Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/01/2009

Persistent drought in Northern Wisconsin brings USDA help - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The designation announced Wednesday allows eligible farmers to apply for low-interest emergency loans to cover their losses. The counties are Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Door, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Forest, Iron ...

People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
Gasoline-powered cars are driving humanity to the end of the oil age, leaving electric vehicles as the best weapon against global warming...

Automakers: More Ethanol In Gas Might Lead To More Problems - The .
There also remain plenty of questions yet to be answered about compatibility, and if lower-ethanol fuels would be available for a number of years as the new regulation is phased in. Look to GreenCarReports.com for more discussion of the ...

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...

Use of Biofuels Expected to Grow By 2015
Global use of biofuels should more than double by 2015, with U.S. biofuel use expected to grow by more than 35 percent, according to a report by Hart's Global Biofuels Center...

US Ethanol Output Rose in July (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
U.S. daily ethanol production rose about 4.9 percent in July on increased demand for the alternative motor fuel, according to Reuters...

Policy will make fuel more scarce, expensive
On Aug. 20, the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources made the historic decision to grant a critical and hard-fought air permit for the Hyperion oil refining project in Elk Point...

Cellulosic Sugar to Cellulosic Ethanol has been made much easier .
This sustainability company has announced a new sugar technology to digest a wide range of cellulosic biomass and convert it into ethanol fuels. This cellulosic ethanol technology employs cellulosic ethanol feedstock such as wood chips, ...

Makers of Ethanol Ponder Alternative - Wall Street Journal
Some ethanol makers, battered by unpredictable profit margins and criticism that production of the corn-based fuel drives up food prices, are being presented with a way out: making biobutanol. Biofuels entrepreneurs are hoping to snap up idled and ...

Livestock and ethanol producers want exactly the same thing (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Well, someone inside Canadian agriculture has finally gone and said it: Subsidies for grain-based ethanol do threaten the North American supply of human food, after all. George Morris Centre researchers have published a stinging analysis of current business prospects for Canadian hog producers.[.]..

Ethanol from corn is a poor formula - St. Petersburg Times
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a request from farm states to raise the ethanol content of gasoline from the current 10 percent to as much as 15 percent. Agreeing to this change could be bad for people's food budgets as well as the ...

E85 Boondoggle of the Day: Automakers Kinda Heart E20 | The Truth .
. of International Automobile Manufacturers write to request that you direct the Department of Energy (DOE) to prioritize its spending so that it may complete some very important testing with ethanol fuels, as explained below. ...

Russia Biofuels Market Potential
Russia Biofuels Market Potential report provides comprehensive coverage of Russiaa s ethanol and biodiesel market...

Green around the edges
With crude oil trading near record highs and a litre of gasoline ballooning to $1 or more, alternative energy companies looking to replace the smog-spouting internal combustion engine should be on cloud nine...

Automakers: More Ethanol In Gas Might Lead To More Problems
Fill up at almost any pump today and you're likely to see a reminder that what you think of as gasoline can contain up to 10 percent ethanol...

Automakers: More Ethanol In Gas Might Lead To More Problems (The Car Connection)
Fill up at almost any pump today and you're likely to see a reminder that what you think of as gasoline can contain up to 10 percent ethanol. The effect of that much ethanol on your car is relatively benign; it's been allowed since 1978 and over more than three decades the ethanol, mostly sourced from U.S. corn, has helped reduce our reliance ....

EcoCAR Challenge Throttles into Year Two_spotlight
Model-based design around verification and testing is next stage of the advanced automotive engineering competition Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor -- Design News, September 30, 2009 A Seventeen university teams are heading into the next stage of the three-year EcoCAR: the NeXt Challenge automotive engineering competition, convening in Boston ...

Unveiled: The world's fastest sedan - Sydney Morning Herald
Having built the fastest car in the world, French company Bugatti has now revealed its concept for the quickest four-door on the planet. By JEZ SPINKS. The car maker behind the world's fastest car is now planning to build the world's fastest sedan ...

Energy guru says green needn't be grim
If someone told you America's long-term energy needs could be met without oil or nuclear power, would you think he was crazy? The craziest thing about Amory Lovins is that he says the financial numbers prove it...

Energy bill gets mixed reactions
A Senate energy bill that aims to address global warming by expanding alternative fuel demand is getting both warm applause and a cold shoulder from South Dakota...

Gevo Launches Development Company To Retrofit Ethanol Plants To Make Biobutanol (ChemicalOnline)
Gevo today announced the formation of Gevo Development, LLC to develop a fleet of biorefineries based on retrofitting existing ethanol plants with Gevo's proprietary technology to produce biobutanol..

Romps » Blog Archive » Ethanol bill introduced in Senate (TOT)
The study would also include a comprehensive analysis of available independent scientific evidence on the compatibility of mid-level ethanol fuels with the emission requirements of the Clean Air Act and the operability of engines, ...

Evolution Fuels Appoints New Chief Financial Officer (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced the appointment of Mr. David Farmer as its new Chief Financial Officer...

Renewable Energy Interests Praise, Criticize Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill
Backers of weaning the U.S. off of non-renewable, foreign petroleum are giving mixed reviews to the latest climate bill introduced today in the U.S. Senate...

AM Edition
Formosa Plastics has agreed to buy $10 million in new equipment for pollution controls at plants in Baton Rouge and Point Comfort, Texas...

