Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 05/22/2009



Clean Energy Fund to Benefit Made-In-Canada Renewable Fuels (Marketwire)
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 20, 2009) - The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association today applauded Minister Lisa Raitt for the new $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund and the $200 million set aside for demonstration projects of renewable and alternative energy technologies. "In these difficult times, renewable fuels offer new opportunity, new hope and new growth," said Gordon Quaiattini, President ...

House Ag Committee hears arguments against indirect land use
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 4:00 PM The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing Thursday to review carbon fuel-standard proposals being implemented by the EPA and the California Air Resources Board...

State development grant links pair who'll bottle trout bait
Pure Fishing of Spirit Lake will look to a plastics company in Hawarden to make bottles that are now being supplied from China...

Boondoggle Report: Corn Ethanol Scam | Political News
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% EUR Earlier this year Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. ...

House Panel Approves 'Cap and Trade' Initiative
President Barack Obama's fight against global warming got a huge boost on Thursday when a key congressional panel embraced his plan to create a new, market-driven system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions...

2nd big ethanol plant in Oregon seeks Chapter 11 (The Oregonian)
Fuel Despite the filing, officials pledge to keep Pacific Ethanol's Boardman facility open..

Sweden helps South Korea convert food waste into biogas
Now, with the help of a Swedish company, it is going to start converting that waste water into biogas, a type of clean fuel that can be used as power to heat buildings and even run vehicles...

Higher ethanol blend would ruin small engines, makers say - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An effort to raise the 10% limit on ethanol in gasoline has misfired with Wisconsin engine makers Briggs & Stratton Corp., Mercury Marine, and the maker of Evinrude outboard engines. Testing has not yet shown whether higher levels of the fuel ...

U.S. House panel approves climate change bill
President Barack Obama's fight against global warming got a huge boost on Thursday when a key congressional panel embraced his plan to create a new, market-driven system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions...

House panel approves climate change bill
President Barack Obama's fight against global warming got a huge boost on Thursday when a key congressional panel embraced his plan to create a new, market-driven system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions...

Valero serves optimism about ethanol to farmers
Executives of Valero Energy sallied north from their San Antonio headquarters to claim their Iowa ethanol plants, and the visitors conducted themselves more as supplicants to farmers than swaggering Big Oil Texans...

Restrictions on emissions win OK of panel
A bill to create the first national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by a House committee Thursday after a week of late-night debates that cemented the shift of climate change from rhetorical jousting to a subject of serious, if messy, Washington policymaking...

EPA Analyses Challenged on Costs
Renewable fuels industry officials told the House Agriculture Committee today that the analytical models used by the California Air Resources Board and EPA to analyze whether corn-based ethanol and other biofuels meet a low carbon fuels standard are unscientific and faulty...

Penny Stock Cellulose Ethanol Pick - Bluefire Ethanol Fuels, Inc .
With the price of oil (and gasoline) back on the rise, ethanol stocks are coming back into focus. Penny stock Bluefire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (BFRE.OB) is one worth a look...

EPA Plan Threatens Ethanol Investment, Industry Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- An Environmental Protection Agency plan for measuring a biofuels effects on land cultivation would curb investment in ethanol, industry representatives said at a congressional hearing...

Ag, Energy groups: Indirect land use scheme defies reality
Ag, Energy groups: Indirect land use scheme defies reality May 21, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agriculture and energy groups said today that indirect land use calculations should not be used to regulate the production of renewable fuels, calling the idea "a theory that defies reality." The comments were made in a letter sent by the American Farm ...

EPA Rules Would Harm Corn-Based Biofuels, Ethanol Industry Says (Bloomberg)
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- An Environmental Protection Agency plan for measuring a biofuels effects on land cultivation would curb investment in ethanol, industry representatives said today at a congressional hearing...

