Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/12/2008



Ethanol-food price fight fires up (The Argus Leader)
Corn is under $5 a bushel, gasoline is below $2 a gallon, but the cost of milk, ground beef and cereal remains on the rise in grocery stores across America - and Growth Energy, a new public policy organization formed by four leading ethanol producers, wants to know why. The group is a new voice in the ongoing national dispute about the role corn-based ethanol plays in rising fuel prices, and the ...

New lobbying group aims to defend ethanol industry (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. EUR” Several ethanol companies are forming a new group, Growth Energy, to promote their industry and lobby on government policy...

Ethanol's Cousin
BUTANOL HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN USED AS PAINT THINNER, CLEANER AND ADHESIVE, BUT AS A FUEL ADDITIVE IT CONTAINS MORE ENERGY THAN ETHANOL...

Ethanol Fuels Debate in Nebraska
Candidates for an open US Senate seat in Nebraska faced off at the state fair in Lincoln this weekend and ethanol was a topic of debate. Republican Mike Johanns, Democrat Scott Kleeb and Green Party candidate Steve Larrick all discussed ...

Saving GM may be a key for energy independence
General Motors for years made its living by producing fuel gulping trucks and SUV's. Critics say management made bad decisions and should suffer the consequences...

bluefire ethanol fuels, inc.: bluefire ethanol to present at the .
irvine, ca (market wire) bluefire ethanol fuels, inc. (otcbb: bfre), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has been invited to present at the ...

Credit crunch snares clean-tech investors
Earlier this year, with the oil price at record heights, T. Boone Pickens, a celebrated Texas oilman, seemed to confirm the unstoppable growth of the clean-technology industry when he announced plans not only ...

ASTM Developing New Test Method for Relative Corrosivity of .
Test results will indicate the degree to which corrosion of iron components can be expected from ethanol fuels. The test will rate the fuels anti-rust properties in preparation for the various stages through which the tested product ...

Debate: The Ripple Effects of Biofuels - New York Times

New York Times

Debate: The Ripple Effects of Biofuels
New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago
The latest salvo from the industry side is a 14-page report to be released on Wednesday by the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry group. .
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Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel - MarketWatch

Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel
MarketWatch - 7 hours ago
Earlier this year, Amyris established Amyris-Crystalsev Biofuels, a Brazilian venture in partnership with Crystalsev, one of Brazil's largest ethanol .
Amyris brews barrels of diesel from sugarcane San Francisco Chronicle
Amyris: We're Better Than Biodiesel, Ethanol or Gas Greentech Media
Amyris opens plant to make diesel from sugar cane CNET News
Triangle Business Journal - Cleantech Group
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This time
The price of gasoline is at its lowest in almost two years. Normally that would mean a spurt in SUV purchases and a return to our old ways of wasting our natural resources...

Butanol gets backing as a rival to ethanol (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A bio-refinery in Marion, Ohio, is still under construction. The plant when completed will process about 30,000 bushels of corn an hour, producing about 65 million gallons of corn-based ethanol annually...

ALL Fuels & Energy Divests Land Holdings, Will Apply New Funds to . - MSN MoneyCentral
ALL Fuels & Energy AFSE announced that it has sold its 160 acres located in Manchester, Iowa, following the board of directors determining that AFSE would be better positioned for strategic acquisitions and vertical integration in the ethanol ...

Green news harvest: Algae progress, corn ethanol woes (CNET)
Algae demonstration plant in Colorado, Pacific Ethanol's quarterly loss, a peek at a quiet clean-tech energy investor, using biomass from Hurricane Ike instead of coal, Fisker expands in Michigan, and the ethanol "blend wall."..

'Illinois is made . the president is from our state'
At parties across the Fox Valley last Tuesday night, people shared "I know Barack" stories...

when will we switch to ethanol,instead of regular, unleaded fuel?
Kyle asked: my truck can run on unleaded fuel or ethanol but i dont know if, i have unleaded fuel . Are ethanol fuels safe for a regular gas engine car? Nightflyer asked: Are ethanol fuels safe for a regular gas engine car? ...

ALL Fuels & Energy Divests Land Holdings, Will Apply New Funds to . - MarketWatch

ALL Fuels & Energy Divests Land Holdings, Will Apply New Funds to .
MarketWatch - Nov 10, 2008
"We believe our higher liquidity will serve us well in the ethanol industry at this time." Visit the company online at: www.allfuelsandenergy.com. ALL Fuels .
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U-M launches strategy to turn energy innovation into reality
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-President-elect Barack Obama has proposed putting a million American-made plug-in hybrid electric vehicles getting 150 mpg on the road by 2015, but it's hard to know if that goal is ...

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BOB ZUBRIN: Solve the financial crisis by destroying OPEC. "By making America a flex-fuel vehicle market, we will effectively make flex-fuel the international standard, as all significant foreign car-makers ...

