Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/20/2009



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...

Climate concerns may turn dung into cash cow
JBS USA: www.jbsswift.com/ City of Greeley: www.greeleygov.com/ Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: http://tinyurl.com/ybcmypo House Energy and Commerce Committee: http://tinyurl.com/ph52vs Information on the House-passed bill, H.R. 2454, and the Senate bill, S. 1733, can be found at http://thomas.loc.gov/. Some people are smelling ...

Report examines hidden costs of energy production and use - ScienceBlog.com
WASHINGTON -- A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates "hidden" costs of energy production and use -- such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health -- that are not reflected in market prices of ...

Join the API Renewable Fuels Policy Impacts Workshop (American Petroleum Institute)
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 dramatically changed the renewable fuels landscape.  - More - ..

Bio Fuels | RoadTube.com.au brought to you by the NRMA
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 ...

Businessman ordered jailed in dumping case - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Washington County Circuit Judge David Resheske on Tuesday ordered the company, CAAP Inc. based in Menomonee Falls, to pay a fine of $30,000 for illegally storing hazardous waste between October 2004 and October 2005. Resheske sentenced Knutson to ...

Plymouth Energy seeks $10 million to position for future
Editor's note: This story is part one of a pair of stories looking deeper at the ethanol industry and Plymouth Energy's recent quest to raise $10 million for the ethanol plant...

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, ...

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...

AnchorBank restates first-quarter earnings to reflect wider loss - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison-based Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. said the restatement of results for the first quarter of its fiscal year reflected a reclassification of nonperforming loans on the bank's books and a reevaluation of how much to add to reserves to cover ...

Petroleum's Long Good-bye
The depth of the well drilled by BP to reach a giant oil field beneath the Gulf of Mexico...

Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Planned for Mississippi - News .
IRVINE, CA --- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc., which produces ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has decided to relocate its second planned biorefinery to Fulton, Miss...

Scaling Up Is Hard to Do
Cellulosic ethanol offers potential economic and environmental advantages over the corn- and sugar-derived ethanol that makes up the bulk of today's biofuel, and it should be a more scalable technology, because a wide variety of biomass can be used for feedstock ...

Greenfudge.org » Switchgrass EUR America's own biofuel. But is it .
As a source of bioenergy, switchgrass can be used to make ethanol fuels, biogas and as a direct source of thermal energy. It is considered to be a moderate to high yield energy crop. Switchgrass also requires less energy input and has a ...

Can green chemicals save the ethanol industry?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a group of biotechnology and chemical companies is proposing to use existing ethanol infrastructure to make higher-margin chemicals...

BlueFire moves proposed plant to Mississippi - Ethanol Producer Magazine
Irvine, Calif.-based BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. recently announced the strategic relocation of its second planned biorefinery to Fulton, Miss. While the facility was originally planned for California, BlueFire President and CEO Arnold Klann said ...

Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Planned for Mississippi (Automotive Fleet)
IRVINE, CA --- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc., which produces ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has decided to relocate its second planned biorefinery to Fulton, Miss...

Top 5 Pimped-Out Eco Rides
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Fossil Fuels Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says (New York Times)
Burning coal and oil adds up to about $120 billion a year for the United States in health costs, including those tied to thousands of premature deaths from air pollution, researchers say...

What is the Real Cost of Power Production?
POLLUTION COSTS: The hidden costs of power production include the health effects of air pollution and alternative fuels are no panacea...

Cow manure as clean energy: Greeley aims to turn methane gas into power
GREELEY - 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...

FDC Enterprises Awarded DOE Feedstock Delivery Grant
FDC Enterprises , based on Columbus, Ohio, announced today that it has won a U.S. Department of Energy grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production...

Mississippi Coast Chamber of Commerce » Blog Archive » MEDC .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., 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 relocation of its second planned ...

Companies To Watch: Private Companies
Company: Tesla Motors teslamotors.com Year founded: 2003 Funding Raised: $278 million Daimler, Valor Equity Partners, Technology Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DBL, Westly Group, Compass Venture Partners This startup beat the major players to the punch by bringing the first highway-ready all-electric car to market, but the car remains a luxury ...

Study: 'Fossil Fuels' Hidden Cost Billions, Ethanol Worse' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Burning fossil fuels costs the U.S. about $120 billion a year in health costs, a report from the National Academy of Sciences said, according to the New York Times, mostly because of thousands of premature deaths from air pollution...

