Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/21/2008
| Central bankers wary of deflation Euro zone demand is plunging and price pressures vanishing, business surveys showed on Friday, while central bankers weighed the bleak prospect of deflation... | |
Angola: MPs Weigh Up Importance of Bio-Fuels (AllAfrica.com) The production of bio-fuels in Angola represents a challenge to the Government that has as its strategic priority the fight against poverty that affects most of the population, as a result of the 30-year civil war that devastated the country... | |
RFA: IndyCar Needs to Rethink Brazilian Ethanol Decision - AgWeb
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RFA: IndyCar Needs to Rethink Brazilian Ethanol Decision (AgWeb.com) Response to Indy's decision on Brazilian ethanol.. | |
Economy puts ethanol's future in doubt SAN PIERRE, Ind. - The air smells clean and sweet off the sprawling corn and spearmint fields, but for this unincorporated town of 156, it is the smell of failure - the failure to reap the rewards of the ... | |
Biofuels run into trouble - Reuters
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Brazil pleads for opening market for bio-fuels (People's Daily) Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim pleaded Thursday for the opening of markets to commercial bio-fuels and the ending of protectionism against the new source of energy. "Brazil continues insisting on the potential of the bio-fuel as a tool of economic and social transformation in the poorest countries," Amorim said at the "International Conference on Bio-fuels" in Sao Paulo. Amorim said ... | |
New Analysis Shows Ethanol Co-Products Dramatically Extend Corn . - and weather
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Ethanol in your boat fuel? Are marine engines compatible with ethanol fuels? The fuel-system components of most marine engines will withstand up to 10 percent ethanol in gasoline , the maximum level currently allowed in the US It is not legal in the US to market ... | |
Fed's Bullard: U.S. deflation an issue Fed must face Deflation would be very damaging to the United States economy and with nominal interest rates already very low, quantitative easing may be needed to keep it at bay, a top Federal Reserve official said on ... | |
American Coalition for Ethanol : News 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 ... | |
The Verdict: "Fear and panic" Citigroup Inc shares plunged anew on Friday, breaking through the key level of $4 a share and reversing early gains on the news that the bank was mulling a variety of options to restore the bank's health... | |
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 ... | |
Top Ethanol Lobbyist Says Tough Times Ahead For Industry - All Headline News Washington, DC (AHN) - More ethanol companies may soon declare bankruptcy, and the industry will likely experience increased consolidation, the head of an ethanol trade group told a Washington, D.C. audience this week. Bob Dineen, the president of ... | |
The danger of low prices In the short to medium term, it is true that falling oil prices are good for the economy... | |
IndyCar Signs Ethanol Deal With Brazil Company - Inside Indiana Business The Indianapolis-based Indy Car Series has announced a partnership with APEX-Brasil to become the North American open-wheel circuit's official ethanol supplier. The deal includes cooperation from the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA ... | |
RFA: IndyCar Needs to Rethink Brazilian Ethanol Decision Responding to news the U.S. based IndyCar Series soon will be powered with Brazilian sugar can ethanol, rather than American corn-based ethanol, the Renewable Fuels Association is urging the race league to ... | |
Missing the Ethanol Boom (AG Weekly) SAN PIERRE, Ind. - The air smells clean and sweet off the sprawling corn and spearmint fields, but for this unincorporated town of 156, it is the smell of failure: the failure to reap the rewards of the ethanol boom... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes (Lexington Herald-Leader) Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth. But the global financial crisis has put the brakes on that boom, drying up foreign investment and domestic credit, stalling new projects and prompting cash-strapped ethanol producers to ... | |
Report: Ethanol fuels state economy (Grand Island Independent) Despite difficulties currently facing the nation's ethanol industry, a new report says it has been a boon to Nebraska's and the nation's economy over the last 30 years. According to the report released this week from the economic consulting firm LECG, LLC, since 1978 the U.S. ethanol industry has generated an estimated $33.4 billion in tax revenues for the federal government and nearly $17 ... | |
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly | Trouble in Your Tank?: Ethanol . 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 U.S. News & World Report discusses EURThe Pros and Cons of 8 Green Fuels.EUR ... | |
When agriculture and technology meet - Bureau County Republican Visitors to the grand opening of the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant near Annawan last week had the opportunity to tour the Monsanto Mobile Technology Unit. In addition to a film and displays, the unit included a table-sized model of the entire ... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes (San Francisco Chronicle) Brazil's biofuel industry/a> Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth. But the global financial crisis has put the brakes on that boom, drying up foreign investment and domestic credit, stalling new projects and prompting cash-strapped ethanol producers to ... | |
Report: Ethanol fuels state economy (Grand Island Independent) Despite difficulties currently facing the nation's ethanol industry, a new report says it has been a boon to Nebraska's and the nation's economy over the last 30 years. According to the report released this week from the economic consulting firm LECG, LLC, since 1978 the U.S. ethanol industry has generated an estimated $33.4 billion in tax revenues for the federal government and nearly $17 ... | |
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly | Trouble in Your Tank?: Ethanol . 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 U.S. News & World Report discusses EURThe Pros and Cons of 8 Green Fuels.EUR ... | |
When agriculture and technology meet - Bureau County Republican Visitors to the grand opening of the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant near Annawan last week had the opportunity to tour the Monsanto Mobile Technology Unit. In addition to a film and displays, the unit included a table-sized model of the entire ... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes (San Francisco Chronicle) Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth. But the global financial crisis has put the brakes on that... | |
Boom goes bust for Brazil's biofuels Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugar cane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth... | |
