Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 10/22/2009



Ethanol outlook: Where is the industry headed? (Le Mars Daily Sentinel)
Editor's note: This story is part two 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...

UN Study Calls for More Debate on Biofuels - Voice of America
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. The report has warnings for African countries, which are already struggling to ...

Palm Oil Biodiesel, Now With 2000% the Emissions of Fossil Fuels
Oil palm concession in Indonesia, photo: Hayden via flickr. Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these conditions can result in greenhouse gas emissions 2000% higher than fossil fuels...

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, ...

Algae: Secret weapon in climate change war?
Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum...

The pros and cons of biofuels : Ethanol tanks
ONCE upon a time, biofuels were thought of as a solution to fossil-fuel dependence...

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...

E-15:New fuel is bad news for outboard motors
Good day anglers and welcome to another week of Anglin' with Austin. I hope everyone is as excited as I am about the drop in water temperatures at our local lakes...

Enerkem's CEO to Address the Benefits and Challenges of Advanced Fuels at Platts 4th Annual Cellulosic Ethanol and 2nd . (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Vincent Chornet, President and Chief Executive Officer of Enerkem, a leading waste-to-biofuels and green chemicals technology company, speaks today at the Platts 4th Annual Cellulosic Ethanol and 2nd Generation Biofuels Conference...

Study shows corn ethanol less harmful for health (Queensland Country Life)
A recently-released study by the United States-based National Academy of Sciences examining the hidden health costs of energy has concluded that corn ethanol produced fewer health threats than electric cars dependent on fossil fuel-fired power plants...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
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 ...

ENERGY-BRAZIL: Elephant Grass for Biomass - Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 10 (IPS) - Sugarcane is gradually being edged out of pole position for biofuel efficiency, as studies by the Agrobiology Centre at the state Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) are finding that elephant grass has ...

UC Riverside Student Teams Win EPA P3 Competition Awards
UC Riverside is one of four California universities to win the Environmental Protection Agency's People, Prosperity and the Planet competition, which encourages college students to apply technology in innovative ways to tackle global environmental challenges...

Ethanol Refinery Turns Wood Chips Into Fuel
In other cellulosic news, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels says it is scrapping plans to open a second refinery in California, and will instead build it in Mississippi. The company had received a $40 million Department of Energy grant to help ...

A farmer harvests corn on a farm near in Spring Mills, Pa.
A farmer harvests corn on a farm near Spring Mills, Pa. According to current biofuel laws, if you burn ethanol from corn in your car, the government doesn't count the carbon dioxide that comes out of the tailpipe as an actual carbon emission...

On The Road with the Engine Answerman: 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. ...

Scum new weapon in climate war
Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum...

Study Finds Ethanol Blend Fuel More Efficient (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
High ethanol blends provide better energy conversion within an engine than other fuels, allowing motorists to travel farther on less energy, according to a recent University of Nebraska study. Because of that, E85 fuel may be the most efficient and most cost-effective fuel for flex-fuel vehicles, the McCook Gazette reported...

Report Focused on Hidden Energy Costs
A new report from the National Research Council looked at "hidden" costs of energy production and use...

Ethanol outlook: Where is the industry headed?
Editor's note: This story is part two 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...

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

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...

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...

Comments (pop-up) (68) - 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 ...

National Academies Report Examines Hidden Cost of Energy Production.
Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 and 2030 ...

The corn ethanol fiasco creates new opportunities
Both corn and fuel prices have dropped and farmers are now looking at lower returns on their corn crops this year...

Green Flight From California?
In California, cellulosic ethanol pioneer BlueFire Ethanol Fuels announced strategic relocation of its second planned biorefinery to Fulton, Mississippi. BlueFire will utilize green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock ...

Power plan: Top official says biofuel potential a enormousa for state
Kentucky and the nation can't do away with coal-generated electricity for decades to come, but the state can make progress in developing alternative energy sources, the state's energy chief said here Thursday...

Calculating Emissions Is Problematic - New York Times
The accounting irregularity even gives the impression that clearing the worlds forests, which absorb and thereby diminish heat-trapping carbon dioxide, is good for the climate, the scientists write in an article published Friday in the journal ...

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...

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 ...

Study finds ethanol blend fuel more efficient
Ethanol-blend fuel is usually the lowest price at the pump, but contains less energy, meaning lower mileage, right? Well, yes, but according to a study by the University of Nebraska, that's only part of the equation...

Auto - DailyTech
The stakes are high, as are the rewards when it comes to hybrids and alternative fuels In the 1970s or early 1980s many would have laughed if they were told that GM and Chrysler would go bankrupt and Honda and Toyota would ascend to the top of ...

Alternative Fuels Industry Looks to Second Generation Biofuels, a "Navigating the Currents of Change" Webcast on . (Marketwire)
SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - October 22, 2009) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Not a single ethanol or biodiesel plant has received funding to start construction in 2009 due to a stingy credit market and a drop in demand. Now, with government backing the use of non-food feedstocks to produce second generation, biofuels is coming to the forefront. For more ...

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 ...

Cars could run on algae 'within a few years'
US scientists are locked in a race to generate a viable fuel from algae, which occurs naturally and consumes large amounts of carbon dioxide Photo: EPA As it turns out, algae - slimy, fast-growing and full of fat - is gaining ground as a potential renewable energy source...

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...

Evolution Fuels Announces Branding Campaign and Fuel Station Rollout Strategy (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced its strategy for a rollout of "Evolution Fuels"-branded renewable fuel stations...

GE calls for trade deal in environmental goods
A deal freeing up trade in environmental goods and services is urgently needed to help global efforts to tackle climate change, General Electric Co said on Thursday...

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 ...

Advanced biofuels 'may stoke global warming'
By Gerard Wynn and Timothy Gardner London/Washington - A new generation of biofuels, meant to be a low-carbon alternative, will on average emit more carbon dioxide than burning gasoline over the next few decades, a study published in Science found on Thursday...

Enerkem's CEO to Address the Benefits and Challenges of Advanced.
The US government has mandated the production of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels by 2022, with 21 billion of these gallons required to qualify as advanced and cellulosic biofuels...

Evolution Fuels Initiates Awareness Program to Support Branding Strategy (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced its plans for bringing increased public awareness to the advantages of the use of renewable fuels within the retail transportation fuels market as part of its branding strategy...

Kauai power deal forged - Honolulu Advertiser
LIHU'E, Kaua'i EUR” Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative will buy electricity by April 2012 from a new power plant that burns both sugar cane and wood, it announced yesterday. Pacific West Energy LLC and the utility have agreed on key issues regarding a ...

Evolution Fuels Executes Letter of Intent to Acquire Fuel Stations in Alabama and Mississippi (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS -- Evolution Fuels, Inc. today announced that it has executed a letter of intent to acquire two existing and operational fuel stations, one located in southern Alabama and the other in central Mississippi...

Industry Built From Scratch - New York Times
MADISON, Pa. EUR” On one side of a factory here, workers dump 500-pound sacks of pine chips into a hopper. Deep inside the plant, an 8,000-degree blow torch roars like a jet engine as the chips are processed. At the far end, the workers turn a tap and ...

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 ...

Update On UF Renewable Fuels Center
One of the nation's largest farm shows is the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, GA. I've been attending thanks to the support of Growth Energy and covering the show on our AgWired website ...

Golden fuel systems is nothing but a heart less corporation .
Scott Schulte holds up two samples of used cooking oil to compare their quality in the garage of his Columbia home on Friday...

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 ...



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