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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Columbus Alive:
More manufacturers are making greener cars, more consumers are taking them home, and what began several years ago as an eco-friendly niche market has turned into widespread demand shaping the auto industry.
The trend will be on display March 8-16 at the 2008 Columbus International Auto Show, when numerous hybrid and alternative-fuel cars and […]
Petrobras Creates Biofuel Subsidiary
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008OilVoice:
Petrobras announces its Board of Directors has approved the creation of a company, a wholly owned Petrobras subsidiary, to undertake Biofuels activities. These attributions are currently spread among several company areas and subsidiaries, rendering management more difficult to perform.
The new company will absorb both ethanol production (CBios) and biodiesel input acquisition and processing, currently done […]
Top Ethanol Producer, ISU Expert Team Up
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Dubuque Telegraph Herald:
The nation’s top ethanol producer is teaming with an Iowa State University researcher in hopes of squeezing more ethanol out of a kernel of corn.
Sioux Falls-based Poet LLC already uses a process called BPX, which converts starch to sugar and then ferments it to ethanol without the use of heat or cooking. Poet […]
Mascoma Building Ethanol Empire
Monday, March 3rd, 2008The Union Leader:
Building an ethanol empire requires technology, partnerships and capital, and Mascoma Corp. is amassing large quantities of all three.
The Dartmouth College spin-off is one of many renewable energy ventures and initiatives taking shape in the Granite State as investors and policymakers put a higher premium on finding the fuel of the future.
A worldwide […]
Ethanol Stations Remain Few And Far Between
Thursday, February 28th, 2008USA Today:
The ethanol industry has a problem, but you wouldn’t have known it Tuesday from the line of big, thirsty vehicles snaking down the street from a single service station.
Most states still have few places that sell the industry’s highly touted E85 fuel (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) even though there are an estimated 6.8 million […]
The Growing - And Surprisingly Large - Ethanol Movement
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Consumer reports:
The search for alternative fuels is moving fast and furiously this week at the National Ethanol Conference in Orlando. Or, in the words of Energy Department Undersecretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner: “Acting with a sense of urgency to develop alternatives to traditional energy supplies is no longer optional.” Risks to […]
Green Clean Machines
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Courier Mail:
V8 Supercars plan to use green machines from next year.
The thoroughbred Holden and Ford tourers will run on E85 ethanol fuel in a move driven to push the environmental message.
Team owners Larry Perkins and Ross Stone will head a sub-committee on the move which offers some technical challenges in terms of fuel lines and […]
Local Invention May Prove Boon For Booze, Bio-Fuel Industries
Monday, February 25th, 2008StarPhoenix:
A Saskatoon inventor is thinking small to make millions for the booze and biofuel industries - and it’s been dirty work.
University of Saskatchewan microbiology Prof. Dennis Bayrock has invented a chemical that could increase by a few percentage points the amount of ethanol and liquor produced in the fermentation process.
It may not seem like much, […]
Three Local Sites Considered For Ethanol Plant
Thursday, February 21st, 2008East coast energy solutions looking at Phillipsburg and Greenwich, White townships.
PennLive.com:
East Coast Energy Solutions is eyeing three Warren County municipalities - Phillipsburg, Greenwich Township and White Township - as possible sites for an ethanol plant.
Company President Susan Ruch said the project is in preliminary stages, but her company is looking at about five possible locations […]
Industry Players Fend Off Biofuel Criticism
Monday, February 18th, 2008EnergyCurrent:
A recent study claiming the global biofuel rush has increased rather than reduced greenhouse gas emissions has attracted mixed responses ranging from support to an outright challenge to the validity of its results from biofuel producers and feedstock suppliers in the United States.
The studies undertaken by the University of Minnesota and the Nature Conservancy claim […]
Analyzing The Brazilian Ethanol Industry
Monday, February 18th, 2008Business Wire:
As international oil prices soar, Brazil has been put at the forefront of a “biofuels” movement in which many countries view sugar cane, corn, soybeans, beets, cornstalks and native grasses as cleaner, money-saving substitutes for oil produced in politically unstable countries. Ethanol is higher in power-producing octane than most gasoline and can reduce […]
Greenville, Ohio, Ethanol Plant Begins Production
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008FOXBusiness:
The Andersons, Inc. and Marathon Oil Corporation today jointly announced ethanol production has begun at their 110-million gallon ethanol plant located in Greenville, Ohio.
The plant was constructed by The Andersons Marathon Ethanol LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between The Andersons Ethanol Investment LLC, a subsidiary of The Andersons, Inc., and Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, a […]
GM Says Half Of Vehicles Will Run On Ethanol By 2012
Friday, February 8th, 2008WLNS:
General Motors says it’s going greener. GM says half its US vehicles will run on ethanol by the year 2012.
This comes as its partner Coskata Incorporated is expected to increase ethanol production.
The auto giant says they will have 11 ethanol-capable vehicles on the market this year and fifteen by next. Coskata says it will be […]
Ethanol Industry Bright Spot In Cloudy Economic Picture
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Missouri Valley Times News:
With President Bush set to deliver his final State of the Union, early indications suggest a speech focused in part on the economic condition of the nation. The president is also likely to focus on ways the country can achieve greenhouse gas reductions while ensuring economic growth. Renewable fuels like ethanol are […]
Ethanol Industry Sees Change
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008RedOrbit:
From the outside, the ethanol industry looks a bit beat up, but insiders say they’re ready to go another round.
From canceled plants, like Panda Ethanol’s in Wallace, Neb., to blame for pushing food costs up, the news has not been good for ethanol.
“The ethanol industry is really in its adolescent stage, and like an adolescent, […]
Alternative Energy From Waste Sugars Produced By New Modular Ethanol Plant
Friday, February 1st, 2008PR Web:
Greenbelt Resources Corporation, a leading innovator in the development of effective and economical alternative energy technologies, announced today that Master Recycling Center, Inc., has increased its earlier order of 2 million gallons, to 5 million gallons of ethanol per year. Diversified Ethanol Corporation(TM), a subsidiary of Greenbelt Resources Corporation will begin construction of the […]
Ethanol Adds Millions To State Revenue
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008NTV:
A new report released by Ethanol Across America shows that U.S. ethanol plants generate hundreds of millions of dollars to local, state, and federal governments through direct and indirect economic generation.
The Economic Impacts of Ethanol Production chronicles the impacts of these facilities through case studies and examination of existing studies. The total of state […]
Brazil Sugarcane Industry Eyes EU Biofuel Market
Friday, January 25th, 2008EUbusiness:
Brazil, the world leader in making ethanol from sugarcane, is homing in on Europe’s biofuel market following a decision by the European Commission to combat climate change by reducing the dependency on petrol.
The EU plan calls for biofuels to be used in at least 10 percent of fuels used in transport in the 27-nation bloc […]
Open Borders, Ethanol: Double Whammy For State Hog Industry
Monday, January 21st, 2008Grand Island Independent:
Larry Sitzman, executive director of the Nebraska Pork Producers Association, said last week that his organization has contacted Nebraska’s congressional delegation concerning two issues threatening the state’s pork industry.
First, Sitzman said, the circovirus vaccine has allowed the pork industry to market additional animals, at the same time that there is a liquidation of […]
General Motors Announces Partnership With Coskata To Make Ethanol From Garbage
Monday, January 14th, 2008Warrenville firm says it can make more efficient, less costly fuel; hopes to produce 100 million gallons a year by 2010.
Chicago Tribune:
Bags of garbage and bald tires that go to landfills today could wind up in your gas tank in a few years, along with wood chips, crop residue and plastic pop bottles.
That’s what Coskata […]