Invention
Making Ethanol As Easily As Doing Laundry
Friday, May 9th, 2008
The MicroFueler - A Washing Machine That Makes DIY Ethanol
Wired News:
People were making ethanol at home long before there were cars. They called it moonshine. With gas prices going through the roof and everyone worried about global warming, a California company is betting people will jump at the chance to use the same technology […]
Lowndes Student Finds Fuel Alternative
Friday, April 18th, 2008WALB-TV:
Georgia forests produce millions of tons of biomass every year.
It’s regarded as useless, but one South Georgia student thinks the waste could be the key to more alternative fuels in the state.
So when Governor Sonny Perdue issued a challenge, Lowndes High Senior Nicholas Worley stepped up.
“It was a challenge to agriculturists to solve the […]
Ethanol Blend Inventor On Trial
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Ethanol Producer Magazine:
A decade ago, Colorado businessman William Orr pioneered an ethanol fuel blend he said was the solution to U.S. dependence on foreign oil. However, the government that gave him millions of dollars to fund his research now has him on trial in a federal courtroom, charged with 28 counts of fraud and tax […]
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, […]
Farmer-Inventors Create Corn Cob Harvesting Equipment
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Agri News:
Three Nebraska farmer-inventors have developed equipment to harvest corn cobs and other biomass that will be sought for cellulosic ethanol production.
The inventions were described at last week’s Biobased Industry Outlook Conference at Iowa State University in Ames.
“Just a handful of us are suffering through the challenges to get (a biomass harvesting) system figured out,” […]
Ethanol: Too Much, Too Soon?
Monday, October 1st, 2007Worcester Telegram:
The ethanol boom of recent years - which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America - may be fading.
Only last year, farmers here spoke of a biofuel gold rush, and they rejoiced as prices for ethanol and the corn used […]
Intellectual Property And Ethanol: Seven Steps For Success
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Ethanol Producer Magazine:
If you thought licensing certain basic processing technology in order to build and operate an ethanol plant would be your only brush with intellectual property (IP), think again. There is likely a patentable gizmo being developed or already in use in every operating ethanol plant. Where there’s a patentable gizmo developed in response […]
Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prizes - Energy Bill Full Of Bright Ideas Worth $5 To $10 Million
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Chicago Tribune:
If you are smart enough to invent a bright, highly energy-efficient, solid-state “light package” to replace the 60-watt bulb, you might qualify for a $10 million federal prize. A similar invention to replace halogen bulbs could carry a $5 million award.
These “Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prizes” are part of a wide-ranging, ambitious Senate energy bill […]
Brothers Of Invention Make A ‘Cellulosic’ Ethanol Find
Thursday, May 24th, 2007The Ithaca Journal:
For the past 10 years, harvesting corn and selling the cobs has been a humble little business for Ty and Jay Stukenholtz, 34-year-old twin brothers.
By trial and error, computer designing, tinkering and banging away, the Stukenholtz brothers, who farm their 350-acre family farm near Nebraska City, came up with a way to harvest […]