Gas prices continue downward trend - St. Petersburg Times
Gas prices typically fall in the fall. Just not this fast, this soon. Nationally, gas prices are down 32 percent from a year ago, nearly 40 percent from the peak of over $4 a gallon 14 months ago. Among Florida drivers, no one has enjoyed the great ...

Pro-Biofuels Group ACE Launches New Ethanol Magazine
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog The American Coalition for Ethanol has launched a new magazine, Blending Fuels, designed specifically to address station owners' questions about ethanol fuels and blender pumps, a news release from the ...

Firm plans garbage-to-ethanol plant in Storey County (Reno Gazette-Journal)
One of the first commercial plants in the country to turn garbage into ethanol is expected to break ground at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County early next year after receiving state and local government approvals...

Maize of Deception: How Corn-Based Ethanol Can Lead To Starvation .
Ethanol Fuels Are Not Necessarily The Universal Cure As the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that corn-based ethanol could be as much the global villain as a boon to ...

Strategy outlined for growing bioenergy while protecting wildlife - Genetic Engineering News
A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing harm to wildlife. Harvesting diverse prairie, which is dominated by perennial plants, could ...

Albion ethanol plant profitable for new owners (Grand Island Independent)
ALBION -- Less than a year after ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. filed for bankruptcy, seven of the company's plants have become the few profitable areas for oil refining giant Valero Energy Corp...

Company plans to turn trash to ethanol in Northern Nevada (News 4 Reno)
One of the first commercial plants to turn garbage into ethanol will be making its home in Northern Nevada. Fulcrum BioEnergy based out of California is planning to break ground next year on the $120 million project in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County...

Technology offers cash for cobs - High Plains Journal
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)--Two new technologies offer the promise that corn growers could turn their cobs into cash. Cobs, the refuse left behind after harvest, are now plowed back into fields. But companies from California and South Dakota plan to start ...

Got a flapper-valve problem? Could be the ethanol fuel EUR” Autoblog .
Apparently the flapper valve can stick due to swelling and distorting "when exposed to ethanol fuels." Let this be a lesson to those who think that an ethanol conversion is as simple as adding an auxiliary ECU controller that instructs ...

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...

If you cant beat em match em, another 600 million bucks to Greens plants have become the few profitable areas for oil refining giant Valero Energy Corp...

If you cant beat em match em, another 600 million bucks to Green Algae research and development.
A month ago oil giant BP announced a 600 million dollar investment in green algae research...

N.C. Ethanol Plant Forges Ahead (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Organizers of North Carolina's most ambitious ethanol plant project to date, on 500 acres near the Hoke County town of Raeford, are looking for an additional $15 million from private investors to get the proposed plant up and running by 2010, according to the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, N.C...

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...

Strategy outlined for growing bioenergy while.
A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing harm to wildlife...

Petroleum free visit: Getting to know the GM fuel cell car - Midland Daily News
JOHN TULLY | jtully@mdn.net Mark Vann, program manager for 'Project Driveway' with General Motors, leans on the Chevy Equinox hydrogen fuel car outside Dow Corning Corp.'s headquarters before taking a group of employees on a test drive. The car is ...

EPA Revises Indirect Land-Use Emissions Stance
Sen. Tom Harkin has backed off efforts to block EPA from weighing contested ethanol emissions after Administrator Lisa Jackson pledged that biofuels rules will reflect uncertainty around international indirect land-use change emissions, according to a Greenwire report...

Virginia Tech competes to develop the latest car technology - WDBJ7.com
That's exactly happened to some Virginia Tech students and it may play a part in designing your future car. Engineering students are helping to develop the green car of the future. "I wish it was as easy as we think it is. It is absolutely blood ...

Gevo Biobutanol Retrofit Plant Starts Up; Gevo Launches Development.
Gevo, Inc., a biobutanol and renewable hydrocarbons company, announced the start up of its first biobutanol demonstration plant designed from retrofitting an existing demonstration scale ethanol plant to produce biobutanol...

Free ride program for tavern patrons sees increase in ridership - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"The SafeRide program saw the jump in riders go from 45,562 in 2007-2008 to 53,859 in 2008-2009, an increase of 8,297, according to a news release from the Tavern League of Wisconsin, which works with the state Department of Transportation to ...

Garbage = BioFuel
. single-organism cultures from being contaminated, which brings down the cost of equipment. More at TR. Related Posts: Beyond Ethanol. Ethanol Fuels IndyCar Race. Hydrogen From Grass Munching Bacteria. Food Based Ethanol Not the Answer...

Strategy outlined for growing bioenergy while protecting wildlife
Careful planning, together with the use of feedstocks from perennial-dominated prairie, could minimize the adverse effects of expanding bioenergy use on wildlife A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing harm to wildlife...

Check It Out (Israel National News)
Follow Israel news briefs on and . (IsraelNN.com) Minister of National Infrastructures Uzi Landau is reconsidering a switch to the green fuels ethanol and biodiesel, according to sources reported by Globes . Landau has held off signing the ordinance that would mandate all fuel companies to switch to 5 percent biodiesel in diesel fuel...

Company plans to turn trash to ethanol in Northern Nevada
One of the first commercial plants to turn garbage into ethanol will be making its home in Northern Nevada...

Global Biofuels Growth to Double by 2015
Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released today by Hart's Global Biofuels Center...

Archives Main Index