Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/07/2009

Report: 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 by Hart's Global Biofuels Center ...

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 ...

Florida County to Consider Port Everglades Ethanol Proposal (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Broward County, Fla., officials want to use former molasses tanks at a seaport for storage of ethanol and other fuels, reported the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, but the project remains snagged because of protests by a company decided to be the runner-up for completing the project...

Bligh's fury over fuel
PETROL stations forcing people on to ethanol-blended or premium-priced fuels by not stocking regular unleaded should come under competition watchdog investigation, Premier Anna Bligh says...

Registration Open for National Ethanol Conference
Registration is officially opened for the Renewable Fuels Association's 15th Annual National Ethanol Conference "Climate of Opportunity" which will be held February 15-17, 2010 in Orlando, Florida...

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...

Genome sequence published for important biofuels yeast - Science Centric
A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane into ethanol for biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Centre. 'Understanding this microbe may enable more efficient biofuel production, and also ...

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...

Algae Energy OrgyScum artists: The false promise of of algae-fuel companies.
Scum artists: The false promise of of algae-fuel companies. - By Emily Waltz - Illustration: Gwenda Kaczor When Adam Freeman graduated last December from Kennesaw State University in Georgia with a degree in biochemistry, he wanted to work in only one field: pond scum ...

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...

Petrol choices evaporate
QUEENSLAND motorists are being forced to fill up on ethanol-blended fuel or expensive premium unleaded petrol as service stations across the state turn off regular unleaded pumps...

Vinod Khosla on the future of green technologies
V inod Khosla , the iconic billionaire has once again demonstrated why he is the undisputed 'venture capitalist with the Midas touch'. When it comes to clean technology, no one can rival Khosla's ability to raise money even in depressed market conditions...

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, ...

Long-Term Ethanol Outlook Hopeful (Forbes)
Despite demand being dented by high sugar prices, ethanol is still a good prospect in Brazil...

Cellulose from Wastewater Can Now be Turned into Fuel for Cars
Marlborough, MA October 6, 2009 -- Recyllose, a recycled solids-based material produced from municipal wastewater, can now be turned into fuel for cars, announced Applied Cleantech and Qteros, the advanced biofuels company whose breakthrough Q Microbe technology can turn biomass into cellulosic ethanol...

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, ...

Suncor to Expand Ethanol Plant (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Suncor recently resumed the expansion of its St. Clair ethanol plant near Sarnia...

Servos pulling motorists' leg, says Anna Bligh - News.com.au
PETROL stations forcing people on to ethanol-blended or premium-priced fuels by not stocking regular unleaded should come under competition watchdog investigation, Premier Anna Bligh says. Her comments follow moves by more than 110 petrol stations ...

Fuel looms as Bathurst's big wildcard - ninemsn
Five-time champion Mark Skaife says environmentally friendly fuel being used at the Bathurst 1000 for the first time will give Australia's most famous motor race its biggest shake-up in years. The new ethanol-blend fuel adopted in the V8 Supercar ...

Murphy Oil Acquires Ethanol Plant (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Murphy Oil has announced the acquisition of a corn-based ethanol plant in Hankinson, North Dakota. The purchase price was $92 million...

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 ...

Long-Term Ethanol Outlook Hopeful
Despite demand being dented by high sugar prices, ethanol is still a good prospect in Brazil...

Long-Term Ethanol Outlook Hopeful - Forbes
The world sugar price has risen to a 28-year high. This is providential for an industry facing severe financial problems after having invested massively in increasing production of ethanol fuel made from cane. Anticipating that demand for sugar-cane ...

Motorsport: Fuel looms as Bathurst's big wildcard - New Zealand Herald
BATHURST - Five-time champion Mark Skaife says environmentally friendly fuel being used at the Bathurst 1000 for the first time will give Australia's most famous motor race its biggest shake-up in years. The new ethanol-blend fuel adopted in the V8 ...

U.S. Bentley Continental Supersports Won't Do Ethanol--At First
The car touted as Bentley's greenest, fastest and most powerful ever will only hit two out of three of those marks when it makes its U.S. debut next year...

Murphy Oil Acquires Ethanol Plant
Snapshot Report ) announced the acquisition of a corn-based ethanol plant in Hankinson, North Dakota, on Oct 1, 2009, through its subsidiary...

Don Briggs: Removing incentives would be another step backward
Recently, before the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, President Obama took the stage setting himself up as the world leader in the war against global warming and, at the same time, declaring war on U.S. oil and natural gas producers...

