Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/16/2009



Fuel change could decide Adelaide winner - Age
ONE of the rule changes designed to spice up the V8 Supercar championship could have major implications for the outcome of this weekend's season-opening Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. Holden Motorsport boss Simon McNamara yesterday supported comments made ...

London conference hears how Canada could become a growing energy power
Ranjan Pradhan shows how natural fibres can be used in biodegradable plastics at last week's Growing the Margins conference in London...

Scientists sedate, untangle giant whale at sea
Excerpts from the Globe's environmental blog. For the first time, a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale has been given sedatives in the open sea, which allowed rescuers to remove thick fishing line ...

Mozambique: Bio-Fuels May Provide 15 Percent of Fuel Consumption (AllAfrica.com)
Maputo EUR” Bio-fuels, particularly ethanol and bio-diesel, may contribute 15 per cent of Mozambique's national fuel consumption within the next five years, according to Energy Minister Salvador Namburete...

Saudis: Oil Needs to be at $.
Saudi Arabiaa s oil minister said today that petroleum-producing countries need a price of at least $60 a barrel to bring more energy resources on the market...

EarthTalk: Biomass in Our Energy Future
Dear EarthTalk: There's a lot of talk today about solar and wind power, but what about biomass? How big a role might this renewable energy source play in our future? Couldn't everyday people burn their own lawn ...

Ethanol Groups Endorse Higher Blends, OPEI Not So Sure .
The studies also will provide information necessary to educate consumers about the use of mid-level ethanol fuels on existing and future products. Printable Format |; E-mail this article ...

Solar and Wind Power - What About Biomass?
The oldest and most prevalent source of renewable energy known to man, biomass is already a mainstay of energy production in the United States and elsewhere...

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says farmers face several challenges
The president wants to promote nutrition and healthy life choices, particularly for children, but is also sensitive to fiscal realities, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says...

Saudi Arabia says oil needs to be at $60-$75
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Monday that petroleum-producing countries need a price of at least $60 a barrel to bring more energy resources on the market...

Clean Energy Trends 2009
In last year's Clean Energy Trends report, Clean Edge noted that 2008 would prove to be another banner year for clean energy even in the face of a brooding economic storm...

Saudi Arabia's oil minister says oil price needed at $60-$75 to develop future fuel sources
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Monday that petroleum-producing countries need a price of at least $60 a barrel to bring more energy resources on the market...

Pouring Biofuel on the Fire
Hunger. Corruption. Bankruptcy. Other than that, the green-fuel boom has been a smashing success...

High-ethanol fuel gets first buyers pumped (The Virginian-Pilot)
VIRGINIA BEACH It looks like gasoline, though a little clearer. It smells like gas, though a little sweeter. But it's not gas. It's E85 - 85 percent ethanol - and, for the first time, this alternative fuel can be purchased in Hampton Roads. The first public E85 pump in the region, and just the second in Virginia, was christened Friday at a Navy Exchange gas station,..

London conference hears how Canada could become a growing energy power (London Free Press)
It started with ethanol -- using corn to fuel our cars...

BlueFire Ethanol Brings Aboard Dr. William Farone, Original Co-Founder . - PR Inside
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, today announced a Technology Development Services Agreement with Dr. William ...

Shell fuels cellulosic ethanol push with new Codexis deal (vnunet.com)
BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Monday 16 March 2009 at 13:19:00 Oil giant takes larger stake in developer of enzymes that are key to production of second generation biofuels Oil giant Shell has stepped up its push into the biofuels sector, shelling out an undisclosed sum to increase its stake in Codexis, a developer of enzymes designed to enhance...

Energy Shares Mixed; Baker Hughes Cuts More Jobs, Crude Lower - CNN Money
Energy shares traded mixed Monday in the face of more layoffs at Baker Hughes , falling oil prices in the face of OPEC's steady oil production, and gains in the broad market. Against this backdrop, the Amex Oil Index (XOI) fell 0.4% to 831, the Amex ...

At Penn State, seeking energy locked in wood - Phoenixville News
STATE COLLEGE EUR” Deftly using a pair of tweezers, Scott Geib pulls apart the insides of a yellowish, wormlike critter EUR” the larva of a tree-devouring pest called the Asian long-horned beetle. Something in the insect's gut allows it to make short ...

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, ...

Emerson Helps Range Fuels Bring First Next-Generation U.S. Biofuels Plant Into Commercial Production (PlantAutomation.com)
Second-generation biofuels company Range Fuels has formed a strategic relationship with Emerson Process Management to help bring online the first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant in the United States...

More On The Ethanol Fuel Hoax (Wizbang Blue)
Further ethanol is expensive to produce that fossil fuels, and not ethanol fuels are used to power the production of corn into this fuel. The process involves just 8% usable material for fuel that must be separated from 92% water, ...

Display of 'Ethanol Corvette' brings congressmen to Raleigh (Technician)
N.C. Representative Bob Etheridge, Pa. Representative Tim Holden, representatives from the College of Engineering and the Advanced Vehicle Research Center examined an experimental Chevrolet Corvette Monday...

