Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/09/2009

Intel finalist tackles the cellulosic ethanol problem (Scientific American)
WASHINGTON, DC -- When gas prices were sky high, lots of people talked about ethanol as a fuel of the future. In particular, many investors placed their hopes in cellulosic ethanol.Such ethanol is made from the non-edible parts of corn, such as the stalk and leaves, but does not require the edible parts like the ethanol available today. That has raised concerns of pitting fuel versus food. But ...

EPA urged to raise ethanol blend rate
An ethanol trade group submitted a formal request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to boost the allowed ethanol-to-gasoline blend rate as high as 15 percent from the current cap of 10 ...

11 Midwest Ag secretaries ask Obama to raise ethanol blend to 15 or 20 percent
The Agriculture secretaries from eleven states sent a letter to President Obama today asking that the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline be raised to 15 or 20 percent...

Iowa State researchers developing clean, renewable energy for ethanol industry (PhysOrg)
Iowa State University researchers are working to produce clean, renewable energy by developing a new, low-emissions burner and a new catalyst for ethanol production...

Green Car Congress: Growth Energy and Ethanol Producers Request .
Economic Impacts of Increasing the Ethanol Blend Limit · Preliminary Comments on the DOE report prepared for OPEI. March 7, 2009 in Ethanol, Fuels, Policy | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0) ...

Eleven States Ask President to Raise Ethanol Cap
On Monday Agriculture secretaries Greg Ibach of Nerbaska , Bill Northey of Iowa and nine other Midwest Secretaries of Agriculture sent a letter to President Obama thanking him for his strong support of ...

Jolley: Hat In Hand, Renewable Fuels Association Pleads For Still More Federal Assistance (CattleNetwork.com)
Burdened by falling gasoline consumption and excess production capacity, ethanol producers appealed to the government on Friday to raise the 10% limit on ethanol in most gasoline blends to as much as 15%...

Iowa State researchers developing clean, renewable energy for ethanol industry
Song-Charng Kong, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering who studies combustion, is leading a research project that aims to develop new, clean and renewable energy technologies ...

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USDA chief backs boost of ethanol blend in gasoline
An increase in the ethanol-gasoline blend rate to 12 or 13 percent could be accomplished quickly and with minimal scientific review, giving a needed boost to the future of the industry, U.S. Agriculture ...

Researchers Developing Renewable Energy for Ethanol Industry (Newswise)
Researchers from Iowa State University, Frontline BioEnergy and Hawkeye Energy Holdings are using a $2.37 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund to develop new burner and catalyst technologies. The technologies will use gas made from biomass to efficiently produce ethanol and provide clean, renewable power for heating and drying equipment...

NEW: Vilsack pushes more ethanol in gas - Free Press
Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency last week to increase the amount of ethanol that refiners can blend with gasoline from a maximum of 10 percent to 15 percent, which could boost the demand for the renewable fuel additive by ...

Vilsack: US should boost ethanol blend in gasoline - AP - Guardian Unlimited
Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) Ã¢EUR” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government should move quickly to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline. Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency last week to ...

DRILL, BABY, DRILL
Drill for oil and natural gas in ANWR. Drill out on the continental shelves, even off Santa Barbara where the lefty locals would rather have Big Bad Oil carting the stuff off instead of it naturally leaking out ...

Vilsack: US should boost ethanol blend in gasoline - KSDK
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government should move quickly to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline. Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency last week to increase the amount of ...

Corn Ethanol Industry Attacks California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (GreenBiz)
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A week after taking aim at greenhouse gas emissions produced by chip makers , California has set its sights on a new target: climate change pollution generated by transportation fuels...

Cellulosic Ethanol Enzyme targetss biofuel production.
March 9, 2009 - Accellerase 1500 cellulosic ethanol enzyme product is critical to hydrolysis step of converting biomass to ethanol or other biochemicals; in this step, plant material is broken down into sugars ...

Groups trying to drive wedge between consumers, ethanol
New anti-ethanol commentary by environmental and food manufacturing organizations are EURœstirring up fearEUR among consumers at a time when all segments of the economy should be pulling together to bring about recovery...

Knox commissioner wants to tighten rules for employee vehicles
A Knox County commissioner is pushing to reduce the size of the county fleet and tighten up rules on use of county vehicles...

US firms urge to increase ethanol limits in fuel - MENAFN
(MENAFN) Growth Energy, a group of US ethanol firms, urged the government to increase the 10 percent limit on ethanol in motor fuel to 15 percent or more, in order to generate further demand at a time when many distilleries are idle, Los Angeles ...

Charge it to my car
It's the oddest looking car in India. This quirky, plastic two-seater has a visible following in its home town Bangalore, and is travelling to other cities in India and abroad - " especially London...

Biofuels for airlines promising, but hurdles remain
Biofuels could be used to fly commercial airlines within the next decade as a viable alternative to kerosene, although costs and concerns over environmental impact remain big barriers...

Cellulosic Ethanol Enzyme targetss biofuel production. (ThomasNet)
Accellerase 1500 cellulosic ethanol enzyme product is critical to hydrolysis step of converting biomass to ethanol or other biochemicals; in this step, plant material is broken down into sugars for fermentation to ethanol. It is used to produce ethanol or biochemicals from cellulosic feedstocks, such as corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, wood chips, wheat straw, and switchgrass. Accellerase 1500's ...

Alternative Energy's Sunny Outlook
Assuming that GDP growth is slightly negative for the next 3 to 4 quarters while the credit markets gradually strengthen, let's consider the outlook and opportunities for the Alternative Energy industry over ...

Shaping the energy mindset towards ethanol - Gulf News
Oil is up a little, down a little and gasoline is staying in the expensive range. It is going to be pretty difficult to get a solid read on the future of oil prices until we get a better grip on whether this worldwide economic slowdown is going to ...

