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Turning Trash Into Gas
Life Goggles | 21 hours ago by Joel Williams
Or “Turning Rubbish Into Petrol” for those in the UK. Recently, Coskata Inc., a leading developer of alternative bio-fuels, announced the successful start-up of its semi-commercial flex-ethanol facility. Unlike other technologies and faci read more
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BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
Click here to sign up for the free email newsletter, Biofuels Daily News Digest, the world’s most-widely read biofuels daily. Biofuels Digest – Daily Biofuels News – FREE Subscription – the latest on algae, jatropha, cellulosi read more
Major survey of sugarcane ethanol prospects in Florida published
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
In Florida, a new master’s thesis from Josh Berger at the University of South Florida provides the most comprehensive examination to date of the views of stakeholders on the development of sugarcane as an ethanol feedstock in the US. “The read more
Zenergy to double production capacity at Texas biodiesel plant to…
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
In Texas, Zenergy International announced that it will expand its recently acquired 5 Mgy Greenlight Biofuels plant in Littlefield to 10 Mgy. Zenergy is engaged in the development and acquisition of biofuel sites, including constructing, acquiring ex read more
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, 2009-10: #6, Coskata:
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
Coskata Based in: Illinois 2009-10 ranking: #6 Business: The company’s process heats raw materials to 17800 degrees fahrenheit, then releases the material into a bioreactor where microbes convert the gas into ethanol, with a yield of 100 gal read more
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “A Hell of a Way to Reduce Global Wa…
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, in a letter to EAP Administrator Lisa Jackson: “There has been no evidence to demonstrate that the switch to the E-l5 blend will cause damage to vehicles, regardless of the vintage. Further, changing to a highe read more
China slashes ethanol tariff from 30 percent to 5 percent effecti…
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
In China, the Foreign Ministry announced that ethanol import tariffs will be lowered from 30 percent to 5 percent, effective January 1. The Ministry also said that a 5 percent consumption tax may be imposed on top of the reduced tariff. The governmen read more
Unicorn seeks algae pilot proposals for Poland energy park develo…
BioFuels Digest | December 20th 2009 by Jim Lane
In Poland, Unicorn Chemical announced the development of a technological park GreenZone in SW Poland, close to the German and Czech borders. The Park has over 70 acres of full-infrastructure industrial land. Unicorn is seeking proposals from algae te read more
How can you easily maintain prostate health
The Burnt Maze | December 20th 2009 by Tom
Guys do get prostate illnesses since of their every day lives. Several of them live in a different way and they have the illnesses earlier, and some live a healthy everyday life and on no account face any authentic sicknesses with their prostate. The read more
Biofuels as Alternative Sources
Green Living Home - Save Our Earth By Living Green | December 20th 2009 by Thanate Tan
Biofuels are produced by converting organic matter into fuel for powering our society. These biofuels are an alternative energy source to the fossil fuels that we currently depend upon. The biofuels umbrella includes under its aegis ethanol and deriv read more
HOW TO RACK YOUR HOMEMADE WINE
Drinking Wine Review - Health Benefits | December 19th 2009 by kalixtok
This is how to rack your homemade wine. Our subsequent video will be how to have some-more ethanol associated videos. If you wish to know how to have spirits.. stay tuned Related posts:WINEMAKING EQUIPMENT : DEGASSING HOMEMADE WINE Degassing is read more
U.S. Corn Ethanol Exports Picking up
SugarcaneBlog | December 19th 2009
According to a report by Platts, “international gasoline blenders have turned to the U.S. as a source of ethanol this year, shunning higher-priced Brazilian exports.” With corn ethanol prices low, and strong demand for sugarcane ethanol in Brazil read more
World Top 10 – Environment Friendly Sports Cars
sports world | December 19th 2009 by imk
“Go – Green” seems to be the automobile industry’s new mantra. As environment awareness is growing into the mainstream, more and more car companies are developing green cars which have excellent designs and performance. A hindrance to read more
Alternative Fuel - Everything You Need to Know
Fuel & Energy | December 18th 2009 by nextage
There are many forms of alternative fuel available, which may be used in your own vehicle, it includes liquefied petroleum gas , ethanol, methanol, compressed natural gas and electricity. The good thing about alternative .. View original here: Altern read more
Oblabbermouth, Gotta like this one. From China Confiedntial.
