Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 05/03/2009
| How Alternative Fuel Filling Stations Work Boyce, Terry V. "How Alternative Fuel Filling Stations Work." 30 March 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 02 May 2009... |
Ken Gansmann: Ethanol in fuel is a rip-off - Summit Daily News There are some well-known but little-published facts about the fuels we use to move our vehicles. Diesel fuel is much more environmentally safe than gasoline. It costs less to produce and is about 15 percent more efficient than gasoline. It also ... |
Boaters fuming over ethanol in gasoline Linda Mulder and her husband, Ronald, were boating on the Homosassa River recently when their boat started to sputter... |
Boaters fuming over ethanol in gasoline (The Tampa Tribune) Linda Mulder and her husband, Ronald, were boating on the Homosassa River recently when their boat started to sputter... |
Race to turn pond scum and other algae into affordable fuel heats up with new money, research Could the next green fuel be pea-green pond scum? Supporters think algae could someday be turned into cheap fuel for automobiles and airplanes, and are betting heavily with infusions of venture capital money and intensive research... |
Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEURŠEURŠEURŠso what effect will that have on Beef? Price... |
Investors targeting wind energy - Miami Herald DES MOINES -- When President Barack Obama stood in front of wind turbine towers in a Newton, Iowa, factory late last month he was not only pushing his green energy policies but promoting an industry that has been growing rapidly and gaining favor ... |
Grassoline: Can we fuel cars with grass? Clark, Josh. "Grassoline: Can we fuel cars with grass?." 06 December 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. 02 May 2009... |
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". ... |
Support higher ethanol blend - Bismarck Tribune On March 6, Growth Energy submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency seeking approval of the ethanol-gasoline blends of up to 15 percent. The EPA is now accepting comments on this proposal. As a farmer and supporter of ethanol ... |
Annawan ethanol plant begins international shipments (Bureau County Republican) ANNAWAN EUR Patriot Renewable Fuels CEO/Chairman Gene Griffith recently announced the company has begun to ship containerized shipments of Distillers Dried Grains as a way to add value to the company... |
AFBF Calls for Increasing Ethanol Blend up to 15 Percent (American Farm Bureau) WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2009 EUR The federal government should increase the ethanol blend level up to 15 percent, which will promote environmental protection, help create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation... |
Higher ethanol blends advocated A March report by an ethanol advocacy group has shown that increasing the ethanol blend in gasoline from 10 to 15 percent could create and support more than 136,000 new jobs and inject $24.4 billion into the nation's economy annually... |
Higher ethanol blends advocated (Minot Daily News) A March report by an ethanol advocacy group has shown that increasing the ethanol blend in gasoline from 10 to 15 percent could create and support more than 136,000 new jobs and inject $24.4 billion into the nation's economy annually... |
5 Alternative Fuel Ideas That Never Made It Out of the Lab Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article: Grabianowski, Ed... |
Boaters fuming over ethanol in gasoline - Tampa Bay Online Linda Mulder and her husband, Ronald, were boating on the Homosassa River recently when their boat started to sputter. "We were having a hard time accelerating," Linda Mulder said. After consulting a mechanic and examining the engine, the Palm Harbor ... |
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... |
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 ... |
Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (The Auto Channel) SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprises rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel. This first-of-its-kind program in the area helps educate Enterprise customers on how to EURfuel green and save greenEUR with Propel E85 (85 percent ethanol and 15 percent ... |
Is ethanol really more eco-friendly than gas? Layton, Julia. "Is ethanol really more eco-friendly than gas?." 24 January 2007... |
Supporting ethanol use - Minot Daily News On March 6, Growth Energy submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency seeking approval of ethanol-gasoline blends of up to 15 percent. The EPA is now accepting comments on this proposal. As a farmer and a supporter of ethanol, I ... |
Tax on gas guzzlers applauded Victoria environment experts are revved up over the federal budget's move to ding gas guzzlers with a new tax of $4,000, provide an incentive to junk old cars, and give fuel-efficient car buyers a $2,000 rebate -- but they condemn the absence of a carbon emissions tax and say there is no overall plan to deal with global warming... |
Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SACRAMENTO, Calif.----Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprise's rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel... |
Readers' Forum: Energy independence and the new Bay Area green economy WE ALL should applaud the California Air Resources Board's plan to increase use of alternative fuels to help solve our energy dependence on the Middle East ... |
White House finishes review of ethanol draft rule (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The White House has finished a review of a rule that aims to cut emissions from alternative motor fuels like ethanol, federal environmental regulators said on Thursday. .. |
