Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 08/03/2009

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...

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...

Recycling trash to electricity idea has residents nervous (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Chris Granger/The Times-PicayuneD'Juan Hernandez, president and CEO of Sun Energy Group, which is proposing a plasma arc gasification plant in eastern New Orleans. Critics say 'gasification' is just a fancy term for incineration, long associated with pollution and toxins, but...

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 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 ...

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 ...

AllSAFE Raises Safety and Regulatory Concerns over EPAÃ¢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 ...

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...

Kathleen Parker: Carbon caps will make Saudis smile - Memphis Commercial Appeal
A more accurate title might be: the American Clean Energy and Less Security Act. To get to the bottom of what's wrong with the 1,400-page energy bill passed by the House of Representatives, you have to dig deeper than Canada's tar sands. What you ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Three questions for Bill Haywood, CEO, LS9 (San Francisco Chronicle)
Title: Chief executive officer Company: LS9, South San Francisco Q: Your company promotes its UltraClean diesel as a cost-effective and less carbon-intense renewable fuel with very similar properties to traditional fuels. How do you obtain such results? A: We. Sponsored Topics: San Francisco - Bill Haywood - Chief executive officer - California - United States..

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...

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 ...

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...

Texas cornfield is test ground for machine that collects left-over corncobs for ethanol
Corncobs are piled in a bin to be turned into ethanol during Poet's testing in South Texas...

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!..

Monster Dornier Seaplane Dwarfs Airventure
Top News Latest Videos On July 31st, hundreds of women gathered together at AeroShell Square to celebrate women in aviation...

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...

Three questions for Bill Haywood, CEO, LS9
Q: Your company promotes its UltraClean diesel as a cost-effective and less carbon-intense renewable fuel with very similar properties to traditional fuels...

Cash for Clunkers Demonstrates the Huge Economic Potential of Alt Fuel and Vehicle Technologies
Author's Note: This article includes several videos and text links that are crucial in understanding the points raised...

Zoo poop may hold renewable fuel secret - New Orleans Times-Picayune
(AP) EUR” NEW ORLEANS - 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 ...

'Port-to-Pump' Advanced Biofuel Initiative, in Florida
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, for the period from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2009, the State of Florida consumed an average of approximately 23.1 million gallons of gasoline per day...

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 blendTop 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...

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...

About: Nassau County leaders form renewable energy committee
Submitted by Professor Clima. on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 18:29. I agree with those of you who point out the problem with biofuels is land...

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...

'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...

Industrial Engines: They're Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
Top News Latest Videos C-130 Hercules Arrives at AirVenture The 302nd Airlift Wing, Air Force Reserve Command, C-130 Hercules showcased its state-of-the-art technology...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

The perfect storm - Enter Stage Right
The term, '"the perfect storm", has come to mean how circumstances and bad judgments come together to create havoc and death. I have begun to conclude that America is caught in a perfect storm. It didn't occur overnight, but it has rapidly reached a ...

Zoo waste may hold renewable fuel secret - The Daily Advertiser
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 ...

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...

Pro: Senate must eliminate farm lobby's free ride as it labors to fix flawed House bill
In this instance, treason against the agricultural communities they represent. Sure, they got a few payoffs in return, including a provision designed to preserve the indefensible corn ethanol subsidy program, but they also planted the seeds of the agricultural sector's destruction...

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 ...

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...

The big boys of industry move into next-generation algae fuels
These new [algae biofuel] startups are developing strains of algae that continuously produce and actively secrete oils and ethanol...

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 ...

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 ...

More Ethanol Is Not the Answer | Outboard Motor Oil
They are arguing that many boat fuel system warranties would become null and void if 15 percent ethanol fuels are used. Outboard motor oil, they say, must strike a careful balance that weighs environmental concerns with boating ...

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...

Keys to Energy, Climate Causes is Less Driving and Better Vehicles
When asked if gasoline-electric hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles are the most promising auto technologies, Rob Farrington paused...

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 ...

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