Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/14/2008



It's time to rev our engines
Maybe propane's role as a motor fuel will finally find some traction now that the Propane Education & Research Council is committing big bucks to equipment development and promotion...

Researchers push butanol as biofuel answer to ethanol's shortcomings (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) EUR Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin may overcome some of its shortcomings...

Editorial: Natural gas would lesson US oil dependency (Baylor Lariat)
In the last few years, skyrocketing gasoline prices have given a large push for alternative fuels. Ethanol, wind and solar-powered turbines, natural gas, along with many other ideas, have gushed out of the scientific world...

Patriot says thanks - Bureau County Republican
Audie Sturtewagen explains the operations of the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant to a group of visitors Thursday. The Annawan plant began operations on Aug. 29, and visitors flocked to its grand opening, held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday ...

Grocery industry taking advantage
As farm commodity producers who also shop at the grocery store, the members of the Iowa Soybean Association think it's time all consumers are aware that the grocery industry seems to be taking advantage of ...

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit
IRVINE, Calif., Nov 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, ...

Ethanol giants team up to fight "grocers' smears" (vnunet.com)
John Sterlicchi, BusinessGreen , Friday 14 November 2008 at 09:55:00 Biofuel companies defend accusations that corn-based ethanol is directly to blame for high food prices American corn-based ethanol companies EUR furious at being blamed for lingering high food prices EUR have formed a new lobby group to fight their cause....

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 ...

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 ...

Brazil's Role in a Soon-to-be Ethanol Market of 28 Bi Gallons a Year - Brazzil Magazine
The world ethanol market is projected to reach 27.7 billion gallons by the year 2012 thanks to skyrocketing crude prices, rising concerns over environmental pollution, and the consequent switch towards alternate fuels. Stringent legislation of ...

Rochelle Ethanol Plant Expanding (WIFR Rockford)
The Stateline is getting a boost in cutting edge ethanol production and in jobs. Local economic leaders believe expansion of the Rochelle ethanol plant will rocket our region to the forefront of biofuel technology...

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 ...

Brazil Ethanol Competitive Despite Lower Oil Prices - CattleNetwork.com
SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--Despite crude oil prices plunging by more than 50% since July, Brazil ethanol remains competitive in terms of price, and demand for the alternative fuel isn't expected to change significantly, sector analysts said. Although ...

Range Fuels delays opening of Georgia plant - Denver Post
Range Fuels Inc., a cellulosic ethanol developer founded by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, delayed the opening of its plant in Soperton, Ga., for a year to improve the production process, the company's chief executive said Friday. The Broomfield ...

Time running out for hybrid incentives
A little while after hybrid cars became available on the market federal and provincial governments decided to help buyers out...

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: Seriously, who thought this was a good idea??? - Examiner.com

Examiner.com

Ethanol: Seriously, who thought this was a good idea???
Examiner.com - 8 hours ago
Now, let's have that same driver drive the same 15000 miles a year, using an ethanol blend of fuel that reduces the fuel mileage by 3mpg, to an average of .
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Ethanol makers push US to boost fuel blend rate - Reuters

Ethanol makers push US to boost fuel blend rate
Reuters - Nov 11, 2008
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
Ethanol CEOs announce new group to promote renewable fuel Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Ethanol Producers Form Organization To Help In Energy Debate CattleNetwork.com
DesMoinesRegister.com - Domestic Fuel
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Stratos Renewables Participates at Rohstoffmesse Equity Capital . - MarketWatch

Stratos Renewables Participates at Rohstoffmesse Equity Capital .
MarketWatch - Nov 13, 2008
. on the emissions generated by the burning of that fuel. Ethanol significantly reduces harmful exhaust emissions, which contribute to global warming. .
Ethanol CEOs announce new group to promote renewable fuel Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Ethanol Producers Form Organization To Help In Energy Debate CattleNetwork.com
DesMoinesRegister.com - Domestic Fuel
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Stratos Renewables Participates at Rohstoffmesse Equity Capital . - MarketWatch

Stratos Renewables Participates at Rohstoffmesse Equity Capital .
MarketWatch - Nov 13, 2008
. on the emissions generated by the burning of that fuel. Ethanol significantly reduces harmful exhaust emissions, which contribute to global warming. .
Stratos Renewables Participates at Rohstoffmesse Equity Capital . Trading Markets (press release)
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Dennis Newman: Change needed on ethanol - Summit Daily News

Dennis Newman: Change needed on ethanol
Summit Daily News, CO - 22 hours ago
One of the worst programs to come out of Washington the last few years was the mandate to use more ethanol in our fuels. The resulting conversion of corn .
Ethanol giants team up to fight "grocers' smears" Business Green
Ethanol Group Forms To Improve Industry's Image AHN
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Letter From Langdon: Vilsack as ag secretary? So be it
Tom Vilsack and writer Richard Oswald in St. Joe. Most years - even an election year - nothing much that's newsworthy ever happens around Langdon...

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 ...

EPA pushes sustainability via university grants
EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet program demonstrates that protecting the environment can also be economically profitable, according to the agency...

Construction on huge ethanol plant grinds to halt
Approximately 500 workers building an ethanol plant in Mount Vernon were pulled off the project yesterday, according to WFIE Channel 14 in Evansville...

Local briefs: Murder hearing; energy task force; book signing;.
The preliminary hearing for a woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband has been delayed until 1 p.m. Dec...

Henderson ethanol plant scrapped (Evansville Courier & Press)
A long-discussed corn-to-ethanol project in Henderson is dead, but another alternative energy project -- perhaps converting garbage into gasoline -- could take its place...

