Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 08/01/2009



Zoo poop may hold renewable fuel secret - Newsday
NEW ORLEANS (AP) EUR” Hippos and other plant-eaters in the zoo may hold the secret to renewable fuel, say researchers at Tulane University. From those animals' feces, the scientists have identified more than a dozen different strains of bacteria that ...

Vietnam set to approve biofuel use,
The Petrochemical and Bio Fuel Joint Stock Company plans to begin selling 5 percent ethanol blended gasoline in August after the Ministry of Industry and Trade approves its sale in Vietnam...

Albert Lea Tribune | How much ethanol should be in gasoline?
A greater use of ethanol fuels is part of that plan. EURœWe look for Minnesota to continue to lead the way,EUR Mummert said. EURœThey've been very, very aggressive in leading the nation in the development of renewable fuels.EUR ...

New method uses electrolyzed water for more efficient fuel production - Thaindian.com
Washington, July 28 (ANI): A research conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois (U of I) has determined that using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the ...

Car Carping
Congressa decision to expand the wildly popular a oeCash for Clunkersa program with stimulus funding earmarked for renewable energy projects have some cleantech leaders crying fowl...

First E85 Station in Coolidge, AZ to Open
The first E85 station in Coolidge, Arizona is opening tomorrow, July 31. The grand opening celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the station location at 295 S. Arizona Blvd...

'Cash For Clunkers' Vote Takes Subsidies From Solar, Ethanol (INO News)
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Solar, ethanol and other renewable companies were dealt a blow Friday with a vote in the U.S. Congress to slash federal subsidies for their industry by about one-third in order to add money to a "cash for clunkers" auto program...

South Florida company signs fuel deal with Seminole Electrcic . - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
A South Florida company aiming to make fuel from the sweet sorghum plant has signed a contract with the Seminole Electric Cooperative. Fort Lauderdale -based Southeast Renewable Fuels announced the deal late Tuesday with the Tampa-based non-profit ...

SOLD? Is The Eclipse Drama Over?
Top News Latest Videos On July 31st, EAA AirVenture visitors will be witness to an thrilling race of-a-lifetime when TLC's American Choppers star Paul Teutul challenges Fagen Inc.'s MX-2. The aircraft will be piloted by Greg Poe of Greg Poe Airshows...

Types of Ethanol Fuel and Vehicles
What types of ethanol fuels can run in certain vehicles? The truth is that all gasoline vehicles are capable of operating on gasoline/ethanol blends with up to 10% ethanol. In fact, some states require the seasonal or year-round use of ...

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'
Let's spend more money, says Congress. They may not see their way to helping Americans get universal health care, but auto care? Big support in Congress for auto care...

Phibro Responds to Use of Antibiotics in Ethanol Industry
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy recently published a report that called for the ethanol industry to stop using antibiotics in the production process...

Nebraska Corn Crop Could Set Record
Prices may be down, but Nebraska farmers could be looking at the largest corn crop in history...

Joule uses sunlight and CO2 to make liquid fuel - CNET Asia
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company on Monday is disclosing its technology and business plans for making ethanol and other liquid fuels from genetically manipulated microorganisms that have been fed only sunlight and carbon dioxide. In a break with ...

Actions Taken Over Next Decade To Demonstrate And Deploy Key.
Initiating deployment of these technologies is urgent; actions taken -- or not taken -- between now and 2020 to develop and demonstrate several key technologies will largely determine the nation's energy options for many decades to come...

Grassley Delays Brazil Envoy Nominee After Ethanol Tariff Comment (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said he will delay the approval of President Barack Obama's selection of Thomas Shannon as U.S. ambassador to Brazil, because the nominee advocated ending the U.S. tariff on ethanol imports, according to the Washington Post...

Ethanol EUR A New Front In The Antibiotic Battle (CattleNetwork.com)
Somethings brewing in the ethanol industry, and it isnt just corn mash. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) recently released a report titled Fueling Resistance?..

Ethanol Industry Embraces Tuning Technologies to Drive Growth - PR.com
Tolland, CT, July 28, 2009 --( PR.com )-- Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC has licensed Control Stations award-winning and patent-pending LOOP-PRO Product Suite to assist with improvements to production quality and output. Glacial Lakes Energy is a ...

