Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 06/29/2009



Legacy Act may fund wastewater piping to ethanol plant (Mankato Free Press)
A groundbreaking, and groundwater-saving, plan to use municipal wastewater at the Corn Plus ethanol plant in Winnebago is in line for $1 million in state funds...

Scania delivering 85 ethanol buses to Stockholm suburbs (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Dow, Algenol to build pilot algae-based biorefinery
Chemical company to also provide carbon dioxide source for new Texas biorefinery, pending funding from a US DOE grant...

Rubin's refreshingly, no-holds-barred look
Jeff Rubin has a theory and federal politicians should listen to it. The former maverick chief economist for CIBC's World Markets for about 20 years is the author of the recently-released and best-selling book, W hy Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization ...

Dow Chemical In Algae Ethanol Venture - WWJ Newsradio 950
Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) Monday said it plans to work with Bonita Springs, Fla.-based Algenol Biofuels Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will convert carbon dioxide into ethanol. The ...

NEXTZON facilitates cross border trade alliances
NEXTZON Business Serv ices Limited, one of the Nigeria's leading enterprise building firm is breaking new grounds in forging cross border trade alliances as it recently facilitated the visit of a Brazilian Trade Mission to Nigeria...

Dow Chemical Joins Algae-based Biofuel Project - Industry Week
Dow Chemical announced plans Monday to join Algenol Biofuels in a pilot-scale project to use algae and carbon dioxide to produce ethanol fuel. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's Freeport, Texas site. The project will use Algenol's ...

E85 Ethanol in Every Car? - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com
But such an economy would not support the current political-economic structure, including the massive subsidies needed to support ethanol fuels. It would contract until it was energetically sustainable. The landscape, the built ...

Farm industry groups weigh in on climate change amendment
The nation's farm industry associations responded quickly last week to the announcement that an agreement had been reached between the U.S. House Agriculture Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee making the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 more palatable to agriculture...

Trying to blend in (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Even if you don't drive a flex-fuel vehicle, your gas tank probably contains some ethanol...

Research and Markets: This Essential Report Provides the Latest.
Development of biofuels is at a nascent stage in India but is being actively pursued to reduce dependence on oil imports...

Ethanol Now Fuels Over Half of Brazilian Cars & Light Vehicles .
photo: Rodrigo Soldon via flick Brazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: According to Petrobras CFO Almir Barbassa ethanol now powers more than 50% of all the light...

Dow Planning to Build and Operate a Pilot-Scale Algae-to-Ethanol Biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels
The Dow Chemical Company plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will produce ethanol, located at Dowa s Freeport, Texas site...

"Ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal .
"Ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails." Posted May 26th, 2009 by Prometheus 6. in. Economics · The Great Ethanol Scam Not only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute ...

Ethanol Now Fuels Over Half of Brazilian Cars & Light Vehicles
Brazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: According to Petrobras CFO Almir Barbassa ethanol now powers more than 50% of all the light vehicles in the nation...

Race is on to create a new world of energy (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
We stand at the early dawn of a new energy future. It will be powered by alternative energy and cleaner fossil fuels...

Algae farm aims to turn carbon dioxide into fuel - CNET News
Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels , a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics ...

Climate bill heads to Senate
After robust debate Friday, June 26, the House of Representatives passed cap and trade legislation by a narrow margin, 219 to 212...

Dow to build algae test plant with Fla. startup - Forbes
Dow Chemical Co. and a Florida-based startup said Monday they're working on a project that will use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol, a process that could make chemical manufacturing more environmentally friendly if successful. As part of a ...

Dow to build and operate pilot-scale, algae-based integrated biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels
Dow to build and operate pilot-scale, algae-based integrated biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels Jun...

End Human Trafficking - Change.org: Ethanol Fuels Debt Slavery in .
If you think ethanol is always a better fuel choice than gasoline, think again. A recent report from Catholic Land Pastoral links a rise in debt slavery in Brazil to a rise in the production of et...

Analysis of Dynamotive Upgraded BioOil Confirms Gasoline, Jet, Diesel and Vacuum Gasoil Fractions
Independent distillation analysis of upgraded BioOil samples from Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation confirmed gasoline, jet, diesel, and vacuum gasoil fractions, establishing the potential for development of synthetic hydrocarbon mobile fuels, according to the company...

Legacy Act funds for outdoors and arts will help deliver treated waste water to ethanol plant
Funds totaling $1 million from the Legacy Act -- the new constitutional amendment designed to use sales tax money for the outdoors and arts -- will pay to divert treated municipal waste water from the city of Winnebago to a nearby ethanol plant...

Historic Energy Bill Passes House
One of the biggest energy acts in history was passed by the House of Representatives on Friday...

Garden State Ethanol looks at Woobine for algae plant - Newark Star-Ledger
WOODBINE -- An old landfill in a struggling town near this Jersey shore could get a another life. A company is looking at property for a plant that would turn algae into ethanol to be used as fuel. Garden State Ethanol has been trying to launch its ...

Roadsters embrace green racing
June 29, 2009 By Doug Dollemore Fast and green. That's what it takes to get to the winner's circle in a new type of auto racing...

Seattle Halts Use Of Soybean-Based Biofuels
Read the full story from NPR. There's one piece of America's climate-change strategy that's coming increasingly under fire: biofuels...