Saudi Arabia says oil needs to be at $60-$75 (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Monday that petroleum-producing countries need a price of at least $60 a barrel to bring more energy resources on the market...

Corn Agrofuel and Obama's Science Pledge
We are beginning to see the Obama administration playing fast and loose with ecological science, letting political necessities overwhelm ecological concerns regarding corn based ethanol agrofuels [ ark ]. ...

Fuels-from-the-Forest Innovator Chemrec Opens U.S. Office
The company transforms a pulp and paper milling waste product called black liquor into ultra-clean alternative motor fuels methanol and dimethyl ether or DME...

'Green' summit outlines changes | Napa Valley Register
We need it all from more natural gas vehicles to, yes, ethanol fuels to more oil exploration and more refineries to process the oil. Notice how gas prices went up but the price of oil has been in that mid 30s to mid 40s range? ...

UPDATE 1-Magellan, Poet to study U.S. ethanol pipeline - Reuters
NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) - Magellan Midstream Partners ( MMP.N ) said on Monday it had signed a joint agreement with Poet, the largest U.S. ethanol producer, to study building a dedicated pipeline to carry the biofuel from the U.S. Midwest into ...

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse?
This week the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has made a recommendation to the government to increase the percentage of ethanol that can be blended into our fuel in order to boost the ailing biofuel industry. ...

Beer-powered car? California brewery pours new fuel mix - Coloradoan
The company will literally be powering their cars with their own alcohol. "Yeast actually produces the alcohol, and the alcohol is ethanol, essentially," said Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator for Sierra Nevada. The conversion of leftover ...

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...

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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. ...

NSW ethanol mandate to rise to 6% (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Changes that mean NSW triples its ethanol mandate from two to six per cent have been introduced into state parliament...

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 (8) | TrackBack (0) ...

Marcos Sawaya Jank: Brazil and the US Should Lead on Climate Change
This week, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva travels to the United States to meet with President Barack Obama...

Recession has taken toll on alternative energy
Worldwide sales of solar cells, biofuels and wind turbines soared 53 percent last year to hit $115.9 billion before the global recession started sapping their strength, according to an annual report issued ...

Ethanol producers told to make more despite obstacles (The State Journal-Register)
PEKIN EUR” Ethanol producers have a tall order in front of them in 2009: They have to produce more ethanol despite a rise in economic pressures and a drop in demand. EURśIts likely to be a tough year. Markets are not in good shape,EURť said Ron Miller, CEO of Pekin-based Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc...

Time To Be Concerned About Obama's Energy Policy
An excellent article by William Tucker has demonstrated convincingly the limitations of President Obama's energy strategy ...

Push for 'smarter' machines
There are aircraft that are less complex than some of today's tractors and other farm machinery on the cutting edge of new technology, growers attending the Southwest Ag Summit in Yuma were told...

New Rocky Mountain Edition Models Add Excitement and Value to 2009 . - Earthtimes
Offer value option package with $2,300 in popular customer features for only $1,595 -- including a no-charge power sun roof for that "only in a Jeep" open-air driving excitement -- 2009 Jeep Patriot Rocky Mountain Edition includes 17-inch aluminum ...

Warming up to biofuels
He's now the general economics reporter for the Boston Herald . T ownsend Oil & Propane is so eager to comply with a new state law to blend heating oil with biofuels that it may be getting ahead of the game...

newnet news - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to develop biofuel technology...

Gas down 13 cents in Michigan, AAA says - Detroit Free Press
The auto club said today the statewide average is $1.48 per gallon lower than last year at this time. Of the cities it surveys, AAA Michigan says the lowest price for self-serve regular fuel is in the Flint area, where it's $1.82 a gallon. The ...

What role will biomass play in the future?
Dear EarthTalk: There's a lot of talk today about solar and wind power, but what about biomass? How big a role might this renewable energy source play in our future? Couldn't everyday people burn their own lawn ...

DeGennaro: Fill 'er up with tank of grass
The summer of 2008 saw gas prices soar to around $4 a gallon around Middle Tennessee...

Oil prices fall to near $44 a barrel - KABC
Oil prices tumbled to around $44 a barrel on Monday after OPEC decided not to cut production levels at its meeting over the weekend in Vienna. Benchmark crude for April delivery was down $1.59 to $44.66 a barrel by mid-afternoon in Europe on the New ...

How "constructive biology" will reshape biotech
Last Monday, a group of New Yorkers assembled for a dinner at my apartment to hear Professor Jay Keasling share his vision for the future...

Fuels-from-the-Forest Innovator Chemrec Opens U.S. Office (Industry Week)
The company transforms a pulp and paper milling waste product called black liquor into ultra-clean alternative motor fuels methanol and dimethyl ether or DME...

Reportlinker Adds Global Ethanol Market Analysis - CNBC
NEW YORK, Mar 12, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. World Ethanol Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p098314/World-Ethanol-Market.html This report analyzes the ...



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