Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 05/12/2009



BlueFire Ethanol To Present at BIO 2009 International Convention (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. , a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has announced that the company's President and CEO, Arnold Klann, will participate in a panel discussion titled "From Field to Wheels: What's Going to Work in Biofuels?" on Thursday, May 21 at the BIO 2009 International Convention, the ...

Bio-electricity from Corn Could Be Better Than Bio-fuel
E85 and ethanol are already being used to help make us more energy independent. However, a recently new concept is that of bio-electricity. Burning corn or sugar cane to make electricity for powering cars, is taking notice...

Biofuels Need Downstream Strategies Now
After 30 years of progress, the biofuels industry has plunged over a cliff amidst rancorous debate over its near-negligible carbon mitigation, competition for arable land, and poor economics...

NMR on a microscale
The sensitivity of this technique had hitherto been insufficient. With the high-resolution 'probe' developed at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology , it is possible to observe chemical reactions in very close detail, for example...

Ottawa to push ethanol, despite concerns (The Globe and Mail)
Ottawa is set to push ahead with a plan to dramatically increase the use of grain-based ethanol, despite growing controversy over the greenhouse gas emissions that result from agricultural practices used to grow the feedstock grains...

EPA targets Midwest's biodiesel industry over land use issues
Soybean growers are worried that the Obama administration's latest effort to control global warming could threaten the Midwest's biodiesel industry...

Alternative fuels carry hidden costs
How much do alternative fuels really cost? Let's begin with ethanol, which provides only 3 percent of our transportation needs but commands major taxpayer dollars...

Merle Anderson, Climax, Minn., letter: Resisting ethanol does no one . - Grand Forks Herald
Published May 07 2009 Merle Anderson, Climax, Minn., letter: Resisting ethanol does no one any favors The fuel supply folks in Grand Forks need to step up to the plate and get some ethanol pumps installed. The region has a lot of customers ...

At Odds about Ethanol (Austin American-Statesman)
The National Marine Manufacturers Association is summoning anglers and pleasures boaters across America to the front lines...

BlueFire Ethanol Applauds Formation of Biofuels Interagency Working . - StreetInsider.com
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 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, commends President Obama for forming the ...

G2G: Ethanol: Back from the Dead?
Bluefire Ethanol Fuels (BFRE.ob) rose 26 cents (38.24%) to 94 cents. - Aventine (ABRNQ.PK) rose 2.8 cents (32.18%) to 11.5 cents. Let's see how long these stocks will ride the Obama wave. del.icio.us · Stumbleupon · Technorati · Digg ...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels commends President Obama's Biofuels .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels commends President Obama's Biofuels Interagency Working Group...

Construction Law Developments: They Can't Even Agree On What to .
Still being fought along regional lines are battles over carbon credit cap and trade provisions, whether the carbon footprint of corn based ethanol fuels must take into consideration rain forest destruction the world over for cropland ...

Biofuels get boost; ethanol questioned - Boston Globe
Corn ethanol was never going to be the global warming solution," said Eli Hopson, a lobbyist for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge. "It's a transitional fuel and incredibly successful at doing that, and now we need to work toward the ...

TAYLOR: Renovated car dealership offers a lot on its six acres - News-Herald
William Perkins, owner and president of Taylor Chevrolet, stands with one of the many fresh models that are looking for a new home. TAYLOR EUR” Business is good at Taylor Chevrolet, said William Perkins, owner and president of the dealership at 13801 ...

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...

Obama's biofuel initiative
Congress has directed USDA to make available resources to farmers determine steps that could be taken to convert to renewable energy sources and move away from reliance on fossil fuels...

Toyota Pushing Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Up?
Bio-ethanol, biodiesel, E85, pure electricity - there are almost too many "alternative" fuels out there already, but hydrogen is shoving its way into the room...

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.[.]..

Stress Testing Biofuels: How.
Last week, while the financial world was obsessing over stress tests for fragile banks, the environmental and agricultural worlds were watching the results of the Obama Administration's stress tests for renewable fuels...

U.S. public health community begins discussing peak oil
On Thursday, March 12, the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore hosted the world's first gathering devoted to Peak Oil and Health, with support from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta...

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 ...

Ethanol bankruptcy filing a blow to biofuels industry (Boston Herald)
The bankruptcy filing last week by Texas' largest ethanol producer deals yet another blow to the state's struggling biofuels sector and is part of a broader industry...

To meet goals, biomass fuel plants need to get going now
WASHINGTON - The clock is ticking on the Obama administration's promises to speed development of the next generation of biofuels...

Caution Flags Raised Over Ethanol Industrys 15% Solution - New York Times
That request has engine manufacturers and consumer advocates worried about possible damage, service station owners in a tizzy over the financial and legal implications and a leading petroleum industry group saying the move is unwise and premature ...

Boat Trader Insider - Official boat blog of Boat Trader: NMMA .
The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) opposes this increase because ethanol fuels absorb water and can cause water to build up in boat fuel tanks, leading to corrosion and damage to engine components. ...

Grassley: Land issue didna t seem a big .
Sen. Charles Grassley said today that he didn't think the land-use issue "was a big deal" when Congress approved an energy bill requiring the EPA to measure the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels...

