Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/21/2009

California plan scares supporters of ethanol (The Argus Leader)
A California environmental agency this week will consider a controversial new way to evaluate the carbon footprint of biofuels. At stake for the ethanol industry is continued unencumbered access to the state that uses the most motor fuel in the country, and the prospect that other states could follow California's lead. Ethanol industry leaders fear the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard stacks ...

A new kind of flower power
By: Jerry Stoecklein /The Daily Cardinal - April 16, 2009 UW scientists bring us one step closer to cheap, abundant biofuels for our cars Cellulose can be mighty tricky...

Biofuel Watch: biofuelwatch - BusinessWeek feature: The Biofuel Bubble
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels (BFRE) hopes soon to break ground on a facility in Lancaster, Calif., that will use paper trash and other municipal waste. CEO Arnold R. Klann figures he'll make ethanol for $1 per gallon by getting the waste he ...

CSXT Development Efforts Generate Jobs and Environmental Benefits - MSN MoneyCentral
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. , April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating the economic and environmental benefits of rail, CSX Transportation (CSXT) supported more than 100 industrial development projects that were announced in 2008. Those projects included 63 new ...

Concordia granted $22M to study reusable fuels
Two Concordia University researchers have been awarded $22 million to study ways to transform agricultural and forestry waste into reusable fuels...

U.S. Corn Ethanol Outlook
It also requires far less energy to produce and refine into ethanol fuels. I guess taking a weed and turning it into our future fuel is'nt the most profitable, is that why you never hear about it? Comment by b. clark on 2009-04-18 ...

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, ...

Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day was commemorated Sunday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. with a large-scale event as hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the official launch of the Green Generation an initiative that will culminate on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010...

Portal Tracks E85 Ethanol Pumps by City and State - Helps Flex .
As long as ethanol production and usage increases the demand for oil will decrease keeping gasoline as well as ethanol fuels competitively priced for the consumer. About E85Prices: www.E85Prices.com is the first and only site dedicated ...

Land use emissions should not hurt ethanol: Clark (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Greenhouse gas emissions created when land is converted to grow biofuels should not count against the ethanol business, said retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, the co-chairman of an ethanol industry group...

BNSF Honors 86 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials at.
These 86 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care initiative...

California: Plan would mandate fuels have less carbon
The state Air Resources Board Thursday will consider sweeping regulations to require fuel providers to cut the amount of carbon in gas and diesel by 10 percent...

Sprawling from Grace
Once Upon a Time in the West could actually have been the birth of the New Urbanist movement, since Claudia Cardinale's murdered husband planned an entire town mixing commercial and residential areas around a transit hub...

E85 ethanol comes to Main Street
E85Prices.com reports that the U.S. now has 1,986 stations selling E85 ethanol fuel across 1,427 cities...

Land use emissions should not hurt ethanol: Clark - Reuters UK
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions created when land is converted to grow biofuels should not count against the ethanol business, said retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, the co-chairman of an ethanol industry group. This week ...

U.S. will approve higher ethanol blend: group - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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. Ethanol is currently approved to make up 10 percent of gasoline ...

Schwarzenegger: Move to Alternative Fuels 'Too Slow'
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm kicked off the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers Congress this morning by driving home the need for alternative fuel vehicle technologies and promising that government would work harder to support their development...

Future fuels: What will power tomorrow's cars? (cnet.com.au)
With air pollution getting worse and oil production declining, car manufacturers are looking to alternative fuels. But what will power tomorrow's cars?..

Back to the Future: Obama's Foreign Policy
As Barack Obama finishes up his second major foreign tour, a pattern in his approach to foreign policy seems to be emerging...

Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline - Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources. A ...

Randy Doyal, William Lee: Ethanol's not perfect -- just better than alternatives
The success of Minnesota's ethanol initiatives should be the envy of a nation. Yet consumers of the mainstream media have too often been led to believe that the state's investment in this industry has been ill-advised or even counterproductive...

Oregon seeks grant for electric transportation
Nor will he be hoping for a new line of K cars named in his honor. The governor's constant courting of electric vehicle manufacturers is simply the most visible piece of a multipronged approach: away from the television cameras, state agencies and local partners are working to make Oregon the plug-in capital of the country...

Energy: Innovation and Impact: Bio Fuels
Many commercial gasoline stations now offer Ethanol fuels. Have you used this fuel and do you find any performance differences? Should state and federal governments expand their existing policies to promote bio-fuels? ...

Decision day nears for Calif. carbon rule on fuels (New York Times)
California air regulators will vote Thursday on a rule that would reduce the average carbon content of transportation fuels b...

Sterne Agee to Serve as Underwriter for Hoover, Alabama Ethanol Plant - Earthtimes
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - (Business Wire) On April 16th, Tony Petelos, Mayor of the City of Hoover, Alabama unveiled a breakthrough in alternative energy technology by filling five of the City's Police vehicles with E85 Ethanol produced from the City's own ...

Revolutionary electric-propulsion car coming from GM
General Motors says work on an electric car capable of driving 500 miles on a single U.S. gallon of gasoline is so advanced, the car could be on sale by 2010...

Calif. considers low-carbon fuel standard for cars (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
California air regulators are taking another step to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, considering first-in-the nation standards to require the use of so-called low-carbon fuels...

Big oil sees promise in pond scum
Big oil companies are betting that algae-that's right, pond scum-is a viable source of renewable energy, and they're joining academics, start-ups and the U.S. government in committing resources to studying its potential, according to www.CNBC.com. Unlike first generation biofuels, algae have the potential to produce thousands of gallons of oil per ...

Plan would mandate fuels have less carbon (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SACRAMENTO EUR California is on the verge of adopting another landmark policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce demand for imported oil, this time by requiring fuel providers to cut the carbon intensity in gasoline and diesel by 10 percent by 2020...

