Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/18/2009

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, ...

Waste-Based Energy: One Piece Of The Sustainable Energy Puzzle
Spittelau waste to energy plant provides district heating in Vienna. Image credit: Wikipedia In the past few years, there's been much talk about the variety of available and developing technologies that could help secure a more sustainable energy future...

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...

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...

New Ethanol Facility Turns Wood Chips Into Fuel
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels says it will be scrapping plans for a second facility in California and will instead be building the refinery in Mississippi. The company was awarded a $40 million grant from the US Department of Energy to open ...

Greeley, Colorado To Convert Methane From Cattle Manure Into Energy
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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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 ...

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...

DOE Grants BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Approval for Site Change .
Irvine, CAEUR”BlueFire 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 ...

Slimy algae gains respect as ingredient for energy - Des Moines Register
Shenandoah, Ia. - An ethanol plant's plan to capture and reuse carbon dioxide attracted Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and investors and visitors from Switzerland, Ireland and elsewhere - all to see green slime. The slime is algae, made by adding water and ...

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."..

BlueFire bringing ethanol plant
FULTON a ' BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has unveiled plans for a strategic relocation of its second planned biorefinery to Fulton...

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...

Big Oil Looks to Biofuels - Wall Street Journal
"It was a major signal to the biofuels industry," says Bruce Jamerson, chief executive of Mascoma Corp., a producer of cellulosic ethanol, which is made from inedible plant materials. Big Oil and biotech may seem an odd combination. Oil companies ...

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...

Congressional energy bills could have impact on Louisiana - Daily Comet
BATON ROUGE EUR” Two energy bills EUR” one awaiting presidential approval and the other struggling through hearings EUR” could both have long-lasting effects on Louisiana, for very different reasons. One bill, known as the Energy and Water Act, would ...

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...

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...

Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn., Tom Griscom Column: Griscom . - PennEnergy
Oct. 18--The race to be first with hybrid cars powered by anything but gasoline is the rage. It almost seems that if you can grow it, harvest it and convert it, there is a car in your future. Corn, switchgrass (not the type your mother used on you ...

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

Ethanol from almost anything? Coskata opens Lighthouse cellulosic . - autoblog
Coskata's newly-opened semi-commercial flex ethanol facility in Madison, Pennsylvania is as small as it can possibly be. Co-located at a Westinghouse facility that also in some fashion uses nuclear energy, the Lighthouse project, as it's called, is ...

Vikings Offer Free Parking for E85 Vehicles
Minnesota Vikings fans who own flex-fuel vehicles have an extra incentive to get to each of the football team's eight home games early...

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...

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...

Momentum for Biofuels
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels (BFRE.OB) announced yesterday that they would build their first commercial scale ethanol plant in Mississippi instead of Lancaster, Ca., as originally planned. BlueFire secured additional financing from a ...

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...

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 ...

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow - Katu.com
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) - 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 ...

French Synthetic Biology Company Announces Proof-of-Concept of.
Global Bioenergies , a Freom California to Mississippi, according to PR Newswire, because California's regulatory process was slowing the company's plans...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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...

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...

Test plots for biofuel showing good signs in Highlands - Highlands Today
Inmate Farm Manager Larry Harbison, with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, cuts into the stalk of a sweet sorghum plant recently at the sheriff's farm near Arbuckle Creek. SEBRING - The 15-foot tall plants with browning leaves and rust-colored ...

Five Technologies That Could Change Everything - Wall Street Journal
It's a tall order: Over the next few decades, the world will need to wean itself from dependence on fossil fuels and drastically reduce greenhouse gases. Current technology will take us only so far; major breakthroughs are required. What might those ...

City learns fate of stimulus requests
Federal stimulus funds awarded to Denton will help pay for homeless prevention programs, park and sewer upgrades, police equipment and other local needs, city officials said last week...

City's cow smell turned into cash
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...

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...

Renewable-energy wave hits Hawaii - Honolulu Advertiser
In what may be a sign of things to come for Hawaii's economy, the state Energy Planning and Policy Branch is adding workers while most of state government is shrinking. The office is hiring 18 workers with the help of federal funding and is an oasis ...

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...

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...

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...

TEPPCO may face historical hurdle - Decatur Daily
To the list of agencies that must approve its planned fuel depot on the Tennessee River, TEPPCO may now have to add the state Historical Commission. In a letter to state Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer ...

UN cautions over biofuels green credentials
As such, governments should assess energy needs, effects on climate, land and water use as well as agriculture if biofuel projects are to be beneficial...

UN report cautions on bio-fuel use to fight climate change
New Delhi, Oct 18 : A United Nations report has cautioned against going all out for bio-fuels to reduce the greenhouse gas emitting hydrocarbons, saying the process of production of bio-fuels could itself be a contributor to global warming...

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

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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