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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Channel 4 News:
Sugar-powered cars could be the sweet solution to traffic pollution, say scientists.
Researchers have found a way to generate hydrogen directly from plant sugar. They expect the breakthrough to provide a cheap and efficient source of green transport fuel.
In future, motorists could be stopping at grocery stores instead of petrol stations to fill […]
Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees, But Gasoline Might
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Wisbusiness.com:
In 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student George Huber and colleagues made hydrogen from plant sugars using nickel-tin alloy catalysts in the lab of Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor James Dumesic.
In 2005, the team made a diesel-like fuel from plants.
Today, University of Massachusetts Amherst Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering George Huber has graduate students of […]
Garbage-To-Ethanol Plan Worth Pursuing
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Gary Post Tribune:
It has been 10 years since the demise of the proposed Hickory Hills landfill between Lowell and Hebron in Eagle Creek Township.
The landfill was to have been the answer to Lake County’s solid waste concerns for the next 30 years.
Because Hickory Hills never gained state approval, it has been an agonizing 10 years […]
Renewables A Good Bet, Minus Ethanol - Fund Mgr
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008CattleNetwork.com:
Renewable energy is still a good investment for private equity, but high corn prices have taken investors’ eyes off ethanol, said Scott Brown, chief executive of New Energy Capital.
New Energy Capital is a holding company that acquires minority or majority stakes in renewable energy companies.
“Any kind of renewable that generates energy, especially wind and […]
Ultra-Rich Cash In On Global Warming Hoax
Monday, March 31st, 2008By Alan Caruba - USA Daily:
Recently I emailed a gentleman who is highly regarded, nationally and internationally, as one of the top strategic, military and economic long-range thinkers of our times. He is the author of several bestselling books about the way globalization is impacting the lives of the Earth’s population.
In addition to having read […]
Biodiesel Leftovers Heat Up Race For Alternatives
Monday, March 31st, 2008Bizjournals:
With unleaded gas prices topping $3.60 per gallon in U.S. cities, it’s perhaps no surprise that production of biodiesel - an alternative biofuel made from vegetable oil - has more than tripled in the past year.
The problem is what to do with leftovers from biodiesel production like glycerin, an abundant and largely worthless gunk.
In an […]
Biogasoline Idea Refined By Dutch Shell, US Firm
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Houston Chronicle:
It looks like gasoline, smells like gasoline and runs in regular gasoline engines, but it isn’t made from crude oil; it comes from crops.
It’s called “biogasoline,” and under a partnership announced Wednesday between Royal Dutch Shell and Virent Energy Systems, it could be coming to a filling station near you.
The European oil giant and […]
The ‘New Wave’ For Grain Markets
Friday, March 21st, 2008Washington Evening Journal:
The value of the U.S. dollar is declining. Brazil is having a record-setting soybean harvest. China’s soybean purchasing has skyrocketed and has also been suddenly cut short. With all this excitement in the global grain markets, Washington’s Kat’s Grain Inc. is on its toes each day - doing everything it can to keep […]
Japanese Refiners To Push Biofuels Use By 2013
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Oil & Gas Journal:
Fumiaki Watari, chairman of the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ), said Japanese refiners will aim to substitute biofuels for 500,000 kl/year of oil equivalent of fuels by the business year ending in March 2013.
The refiners’ stated aim will more than double the initial target of a cut in refining of 210,000 […]
Problems With Energy
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Intellectual Conservative:
The March 2008 edition of Energy Tribune focuses closely on the issues of energy efficiency, alternative fuels and carbons sequestration which are the three central pillars of post-Al Gore environmentalism. Here are a few highlights.
Late last year I was fortunate enough to attend a continuing education seminar which featured a speech by Michael Economides, […]
Green Fuel Makers Team Up On Cellulose
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Globe and Mail:
Ontario ethanol producer GreenField Ethanol Inc. has teamed up with Quebec biogas company Enerkem Technologies Inc. to generate fuel from municipal and forest waste.
GreenField, which is now one of Canada’s largest producers of ethanol from corn, will work with Enerkem to get that same fuel from cellulose.
Enerkem’s expertise is converting forest byproducts […]
Bacteria May Be Able To Help Produce Ethanol
Thursday, March 13th, 2008WMDT:
Researchers at the University of Maryland say they can use bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay to produce ethanol.
They say the enzymes produced by the bacteria can digest cellulose in plant matter, which is a key step in the ethanol production process.
A company has now been created to commercialize the process. Officials say the the […]
Fuel From Veggies
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008KXII-TV:
Rarely has the pain at the pump has been so severe, with a new national average for gasoline hitting $3.23 a gallon. That figure from AAA is the result of a 27 cent jump in just 30 days.
The jump is being blamed on oil prices now at nearly $110 per barrel for the first time.
Here […]
The Great Ethanol Debate
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Motley Fool:
You can’t carry on a debate about the economy these days without two nagging points coming up: The price of oil is on a tear, and inflation remains a serious threat.
Of course, the increase in the price of oil is a telling sign of an inconvenient truth (no Al Gore cliche intended): Oil is […]
Governors Try To Advance Clean Energy
Friday, February 22nd, 2008The Associated Press:
Governors who want clean energy to be a national priority are trying to bring together states with wildly different ways of producing power, like tapping ocean temperature differences off Hawaii and mining coal in West Virginia.
But a souring economy has tightened state budgets and forced spending cuts that could temporarily short circuit renewable […]
Dead Wood To Fuel Cars?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008ReporterHerald:
The dead wood left behind from bark beetles could replace some of the gasoline that fuels our cars — at a lower cost — said John Scahill, an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy.
“This gasoline and diesel is indistinguishable from what you put in your gas tank,”
Scahill said at a biomass conference Thursday at […]
Getting Better At Making Corn Ethanol
Monday, February 18th, 2008Washington Post:
When it comes to increasing biofuels production, analyzing its impact on land use is a new and complicated field. We discourage the scientific community from rushing to judgment simply to satisfy political timetables. The research covered in this story, for example, has been criticized by experts for using outdated or limited data.
The fact is, […]
Organic Fuel Alternatives Explored
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008BCLocalNews:
Not long ago, the question at the pump was always, “regular or unleaded?” Today, leaded gasoline isn’t even an option in most developed countries.
And with the need to drastically reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, the question of the future just might be “switchgrass or algae?”
Of course, I’m being somewhat facetious. In their raw […]
US Energy Bill: Subsidizing China
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008A push in the U.S. for more biofuels won’t significantly impact oil demand. In fact, any consumption decrease may simply act as a subsidy for Chinese drivers.
Energy Tribune:
In this era of political polarization, particularly on matters involving energy and the environment, if Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on a bill and the president signs […]
Ethanol And Biodiesel Are The Best Fuels On The Road Today
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Agri News:
“Ethanol and biodiesel are the best fuels on the road today, and we’re just getting started.”
That is Monte Shaw’s, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, take on the ethanol and biofuels industry
Shaw talked about the state of the renewable fuels industry and his group’s legislative wish list at last week’s Iowa […]