Va firm helps convert Neil Young's car - Birmingham News
(AP) EUR” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An Albemarle County robotics company is playing a key role in a project to convert musician Neil Young's gas-guzzling 1959 Lincoln Continental into a groundbreaking electric vehicle. Perrone Robotics, headquartered in ...

Sunoco idling Eagle Point refinery, slashing dividend in half - Philadelphia Daily News
In a major attempt to cope with slumping global demand for fuel and a says environmentally friendly fuel being used at the Bathurst 1000 for the first time will give Australia's most famous motor race its biggest shake-up in years. The new ethanol-blend fuel adopted in the V8 ...

Murphy Oil Acquires Ethanol Plant
Snapshot Report ) announced the acquisition of a corn-based ethanol plant in Hankinson, North Dakota, on Oct 1, 2009, through its subsidiary...

Sunoco idling Eagle Point refinery, slashing dividend in half - Philadelphia Daily News
In a major attempt to cope with slumping global demand for fuel and a dismal profit outlook, Sunoco Inc. said yesterday it was indefinitely idling its Eagle Point oil refinery in Gloucester County and slashing its dividend in half. The Eagle Point ...

What's cooking: TrÃ¨s bien, Lucia - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chef Lucia Watson of the renowned Lucia's Restaurant in Uptown Minneapolis will receive the Chevalier du Merite Agricole, one of the highest honors from the French Ministry of Agriculture. It's akin to a knighthood, and recognizes her culinary ...

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...

Diatoms Have Their Day
October 7, 2009 Posted By Craig Miller Filed Under Agriculture , Energy , Technology Everybody's got a summit nowadays...

5 Technologies Missing From the Clean Energy Bill
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., unveiled the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act last week, a bill that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020...

Biotechnology Can Address Global Mega Trends, DuPont Leader Says
Yokohama, Japan October 7, 2009 - Innovations in biotechnology can help address the growing global demand for food and fiber and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, DuPont Executive Vice President James C. Borel, told attendees of the BioJapan 2009 World Business Forum."Through biotechnology, we have the opportunity to transform how we produce and ...

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 EURœBlend ...

Long-Term Ethanol Outlook Hopeful (Forbes)
Despite high sugar prices, ethanol is still a good prospect in Brazil...

National ethanol experiment has Wisconsin roots - Wrn.com
Kids across the country today are EURœfueling upEUR with a Wisconsin process. Hundreds of thousands of students are participating in EURœ Biofuel Blast ,EUR an ethanol making experiment, which teaches how cellulose and sugars in plants can be converted ...

Colo. Company to Convert Ethanol Plants to Biobutanol (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Englewood, Colo.-based Gevo Inc. plans to retrofit corn-based ethanol plant in Nebraska with the ability to produce biobutanol, according to the Associated Press...

Governors adopt energy road map for Midwest
Oct. 7, 2009 1:54 p.m. Midwestern governors ratified agreements designed to move the region to embrace energy efficiency and renewable energy, with the aim of creating and retaining jobs in the Midwest at a time of aggressive investment around the world in the clean-tech sector...

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...

Microbe converts sludge into ethanol
Two companies said Wednesday that they have developed a method for turning sewage sludge into ethanol...

Genome sequence published for important biofuels yeast
A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane into ethanol for biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Center...

Setting Ethanol Free
The Government Accountability Office recently issued its report assessing the impact of the production and use of biofuels in the US...

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. ...

Murphy Oil buys ethanol plant (The Wahpeton Daily News)
The VeraSun Energy ethanol plant located in Hankinson was sold last week to Murphy Oil Corporation. The sale of the plant gives 49 workers job security, producers another market for their corn and is promising to Hankinsons future...

Emotionally Important
Joshua Tickell is very serious about biodiesel. Also, he just married a folk singer; he hates pollution; and he has a video camera...

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 ...

Report: Rural Indiana Could Be 'Center of a New Energy Economy for . - Biloxi Sun Herald
Major Clean Energy Job Creation Boom Seen for Economically Struggling Hoosier State INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wind power, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy will bring significant job creation, economic investment ...

Florida County to Consider Port Everglades Ethanol Proposal (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Broward County, Fla. officials want to use former molasses tanks at a seaport for storage of ethanol and other fuels, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, but the project remains snagged because of protests by a company decided to be the runner-up for completing the project...

IRFA and Iowa OSHA Work Together for Safety
A two-year safety alliance has been formed with the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association ...

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