Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/05/2009



Ottawa's eco-vehicles running on dirty fuel
Even though most of the shiny black cars shuttling around federal VIPs bear environmentally friendly logos boasting they run on ethanol fuels, you're more than likely to find unleaded gasoline in the tank. ...

MicroFueler converts unused beer, wine to ethanol (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
It sounds too good to be true: A residential system that allows people to make fuel from old beer, leftover wine and other waste products and use it to run their vehicles. Photo caption: Tom Quinn, left, invented E-Fuel MicroFuelers. Chris Ursitti heads GreenHouse, which distributes the fuel-conversion systems. Photo by Los Angeles Times..

GAO report poses tough questions for ethanol
Ethonel another goverment boondoogle forced down out throats Lowers mileage, lower performance, highly corrosive, raises food prices , read more puts more land into production that was not farmed in the past, Raises price of fuel overall What a wondrful deal and I am forced to pay higher taxes for this great benefit Minnesota business by the ...

Ghana : Country Needs Biofuel Policy Before It's Too Late (AllAfrica.com)
Accra EUR Ghana is blessed with plant resources such as oil palm, maize, sugar cane, cassava and jatropha which can be processed into ethanol and biodiesel...

Alcohol and Driving DO Mix
Helping America become a nation of alcoholics Auto Central October 4, 2009; Last week Marc Rauch my friend, business partner and co-founder of The Auto Channel traveled down to LA from his home in Northern California to interview and visit with Ed Begley Jr...

Road Atlanta: Dyson Racing race report - Motorsport.com
BRASELTON, GA. September 26, 2009 - Dyson Racing won the American Le Mans Series LMP2 class today at the 12th Annual Petit Le Mans Powered by MAZDA6 at Road Atlanta. It was the first Petit Le Mans victory for the team. In addition, it was the first ...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
Blending Fuels, a new magazine designed specifically to address station owners' questions about ethanol fuels and blender pumps, was received this week by petroleum marketers across the country. Blending Fuels is an effort of the EURBlend ...

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 ...

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...

Ethanol May Not Need Its U.S. Tax Credit, GAO Finds (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Congress should consider revising or ending the 45 cent-a-gallon tax credit for blending corn ethanol with gasoline, the Government Accountability Office said...

Groups promote UW efficiency - Badger Herald
In an effort to promote energy-efficient innovations from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced the addition of a EURCleantechEUR branch to its website last Friday, which highlights 46 GLBRC ...

Environmental impact of ethanol fuel overstated, government warned (Canada.com)
Ottawa's push to use high-level ethanol fuel in cars is doing little or nothing to cut Canada's greenhouse gas emissions nor will it, says a government briefing note prepared for Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and obtained by Canwest News Service...

Quebec Company Turns Trash Into Fuel
Will todaya TMs municipal landfills become tomorrowa TMs clean energy reserves? Enerkem A team of scientists from Singapore and Switzerland recently released figures , published in the current issue of the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy , projecting how much cellulosic ethanol could be generated from the waste paper and cardboard that ...

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...

Ethanol Production Up in July
U.S. ethanol producers continue to set new production records. According to the Energy Information Administration , American ethanol facilities produced 728,000 barrels per day in July 2009...

Evolution Fuels Applies for DOE Grant to Install Blender Pumps (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Evolution Fuels, Inc. has applied for a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help establish retail fuel stations that carry varying blends of ethanol, according to Global Newswire...

Using algae to make fuels, he's thinking beyond pond scum (Los Angeles Times)
Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Pyle, who has had a hand in start-ups in medical engineering and biotechnology, now is developing algae-based fuels that have already propelled planes and a car. The gig : Chief executive of Sapphire Energy Inc., a San Diego biofuels company that develops algae-based fuel that has been used experimentally to power airplanes and, recently, a car that was driven across ...

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 ...

Global economy to get 'shock of its life' when oil hits triple digits
In perspective: Jeff Rubin says A'triple-digit oil prices will do more for greenhouse emissions than 100 Kyotos.A' J eff Rubin says global economy will get the "shock of its life" within 12 months of the end of the recession when oil prices hit triple digits and the age of globalization starts to come to an end...

GM's Latin America unit still rides high - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Sao Caetano Do Sul, Brazil - At its bankruptcy filing last June, General Motors Corp. announced drastic cutbacks in its domestic and international operations but kept its South American subsidiary off the auction block. In a recent ...

Farm Bureau Doesn't Like Boxer-Kerry Bill
The American Farm Bureau Federation will strongly oppose the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill introduced in the Senate last Wednesday...

Evolution Fuels Applies for DOE Retail Fuel Ethanol Infrastructure Grant (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced that as part of its efforts to establish retail fuel stations that carry varying blends of ethanol, it has submitted an application for a U.S...

Don't blame the milk farmers for world hunger - NRC Handelsblad
As 1 billion people in the world go hungry, European farmers filled up their manure tankers with milk and dumped it on their fields to protest the low price of milk. The milk protest illustrates a much bigger problem with food prices in the ...