GM continues work on fuel-saving engine technology - Autoweek.com
A picture of HCCI is being tested on Saturn Aura mules. HCCI is being tested on Saturn Aura mules. Sometime in the next decade, you might be able to enjoy some of the benefits of a diesel without driving one. A technology called HCCI improves fuel ...

GreenFuel Runs Out of Fuel, Shuts Down; Algae-to-Biofuel Technology for Sale
Greentech Media broke the story earlier today. Duncan McIntyre, an associate at Waltham, MA-based Polaris Venture Partners, which participated in several venture rounds that raised more than $70 million for GreenFuel, told Greentech that the company could not raise the funds needed to build planned test facilities in Spain...

Ethanol Killing Engines In Another Government-Mandated Mistake .
According to the recall notice, the problem is that EUREthanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails.EUR In layman's terms, ethanol causes pinpoint leaks in the fuel system; when leaking fuel ...

Bacteria Used to Create Ethanol for Biofuels (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
U.S. scientists continue to develop bacteria to break down cellulosic biomass into usable sugars for ethanol production, according to LowCarbonEconomy.com...

The Great Ethanol Scam - Yahoo News
"Does the average citizen understand what this means? In from 10 to 20 years this country will be dependent entirely upon outside sources for a supply of liquid fuels paying out vast sums yearly in order to obtain supplies of crude oil from Mexico ...

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

Factual Analysis Debunks Corn Ethanol Industry's Call to Waive .
Fact: The current fuel distribution system via pipelines is unsuitable for distribution of ethanol fuels (DOE 2009b; EIA 2002; USDA 2007). As evaluated by EPA, many of the underground storage tanks and retail station dispensing ...

Detroit Automakers Spurn Ethanol Mandate (Scientific American)
Battered by depressed new car sales and waning political power in Washington, the automotive industry still has some fight left. [More]..

EPA Plan Threatens Ethanol Investment, Industry Says (Update2) (Bloomberg)
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan for measuring a biofuels effects on land cultivation would curb investment in ethanol, industry representatives said at a congressional hearing...

2nd big ethanol plant in Oregon seeks Chapter 11
Five Pacific Ethanol subsidiaries, including one that operates the company's 40-million-gallon Boardman plant, filed for bankruptcy this week, though company officials vowed to keep the Boardman plant operating...

Nebraska corn producers respond to EPA comment period
More than 4,000 Nebraska farmers have returned yellow postcards to the Nebraska Corn Board, who has forwarded them to the Environmental Protection Agency as written comments in support of the ethanol waiver request...

Ethanol-Gasoline Fuel Blends May Cause Human Health Risks and .
The DOE data, together with the findings of an E20 study commissioned by the Australian government and published in 2004, concurred in reporting increased exhaust and catalyst temperatures associated with ethanol fuels blends, ...

Rural economy 'buckling' - North Platte Telegraph
OMAHA - The nation's rural economy has done better than urban areas but is "starting to buckle in the global recession," a Federal Reserve economist from Omaha says. High prices for farm products, strong exports and high demand for ethanol - "pillars ...

New Process Touted as Breakthrough for Cellulosic Ethanol .
. a deal with General Motors to help promote its research efforts. Photo credit: Phlora's flickr stream, via a Creative Commons License. Tweet This Post. Tags: alternative energy, bacteria, cellulosic ethanol, ethanol, fuels, Mascoma ...

Pacific Ethanol Subsidiaries Turn Bankrupt (TheStreet.com)
Pacific Ethanol's subsidiaries file for bankruptcy following turbulent months...

Sweden helps South Korea Convert Food Waste Into Clean Fuel
The South Korean city of Ulsan lets water generated from processing food waste run off into the ocean, which can generate methane gas harmful to the environment...

Valero officials visit newly acquired Charles City ethanol plant (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
CHARLES CITY --- New owners of the Charles City ethanol plant say corn producers who provided grain still have a customer and can still get more than market price for their corn...