Driver beware: Ethanol fuels confuse some motorists - High Point Enterprise
HIGH POINT - If gas prices aren't enough to stress over, the type of gas motorists are pumping may be another worry for them to carry. Welcome to the High Point Enterprise online! Please register below to get access to free stories/features of the ...

IOGEN'S cellulosic ethanol fuels fleet at the 2009 Premiers' Conference in Regina
Iogen Corporation announced today that the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7, will be powered by a blend of low CO cellulosic ethanol...

RFA to Tout Ethanol at Sturgis Motorcycle Rally (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The Renewable Fuels Association will be doing something that hasn't been done at the Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally set for Aug. 3 to Aug. 9 -- promoting ethanol, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail...

Jolley: WDGs & Ethanol Production- Bowe Wingerd Wants To Put The Horse Before The Cart (CattleNetwork.com)
About three and a half hours west of Kansas City, half way across the state, is a feedlot with a difference. Premium Feeders is on one side of the road, feeding about 20,000 cattle. On the other side of the road is Nesika Energy, a new, state of the art ethanol plant...

E-10 Fuel, Ethanol Pumps in Pakistan | The Pakistani Spectator
According to the International Energy Agency, cellulosic ethanol could allow ethanol fuels to play a much bigger role in the future than previously thought. Cellulosic ethanol offers promise as resistant cellulose fibers, ...

Energy Technician Program
New types of fuels and energy are leading to job opportunities for people with the right training...

Ethanol Now Fuels over Half of Brazilian Vechiles | Localcooling
If all vehicles currently equipped to operate on ethanol were to make a total switch to ethanol fuels, there are questions as to how long our food supplies would last. If large amounts of food crops were diverted to fuel production, ...

National Research Council Report on Americas Energy Future Highlights .
National Research Council Report on America's Energy Future Highlights Vehicle Efficiency Technologies, Conversion of Biomass and Coal-to-Liquids Fuels, and Electrifying the Light Duty Fleet with PHEVs, BEVs and FCVs 31 July 2009 Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007...

Cash for Clunkers could raid renewable-energy loans
The money to fund an extended Cash for Clunkers program could come at the expense of renewable energy companies...

As gas prices creep up, ethanol saves drivers money, Ethonal Board . - High Plains Journal
Nationally, gas prices have risen nearly every day for the past 42 days. Some analysts expect that a return to $100 oil--and $4 gas--isn't far behind. But Nebraska drivers are already saving money by filling up with E10. "Nebraska drivers have ...

FFV Campain Announced at Farm-to-Fuel Summit
According to the Clean Fuels Foundation, a national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles was officially launched at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit ...

AllSAFE Raises Safety and Regulatory Concerns over EPAĆ¢s Consideration of Partial Fuel Waiverfuels, there are questions as to how long our food supplies would last. If large amounts of food crops were diverted to fuel production, ...

National Research Council Report on Americas Energy Future Highlights .
National Research Council Report on America's Energy Future Highlights Vehicle Efficiency Technologies, Conversion of Biomass and Coal-to-Liquids Fuels, and Electrifying the Light Duty Fleet with PHEVs, BEVs and FCVs 31 July 2009 Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007...

Cash for Clunkers could raid renewable-energy loans
The money to fund an extended Cash for Clunkers program could come at the expense of renewable energy companies...

As gas prices creep up, ethanol saves drivers money, Ethonal Board . - High Plains Journal
Nationally, gas prices have risen nearly every day for the past 42 days. Some analysts expect that a return to $100 oil--and $4 gas--isn't far behind. But Nebraska drivers are already saving money by filling up with E10. "Nebraska drivers have ...

FFV Campain Announced at Farm-to-Fuel Summit
According to the Clean Fuels Foundation, a national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles was officially launched at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit ...

AllSAFE Raises Safety and Regulatory Concerns over EPAĆ¢s Consideration of Partial Fuel Waiver for Ethanol (The Auto Channel)
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--The Alliance for a Safe Alternative Fuels Environment (AllSAFE), which speaks for manufacturers on fuel-related legislation representing 400 million products that over 250 million Americans own and operate, including recreational boats and marine engines, chainsaws, lawnmowers, motor vehicles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, generators, and related ...