Brazil pleads for opening market for bio-fuels (Eastday.com) Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim pleaded day for the opening of markets to commercial bio-fuels and the ending of protectionism against the new source of energy... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes - The Associated Press
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Pedestrians walk past a Citibank branch in Singapore, November 18, 2008. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest ... | |
IndyCar Series Partners with APEX-Brasil as Official Ethanol Supplier - PR Inside In an effort to communicate the many options in which ethanol can be produced and to enhance its position as a global commodity, the IndyCar Series -- which has been at the forefront of the greening of racing and embraced renewable fuels since 2006 ... | |
Brazil defends biofuels expansion, says not impacting food prices The rapid expansion of biofuels production in Brazil, the world's largest ethanol exporter, does not contribute to global food price inflation, the country's energy minister said Friday, rebutting a common ... | |
Stepping on the ethanol may help reduce emissions - Times Union Q: Several months ago, I noticed a difference in the smell of gasoline at a Mobil station in Clifton Park. I also noticed a new sticker on the pump, which said the gas contained 10 percent ethanol. A manager told me that a new state law mandated the ... | |
Gas/Ethanol Fuels: Tank Up! Safe? Gas/Ethanol Fuels: Tank Up!.. | |
Dave Franchino Presents Alternative Fuel Technology at . - MarketWatch
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Dell profit tops Street view, shares rise Dell Inc, the world's No. 2 PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as cost cuts offset lower revenue, sending its shares up about 6 percent... | |
Tech looks to raise bets on healthcare An aging population, spiraling medical costs and increasingly poor service are spurring more computer firms to bet on healthcare and what many of them see as a lucrative -- but relatively untapped -- market... | |
Ethanol slump blindsides US corn growers - guardian.co.uk
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Aegon's bid for U.S. rescue cash doomed A Dutch insurer's experimental bid to tap the U.S. government for bailout cash looks doomed to failure, closing off an avenue for other insurers... | |
Butanol Could be a Much Better Gas Replacement Than Ethanol : Gas 2.0 Also, from a performance point of view, the ethanol fuels have higher octane than gasoline, so significantly smaller engines can be made to run high turbo boost, delivering the sort of performance fat Americans (guilty! ... | |
Ethanol future remains strong in Iowa (KWWL Iowa) DYERSVILLE (KWWL) -- One of the state's largest ethanol producers filed for bankruptcy last month... | |
Drill Later, Somewhere Else The Democrats are securing their power over the government, and over our daily lives... | |
Alternative Fuels: Retooled Approach May Make Bio-based Butanol More . - Science Daily ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2008) EUR A modified method of producing biobutanol could make the fuel more competitive with ethanol as a clean-burning alternative to gasoline. According to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemical engineer Nasib Qureshi ... | |
Oil and grain costs way down, but consumer food prices still up The release of the Consumer Price Index for October proves what too many Americans already have learned the hard way: input costs for food processors are way down but the prices they charge grocery shoppers ... | |
Editorial: Natural gas would lessen US oil dependency - U-Wire.com 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. But with the recent ... | |
Syntec Biofuel Launching Research Program to Produce Bio-butanol and Bio-propanol from Biomass Syntec Biofuel Inc is launching a research program to develop catalysts and processes to optimize its production of bio-butanol and bio-propanol from biomass... | |
Brazil pleads for opening market for bio-fuels Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim pleaded Thursday for the opening of markets to commercial bio-fuels and the ending of protectionism against the new source of energy... | |
Leading by example on climate change, says P.E.I. With little new money to spend on renewable energy and climate change, P.E.I. Environment Minister George Webster said Wednesday the province intends to lead by example... | |
Large Illinois Ethanol Maker Scraps One Plant, Delays Construction Of . - All Headline News Aurora, NE (AHN) - A major U.S. ethanol producer has halted construction of a new bio-fuels refinery in Nebraska and slowed the construction of another facility in Indiana. Aventine Renewable Energy's Indiana plant had been scheduled to open early ... | |
Food Before Fuel coalition: Repeal ethanol subsidies - Ethanol Producer Magazine
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Flexible-fuel vehicles developing fast - China Economic Net
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Government urged not to cave in over biofuels A NEW multi-million pound industry vital to the rebirth of the region is threatened if the Government caves in to the "biofuels scare", ministers were told yesterday... | |
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 future remains strong in Iowa One of the state's largest ethanol producers filed for bankruptcy last month. Now, South Dakota based VeraSun Energy reportedly sent an e-mail to producers and grain elevators saying it's closing its Dyersville ... | |
US raises ethanol fuel standard for 2009 - United Press International
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BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit - MarketWatch
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BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and . . Archer Daniels Midland Co, Aventine Renewable Energy Inc, Cargill Inc, Chief Ethanol Fuels Inc, Copersucar, Cosan S/A Ind e ComĂrcio, Delta-T, Glacial Lakes Energy LLC, Greenfield Ethanol Inc, Green Star Products Inc, ICrystal Inc, ... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes (AP via Yahoo! News) Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth... | |
Indianapolis 500 is ethanols latest battleground - St. Louis Post-Dispatch The ethanol industry tends to issue a press release after any perceived slight, and the targets usually are Big Oil or the food industry. This week, its taking on the hallowed ground of auto racing, the Indianapolis 500. The IndyCar Series ... | |
Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes - Associated Press SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth. But the global financial ... | |
Salad Days May Be Waning For Valley Beef Farmers Cattle are auctioned off at the Shenandoah Valley Livestock Auction Saturday. The poor economy has those in the state's beef industry concerned about how producers will fare financially... | |
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 ... | |
A Primer On E85 Ethanol | AvtoRentaCar 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 ... |
