Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 08/06/2009



Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble
Corn-based ethanol was seen as such an ideal solution for our transportation fuel that Congress leaped to write it into law...

Cash for Clunkers: If You Want to Be Green, Consider Keeping Your "Clunker"
The Federal "cash for clunkers" program has been front-page news this week.A Car dealers are elated, as sales are clearly up as a result of the program...

Freedom Fuels bioplant likely sold to Iowa firm (The Globe Gazette)
MASON CITY EUR Faced with more than $30 million in debts, Freedom Fuels LLC, the biodiesel plant that opened in 2006, is being sold to a company in Marcus...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's Conference in . - Market Wire
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7. A blend of low CO2 cellulosic ethanol, produced from ...

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

Archer Daniels Sees Higher Ethanol Blends In 2010 (Fox News)
Archer Daniels Sees Higher Ethanol Blends In 2010..

Thousands Support Nebraska Corn Board Effort to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate (PRWeb)
Ethanol production, demand remain strong. (PRWeb Aug 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Nebraska_Corn_Board/Ethanol/prweb2722034.htm..

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

Producers seek higher ethanol limit in gas
The Obama administration is under pressure from some in Congress to allow a higher amount of corn ethanol in gasoline, a move that would provide a jolt to ethanol producers...

Over a Barrel - Part 2
Ed. Note: This article first appeared on Geoffrey Styles' blog, Energy Outlook ...

Gabrielli: Petrobras Aims Big in Ethanol - Latin Business Chronicle
In an exclusive interview, Petrobras CEO and President Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo talked with Carin Zissis, online managing editor for the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, about Brazil as one of the worlds top oil and ethanol ...

Outlook for farms pessimistic
Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson painted a dark picture of the short-term future of farming Wednesday at Farmfest...

U.S. Ethanol Production on the Rise - Wisconsin Ag Connection
U.S. ethanol production continues to rebound from some of the economic issues that have plagued the economy at large. According to the Energy Information Administration, American ethanol facilities produced 669,000 barrels per day in May. Ethanol ...

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 ...

A New Push to Use Existing Clean Energy Sources
A nationwide education effort to promote the ways propane can help cut greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, lower energy costs, and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil was announced today by the propane industry...

Is Corn Ethanol Cleaner than Crude Oil? - Wall Street Journal
Its anything but an academic questionEURit could determine, in part, how America fuels its cars in the future. The Environmental Protection Agency dealt a big blow to the ethanol industry earlier this year when it decreed that the corn-based fuel ...

University Of Minnesota Researchers Discover Breakthrough Method For Chemical.
A team of researchers, led by chemical engineering and materials science professor Michael Tsapatsis in the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, have developed a more energy-efficient method of chemical separations that could revolutionize processes in the petrochemical and biofuels industries...

Manager named for new Geismar fuels plant (The Advocate)
Don Duga has been named plant manager for Dynamic Fuels LLCs renewable fuel plant under construction in Geismar. The plant will convert byproduct animal fat, vegetable oils and waste greases into an ultra-clean diesel fuel, displacing imported oil with domestically produced resources...

Ohio Technical College's fleet of alternative fuel vehicles grows
The Alternative Fuel program at Ohio Technical College has more than doubled its fleet of technologically advanced training vehicles to 15 applications, including gas-electric hybrids, hydrogen, compressed natural gas, bio-diesel, propane, methanol, ethanol and garbage-powered vehicles...

Perdue to supply grain for bioenergy plant - Chincoteague Beacon
GLEN ALLEN, Va. EUR Osage Bio Energy today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Perdue AgriBusiness to source barley to operate its first barley-to-ethanol bioprocessing facility. Perdue, a leading grain supplier in the ...

Study Suggests Ethanol May Tap Too Much Of Nation's Water Supply - All Headline News
St. Paul, MN (AHN) - A new report suggests ethanol mandates are having a negative impact on the nation's water supplies, and that regional considerations should be factored when creating ethanol policy. Ethanol production from corn and sugarcane is ...

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...

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, ...

Sherwin-Williams Introduces Tile-Clad High Solids Mildew.
Sherwin-Williams has introduced Tile-Clad High Solids Mildew Resistant epoxy, an industrial coating that protects against mildew growth on exterior surfaces of fuel storage tanks...

Texas cornfield is test ground for machine that collects left-over . - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The high-stakes race to make a better renewable fuel took a small step forward last week in a secluded cornfield near the Mexican border. In tiny Santa Rosa, a few miles northwest of Harlingen, the nations largest ethanol producer was secretly ...

