Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 06/30/2009



One man's trash is another's new fuel
U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright, just days after voting against a large clean energy bill in Washington, met Monday with a researcher at Auburn Montgomery who is working to turn waste products into fuel...

Algae Ethanol Plant Announced
When it comes to biofuels, algae is usually mentioned as a means to make biodiesel, but a new project will be using it to make ethanol...

Climate Bill Gives Biodiesel RFS Break
A couple of issues might be coming to a head with one bill. As I told you back on May 22 , biodiesel producers are none too pleased about an EPA proposal that would, in effect, exempt soy-based biodiesel from the Renewable Fuels Standard putting biodiesel in danger of not being able to meet that standard, possibly undermining confidence in the ...

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...

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...

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...

Hawaii gas prices to jump in July - Charleston Daily Mail
HONOLULU (AP) - Gas prices in Hawaii could jump up to 12 cents per gallon overnight because a gas tax credit is expiring. Hawaii's general excise tax exemption for ethanol lapses Wednesday. Ethanol-blended fuels were exempted from the state's general ...

Central Illinoisan spreading the ethanol gospel (Peoria Journal Star)
Kristy Moore is a resident of Heyworth, just south of Bloomington, who travels the country spreading the word about ethanol - behind the scenes, that is...

Cap and Trade Bill Creates Controversy Over Jobs - HispanicBusiness.com
WASHINGTON (Xinhua) -- After the U.S. House passed a bill on Friday for cleaner emissions, heated debate continues over the historic but controversial new legislation. A major issue is jobs -- supporters say it will create them, but opponents say it ...

KUB fleet makes fuel efficiency list - Knoxville News Sentinel
KNOXVILLE -- KUB has been honored as having one of the best vehicle fleets in the nation in terms of fuel efficiency. Government Fleet Magazine picked the Knoxville Utilities Boards fleet as one of its 100 Best Fleets in North America at the ...

All It Took Was a Supreme Court Ruling, a New President and an . - The Daily Green
What a difference an administration makes for the nation's environmental groups: Instead of stonewalling for more than two years and then denying California's request for the EPA waiver, President Barack Obama brought the stakeholders together to ...

Evolution Fuels Forms Truck Stop, C-store Subsidiaries (Convenience Store News)
Formerly known as Earth Biofuels, the company wants to "ultimately help achieve energy independence," it said in a statement...

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...

Cotton: A Better Way to Play Oil?
I am currently exploring cotton as an alternative way to play a long-oil position...

Ethanol producers look to bright future (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Beneath a banner that read EUREthanol: Helping Achieve Homeland Security,EUR people from 12 states, three Canadian provinces and Japan gathered in Bozeman Monday to discuss the future of their industry, which has come under intense scrutiny over the last year...

C02 to ethanol:Dow-Algenol to build bio-refinery - Commodity Online
MICHIGAN, USA: The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) will work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will convert CO2 into ethanol. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's ...

AUM Professor's Reactor Could Turn Waste into Energy (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
An Auburn University Montgomery, Ala. professor is looking for funds to further develop his invention called a "farm deployable microbial bioreactor," according to the Opelika-Auburn News in Alabama, which is a machine that converts waste, such as grass, paper and sawdust, into fuel ethanol and animal feed...

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...

Dow & Algenol Biofuels to Build & Operate Pilot-Scale Algae-based Integrated Biorefinery in Texas (ChemPoint)
MIDLAND, Michigan, June 30, 2009 -- 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...

High-ethanol fuel probe expands; at least 12 local stations received . - Daily Press
At least a dozen gas stations in Hampton Roads received gasoline containing higher-than-allowed amounts of ethanol earlier this month, much of which was pumped into the vehicles of unsuspecting motorists, the state confirmed Tuesday. The tainted fuel ...

Dow project may cut ethanol price - Detroit News
Dow project may cut ethanol price Plans made for a Texas biorefinery that uses algae to make fuel for as little as $1 a gallon Jaclyn Trop / The Detroit News Dow Chemical Co.'s latest venture could make a host of consumer products -- from bread bags ...

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 ...

Some Island Motorists Surprised By Gas Tax Hike
Hawaii motorists have until Tuesday night to beat a gas tax credit expiration that will cause the price to go up 12 cents a gallon...