Energy efforts lauded Of the many issues that face our state and nation today, none are as far-reaching and important to our future as the issue of renewable energy... |
10% ethanol fuels taking over. - Honda Ridgeline Owners Club Forums 10% ethanol fuels taking over. Fuel Economy and Gas Related Discussion... |
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Partners With William Farone and . Irvine, CAEURBlueFire 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 ... |
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to . BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, an ethanol transportation fuel company, has struck a technology development services agreement with Dr William Farone and his company Applied Power Concepts... |
Green Car Congress: Study Finds Strong Synergy Between Spark . . John Rogerson, Craig Goodfellow. A Study of Gasoline-Alcohol Blended Fuels in an Advanced Turbocharged DISI Engine. (SAE 2009-01-0138). May 1, 2009 in Biobutanol, Engines, Ethanol, Fuels | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) ... |
Corn board says new California carbon rule will hurt Nebraskas . - Grand Island Independent A recent decision by the California Air Resources Board to lower carbon fuel standards could alter the market for corn-based ethanol, according to the Nebraska Corn Board (NCB). EURAlthough we support initiatives that look at reducing greenhouse ... |
How much corn would I need to fuel a cross-country trip with ethanol? Packaged seed corn sits in the barn of a seed dealer. How much of this would you need to drive across the country? Check out pictures of alternative fuel vehicles ... |
[Read more] No matter your political perspective, it's hard to imagine a worse abuse of taxpayer money than the direct payment of billions of dollars to the pulp and paper industry under the guise of promoting alternative fuels... |
US weekly ethanol margins at break even on corn (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Average weekly U.S. ethanol profits held near break even on strong corn prices and soft fuel demand, market players said on Friday... |
Driving into the future with biofuels When the first Model T left the assembly line in 1908, by design it could run on ethanol or gas... |
Adding fuel to the fire? - Tampa Bay Online The Environmental Protection Agency, at the urging of some segments of the agricultural industry, is considering a proposal to allow an increase of ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent, from the current 10 percent maximum allowed nationwide. The public ... |
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., ... |
In My View: Climate emergency is overstated Al Gore should be ashamed that he equated cap-and-trade legislation with civil rights legislation... |
How E85 Ethanol Flex Fuel Works Giametta, Chuck. "How E85 Ethanol Flex Fuel Works." 17 November 2006. HowStuffWorks.com. 02 May 2009... |
Solving global warming, Words hurt Rob Zaleski's "Hope for the Planet" was thoughtful, as his work always is. He makes some great suggestions with a touch of optimism... |
The biofuels boom: First of two parts BELLE PLAINE, Sask. - A growing global food crisis has not curbed the appetite of Canada's newest biofuel plant, which is busy stockpiling a mountain of wheat near this town west of Regina... |
White House finishes review of ethanol draft rule - Reuters UK NEW YORK (Reuters) - The White House has finished a review of a rule that aims to cut emissions from alternative motor fuels like ethanol, federal environmental regulators said on Thursday. The Office of Management and Budget has completed the review ... |
Driving into the future with biofuels When the first Model T left the assembly line in 1908, by design it could run on ethanol or gas... |
Investors Like Possibilities of Wind Solar, wind power and biofuels revenue grew 50 percent last year. FILE - In this March 11, 2009 file photo, a wind mill supplies water to a stock tank, surrounded by wind turbines of the Smoky Hills Wind Project near Wilson, Kansas... |
RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature: California: sets a new . Estimated cost per gallon: about $2, according to Arnold Klann of BlueFire Ethanol Fuels. "California's low-carbon fuel standard is going to set the standard for the U.S. and, I expect, the standard globally," said Graeme S.S. Sweeney, ... |
Ken Gansmann: Ethanol in fuel is a rip-off (Summit Daily News) There are some well-known but little-published facts about the fuels we use to move our vehicles... |
A crop of confusion Stories from farmers are almost always good news/bad news affairs these days. On the bright side, expenses for farmers are expected to go down this season for the first time in years... |
Earth Biofuels Changes Name to Evolution Fuels, Defines New Business Focus (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) DALLAS, Texas, May 1, 2009 -- Earth Biofuels, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to "Evolution Fuels, Inc." in order to better reflect the Company's strategy of developing demand and providing pump capacity for renewable transportation fuels at the retail level... |
AE Biofuels partners with Pearson Fuels to distribute cellulosic . BlueFire Ethanol Fuels ready to break ground on waste-to-ethanol plant in Calfornia; BlueFire Ethanol Fuels is ready to break ground by April on its 3.1 Mgy waste-to-ethanol plant near Lancaster, California. The company is awaiting its ... |
Energy approves new ethanol pricing formula - Nation - Thailand The National Energy Policy Committee has put in place the temporary pricing formula for ethanol, taking into account the cost of raw materials rather than basing on the Brazil export price. Energy Minister Wannarat Charn-nukul said after the ... |