Thousands Support Nebraska Corn Board Effort to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate
Lincoln, NE August 5, 2009 -- Scores of farmers and other ethanol backers all across Nebraska responded to a call by the Nebraska Corn Board for grassroots support of a proposal in front of the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow fuel blenders to increase the ethanol blend rate from 10 percent to up to 15 percent.In total, nearly 5,000 ...

Brazil to help SA with biofuels
THE government has reached out to Brazil in the development of South Africa's bio-ethanol industry...

Closed Photo-Bioreactors Boost Algae As Energy Source
Microalgae are monocellular, plant-like organisms that use photosynthesis and convert carbon dioxide into biomass...

Actions Taken Over The Next Decade To Demonstrate And Deploy Key .
August 5, 2009 With a sustained national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy-efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE: TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION, the ...

Fuel prices high, but don't panic
Skyscrapers need to have a sensible safety system and evacuation plans to tackle whatever situation comes up...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's Conference in Regina (Marketwire)
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7. A blend of low CO2 cellulosic ethanol, produced from wheat straw at Iogen Corporation's cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in Ottawa, will fuel a total of 40 flexible fuel Dodge Caravans at the ...

Powerboat P1 Goes Green - Clean Start in Sweden - Offshoreonly.com
. P1 Scandinavian Grand Prix of the Sea promoter Mario Hytten echoed Rangoonwala's sentiments, adding: EURWe would like to think that in two-three years time all of the Powerboat P1 World Championship races will run on ethanol fuels. ...

Science Director Lehr in Australia to Address Climate Change
Heartland Science Direct Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is traveling across Australia in August for a series of meetings to discuss global warming...

Convenience: The heartbeat of consumer-land
Thanks and congratulations to SDG&E for making good things happen. On July 15, SDG&E announced that "two years after unveiling San Diego's first state-of-the-art plug-in hybrid vehicle, [.] the third phase of its multi-year study reveals that plug-in hybrids offer significant improvements in gas mileage and reductions in emissions when compared ...

Thousands Support Nebraska Corn Board Effort to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Ethanol production, demand remain strong...

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!..

EcoSystem Closes $76 Million Equity Financing
EcoSystem Corporation today announced the closing of its pending $76 Million equity financing with five investment funds...

Tires to match your cellulosic ethanol? - CNET News
Doctoral student Web Bai working on a rubber composite for tires in an OSU laboratory. (Credit: Oregon State University) I'm sure you've heard of a rubber tree plant, but have you also heard about the new rubber tree tire? Researchers at Oregon State ...

Convenience: The heartbeat of consumer-land - San Diego Daily Transcript
Thanks and congratulations to SDG&E for making good things happen. On July 15, SDG&E announced that "two years after unveiling San Diego's first state-of-the-art plug-in hybrid vehicle, [.] the third phase of its multi-year study reveals that plug ...

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, ...

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 ...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Of Corn Ethanol Production (CattleNetwork.com)
In last months article we discussed recent University of Nebraska research showing the Net Energy Balance, Ethanol to Petroleum ratio and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the corn ethanol industry. Variations in these coefficients under alternative ethanol production systems were described...

The next INTERNET-STYLE bubble? --
A technician checking the panels of a solar power system on the roof of solar power company Conergy SolarModule GmbH & Co in the eastern German town of Frankfurt/Oder on April 22...

Is Corn Ethanol Cleaner Than Crude Oil? (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dealt a blow to the ethanol industry when it decreed that the corn-made biofuel's carbon footprint isn't much better than gasoline made with crude oil, a Wall Street Journal blog said...

UPDATE: ADM Sees Revival In Ethanol Sector; 4Q Falls 83% (Nasdaq)
CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- The head of Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) on Tuesday forecast a revival in the economics of the U.S. ethanol industry, as regulators prepare for a key decision on its future...

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, ...

Bentley Continental Super Sports review
Watching a plummeting fuel gauge on a Bentley is a study in the observer changing the experiment's results Shrdinger's car, if you will...

Producers seek higher ethanol limit in gas (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. - The Obama administration is under pressure from some in Congress to allow a higher amount of corn ethanol in gasoline, a move that would provide a jolt to ethanol producers...

Thousands support effort to increase ethanol blend rate
Scores of farmers and other ethanol backers all across Nebraska responded to a call by the Nebraska Corn Board for grassroots support of a proposal in front of the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow fuel blenders to increase the ethanol blend rate from 10 percent to up to 15 percent...

FACTBOX-Raw sugar hits 28-year peak, whites at all-time high - Reuters India
Aug 6 (Reuters) - Raw sugar futures hit a 28-year peak of 19.83 cents a lb and white sugar futures touched an all-time high of $521.80 per tonne on Thursday. [ID:nL6129976] * Sugar is a sweet, crystalline substance, obtained chiefly from the juice of ...



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