Concordia granted $22M to study reusable fuels (Montreal Gazette)
Two Concordia University researchers have been awarded $22 million to study ways to transform agricultural and forestry waste into reusable fuels. The grants to Dr. Adrian Tsang and Vincent Martin of the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, announced this morning in Saskatoon by Science and Technology Minister Gary Goodyear, are the largest ever by Genome Canada to investigate ...

John Lott's Website: EPA wants to mandate even higher Ethanol Mix
Auto makers offer so-called flex-fuel vehicles designed to accept up to 85% ethanol fuels. But many current and older model cars aren't designed for ethanol concentrations above 10%. Alan Adler, a spokesman for General Motors Corp., ...

How a Bad Bush Administration Energy Policy Begets More Bad Policy .
It also has less energy density per gallon than gasoline, which means that ethanol fuels provide fewer miles per gallon when you use a fuel with it, adding increased driving cost to the insult of taxpayer subsidies. ...

Study ranks Iowa second-best in use of water to make ethanol - Des Moines Register
Washington, D.C. -EUR” Iowa not only makes a lot of ethanol but also produces it without using nearly as much water as many other states, according to a study. University of Minnesota researchers looked into how much water is required to make ethanol ...

Ethanol disaster risk for boats (North Queensland Register)
ETHANOL blend fuel pose a risk for boat owners and is "potentially disastrous for any vessels that use petrol fuel tanks more than a few years old," industry experts say...

Greenfield Ethanol gets $14 million injection (Kincardine News)
Tiverton's Greenfield Ethanol plant will see up to $14 million in federal funding over the next seven years to reinforce the company's fuel alcohol business in an uncertain economic climate.[.]..

Idaho House rejects gasoline-tax increase, rebuffing Otter, Senate - Idaho Statesman
The Idaho House thumbed its collective nose at Gov. Butch Otter and the Idaho Senate on Tuesday, rejecting a Senate-passed increase in the gasoline tax on a 55-15 vote. The bill, House Bill 96, would have raised gasoline taxes by 3 cents a gallon on ...

How to go green in Los Angeles
Wednesday is the 39th anniversary of Earth Day. And because this annual refle energy density per gallon than gasoline, which means that ethanol fuels provide fewer miles per gallon when you use a fuel with it, adding increased driving cost to the insult of taxpayer subsidies. ...

How to go green in Los Angeles
Wednesday is the 39th anniversary of Earth Day. And because this annual reflection on the planet's environmental health comes at time of economic and climate crisis - as well as a local water shortage - going "green" has more meaning than ever...

Corn Ethanol Will Not Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Scientific American)
California regulators, trying to assess the true environmental cost of corn ethanol, are poised to declare that the biofuel cannot help the state reduce global warming. [More]..

Michael Barone:
On pressing matters of obvious importance, he has made responsible decisions that have not been far out of line with the policies of his predecessor and current necessities...

A Message from the Sierra Club for California Residents - Do This
Your Action Needed NOW to Reduce Greenhouse Gases from Fuels in California To Everyone Concerned About Global Warming: One way in which the state's global warming law, AB 32, calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is by requiring cars and trucks to use low carbon fuels...

Brazil Automobile Industry till 2010 - pressbox.co.uk
The market research report, ï¿½Brazil Automobile Industry till 2010ï¿½, by RNCOS is an extensive and analytical study of the current and future trends of the Brazilian auto industry. This report will help clients to evaluate the opportunities and ...

Nova
Season 35, Episode 9 of 18 : Car Of The Future How will the car of the future be powered? Will it run on hydrogen, batteries, ethanol or some as-yet undiscovered technology? Find out as NOVA takes a look at the latest and greatest in the automotive industry...

Land use emissions should not hurt ethanol: Clark
Greenhouse gas emissions created when land is converted to grow biofuels should not count against the ethanol business, said retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, the co-chairman of an ethanol industry group...

Hats off for giving new life to old fungi
Two Concordia University researchers have been awarded $22 million to study ways to transform agricultural and forestry waste into reusable fuels...

EPA considers higher ethanol mix
Earlier this year Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. recalled 214500 Lexus vehicles sold in the U.S. that were vulnerable to corrosion problems in their fuel-delivery pipes when some ethanol fuels were used. Pushing against the auto industry's ...

New Patent For Cheap Hydrogen Fuel
The U.S. Energy & Environmental Research Center Foundation has received U.S. patent approval for a system that produces high-pressure hydrogen on-demand. Based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, The EERC technology converts alcohol, or liquid fuels such as ethanol, methanol and gasoline, to high-pressure hydrogen at the time of fueling...

11:10 a.m.: House slaps down transportation funding bill - Lewiston Morning Tribune
BOISE EUR” The House continued its revolt on transportation funding this morning, quickly killing an amended bill that would have raised about $70 million in new revenue for highway maintenance. The resounding 55-15 vote came a day after Gov. C.L ...

Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo: Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not .
So called "next generation" advanced cellulosic ethanol fuels from non-food plants and plant parts, including forest biomass, will not resolve these problems. All industrially produced biofuel crops from biomass, edible or not, ...

» EURœPNTOFVWEUR (May 2009) » Chemical Education Digital Library
Corn crops and ethanol fuels are big topics of conversation in IndianaEUR”corn is a major crop and ethanol plants have sprung up (1). Students want to know if using ethanol as a fuel will really make a difference in terms of air pollution ...

Public forum April 21 - Pharos-Tribune
While there are questions regarding using ethanol as a renewable fuel, the big concern at the moment is what the big oil companies are doing to the ethanol producers. With gasoline and diesel at artificially low prices, ethanol investors are losing ...

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