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...

Election Reflections From The BEEF Quality Summit
At last week's BEEF Quality Summit, Burton Eller and Terry Stokes from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association discussed the impacts of the election on issues relative to the beef industry...

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. ...

Oil-price dip is fueling some discontent
Oil prices are up to $145 a barrel. No, they're down to $55. The roller-coaster ride may be making U.S. drivers happy - or at least saving them some of the extra money they spent going to work and on vacation ...

ACE Elects Board and Executive Committee Members
. Minnkota Power Cooperative Treasurer - Owen Jones, 4-Seasons Cooperative In addition, Duane Kristensen of Chief Ethanol Fuels and Lars Herseth, the board's at-large representative, will also serve on the ACE Executive Committee. ...

Powered by Pond Scum?
Turning pea-green pond scum into cheap fuel for automobiles and airplanes is still years away, but supporters are still betting heavily with infusions of venture capital money and intensive research...

Vilsack in Obama's cabinet?
Former governor being considered as agriculture secretary By James Q. Lynch The Gazette Former Iowa Gov...

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 ...

Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel - MarketWatch

Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel
MarketWatch - Nov 12, 2008
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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Corn: Food, feed and fuel
OKLAHOMA CITY Joe Outlaw admitted he got a little nervous when his father said he'd heard Outlaw talking on the radio...

Growing evidence ethanol industry can produce food AND fuel - The Daily Kenoshan

Growing evidence ethanol industry can produce food AND fuel
The Daily Kenoshan, Wisconsin - Nov 12, 2008
EURIn fact, many ethanol plants, like the one operated by Didion Ethanol, are producing both food and fuel from corn.EUR A recent policy brief by Growth Energy, .
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Market more powerful than big oil
It seems like yesterday mobs clamored for government to spank Big Oil for gouging...

Questions Surround Mount Vernon Ethanol Plant - Inside Indiana Business
Construction on an ethanol plant in Posey County has apparently stopped. WFIE-TV in Evansville is reporting Illinois-based Aventine Alternative Energy LLC has told workers to leave the site in Mount Vernon. About 500 workers have been involved in the ...

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
IRVINE, Calif.----BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. , 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 Cellulosic Ethanol Summit at the Westin Colonnade Hotel in Coral Gables, FL, November 17 EUR 19, 2008...

Dennis Newman: Change needed on ethanol
One of the worst programs to come out of Washington the last few years was the mandate to use more ethanol in our fuels...

Editorial: Natural gas would lesson US oil dependency - Baylor University The Lariat Online

Editorial: Natural gas would lesson US oil dependency
Baylor University The Lariat Online, TX - 17 hours ago
In the last few years, skyrocketing gasoline prices have given a large push for alternative fuels. Ethanol, wind and solar-powered turbines, natural gas, .
Expect more rules, regulations Jack County Herald
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OUTDOORS: Get your boat ready now for winter
With cold blasts of winter air already affecting us, and the Old Farmers Almanac predicting one of the coldest winters in decades, now is the time to get your boat ready...

American Coalition for Ethanol Elects Board Officers
In addition, Duane Kristensen of Chief Ethanol Fuels and Lars Herseth, the board's at-large representative, will also serve on the ACE Executive Committee. "We are honored to have such diverse grassroots leadership and experience ...

New Ethanol Plant Headed to Northern Illinois (WIFR Rockford)
Another plant expected to turn 18 million bushels of corn a year into 50 million gallons of ethanol is headed to northern Illinois...

A Primer On E85 Ethanol
Environmentalists are generally in favor of ethanol fuels because air pollution would be reduced. Emissions of hydrocarbons and benzene are less than gasoline. Carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere but is reabsorbed by the plants ...

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit - MarketWatch

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit
MarketWatch - Nov 13, 2008
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. was established to deploy a commercially ready, patented, and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process for the .
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Vilsack said to fit ag secretary profile
The U.S. agriculture secretary must possess qualities beyond having experience in farming, agricultural and political experts say...

Tulsa equity capital firm Pennington Allen buys rest of Bliss Industries
TULSA Anticipating new and growing markets for hammermills and pelletmills, the Tulsa investment firm Pennington Allen Capital Partners bought the remaining 25 percent of Ponca City manufacturer Bliss ...

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? ...

Nymex Gasoline Futures Drop as Economic Slowdown Crimps Demand for Fuels
Gasoline futures fell for the third time in four days as the global economic slowdown cut demand in the largest energy-consuming countries...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers push higher-energy butanol as preferred biofuel - Seattle Post Intelligencer
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. Butanol has traditionally been used as paint thinner, cleaner and adhesive, but as a fuel ...

Ethanol plant up and running - Geneseo Republic

Ethanol plant up and running
Geneseo Republic, IL - 3 hours ago
By Lisa Depies Patriot Renewable Fuels, a 100-million gallon ethanol plant in Annawan, recently had an open house. The plant went into full operation .
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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...

Ford Fusion Hybrids to pace NASCAR race
Ford Motor Co. will provide NASCAR with a pair of its prototype Fusion Hybrid models as pace cars for its championship weekend in Miami...

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

Okla. researchers receive $15M grant to pursue alternative fuels (The Oklahoma Daily)
The National Science Foundation has given a $15 million grant to Oklahoma scientists to develop efficient alternative fuels...

Ethanol Future in Question
It's earth friendly. It's made right here in Kansas. But is ethanol really the wave of the future? Just last month, VeraSun, one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, filed bankruptcy, and canned plans to ...



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