David C. Aldous to Join Range Fuels as CEO - PR Inside
- OutCast Communications Heather Milne, 215-875-8138 hmilne@outcastpr.com Range Fuels, Inc., a company focused on green energy and the production of cellulosic ethanol, today announced that David C. Aldous has joined the company as Chief Executive ...

EPA Must Propose a Science-Based Fuel Rule That Advances . - MarketWatch

EPA Must Propose a Science-Based Fuel Rule That Advances .
MarketWatch - Nov 10, 2008
For instance, the standard requires that more than half of the biofuels must be advanced ethanol or cellulosic ethanol, which must reduce lifecycle global .
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EPIC: Consumers say biofuels key to long-term energy solutions
EPIC: Consumers say biofuels key to long-term energy solutions Nov. 12, 2008 OMAHA -- Biofuels top the list as the most acceptable avenue to long-term energy security in the U.S. That's the conclusion of a ...

World Ethanol Market to Reach 27.7 Billion Gallons by 2012 . - PR Web (press release)

World Ethanol Market to Reach 27.7 Billion Gallons by 2012 .
PR Web (press release), WA - Nov 10, 2008
Regulatory riders imposed by most governments in the developed markets are additionally helping perk up demand for ethanol in fuels. In the United States, .
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Ethanol Group Promotes Green Future
Ethanol industry leaders, including Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc., have launched a new advocacy group, Growth Energy, to further educate the public and policy makers about ethanol and how it fits in ...

Credit crunch puts ethanol plant on hold (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Construction of an ethanol plant in East Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, is being delayed because the company can't secure financing for the project amid the national financial crisis, a local official said Tuesday...

Betting on a butanol biofuel
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.-- Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings...

Ethanol makers push U.S. to boost fuel blend rate (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The U.S. government should set the ethanol-to-gasoline blend rate above the current 10 percent to ensure federal targets for using the renewable fuel are met, industry leaders said on Tuesday...

Researchers push butanol as biofuel answer - BusinessWeek

Researchers push butanol as biofuel answer
BusinessWeek - 20 hours ago
Butanol has traditionally been used as paint thinner, cleaner and adhesive, but as a fuel additive it contains more energy than ethanol and could be blended .
Credit crunch puts ethanol plant on hold Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Amyris Opens First Pilot Plant for Renewable Diesel Fuel
Amyris Biotechnologies , Inc. has opened its first pilot plant producing renewable diesel fuel, which it brands "No Compromise". Amyris engineers new metabolic pathways in industrial microbes to produce a large ...

From woodchips to ethanol - KUSA-TV
DENVER - Donning a hard hat, smock and goggles, Bud Klepper walked the grounds of Range Fuels' thermo-chemical conversion plant. "You're looking at the very first plant of this type in the world, you'll see more of this," said Klepper. Klepper is the ...

Solve The Financial Crisis, Bankrupt OPEC
Disclaimer: This article is a blog post and does not represent the views or opinions of Reiten Television, KXNet.com, its staff and associates and is wholly owned by the user who posted this content...

Green Tech - CNET News
Amyris Biotechnologies on Wednesday announced the opening of a pilot facility in Emeryville, Calif., that turns sugar cane into diesel fuel through genetically designed microbes. The company is at the forefront of a commercial movement to use ...

ethanol fuels rnc
during the republican national convention this week, delegates have been educated about ethanol in the state of minnesota in several ways, thanks to the american lung association of the upper midwest clean air choice team. ...

Ethanol plant dead; another a possiblility (The Gleaner)
A long-discussed corn-to-ethanol project here is dead, but another alternative energy project -- perhaps converting garbage into gasoline -- could take its place...

The Behind-the-Scenes Struggle Over Ethanol - US News and World Report
In preparation for what promises to be a heated debate over biofuels under the Obama administration, the much-maligned ethanol industry is pushing to regain some of its lost luster. Today, in the latest thrust of a lobbying war raging in Washington ...

Governor awards $4 million Renewable Fuels Development grant for . - IGNN (press release)

Governor awards $4 million Renewable Fuels Development grant for .
IGNN (press release), IL - 9 minutes ago
The program is designed to increase the production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels in Illinois and expand the market and demand for Illinois agricultural .
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Obama to Back Ailing Ethanol Makers, Follow Failed Bush Policy - Bloomberg
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to support unprofitable U.S. ethanol producers and pursue the same policies that failed George W. Bush . Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, the second- biggest corn-growing state ...

The Behind-the-Scenes Struggle Over Ethanol (US News & World Report)
Obama supports biofuels, but competing interests are fighting over the course of ethanol policy...

Gas/Ethanol Fuels: Tank Up!
Safe? Gas/Ethanol Fuels: Tank Up!..

Ethanol's cousin holds promise (El Paso Times)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings...

Will Plummeting Gas Prices Hurt the Push for Alternative Fuels? - ABC News
"When oil prices dropped, it killed that push to ethanol EUR and you could have that happen again," says Chad Hart, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. But there is a safety net this time, he and others agree: the US Renewable Fuel ...