Immersed in innovation
Nuwong Chollacoop, an engineering scientist who has just received a Green Talent Award from the German federal government, may strike you as resembling more of a corporate hotshot than a man of the laboratory...

GreenShift Awarded Second Patent on Corn Oil Extraction - Earthtimes
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued notice that pending patent number 11/688,435 will be issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,608,729, titled " Method of ...

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow
GREELEY, Colo. The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century...

Video shows Toronto 18 convict testing bomb trigger - Toronto Star
Video of homegrown terrorist Zakaria Amara performing a trigger test on a remote detonation device that he built in the hope of launching a deadly explosives plot in downtown Toronto, was one of several exhibits made public on Tuesday by a Brampton ...

DOE Awards FDC Enterprises $4.9M for Cellulosic Ethanol Feedstock Delivery System Development (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, Ohio, was one of five winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production...

Comments (pop-up) (154) - RealClimate
EURœThere would almost certainly be EUR˜unknown unknowns EUR things we dont yet know that we dont know. A great example of that was the creation of the Antarctic polar ozone hole as a function of the increased amount of CFCs which was not ...

Biomass Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle for heat & power at . - Democratic Underground.com
aDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1390 Eckles Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA bDepartment of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Biomass Integrated ...

Plymouth Energy seeks $10 million to position for future (Le Mars Daily Sentinel)
Editor's note: This story is part one of a pair of stories looking deeper at the ethanol industry and Plymouth Energy's recent quest to raise $10 million for the ethanol plant...

Fossil Fuels' Hidden Cost Is in Billions, Study Says
Burning fossil fuels costs the United States about $120 billion a year in health costs, mostly because of thousands of premature deaths from air pollution, the National Academy of Sciences reported in a study issued Monday...

Study estimates added costs of US energy production, consumption - Oil & Gas Journal
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 20 -- US energy production and consumption cost an estimated $120 billion, primarily from motor vehicle and electric power plant emissions, beyond market prices in 2005, the National Research Council said in a study. Such added ...

Ethanol Plants Look to Chemicals to Help Ailing Business Model (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
A group of biotechnology and chemical companies are looking at the potential of using existing ethanol plant infrastructure to produce more profitable chemicals, the Wall Street Journal said, after ethanol producers have struggled in recent years...

Alternative fuel development struggles as financing dries up
Eric Wallace, CEO of Sunnyside Ethanol LLC, is still trying to secure financing for an ethanol plant he wants to build in Pennsylvania...

GreenShift Awarded Second Patent on Corn Oil Extraction
GreenShift Corporation announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued notice that pending patent number 11/688,435 will be issued as U.S. Patent No...

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 Awards FDC Enterprises $4.9M for Cellulosic Ethanol Feedstock Delivery System Development
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, Ohio, was one of five winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production...

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 ...

Beautiful, Safe, Affordable--And It Gets 100 Mpg: X Prize Picks Next Round of Automotive Contestants
X FACTOR: The X PRIZE field is down to 53 vehicles, including ZAP!'s three-wheeled electric-powered Alias pictured here with a high school-aged driver, all racing to achieve 100 miles-per-gallon of fuel equivalent...

More Ethanol Back Online (AgWeb.com)
The U.S. ethanol industry shows signs of a rebound...

As climate bill looms, Colo. city's stench starts smelling like fresh opportunity
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...

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...

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 ...

Cow manure as clean energy: Greeley aims to turn methane gas into . - Coloradoan
GREELEY EUR” The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days its more than just a potent reminder of the regions agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the citys outskirts. The ...

Is There Any Truth About Gas Prices In This Letter To The Editor?
If we have engaged our agricultural powerhouse into growing crops for ethanol, we could become a major exporter of ethanol fuels, and we could find ourselves in control of the world's economy, instead of at its mercy. ...

Liveblogging: OnDC panel, Entrepreneurs March on Washington
Panelists: Henrik Fisker, CEO Fisker Automotive; Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme; Wes Bolsen, CMO of Coskata; Andrew Perlman, GreatPoint Energy...

Qld drivers $175m poorer
UP to $175 million has gone from motorists' pockets since the State Government axed Queensland's fuel subsidy three months ago...



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