Valero serves optimism about ethanol to farmers - Des Moines Register
Charles City, Ia. EUR Executives of Valero Energy sallied north from their San Antonio headquarters to claim their Iowa ethanol plants, and the visitors conducted themselves more as supplicants to farmers than swaggering Big Oil Texans. The Valero ...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. to Acquire Two Ethanol Plants in . - dBusinessNews.com
OMAHA, - Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. announces that it has signed definitive purchase agreements to acquire two ethanol plants located in Nebraska. Addition of these plants will increase the Company's ethanol production capacity by 45%, from ...

Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in .
Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in the Corn Belt. by Bridget Macdonald May 14, 2009. BigRiver. (www.bigriverresources.com). Undeterred by the current overcapacity in the ethanol industry, Big River Resources ...

Sunoco wins bid for N.Y. ethanol plant - Philiy.com
Sunoco Inc. has made the winning bid for a bankrupt New York ethanol plant, giving the Philadelphia oil refiner the chance to join the fast-growing but financially troubled renewable-fuels industry at a fraction of the cost to build a plant from ...

U.S. Leads Global Ethanol Consumption - Wisconsin Ag Connection
Global demand for ethanol is predicted to increase annually by 9.3% over next five years. According to the latest statistics, the United States is the largest consumer using about half of the world's supply, largely due to mandated production levels ...

House panel OKs greenhouse-gas limits 2 hours, 54 minutes ago
Provisions of the House climate and energy bill call for: Reducing greenhouse gases by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a cap-and-trade program of pollution permits...

Ethanol And Vintage Mustangs - Mustang Monthly
If your Mustang has its original fuel tank, we suggest replacement with a galvanized tank designed to stand up to ethanol fuels. Scott Drake Enterprises has introduced a line of stainless steel fuel tanks for classic Mustangs. ...

The corn used to make one tank of fuel would feed a child for one .
EUREthanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails.EUR In layman's terms,. ethanol causes pinpoint. leaks in the fuel system;. when leaking fuel catches. your engine on fire, ...

Research and Markets: Grab a Copy of This Report and Get up-to-Date.
Biodiesel is a hot topic internationally as well as in India. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Government of India and, to a greater extent, various state governments have promoted the production and consumption of biodiesel...

Which Is Bettera "Biofuels or Bioelectricity?
Running vehicles on biofuels such as ethanol reduces CO2 emissions and offers a way to lessen the world's reliance on oil...

Obama Vehicle Plan Potential Pothole for Ethanol (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The Obama administration's proposed fuel economy standards has the potential to hurt the ethanol industry, the UK Guardian said, as those standards would make it difficult for auto companies to justify building less fuel-efficient flexible-fuel vehicles...

Green Dream: Turning Trash into Fuel
Two scientists, one engineer, and a green dream. The dream team can turn trash into fuel, and they are just months away from producing mass amounts...

Ethanol worries - Globe and Mail
Beware of jumping on the ethanol bandwagon. Globe and Mail reporter Shawn McCarthy reported in the Globe on May 11 that despite opposition, Ottawa intends to push ahead with a plan to increase dramatically the use of grain-based ethanol in Canada ...

Greenhouse gas limits pass key test
A bill to create the first national limit on greenhouse gas emissions was approved by a House committee Thursday after a week of late-night debates that cemented the shift of climate change from rhetorical jousting to a subject of serious, if messy, Washington policy-making. The legislation would create a cap-and-trade system...

Ethanol industry sees havoc in land-use formula
The U.S. biofuels industry would be hamstrung if government regulators choose to use unfair and untested formulas that hold it responsible for greenhouse gases from crops overseas, ethanol groups said on Thursday...

Research and Markets: Grab a Copy of This Report and Get up-to-Date on . - CNBC
DUBLIN, May 22, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/eb7a63/analyzing_the_biof) has announced the addition of the "Analyzing the Biofuel Industry in India" report to their offering. Biodiesel is a ...



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