Harper's communications director stepping down
OTTAWA a ' Prime Minister Stephen Harper's director of communications, Kory Teneycke, said Tuesday he is stepping down...

New method uses electrolysed water for more efficient fuel production - Science Centric
Using electrolysed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the ...

Prof strives for less costly, better ethanol - Waynesboro Record-Herald
Dr. Linghao Zhong is helping fuel research efforts that aim to produce ethanol as a primary source of alternative energy. The Penn State Mont Alto assistant professor of chemistry was selected about a year ago to be co-principal investigator of a ...

Exactly why corn-based ethanol fuels are a BAD IDEA
Exactly why corn-based ethanol fuels are a BAD IDEA View the site for full entries!..

Driver beware: Ethanol fuels confuse some motorists EUR High Point .
Driver beware: Ethanol fuels confuse some motorists High Point Enterprise (subscription) Many gas pumps across the country and in the Triad contain stickers alerting a customer if they are pumping an ethanol blend of fuel, ...

Fuel for Thought
Fuel from corn . Fuel from coffee grounds . Fuel from chicken feathers . Whatever the recipe, the search for a replacement for gasoline is one of the hottest topics in energy reporting - so it's no surprise that, earlier this week, journalists reported on Joule Biotechnologies , a new company that claims it can produce biofuel from little more than ...

IOGEN'S cellulosic ethanol fuels fleet at the 2009 Premiers' Conference in Regina (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Iogen Corporation announced today that the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7, will be powered by a blend of low CO cellulosic ethanol...

Ethanol trade group spent $166,296 on 1Q lobbying (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry trade group, spent $166,296 in the first quarter to lobby Congress and federal agencies on energy and fuel standards legislation, according to a recent disclosure report...

New E85 station opening in Arizona
July 30, 2009 Washington, USA -- The Renewable Fuels Association , the voice of the ethanol industry, is proud to announce the opening of the first E85 station in Coolidge, Arizona, on July 31, 2009...

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...

Ethanol - a new front in the antibiotic battle
Jul. 31, 2009 Something's brewing in the ethanol industry, and it isn't just corn mash...

The Food, Energy and Environment 'Trilemma'
At the 2009 Bio World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, held in Montreal last week, industry players and scientists found themselves pondering two seemingly contradictory concerns ...

Biofuels Digest readers report E85 case studies
Case #1: EUR FYI - as a simple private individual without support or sponsor, I have been experimenting for 3 years with ethanol fuels in cars, a tractor, and 4-stroke lawn & garden equipment. Here is what I have found: E-85 one-fuel ...

Cash For Clunkers' Vote Takes Subsidies From Solar, Ethanol (Nasdaq)
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Solar, ethanol and other renewable-energy companies were dealt a blow Friday with a vote in the U.S. Congress to slash federal subsidies for their industries by about one-third in order to add money to a " cash for clunkers" program...

Push for higher ethanol blends stepped up (Queensland Country Life)
A BIPARTISAN group of US Senators is urging the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve higher percentages of ethanol blended gasoline for use in non-flex fuel vehicles...

Technology Review: Dow to Test Algae Ethanol
Algae has the "potential" to produce truly vast amounts of diesel and ethanol fuels. It would be impractical to produce electricity from biodiesel or bioethanol, simply because they are already useful - and likely expensive - energy ...

Nebraska Grain and Feed Assn. Finalizes 2009 Dealer Program Agenda
The Nebraska Grain and Feed Association has finalized this year's Dealer Program agenda for the 34th annual summer meeting set for August 7, at Quarry Oaks golf course...

"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 ...

Florida FFV Awareness Project announced at Farm-to-Fuel Summit
A national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles was officially launched at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Commences Operations at Central . - Market Wire
OMAHA, NE--(Marketwire - July 30, 2009) - Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. ( NASDAQ : GPRE ) commenced operations at its recently-acquired ethanol plant in Central City, Nebraska on July 29, 2009. Green Plains anticipates production of ethanol by ...



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