Feds were warned of biofuel problems
The Harper government was warned by its own experts at Environment Canada two years ago that a multibillion-dollar plan to boost production of green fuels could cause more problems than benefits, Canwest News ...

Ottawa was warned of biofuel problems
The Harper government was warned by its own experts at Environment Canada two years ago that a multibillion-dollar plan to boost production of green fuels could cause more problems than benefits, Canwest News ...

Range Fuels names new CEO - Denver Business Journal
Range Fuels Inc. on Thursday named David Aldous EUR” former executive vice president of strategy and portfolio for Royal Dutch Shell in London EUR” as CEO. Range Fuels, a cellulosic ethanol company, is based in Broomfield. Mitch Mandich, founding CEO ...

Saving GM may be a key for energy independence - Midwest Voices
General Motors for years made its living by producing fuel gulping trucks and SUV's. Critics say management made bad decisions and should suffer the consequences. Maybe. But there is more to the story. It's also true that GM for many years has been ...

Range Fuels Taps Oil Exec - Red Herring
Range Fuels, the Khosla Ventures-backed cellulosic ethanol startup, announced on Thursday that longtime oil exec David C. Aldous has joined the company as chief executive officer. Mr. Aldous has spent 28 years in the energy, oil, and petrochemical ...

ETHANOL GIANT VERASUN FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
For every acre of land pulled into production for ethanol fuels, an acre is removed from production for feeding out cattle. The continued push to produce ethanol will only fuel the competition between those who want corn to feed out ...

Butanol seen as way to end ethanols hold on biofuels (The Oklahoman)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. EUR” Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings. Butanol traditionally has been used as paint thinner, cleaner and adhesive, but as a fuel additive it contains more energy than ethanol and could be blended into existing cars at higher percentages. And unlike ethanol, butanol does not eat ...

New lobbying group aims to defend ethanol industry
Washington, D.C. - Several ethanol companies are forming a new group, Growth Energy, to promote their industry and lobby on government policy...

Unique Fuel Conversion System For Ethanol Power Cars
The choice of alternative fuel sources is larger today than it has ever been before. Take advantage of flex-fuel conversion system and run your ethanol cars on economic alcohol or ethanol fuels instead of traditional gasoline...

IEA: world's energy use is 'patently unsustainable'
The International Energy Agency raised an alarm on Wednesday with the release of its annual report , saying that a revolution in the energy business is required to maintain economic growth and stabilize ...

Saving GM may be a key for energy independence - Kansas City Star

Saving GM may be a key for energy independence
Kansas City Star, MO - 2 hours ago
But ethanol produced efficiently from sugar cane in Brazil has made that nation nearly independent of fossil fuels. In addition, recent reports of research .
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ElectraTherm Secures $2.6M Series A Capital and Adds New Dealers for .
CARSON CITY, Nev. November 12, 2008 -- 'ElectraTherm's disruptive technology is truly rewriting the book on clean energy production,' said ElectraTherm investor Mike Acheson, Managing Director of Interlaken ...

Ethanol makers push US to boost fuel blend rate - Reuters

Ethanol makers push US to boost fuel blend rate
Reuters - 21 hours ago
During the campaign, President-elect Barack Obama supported the ethanol mandate and development of renewable fuels. US gasoline consumption is around 140 .
The Behind-the-Scenes Struggle Over Ethanol U.S. News & World Report
Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Joins Industry in Launching . MarketWatch
Ethanol CEOs announce new group to promote renewable fuel Sioux Falls Argus Leader
CattleNetwork.com - DesMoinesRegister.com
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Report Indicates Little Land Use Impact for Ethanol Production
The amount of agricultural land required to produce 15 billion gallons of grain ethanol in the United States by 2015, as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act , is likely to be less than 1 ...

Mechanics Blame Ethanol Fuel for Engine Woes - MyFox Memphis

Mechanics Blame Ethanol Fuel for Engine Woes
MyFox Memphis, TN - 2 hours ago
"Well they say that the ethanol is going bad fast and it's deteriorating fuel lines and primer bulbs, and messing up carburetors. .
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Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel
Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. today announced that it has opened its first pilot plant producing No Compromise renewable diesel fuel...

Solix Biofuels raises $10.5 million in Series A financing; will .
. East Coast Energy Solutions down to five Pennsylvania finalists for 40 Mgy ethanol facility; BioEnergy International closes $201 million financing for 100 Mgy ethanol complex in Pennsylvania; BlueFire Ethanol Fuels ready to break ...

Trouble in Your Tank?: Ethanol Fuels More Problems Than It Solves
Ethanol Fuels More Problems Than It SolvesEURť by Thomas Millette, MHC associate professor of geography. He selected these sites. EUR˘ A January, 2008, article from US News & World Report discusses EURśThe Pros and Cons of 8 Green Fuels.EURť ...

Ethanol-food price fight fires up
Corn is under $5 a bushel, gasoline is below $2 a gallon, but the cost of milk, ground beef and cereal remains on the rise in grocery stores across America - and Growth Energy, a new public policy organization ...



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