Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/17/2009



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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 ...

Why Ethanol Doesn't Reduce Oil Imports
Ed. Note: Over the last few weeks, Robert Rapier, the writer of the R-Squared Energy Blog , has methodically vivisected all of the arguments behind the corn ethanol scam...

DOE Grants BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Approval for Site Change .
Irvine, CAEURBlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has announced the strategic ...

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow
The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts...

Coskata Inc. resurrecting ethanol fuel (Boston Herald)
A year ago, the bottom dropped out for America's ethanol industry when corn prices surged, lending for new plants nearly disappeared, and prices for gasoline fell sharply...

Deep dive in Coskataa s bacteria-based ethanol
Illinois startup gives Cleantech Group a behind-the-scenes tour of its new Pennsylvania facility co-located with partner Alter NRG...

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...

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...

Summerhill Biomass Systems Unveils Solid Biomass Technology System at . - PR Newswire
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Summerhill Biomass Systems is planting the seeds of innovation into the Syracuse Tech Garden. Summerhill, named after the Cayuga County community where the technology was developed, has pending patents across ...

Department of Energy Grants BlueFire Approval for Site Change
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. was established to deploy a commercially ready, patented and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials (EURGreen WasteEUR) to ethanol, ...

BlueFire bringing ethanol plant (Mississippi Business Journal)
FULTON EUR BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has unveiled plans for a strategic relocation of its second planned biorefinery to Fulton...

Algae fuel project in line for $750,000 in federal funds
A San Diego-based project to develop fuel from algae is expected to get $750,000 in federal funds thanks to an earmark from Rep...

Evolution Fuels Plans Dallas Ethanol Station (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Dallas-based Evolution Fuels, Inc. plans to start its new brand of renewable fuel stations in Dallas, according to Domestic Fuel...

Pearson Fuels to Install 55 Ethanol Stations in California (Convenience Store News)
October 13, 2009 - SAN DIEGO -- Pearson Fuels currently operates 11 ethanol stations in California, and with its recent infusion of $10.9 million in federal and state grants, the company will be expanding by an additional 55 stations around the state, according to a report in The San Diego Business Journal...

Commercializing Garbage to Ethanol (Technology Review)
Startup Coskata has opened a "semi-commercial" ethanol plant to demonstrate its technology...

French Synthetic Biology Company Announces Proof-of-Concept of.
Global Bioenergies , a French startup located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals...

Evolution Fuels to Dividend Common Shares of Southwest Resources, Inc. (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced that the Company will dividend 1.5 million shares of the Company's ownership of common stock of Southwest Resources, Inc. ...

Biofuel Development Requires Sophisticated Approach: UN
Governments should adopt a more sophisticated approach to developing biofuels, and should incorporate them into wider strategies for energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural if their deployment is to be of maximum benefit to society, said the U.N. Environment Program in a report issued Friday...

Saturday, October 17: Flawed information on ethanol
In response to Thursday's letter, "In Defense of Ethanol," are we to believe that Bob Dinneen, the resident and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, is reading the Longview News-Journal? He stated that a comment from a local mechanic in an Oct...

Another Viewpoint: 'Green' movement doing little to use more efficient . - News-Herald.com
Another Viewpoint is a column The News-Herald makes available so all sides of issues may by aired. John T. Eschbaugh lives in Chester Township. I am a World War II veteran, and the older I get, the more cynical my mind becomes over the activities of ...

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 ...

Photos Win Ethanol Sturgis Contest
The Renewable Fuels Association has announced the winners of its E85 Flex-Fuel Challenge Sturgis Photo Contest ...

Navy testing flower power to fuel fighter jets
NAVAIR fuels team chemist Philip Chang prepares samples of an algae-derived biofuel for testing in a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer at the Fuels and Fuel Systems Branch of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River Naval Air Station...

The Volt is withstanding the rigors of road testing admirably - DailyTech
The first preproduction models of the 2011 Chevy Volt hybrid electric plug-in vehicle were built earlier this year. Since then, the vehicle has been put through a number of rigorous tests. Starting yesterday, a fleet of eight Volts launched on the ...

Ethanol Refinery Turns Wood Chips Into Fuel (Wired News)
A Pennsylvania facility can produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic fuel annually, and the company wants to license the technology to others...

Saturday, October 17: Flawed information on ethanol - Longview News-Journal
In response to Thursday's letter, "In Defense of Ethanol," are we to believe that Bob Dinneen, the resident and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, is reading the Longview News-Journal? He stated that a comment from a local mechanic in an Oct. 8 ...

