Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 08/19/2009

Green Plains CEO: 'Some Ethanol Plants may not Reopen' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Some closed U.S. ethanol plants likely won't return to production, the Chicago Daily Herald, which could cut supplies and ensure better margins for those companies still producing, Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc.'s chief executive officer said...

TheStar.com | Business | Food-for-fuel controversy angers ethanol . - Toronto Star
Ken Field says he's tired of the "campaign against corn ethanol" that has created a damaging public misperception of the renewable fuel. The founder and chairman of Toronto-based Greenfield Ethanol, the largest independent ethanol producer in Canada ...

Johnson: Climate Change Bill Could Bring Jobs, Prosperity And Clean Air (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
How many times have you heard experts cite the fact that South Dakota is the fourth windiest state, but only ranks 20th in actual installed wind energy generation? Soon the Senate will consider climate change legislation that could finally help South Dakota to live up to its wind generating potential and capture the benefits of a cash crop that is just blowing across our landscape...

publicly traded companies involved in biochar
BioChar, or using black carbon directly as a soil amendment holds the promise of both increasing agricultural yields and locking up carbon in the soil for centuries or millennia...

INTERVIEW-Rentech sees commercial-scale jet fuel by 2013 - CNN Money
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rentech Inc's supply deal with eight airlines for its synthetic diesel fuel is a milestone for the biofuel company, which aims to increase its jet aviation fuel production capacity to commercial scale in four years, its ...

Renewable energy also better for workers' health (Scientific American)
Mining is the second most dangerous occupation in the U.S., averaging roughly 27 deaths for every 100,000 workers per year. That's nearly nine times higher than the overall fatality rate for U.S. industry as a whole, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau ( pdf ). [More]..

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, ...

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Vick should be given second chance in NFL I want to thank FLORIDA TODAY columnist Peter Kerasotis for his recent column favoring giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance...

Push made for more ethanol blender pumps (Grand Island Independent)
With prospects good that the Obama administration will approve the sale of a higher blend of ethanol, the Nebraska Corn Board is part of a national movement promoting having 5,000 ethanol blender pumps installed nationwide over the next three years...

INL says it is more fuel efficient
The Idaho National Laboratory, ground zero for America's energy research, says it's cut fuel use by a fifth since 2006...

Fuels Team Plans Super Hornet Biofuels Flight Test
Loading . Patuxent River, Md: The Naval Air Systems Command fuels team is gearing up for biofuels flight tests in an F/A-18 Super Hornet at Patuxent River, Md., by next spring or summer, according to NAVAIR's fuel expert...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premiers .
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Marketwire.com |OTTAWA, ONTARIOEUR(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet ...

Uganda: Ethanol Production Will Reduce Transport Costs - AllAfrica.com
A review of the major economic developments for the second quarter of 2009 reveals that the cost of doing business in Uganda is rising steadily. This is on account of the soaring transport costs among others, and in spite of the substantial decline ...

Biofuel production 'is harming the poor' new
The production of biofuels is fuelling poverty, human rights abuses and damage to the environment, Christian Aid warned today...

New Movie Seeks to Refute Gorea s a Inconvenient Trutha
Washington A new documentary on climate change is highly critical of the claims made by former Vice President Al Gore in his film, "An Inconvenient Truth," and seeks to refute the main points Gore made...

Gas station coming to downtown - Raleigh News & Observer
SMITHFIELD -- Bulldozers rolled last week at the corner of Seventh and Market streets, making way for a new convenience store with gas pumps and a restaurant. Stancil Oil Co. hopes to open the store in January and plans to sell Marathon-brand ...

Future Technology - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. | Jump Into Tomorrow
It's a company that takes garbage you'd find in a landfill, and through its patented process, converts it into usable ethanol. And now, their technology may have larger applications...

U.S. corn for ethanol 4.2 bln bu in 2009/10-USDA - Reuters UK
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Ethanol makers will use 4.2 billion bushels of corn to make the renewable motor fuel during 2009/10, up from 3.65 billion bushels this marketing year, the U.S. Agriculture Department estimated on Wednesday. USDA raised ...

Gateway ethanol plant not producing fuel but still paying taxes - Pratt Tribune
The Gateway ethanol plant is not producing ethanol but its tax payments are up to date. The status of the Gateway plant was one of many topics discussed at a joint city and county commissioners meeting Monday. The meeting was just discussion and no ...

Al Fin Energy: Ethanol Glut Looms on the Horizon
Ethanol producers will soon far outrun the demand for ethanol fuels, as production continues to gear up. Tariffs against Brazilian ethanol currently protect American ethanol producers from competition, but once cellulosic ethanol hits ...

Biological Solar
By harvesting and burning fossil fuels, human beings essentially provide the tail end of a cycle hundreds of millions of years long...

US energy industry stages rally against climate bill
The US energy industry sought on Tuesday to put a human face on its lobbying effort against climate change legislation under consideration by Congress, staging the first of a series of "energy citizen" rallies across the country...

Brazil ethanol prices seen low despite sugar spike - Reuters
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The recent surge in sugar prices to their highest level in 28 years and growing demand for ethanol in Brazil are insufficient to support prices of the biofuel, which remain below production costs. Ethanol and sugar prices are ...

Adkins heading to 2 energy meetings
House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, will head to two national meetings at annual conferences, both concentrating on energy issues and legislation...

Bahamas To Introduce Biofuels In Energy Policy
The Bahamas government plans to introduce biofuels as part of a national energy policy, the country's environment minister stated this week...

Candidate James visits Eufaula
Robert Bennett, president of Farmers Exchange Bank in Eufaula, held a reception for Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James in Eufaula last Thursday...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's .
Sourced From Marketwire.com | OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the...