RFA's Moore: 'Ethanol Industry in Recovery Mode' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The Renewable Fuels Association's Kristy Moore told the Peoria Journal Star in Peoria, Ill. that 2009 appears to be the beginning of a profit recovery for the U.S. ethanol industry...

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. ...

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 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...

KUB fleet makes fuel efficiency list
KUB has been honored as having one of the best vehicle fleets in the nation in terms of fuel efficiency...

Deadwood's casino tax goes into effect Wednesday - Rapid City Journal
That tax on revenue from Deadwood casinos will rise from 8 percent to 9 percent beginning tomorrow, July 1, as a bevy of new laws passed by the South Dakota Legislature earlier this year and signed by Gov. Mike Rounds goes into effect. The extra $1.5 ...

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 sournal Star in Peoria, Ill. that 2009 appears to be the beginning of a profit recovery for the U.S. ethanol industry...

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. ...

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 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...

KUB fleet makes fuel efficiency list
KUB has been honored as having one of the best vehicle fleets in the nation in terms of fuel efficiency...

Deadwood's casino tax goes into effect Wednesday - Rapid City Journal
That tax on revenue from Deadwood casinos will rise from 8 percent to 9 percent beginning tomorrow, July 1, as a bevy of new laws passed by the South Dakota Legislature earlier this year and signed by Gov. Mike Rounds goes into effect. The extra $1.5 ...

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...

Fords EURBobcatEUR uses two fuels for increased performance
Not bad, but Ford plans to continue to evolve the EcoBoost lineup, and a radical engine concept dubbed EURBobcatEUR makes use of both gas and ethanol fuels to deliver diesel-like performance. Wait, what? Alright, lets back track a bit here ...

Grow, Canada: A Sustainable Biofuel From the Great White North - Wired
In honor of Canada Day we bring you news from the Canadian capital, where a suburban service station has become the first in the world to sell a blend of gasoline and cellulosic ethanol biofuel. Before you dredge up the usual complaints about biofuel ...

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...

Actual energy innovations
While the exiting Shell CEO predicts 80% oil demand 30 years from now, actual innovators like Dow is teaming up with research universities to extract ethanol from algae farms that turn carbon dioxide into alternative fuels...

Are plug-in electric cars the new ethanol? (The Washington DC Examiner)
In the name of EURclean energy,EUR Washington is subsidizing a switch from gasoline-powered cars to cars powered mostly by coal. In pursuit of EURenergy independence,EUR the feds may foster addiction to a fuel concentrated in a socialist-run South American country...

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

Bache Commodities Group Launches Green Commodity Index
Bache Commodities Group launched today the Bache Commodity Green IndexSM to offer investors a tool to invest in commodities with an environmental focus...

Corn Commentary Blog Archives Harleys, Ethanol and Apple Pie
It reads simply: EURClean, green domestic ethanol fuels are as much a part of the American Spirit as the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally itself. Whether you choose E85 for your flex fuel vehicle at home or run your bike and your car on E10, ...

"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 ...

You Call That Market Saturation
There will be not just the one, but two tea parties this week at Legislative Plaza...

Dow Announces Plan To Build And Operate A Pilot-Scale.
The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc...

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 ...

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...

Could Your Car Use Cheaper Gas?
The manufacturers are all common, everyday names in the automotive industry: Chevy, Ford, Dodge, Isuzu, Jeep, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Nissan and Toyota...

Solix Biofuels closes A round for demo facility, Asian plans
Fort Collins, Colo.-based startup closes $16.8M Series A round today for a demonstration facility scheduled to start operating this summer...

Algae could become ethanol - Brazoria Facts
FREEPORT EUR While most ethanol producers use corn or sugarcane to make their product, Dow Chemical Co. is turning to the sun, salt water, algae and carbon dioxide as an alternative to creating the fuel. Dow announced Monday it is seeking up to $25 ...

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...

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...

University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research .
Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in the Corn Belt. Medill Reports by Bridget Macdonald May 14, 2009. In June 2008, corn prices soared to $7.50 a bushel on high demand after spring flooding in the Midwest ...

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...



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