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow
The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts...

Family Farmers Feed Brazil
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics recently published a report on the country's agricultural sector...

Summerhill Biomass Systems Unveils Solid Biomass Technology System at Syracuse Expo
Summerhill Biomass Systems is planting the seeds of innovation into the Syracuse Tech Garden...

GM testing cellulosic ethanol from Coskataa s demo plant
Biofuel startup opens up about its business plans as it opens the doors to the demonstration facility and announces late 2012 as the target for commercial production...

Flex-Fuel Future: Cars Are Coming, But Where's the Fuel?
We don't hear so much about ethanol these days, now that gasoline is back down to $2.50 a gallon...

Algae fuel project in line for $750,000 in federal funds - sign on sandiego.com
A San Diego-based project to develop fuel from algae is expected to get $750,000 in federal funds thanks to an earmark from Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad. EURAlgae fuel is the future of fuel and has its roots in San Diego,EUR Bilbray said. EURIf we ...

BlueFire Ethanol to Build Second Plant in Mississippi (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. announced that it has changed the site of its second cellulosic ethanol plant from California to Mississippi, according to PR Newswire, because California's regulatory process was slowing the company's plans...

Colo. City Turn's Stench Into Cash Cow - MyFox Atlanta
GREELEY, Colo. - The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts. The ...

Kauai advancing on energy - Honolulu Advertiser
Meanwhile, the company's planned 15 million-gallons-a-year sugar ethanol plant is on track to be the first in-state supplier of the gasoline additive. And that's not even factoring in Pacific West's intention to produce sugar for food and rum-making ...

The harwood mill's secret is out | Australia News | Local News in .
At Clarence Ahead's next event, guest speakers Dr Russell Reeves and Dr Tony Banks will provide a perspective on the production of ethanol fuels and the implications for regional Australia. The presentation will address the science ...

The Ethanol menace
Lastly, this additive will also help prevent fuel oxidation and varnishing during the periods the vehicle/equipment is not in use; effectively dealing with three of the major issues that ethanol fuels present. ...

Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Neal St. Anthony column: Neal St. Anthony . - TradingMarkets.com
U.S. Energy boasts five-year revenue growth of 700 percent as revenue mushroomed to $439 million. But that's a bit misleading since more than $400 million of that is brokered energy purchases for customers -- pass-through revenue that U.S. Energy ...

Coskata Inc. Unveils Semi-Commercial Feedstock Flexible Ethanol Facility in Madison, PA (The Auto Channel)
MADISON, Pa.--Coskata Inc., a leading developer of next generation biofuels, today announced the successful start-up of their semi-commercial flex ethanol facility located in Madison, PA. The accomplishment represents the successful scale-up of the companys technology, and will serve as a showcase for the worlds first commercially-viable flex ethanol process...

Further debate needed on pros and cons of biofuels, says UN report
OCTOBER 17, 2009 A new United Nations report calls for a more sophisticated approach to developing biofuels as an energy option to ensure that it benefits society, the economy and the environment as a whole...

Renewable Companies See Advantages in Auto-Industry's Pain
In Michigan, a 320-acre Ford Motor Co. plant sits idle after 52 years of assembling Lincoln Continentals, Ford Thunderbirds and other vehicles...

Ithaca 'Bioneers' debate energy, farming - Ithaca Journal
Creating a sustainable regional economy, based in part on locally grown biofuels, is realistically achievable, but it will require much greater utilization of currently unmanaged forests and fields. That was the conclusion by presenters at one ...

Impacts of Global Biofuel Boom Remain Murky
ETHANOL IMPACTS?: The scope of environmental impacts from biofuels, such as ethanol from corn, remain unclear...

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 ...

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...

UN Study Calls for More Debate on Biofuels
A new report by the United Nations Environment Program says developing biofuels as a green energy option is beneficial only when countries adopt a sophisticated approach...

U of M to share $24M from Energy Department for wind classes, R&D
Fotis Sotiropulous, director of the U's St. Anthony Falls Lab and lead researcher of the wind energy research project at the University of Minnesota...

Climate Concerns Turn City's Smell Into Cash Cow - US News and World Report
GREELEY, Colo.EURThe smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts. The ...

Evolution Fuels Executes Letter of Intent for First Fuel Station (Convenience Store News)
October 14, 2009 - DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels Inc. executed a letter of intent to enter into a lease agreement for the company's first fuel station under the brand "Evolution Fuels."..

Colo. City Turn's Stench Into Cash Cow
The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts...



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