UL Announces New Certification Path for Ethanol Dispensers .
There are now three certification paths for pre-blended ethanol fuels: 1) UL 87 for gasoline and ethanol fuel blends up to E10 2) The established requirements of Subject 87A-E85, which address gasoline and ethanol fuel blends up to E85 ...

Idaho National Laboratory touts fuel efficiency measures at energy .
The laboratory, where scientists more than a half-century ago pioneered the use of nuclear reactors for power production, is also touting biodiesel and ethanol fuels. Increased use of both are part of efforts to update what just five ...

Ethanol Industry Launches Blender Pump Campaign
He stressed that these legal challenges are not excuses to delay the introduction of ethanol fuels; they are real impediments to implementing the federal renewable fuels standard. EURœWe hope to work with ACE and others in the ethanol and ...

Candidate James visits Eufaula
Robert Bennett, president of Farmers Exchange Bank in Eufaula, held a reception for Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James in Eufaula last Thursday...

Policy Re-Think Needed for a oeBiofuels Bogeymana
Here's yet more evidence to nail into the coffin of the biofuel revolution. Biofuels have gone from the ultimate "win-win solution" to a "bogeyman" that threatens to starve the poor and keep the cars of the rich running, according to a new report by Christian Aid ...

INL touts fuel efficiency efforts
Through June 2009, INL fuel use is down more than 167,000 gallons from the same period three years ago...

Brewery tanks help turn pine chips into 200-proof fuel ethanol - Gillette News Record
Tucked just outside Upton, there is not much to set the industrial building apart from any others in the area. The large metal building stands next to several white tanks and a smoke stack sends a plume of white exhaust lofting into the expansive ...

NREL a " Launches Mobile Alternative Fueling Station Locator
Drivers now can take a popular tool on the road thanks to the staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ...

Siemens announces its 100th alternative fuels plant installation
Siemens Energy and Automation Inc. announced its 100th alternative fuels plant installation in the United States...

Research and Markets: New Frost & Sullivan Report: Sub-Saharan African . - PR Inside
of the market for biodiesel and ethanol, as well as feedstock used for the following key countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique. The market size in revenues and growth rates are forecast from 2010 to 2017. Finally, an ...

ACE Announces 2009 Awards
If you missed the 22nd Ethanol Conference & Trade Show hosted by the American Coalition for Ethanol then you probably haven't heard who won the 2009 awards...

Renewable energies will benefit US workers
Expansion of renewable energies should appreciably improve the health status of the 700,000 US workers employed in the energy sector, according to a commentary by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, in Milwaukee...

UL Has New Certification Path for Ethanol Fuel Dispensers (Renewable Energy World)
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has announced a new certification path for fuel dispensers for mid-level ethanol blends up to E25. With the new certification path, manufacturers of dispensers, assemblies and components now have three certification options to choose from to balance market needs and provide maximum flexibility as advances are made in the fuel industry...

Algae-Based Fuel Could Provide Viable Energy Alternative | Mobile Magazine (MobileMag)
If youve been paying attention to Al Gore, then youll know that our planet is hurting and we should all be doing something to clean things up. Part of this has to do with our reliance on fossil fuels and all the pollutants that result from their consumption...

Idaho National Lab touts fuel efficiency efforts (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Idaho National Laboratory, ground zero for America's energy research, says it's cut fuel use by a fifth since 2006. Through June 2009, INL fuel use is down more than 167,000 gallons from the same period three years ago...

Naval Air Systems Command Fuels Team Plans F/A-18 Super Hornet Biofuels Flight Test (Defence Professionals)
Patuxent River, Md. | The Naval Air Systems Command fuels team is gearing up for biofuels flight tests in an F/A-18 Super Hornet at Patuxent River, Md., by next spring or summer, according to...

La. listed vulnerable to fuel hikes
BATON ROUGE - Louisiana drivers are the nation's fifth most "vulnerable" to gasoline price hikes, mostly because of their lower than average incomes, a study by a clean energy group states...

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, ...

Farmers Chip In Cash To Fuel Ethanol Demand - 6 News WRTV
INDIANAPOLIS -- A corn marketing group funded by Indiana's corn farmers is chipping in to help boost demand for corn-based ethanol. The Indiana Corn Marketing Council plans to transfer $500,000 each year to the state's E85 ethanol sales tax deduction ...

Reality of cellulosic ethanol drawing closer (AG Weekly)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - It's become a standard phrase over the past few years that whenever the subject of cellulosic ethanol has been brought up, the comment has been - "but it's about five years away from becoming economically possible"...

Hedge Funds Look Close at Distressed Ethanol Plants (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Columbus Business First in Columbus, Ohio said hedge funds are standing by waiting to buy up distressed companies including ethanol plants...

Detroit 2008: GM and Coskata announce worldwide cellulosic ethanol .
GM has developed market-specific engines and vehicles that allow consumers to benefit from the use of earth-friendly ethanol fuels produced and available in their country. Brazil is the best example of the market potential for ...

Is EPA showing bias against ethanol?
Is the Environmental Protection Agency deliberately trying to 'stack the deck' against ethanol and other biofuels? That's the question being raised after the agency released the peer review it had said it would conduct on the computer models used to calculate the impact of indirect land use change in its Renewable Fuel Standard-2 proposed rule...

Crops 'fuelling poverty and environmental damage' in poor nations
Production of crops such as maize and palm oil fuelling poverty and environmental damage in poor countries, says Christian Aid Press Association guardian.co.uk , Monday 17 August 2009 11.29 BST A worker harvests oil-palm fruit in Malaysia...

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