Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/16/2008
UF Research Mines Waste For Ethanol Production - Tampa Tribune
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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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Amyris Opens Pilot Plant to Produce Renewable Diesel Fuel - MarketWatch
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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.... | |
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 ... | |
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... | |
Al Gore for Secretary of State By Rachel Marsden Last week, radio king Rush Limbaugh riffed on the idea of "the haughty John Kerry" being appointed Secretary of State in an Obama Administration, traveling the globe and stepping in it ... | |
UF Research Mines Waste For Ethanol Production Inside his bright, new laboratory at the University of Florida, researcher Lonnie Ingram is trying to build a better bug... | |
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... | |
Ethanol fuel to meet energy requirements: Zaka Ashraf - Pakistan Observer
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Ethanol Plant Draws National Attention (KCBD-TV Lubbock) The Levelland Hockley County Ethanol is unique because it uses 100% local grain sorghum or milo to produce its ethanol. NewsChannel 11's Katie Bauer. .. | |
Bush farm policies touted Outgoing U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer urged President-elect Barack Obama not to abandon the Bush administration's farm policies and to expand American farmers' reach to the world... | |
Alternative Fuels: Retooled Approach May Make Bio-based Butanol More Competitive With Ethanol (Science Daily) A modified method of producing biobutanol could make the fuel more competitive with ethanol as a clean-burning alternative to gasoline... | |
Hydrogen Energy, IEA-2008 World Energy, Climate Change and Fossil . - The Market Oracle
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Ethanol Plant Draws National Attention The ethanol plant in Levelland is drawing some nationwide attention. The plant employs a type of energy savings that goes right along with President Elect Barack Obama's energy plan... | |
Gasoline prices hit 20-month low all over the Valley - Arizona Republic
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Gasoline prices hit 20-month low all over the Valley Gas prices in Arizona have hit a 20-month low, with a rare few stations offering fuel under the $2 mark.Declining demand for oil worldwide has helped push down the average price per gallon about 2 cents a day ... | |
Growing Ethanol Production Minor Factor in Land Use Changes 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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. ... | |
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... | |
Biofuels impact on land use minimal - Stock and Land
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Researchers push butanol as biofuel answer 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... | |
Biofuels impact on land use minimal (Queensland Country Life) 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 1pc of total world cropland, according to a new report released by the Renewable Fuels Association... | |
BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit - Businesswire.com IRVINE, Calif.--( 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, has been invited to present at the ... | |
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 ... | |