Pacific Ethanol is running on fumes (The Sacramento Bee)
After laboring a quarter-century in the ethanol business, Neil Koehler insists the industry will become healthy again, maybe in as little as two years. Others agree with him...

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 ...

U.K. develops race car powered with chocolate, made with carrots and potatoes
A new racing car made with potatoes and carrots and is powered with chocolate waste is been developed by the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre of the University of Warwicks in the U.K. The university's vehicle, called WorldFirst F3 project has a steering wheel made of curran, a material derived from carrots that is expected to replace glass ...

Biofuels EUR˜could produce twice the emissions of fossil fuels (The Herald)
Biofuels could produce twice the carbon emissions of the fossil fuels they replace, environmentalists claimed yesterday...

U.S. 'Black liquor' could cause hangover for Canadian pulp and paper
The grand vin of Canada-U.S. free trade is hard to swallow these days because it has been mixed up with a shooter that is priced in half gallons and appropriately named "black liquor." The black liquor raising U.S. spirits and leaving us with a hangover is a concentrated residue of wood lignin that is a byproduct of making kraft pulp...

U.S. will approve higher ethanol blend: group (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The U.S. government will eventually allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into gasoline, Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen said on Tuesday...

Biofuels worse than fossil fuels for environment, say activists - Independent
Biofuels could produce twice the carbon emissions of the fossil fuels they replace, environmentalists claimed yesterday. Friends of the Earth said rules which require a percentage of UK transport fuels to be made up of the "green" fuels could ...

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse?
Ethanol fuels - Cure or curse?The 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 ...

Rich Sabatini
I am a political and science junkie, deeply skeptical of the establishment and all government...

Debate over ethanol continuref="http://www.rabble.ca/news/2009/04/us-black-liquor-could-cause-hangover-canadian-pulp-and-paper" title="U.S. 'Black liquor' could cause hangover for Canadian pulp and paper" target="new">U.S. 'Black liquor' could cause hangover for Canadian pulp and paper
The grand vin of Canada-U.S. free trade is hard to swallow these days because it has been mixed up with a shooter that is priced in half gallons and appropriately named "black liquor." The black liquor raising U.S. spirits and leaving us with a hangover is a concentrated residue of wood lignin that is a byproduct of making kraft pulp...

Rich Sabatini
I am a political and science junkie, deeply skeptical of the establishment and all government...

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 ...

Valero closes on all but 1 of VeraSun plants (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. said Tuesday it has closed on the sale of all but one of the seven ethanol plants it's purchasing from VeraSun Energy Corp., part of the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity...

Six Flags CEO would get $3 million in restructuring or Chapter 11;.
Execs' bonus set for Six Flags outcomes Six Flags Inc., the U.S. theme-park owner facing possible bankruptcy, set a $3 million "success bonus" for CEO Mark Shapiro, to be awarded if the company restructures its debt out of court or goes through Chapter 11 reorganization...

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

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 ...

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. ...

Farmer harvests unripened wheat used to produce bio-ethanol
Friends of the Earth have said rules introduced a year ago requiring a percentage of UK transport fuels to be "green" could have created an extra 1.3 million tonnes of CO2...

Government of Canada Provides New Funding for Red Deer Ethanol Plant - Market Wire
RED DEER, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - April 8, 2009) - Earl Dreeshen, Member of Parliament for Red Deer, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources, announced today that the Government of Canada will provide up to $23.2 million ...

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 ...

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, ...

Oregon should adopt low-carbon fuel standard
Many of us are scratching our heads at today's average $2 a gallon gas prices, an unexpected and welcome turn of events following last summer's record-high prices exceeding $4 a gallon...

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. ...

Biofuels 'Like Pouring Vodka Into Beer' (SKY News)
Biofuels could produce twice the carbon emissions of the fossil fuels they replace, environmentalists have claimed...

Summer gas prices may fuel urge to drive - Fayetteville Observer
WASHINGTON EUR” Gasoline prices are expected to be relatively low this summer, so motorists might want to take to the road despite the dismal economy if the federal government projections hold. The Energy Information Administration said regular-grade ...

How To Transition Away From Oil?
Chemical engineer, former oil field worker, and energy policy writer Robert Rapier comments about an Energy Information Administration Energy Conference press panel he recently appeared on...

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 ...

The Impact Of Ethanol On Water Supplies (Space War)
St Paul MN (SPX) Apr 14, 2009 - At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol - often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future - may consume up to three times more water than previously thought...

P80-b ethanol investments under review (Manila Standard Today)
Twenty ethanol projects will generate investments of up to P80 billion for the industry, an official said yesterday. Rafael Coscolluela, Sugar Regulatory Administration head and National Biofuels Board vice chairman, said 20 companies had pending applications for ethanol projects...

Valero still hasn't closed deal on Neb. plant - Forbes
Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. said Tuesday it has closed the deal on all but one of the seven ethanol plants it's purchasing from VeraSun Energy Corp. Secured lenders submitted credit bids for the remaining VeraSun facilities. Valero's new ...

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