Toyota Pushing Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Up? (The Car Connection)
Bio-ethanol, biodiesel, E85, pure electricity - there are almost too many "alternative" fuels out there already, but hydrogen is shoving its way into the room. And at Toyota, it's pushing to the front of the class, with a fuel-cell-powered car potentially on the road by 2014. The company had previously released plans to have a hydrogen ....

Renewable Energy triples production of biodiesel
Renewable Energy Group on Tuesday said it reached an agreement with its shareholders to take control of a total of 152 million gallons a year in production as it moves to become a pure-play leader in the business of turning vegetable oil and animal fat into diesel fuel...

EPA pondering ethanol increase (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to make an important and far-reaching decision this year that will affect more than 500 million gasoline engines powering everything from large pickups to family cars to lawn mowers: whether to grant the ethanol industry's request to raise the maximum amount of ethanol that can be added to gasoline...

Letter to the editor: Support request to increase amounts of ethanol . - Jamestown Sun
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 ...

BlueFire Ethanol Applauds Formation of Biofuels Interagency .
IRVINE, CA (May 5, 2009) - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB - News), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, commends President Obama for ...

Going green: Entire Swedish city switches to biofuels to become environmentally friendly
Though a fraction of Chicago's size, this industrial city in southeast Sweden has plenty of similarities with it, including a long, snowy winter and a football team the town's crazy about...

Pacific Ethanol warns again on bankruptcy
Pacific Ethanol Inc said on Tuesday that its first-quarter sales had fallen by nearly half and warned again that it would need to file for bankruptcy protection if it could not soon restructure its debt...

Canadian E5 mandate to move ahead despite concerns
Despite growing concerns that the widespread production and use of corn ethanol is actually counter-productive to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian government is moving ahead with a mandate to require ethanol blending into all gasoline supplies...

Bigger isn't better for wind power
The share of energy from renewable sources is projected to grow significantly during the next two decades as the nation tries to become less dependent on fossil fuels...

BlueFire Ethanol Applauds Formation of Biofuels Interagency .
IRVINE, Calif.EURBlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the worlds transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, commends President Obama for forming ...

Cellulosic Ethanol on the Cheap (Technology Review)
Mascoma has announced several advances that may lead to a cheaper, more efficient process to turn biomass into ethanol...

10% ethanol fuels taking over. - Honda Ridgeline Owners Club Forums
10% ethanol fuels taking over. Fuel Economy and Gas Related Discussion...

Valero closes on last VeraSun ethanol plant - Beatrice Daily Sun
Valero in March submitted a successful bid of $477 million for VeraSun, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Oct. 31 after tightening credit markets snapped the lifeline it needed to weather the swings in corn and fuel prices. Secured ...

E-15 Gasoline for All? "Not So Fast" Says Boat Owners Association
The nation's largest recreational boat owners group, BoatUS, is joining a chorus of boat, car and engine manufacturers including the National Marine Manufacturers Association and environmental groups such as the Sierra Club in saying "Not so fast" to a petition brought by the ethanol lobby to the EPA that would allow the amount of ethanol permitted ...

Pace lags for new biofuels
The clock is ticking on the Obama administration's promises to speed development of the next generation of biofuels...

Oil refining giant Valero closes on Albion ethanol plant - Lincoln Journal Star
Oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. said it hopes to have its ethanol plant in Albion up and running again in a month. Valero said Tuesday it closed on the sale of the plant in Albion, the last of seven its purchasing from VeraSun Energy Corp. Valero ...

Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged (Time Magazine)
Last week, while the financial world was obsessing over stress tests for fragile banks, the environmental and agricultural worlds were watching the results of the Obama Administration's stress tests for renewable fuels..

The New Republic: Want To Fuel Your Car With Corn? Try Burning It.
Corn-based ethanol has suffered a few whacks in recent months. First, new studies suggested that when you took indirect land-use effects into account, corn-based ethanol could produce more greenhouse-gas emissions than gasoline...

The ethanol conundrum - Yakima Herald Republic
YAKIMA, Wash. -- It's intended to benefit the environment but can become insidious for the uninformed. Brent Beaulaurier had seen its effect before he had even really noticed evidence of the cause: the CONTAINS 10 PERCENT ETHANOL sign at a service ...

10% ethanol fuels taking over.
Used to be only the cheap stations ran ethanol in their gas but in the last week or so I've noticed those "may contain up to 10% ethanol" stickers at BP, Exxon and Chevron :( With government mandates requiring more ethanol be used every ...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels Filling Stations (Automotive Fleet)
CUPERTINO, CA --- AE Biofuels Inc., a global biofuels company, said it has signed a strategic agreement with Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the company's renewable fuels filling stations in California...

Bioelectricity Promises More 'Miles Per Acre' Than Ethanol
Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand farmland will aggravate the climate change problem...

Ethanol Industrys 15% Solution Raises Concerns - New York Times
That request has engine manufacturers and consumer advocates worried about possible damage, service station owners in a tizzy over the financial and legal implications and a leading petroleum industry group saying the move is unwise and premature ...



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