GAO Report Concludes Industry and Government Face Significant.
A report recently published by the US Government Accountability Office concludes that the US biofuels industry and federal agencies will face significant challenges in meeting the more demanding requirements for volumes of advanced biofuels in RFS2 while minimizing any unintended adverse effects...

Extractor targets smaller palm farms
Community palm-oil extraction facilities are being marketed to serve small-scale plantations and support Thailand's emerging biodiesel industry...

Farm Bureau Opposes Boxer-Kerry Climate-Change Bill - Wisconsin Ag Connection
The Boxer-Kerry climate-change bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday includes few provisions that are friendly to agriculture and will be strongly opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation. "America's farmers and ranchers did not fare that ...

Cap & Tax: America's No-Energy & In-Security Act Of 2009
The methanol/ethanol fuels are highly corrosive and hygroscopic- meaning they draw moisture from the humidity in the surrounding air. This extremely troublesome on the fuel systems of cars and trucks. I know this from firsthand ...

Masada Partners With Entrepreneur Robert H. J. Lee to Lead Green Energy Initiatives in China, Asia
Masada, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, has been the world's leading provider of municipal solid waste-to-ethanol technology for the past 14 years...

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, ...

Environmental benefit of ethanol was overstated
Ottawa's push to use high-level ethanol fuel in cars is doing little or nothing to cut Canada's greenhouse gas emissions nor will it, says a government briefing note prepared for Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and obtained by Canwest News Service...

Delphi Showcases Advanced Powertrain and Vehicle Electrification.
At the 18th Aachen Colloquium of Automobile and Engine Technology this week , Delphi is highlighting a range of its technologies including advanced gasoline and diesel engine management systems, fuel handling systems, powertrain cooling solutions and hybrid and electric vehicle products...

Evolution Fuels Applies for DOE Retail Fuel Ethanol Infrastructure . - StreetInsider.com
DALLAS, Oct. 5, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. (Pink Sheets: EVFL ) (the "Company") today announced that as part of its efforts to establish retail fuel stations that carry varying blends of ethanol, it has submitted an application ...

Going Green
The concept of "going green" has been around for more than a hundred years in America...

U.S. Subsidies for Fossil Fuels far Outpace Those for Renewable Energy
The largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research by the Environmental Law Institute in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...

MicroFueler converts unused beer, wine to ethanol
Tom Quinn, left, invented E-Fuel MicroFuelers. Chris Ursitti heads GreenHouse, which distributes the fuel-conversion systems...

Fueled for Growth
Fuel cells power a few of the forklifts at military depots and a handful of experimental trucks at several military bases...

Green energy needn't be grim - MSNBC Cosmiclog
"techno-optimist" on energy issues. 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 ...

September 2009
Ethanol Fuels Warning There have been a few warning circulating about the dangers of using ethanol added fuel. Being marketed as E10, it is 10% ethanol and causes problems with boats. E10 itself does not actually damage engines; ...

India Port Conditions: Kandla Liquid - Reuters India
04 Waiting Vessels nil Expected Vessels 22 Total Vessels 26 Vessels berthing today nil Working Vessels ----- S.NO Vessels name Agent Cargo Arrival Berth Sail Load Unload I/E Balance -----Dates----- Tonnes/Units TEU Tonnes..

Bio Fuels
Ethanol fuels can cause major problems and failures with engines if the vehicle is not Ethanol compliant. Powerboat owners are potentially worse off as the are infrequent users of their craft. Ethanol is Hydroscopic, that is absorbs ...

Ethanol Production Sets New Record
U.S. ethanol producers continue setting new records for production. According to the Energy Information Administration, American ethanol facilities produced 728-thousand barrels per day in July of 2009...

GAO: 'Ethanol tax Credit Overkill' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said Friday that the 45-cent blenders tax credit designed to spur ethanol usage and production should be removed, a Wall Street Journal blog said...

Outdoors news and notes for Oct. 4 (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
More on ethanol The ethanol issue continues to generate responses. To recap: Any gas with alcohol can harm outboards that are more than 10 years old; E-10 ethanol (fuels with just 10 percent ethanol) is safe for motors built after...

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...

Renewable Fuels Association Elects 2010 Officers
The Renewable Fuels Association announced the officers and Board of Directors who will lead the association and the ethanol industry in 2010 during its annual meeting last week in Washington, DC...

Federal Stimulus Includes Billions For Alternative-fuel and Electric Vehicles
By Tom Berg, Senior Editor Kimberly Taylor of the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute was almost ecstatic...

How are You Ever Gonna Peak When You Can Burn Pond Scum?:
HOW I MADE IT: JASON PYLE: Using algae to make fuels, he's thinking beyond pond scum : Sapphire Energy CEO Jason Pyle, who has had a hand in start-ups in medical engineering and biotechnology, now is developing algae-based fuels that have already propelled planes and a car...

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...

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...



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