Plant to turn algae into fuel may come to NJ town - Morris County Daily Record
WOODBINE, N.J. (AP) EUR” An old landfill in a struggling town near the Jersey shore could get a new life. A company is looking at property in Cape May County's Woodbine for a plant that would turn algae into ethanol to be used as fuel. Garden State ...

Algae-to-ethanol proposal a win-win for Woodbine
To Mayor Bill Pikolycky, Woodbine's old landfill has been a big headache. Closed for decades, the 45-acre property is covered with scruffy vegetation and needs an environmental cleanup that would cost the tiny Cape May County borough millions of dollars...

Garden State Ethanol looks at Woobine for algae plant - Newark Star-Ledger
WOODBINE -- An old landfill in a struggling town near this Jersey shore could get a another life. A company is looking at property for a plant that would turn algae into ethanol to be used as fuel. Garden State Ethanol has been trying to launch its ...

Rail Continues to be Primary Mode of Ethanol Transport (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
An estimated 70 percent of U.S. ethanol moves to market via rail, said Kristy Moore, technical director of the Renewable Fuels Association, and railways will continue to be the primary way to transport ethanol for the foreseeable future, according to the Rockford Register Star in Rockford, Ill...

Scania delivering 85 ethanol buses to Stockholm suburbs (The Auto Channel)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Regulatory News Scania has sold 85 ethanol-powered articulated buses to Busslink, operator of bus services for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the regional public transport company in the Swedish capital...

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

Turn Out The Lights And Sweat
The feds massive cap and tax climate bill is up for a vote today and might even pass the House with all the deals that have been cut...

Dow Announces Plan to Build and Operate a Pilot-Scale Algae-based Integrated Biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will convert CO2 into ethanol...

Analysis of Dynamotive Upgraded BioOilA Confirms Gasoline, Jet, Diesel and Vacuum Gasoil Fractions
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation announced today that independent analyses of upgraded BioOil samples have established the potential for development of synthetic hydrocarbon mobile fuels...

E85 Boondoggle Of The Day: All Ethanol, All The Time | The Truth .
There might, someday, be a viable way to make ethanol fuels in quantity. On the other, this makes it easier to just mandate the fuel itself, which, until it's net-energy positive, is bad. SunnyvaleCA : June 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm ...

Dow Chemical Plans To Work With Algenol Biofuels To Build, Operate . - RTT News
(RTTNews) - Dow Chemical Co. (DOW: News ) said it plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that would convert CO2 into ethanol. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's ...

How to Reform Health Care and Energy: Use Less (Time Magazine)
To solve both national problems, we need to realign our priorities and provide incentives for saving..

Dow Chemical to work on algae-to-ethanol technology - Grand Rapids Press
Dow Chemical plans to work with Algenol Biofuels to build and operate a pilot-scale, algae-based biorefinery that will convert carbon dioxide into ethanol. From the Algenol Web site. The facility is slated for 24 acres at Dow's Freeport, Texas, site ...

Ethanol Now Fuels Over Half of Brazilian Cars Light Vehicles .
Story URL. : ethanol fuels brazilian cars light vehicles. : Comments; Who Voted for this Story; Related Links; Attached file(s). Submit a Comment. User Name : HTML is disabled. Log in to comment or register here. ...

Texas Considers Alternative Fuels In The Face of Oil Prices A Run .
These are not always technically distinguishable from hybrid models, as most electrically powered vehicles have a back-up system that runs on petroleum-based, biodiesel, or ethanol fuels. For the purpose of clarity, however, ...

Biodiesel plant prepares for production in Kane
The annual Farmers Market began on Saturday, June 20 and will continue to be held every Saturday until mid October from 9 to 11 a.m. in the parking lot of Tommy Jon's restaurant in downtown St...

Plant Waste Powered Limos to Bring World Leaders to Copenhagen Climate Talks
If you're hosting the world's most important conference on climate change , you sort of have to sweat the small stuff...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Joins Russell 3000 Index - Earthtimes
OMAHA, NE -- 06/29/09 -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) joined the broad-market Russell 3000 Index upon Russell Investments reconstituting its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on June 26, 2009. Annual ...

Nigeria: Nextzon Facilitates Cross Border Trade Alliances (AllAfrica.com)
NEXTZON Business Serv ices Limited, one of the Nigeria's leading enterprise building firm is breaking new grounds in forging cross border trade alliances as it recently facilitated the visit of a Brazilian Trade Mission to Nigeria...

Grassoline: Biofuels beyond Corn (Scientific American)
By now it ought to be clear that the U.S. must get off oil. We can no longer afford the dangers that our dependence on petroleum poses for our national security, our economic security or our environmental security. Yet civilization is not about to stop moving, and so we must invent a new way to power the worlds transportation fleet. Cellulosic biofuels--liquid fuels made from inedible parts of ...

The Ethanol Fuel Hoax « Journal of Whole Food and Nutritional Health
When it comes to U.S. ethanol fuels, we must not forget that we are burning food and taking millions of farm acres out of food production. When livestock is fed ethanol wastes, human pathogen counts go way up in the meat. ...

Eric Ehrmann: How Sweet It Is. Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels .
Ethanol trade has helped make China Brazil's top trade partner, replacing Uncle Sam, who had been top dog ever since Herbert Hoover was in the White House...

U.S. Renewable Energy: A Self-Inflicted Crisis in the Making
What crisis you might ask could be brewing in the renewable and green energy sector? After all, it is seemingly the hottest investment sector in the capital markets, green is en vogue, and anything with the word "renewable" attached to it is politically palatable these days...



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