Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/27/2009



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 ...

Fuel for Thought: BP talks down electric vehicles - Wall Street Journal
The difficulty in mass-producing renewable fuels like biodiesel and ethanol has pushed many EUR ranging from start-ups like Better Place to General Motors EUR into thinking that the family car may leapfrog from burning smelly liquids to plugging into ...

Bay Biz Buzz: Onyx, Bayer halt Nexavar trial for melanoma - Inside Bay Area
Emeryville-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals have halted a Phase 3 trial Nexavar for patients with melanoma. An independent data-monitoring committee concluded the study would not achieve its goal of improved ...

South Shore Resources Inc. Signs Definitive Distribution Agreement . - PR Inside
(PINKSHEETS: SSHO) (FRANKFURT: SXB) (WKN: A0LD9H) is pleased to announce it has signed a 1 year definitive distribution agreement with H20 Fuel Systems Inc., of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. H20 Fuel Systems Inc. is to provide direct marketing, sales ...

Land to be cleared for ethanol plant (Việt Nam News)
QUANG NGAI EUR” Land clearance for a VND1.5 trillion (US$86 million) bio-ethanol plant began last Saturday in central Quang Ngai Provinces Dung Quat Economic Zone...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels E85 Stations in California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CUPERTINO, Calif.----AE Biofuels, Inc., , a global vertically integrated biofuels company, today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the renewable fuels filling stations developed by Pearson Fuels across the state of California...

Company to market ethanol variant (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A San Diego company developing alternative-fuel stations may be the first in the country to sell motorists ethanol made from grasses and agricultural waste rather than corn kernels or sugarcane. In a deal announced yesterday, Pearson Fuels said it would begin selling cellulosic ethanol made by AE Biofuels of Cupertino at its pumps in San Diego County, Riverside County and Northern California...

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., ...

California: Low-Carbon-Fuels Mandate (New York Times)
California air regulators have adopted the nation?s first mandate for low-carbon fuels, a major step in the state?s effort to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases...

Ethanol 'disaster' risk for boats
In Victoria, the Boating Industry Association's general manager, Robert Coco, last month warned boat owners "not to use ethanol fuels in the boats to avoid potentially costly damage to engines and fuel systems". ...

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 by 10 percent within 11 years, a proposal that the ethanol industry is fiercely opposing. The target of the industry's ...

Oh, those Washington jokers (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
To promote the development of alternative fuels, which unfortunately cost a pantload, Congress in 2007 expanded the tax credit for using non-fossil fuels, offering firms 50 cents a gallon to blend renewable fuels such as ethanol with traditional fossil fuels like diesel...

AAA: Michigan gas prices down a penny - Detroit News
AAA Michigan says gasoline prices have fallen a penny per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $2.03. The auto club said Monday the statewide average is $1.61 per gallon lower than last year at this time. Of the cities it surveys, AAA ...

Making Your Own Ethanol and the Story of MicroFueler
There is an ongoing debate about the true energy and CO2 savings that Ethanol fuels provide, and we have written about it here, here, and here, but let's skip that for now. Ethanol has several obvious benefits. ...

VIDEO Planting a new seed: Woods, grasses seen as renewable fuel . - Petoskey News-Review
In Northern Michigans forests and croplands, some believe theres potential to reap fuel for vehicles and power plants in a renewable way. Having Problems? Update Flash. By 2012, a plant producing cellulosic ethanol from forest resources is ...

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.[.]..

South Shore Resources Inc. Signs Definitive Distribution - MSN MoneyCentral
South Shore Resources Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SSHO) (FRANKFURT: SXB) (WKN: A0LD9H) is pleased to announce it has signed a 1 year definitive distribution agreement with H20 Fuel Systems Inc., of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. H20 Fuel Systems Inc. is to ...

United States: A $100-million bet on making fuel from trash
There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, Klann's company, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, plans to build a $100-million plant to convert raw trash into an alcohol-based fuel that will help power the cars and trucks of the future. ...

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 ...

Purdue Research Park firm produces ingredient to generate ethanol more . - Wabash Valley Journal of Business
Officials of Green Tech America Inc. announced Tuesday (April 21) that the company is producing a new type of yeast that will help generate cellulosic ethanol in a more cost-effective way. The genetically engineered yeast helps produce ethanol more ...

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, ...

The Biofuel Emissions Debate: Comparing GHG emissions of various .
Cellulosic ethanol is considered to be the second generation of ethanol fuels because it is expected to have a much higher net energy yield, require less land area, and have little impact on food systems. In this analysis, ethanol is ...

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 ...

Will California Shuck Corn Ethanol? (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Energy Policy: California regulators are ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state fight global warming. It seems they've discovered putting food in our cars would destroy the earth in order to save it...

ANALYSIS-California rule could end ethanol's honeymoon (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol's coveted status as the sole U.S. alternative motor ...

April 15, 2009 Mary D. Nichols Chairwoman California Air Resources .
Sincerely,. Abengoa Bioenergy. BioEnergy International, LLC. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. California Ethanol & Power, LLC. Ceres, Inc. Coskata. Iogen Corporation. Novozymes. Pacific Ethanol. Qteros, Inc. Verenium. ZeaChem Inc...

California seeks ethanol support for fuel standard  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
California regulators preparing Thursday to adopt landmark rules curbing carbon emissions from transport fuels made an eleventh-hour bid to woo critics who call the measures unfair to corn-based ethanol. ..

Cupertino firm to supply ethanol to special sites (The Sacramento Bee)
A Cupertino company has signed an agreement to supply cellulosic ethanol to renewable fuels filling..

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels E85 Stations . - 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 Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the renewable fuels ...

One Man's Garbage Is Another Man's Fuel (Anaheim, Calif.) - Mississippi Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Arnold Klann has a green dream. It began 16 years ago in a sprawling laboratory in Anaheim. This year, he hopes, it will culminate at a Lancaster garbage dump north of Los Angeles. There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley ...



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