Pelosi backs higher U.S. ethanol-to-gasoline blend - Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that she supported a higher ethanol-to-gasoline blend rate as a way to reduce reliance on petroleum imports. "It seems to me we should be able to do that," Pelosi told reporters after ...

Silobreaker: Boat owners fret over ethanol's effect on engines .
Ethanol fuels said to violate Islamic law. Plantagenet writes:A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be . - [3 hours ago - Peak Oil] ...

Information Forecast, Inc.: Infocast's Biomass Project.
On February 17th, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which includes a wide variety of provisions in support of the renewable fuels industry in general and ...

Pelosi Backs Raising Ethanol Blend to Reduce Use of Foreign Oil - Bloomberg
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The percentage of corn-based ethanol used in gasoline should be increased as a way of reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. EURœIt seems to me we should be able to do that,EUR the California ...

History of BioFuel « stillisstillmoving.com
Petroleum and Ethanol Fuels: Tax Incentives and Related GAO Work, Report B286311 to Sen. Tom Harkin, Sept. 25, 2000. MTBE is for Methyl Tertbr>Oil is up a little, down a little and gasoline is staying in the expensive range. It is going to be pretty difficult to get a solid read on the future of oil prices until we get a better grip on whether this worldwide economic slowdown is going to ...

Agriculture secy promotes ethanol-gas blending - AZCentral.com
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government should move quickly to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline. Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency last week to increase the amount of ethanol that ...

ISU scientist disputes 'indirect land use' claims
Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:21 PM by Ken Anderson The director of the Bioeconomy Institute at Iowa State University says the theory of a oeindirect land usea is simply conjecture and should not be used to set fuel ...

Oil from Algae | Living the American Green
People throwing around big concepts and putting our own brand of common sense/humor on the world at large. So, from the department of Holy Sh*t comes this video: imagine the scope of what this could mean for ethanol fuels! ...

EPA tests the 'green' value of ethanol - Minnesota Public Radio
These are tough times for the corn ethanol industry. As much as one-fifth of the production capacity in the U.S. is shut down because of economic conditions. And now the Environmental Protection Agency is looking at whether ethanol is really as ...

Genius Investor Dumps BlueFire Ethanol Fuels | BNET Energy Blog | BNET
Yesterday mornings Clean Technology Insight contains a tidbit on BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, a publicly-traded ethanol startup. Quercus Trust, one of its investors, is dumping shares in the company at a loss, according to CTI. ...

Cold winds blow for future of green energy
They call North Dakota the "Saudi Arabia of wind energy". Wind turbine: Companies producing green energy are suffering in the economic downturn Photo: BLOOMBERG The howling prairie gales that blow almost ...

EPA tests the 'green' value of ethanol (Minnesota Public Radio)
An EPA ruling expected soon could have a major impact on the future of ethanol. The agency is looking at ethanol's contribution to harmful greenhouse gases...

The Institute for Liberal Studies: ethanol fuels beginning of the .
From Small Dead Animals - here is something that never occurred to me, though it seems obvious now that I've thought about it - as research makes ethanol fuels more plausible, they are going up in demand, and the grains that are used to ...

Intel finalist tackles the cellulosic ethanol problem - Scientific American
WASHINGTON, DC -- When gas prices were sky high, lots of people talked about ethanol as a fuel of the future. In particular, many investors placed their hopes in cellulosic ethanol .Such ethanol is made from the non-edible parts of corn, such as the ...

Brazil leads the way on ethanol
On March 9, 2007 President Bush, in conjunction with Brazil's President, Lula da Silva, announced the formation of a new partnership between the two countries...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog
Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEUR¦EUR¦EUR¦so what effect will that have on Beef? Price...

Green Car Congress: Study Finds Integrated Biorefinery Processes .
(2009) Comparative analysis of efficiency, environmental impact, and process economics for mature biomass refining scenarios. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. 3:247EUR270 doi: 10.1002/bbb.136. March 8, 2009 in Cellulosic ethanol, Fuels, ...

Boehner hosts regional forum
Monday, 09 March 2009 By MATT NICHOLS Staff Writer PIQUA - Forcing Ohio livestock regulations onto producers is the first step in a national animal rights organization's attempt to eliminate livestock ...

Gasoila Announces Immediate Availability Of Highly Accurate,.
A complete line of gauging pastes for the petroleum market is now available from Gasoila Chemicals...

USDA chief backs boost of ethanol blend in gasoline (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
An increase in the ethanol-gasoline blend rate to 12 or 13 percent could be accomplished quickly and with minimal scientific review, giving a needed boost to the future of the industry, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Monday...

US biofuel industry calls for rise in ethanol ceiling (vnunet.com)
BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen , Monday 9 March 2009 at 10:09:00 Having signalled his support for biofuels, Obama now faces calls to increase amount of ethanol that can be blended with conventional fuels The Obama administration is to face an early test of its commitment to the US biofuel industry, after a coalition of corn ethanol firms led by retired general and ...

'Climate change a cause for concern'
"Stabilisation of greenhouse gases in atmosphere is everyone's responsibility" Stress on educating people on the adverse impact of using conventional fuels Use of nuclear, solar and wind energy will go a long ...

Intel finalist tackles the cellulosic ethanol problem
When gas prices were sky high, lots of people talked about ethanol as a fuel of the future...

Pelosi Backs Raising Ethanol Blend to Reduce Use of Foreign Oil (Bloomberg)
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The percentage of corn-based ethanol used in gasoline should be increased as a way of reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...

Top lawmakers appear at Farmers Union convention
Attendees to the 2009 National Farmers Union Convention heard from a line-up of top level policy makers Monday, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom ...

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