Patriot's Corner | December 18th 2009
Going to let the video speak for itself,and all the half truths, lies theliar and thief from the White Housespells out in his 'speech' at the GWliars and cheaters conference inDenmark.Now here is what China Confidential thinks about the above video!O read more
Sir Carbon Emissions, STFU
Needlenose | December 18th 2009
Carbon limits are for the little people! Faster, driver! Sir Richard Branson saw fit to lecture to world leaders currently debating carbon emissions limits at Copenhagen on behalf of the airline industry. “Reduction targets”, not carbo read more
Oblabbermouth in Copenhagen: Pure Baloney
China Confidential | December 18th 2009
Oblabbermouth in Copenhagen:. Click below for the video. Sheer nonsense. Pure baloney. Lies and misrepresentations. Green energy jobs are not being created. Nor will they be created. Inefficient wind and solar farms simply can't create many jobs. Eth read more
A Plug for ISDA’s Biofuels Grant Program
Ag Grant Guru | December 18th 2009
This week I wanted to give a shout out to the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) Biofuels Grant Program. This program is a way to increase the access to, and usage of, biofuels by Hoosier consumers and therefore move Indiana’s economy read more
China tariff cut could open door for ethanol imports
SugarcaneBlog | December 18th 2009
According to a report by Reuters, China is lowering its import tariff on ethanol to 5% from the current 30% on January 1, 2010. Reuters says China’s decision would potentially “open the door to imports from countries like Brazil. But even read more
Whose profit was sweeter from the sugar price rise?
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
As cane growers and sugar producers tussle over a “fair” price for sugarcane, who has benefited from the soaring sugar prices and expanding by-product sales over the past few years? If you look at share of profits, it would be the sugar mills.Ho read more
Baylor professor turning cow manure into fuel-grade ethanol
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
To critics who object to making ethanol fuel out of grain, Larry Lehr, of Waco, has an ecology-minded answer: Run it through a cow first.Lehr, who teaches environmental science at Baylor University, is planning to build a manure-to-ethanol demonstra read more
Ethanol blend makes way to Waco gas stations
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
Ethanol blends have quietly made their way to Waco-area gasoline pumps this fall, and that has Bob Potter fuming.Potter, a retired defense worker who lives in Hewitt, calls the 10 percent ethanol blend a “snake oil concoction” that hurts his gas read more
Can Snowmobiles Adapt in the Age of Ethanol?
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
By 2022, federal regulations will require a 400 percent increase in the amount of renewable fuel in America’s gasoline, from 9 billion to 36 billion gallons.Cars and trucks are being designed to run on these ethanol-rich fuels. But can a snowmobil read more
Switchgrass to Be Twice as Efficient Ethanol Crop as Corn
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
Devoting valuable grain crops to fuel production has had an immediate negative impact on the global food supply, reducing supply and pushing prices higher, even as one billion people suffer from chronic hunger.In the United States, high prices and e read more
Chippewa Valley Ethanol uses corn cobs
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
ST. PAUL -- A southwest Minnesota ethanol company will buy more than just corn from farmers. It wants their cobs, too.Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company in Benson is using approximately 70 tons of corn cobs, wood and glycerin per day in their gasifier. read more
Valero to Gobble Up an Additional 350 Million Gallons of Annual E…
Sugar Industry | December 18th 2009 by Manmeet
SUGAR LAND, TX - Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) (San Antonio, Texas) is set to gobble up an additional 350 million gallons of ethanol capacity in a $272 million deal to purchase three existing ethanol production facilities in Indiana, Ohio and read more
Awash in Unwanted Ethanol
Lost Republic | December 18th 2009
Two years ago, Congress ordered the nation’s gasoline refiners to do something that is turning out to be mathematically impossible. To please the farm lobby and to help wean the nation off oil, Congress mandated that refiners blend a rising volume read more
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BioFuels Digest | December 17th 2009 by Jim Lane
Click here to sign up for the free email newsletter, Biofuels Daily News Digest, the world’s most-widely read biofuels daily. Biofuels Digest – Daily Biofuels News – FREE Subscription – the latest on algae, jatropha, cellulosi read more
Thanks for the energy security – Uh, How Many Jobs Is That?
BioFuels Digest | December 17th 2009 by Jim Lane
In Florida, according to a representative sample of 34 biofuels international projects and studies analyzed by Biofuels Digest, an average of 0.57 jobs are created for every $1 million invested in bioprocessing capacity, and that 15.80 jobs are creat read more
Drivers welcome Inland area's first ethanol pump
Sugar Industry | December 17th 2009 by Manmeet
PERRIS - Drivers greeted the grand opening of the Inland Empire's first ethanol pump with smiles, relief and a little topping off Wednesday afternoon."I've been waiting the last two years for this!" Kim Kresin exclaimed as she rolled up to the yello read more
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