Tag: Ethanol - Page 7
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North America's Largest Wheat-Based Ethanol Plant Opens in Saskatchewan
At least south of the 49th parallel, when most people think of ethanol they think of corn. However up in Saskatchewan wheat is being tapped to produce the biofuel, and has gotten a big boost with the opening of a new
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Renewable Fuel Standards Waiver Request by Texas Governor Denied by Feds
A few months ago, citing rising corn prices hurting his state’s livestock industry and which he linked to Federal ethanol-blending requirements, Texas governor Rick Perry filed a waiver request with the EPA to reduce the Renewable
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Patrón Ethanol? Cuervo Biofuels? Mexico Investigates Agave as Potential Biofuel Feedstock
In the past few weeks stories about new potential ethanol feedstocks have come rolling in with a predictable regularity. As the realization that converting crop lands from food to fuel production probably isn't such a good
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Brazil May Restrict Ethanol Plants in One of the World's 'Most Spectacular' Wetlands
Brazil seems to be increasingly getting its head in the right
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Cellulosic Ethanol Gets A $90 Million Boost From BP
You may have read about cellulosic ethanol company Verenium opening up the first demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States two months or so ago. Well, now the Massachusetts-based firm has announced a partnership
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Debunking 'Some Common Myths About Alternative Fuels': GMNext Video Series
In the first of a series of video clips to be presented by :: GMNext we get a glimpse of exactly how much more the renewable energy industry needs to do to make the general public aware of the different types of alternative energy sources actually are
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New Potential Ethanol Feedstock Pursued by Retired Florida Minister With the 'Zeal of a Missionary'
TreeHugger has highlighted recently a number of projects in the United States which are attempting to develop feedstocks for ethanol from non-food crops: Kudzu, Cattails, Miscanthus. Now comes word, via The Ledger, about
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Adding Fungi to the Ethanol Production Process Could Reduce Energy Costs by One-Third, Iowa State Researchers Claim
Though I'm not an evangelist for biofuels by any means—using food crops to make fuels to feed our addiction to the automobile will likely go down as one of the biggest missteps in the green revolution—but some new research
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UGA Develops Fast, Eco-Friendly Biomass Treatment to Greatly Increase Biofuel Yield
Not another day goes by that we don't hear about the latest new-fangled or revolutionary biofuel breakthrough. It used to be that those discoveries didn't mean much, practically speaking, as there weren't yet many firm plans laid out to build
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Cutting Cattails for Fuel? North Carolina Researchers Investigate Potential Ethanol Feedstock
It really does seem like people will try to turn just about anything into ethanol these days. Recently we wrote about research into using kudzu as a feedstock for ethanol, as well as one businessman who is trying to
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Cellulosic Ethanol's Not Just for Fuels Anymore: Dow Chemical Researches Ways to Cut Chemical Feedstock Costs, Improve Biofuel Yield
I don't know how many of you out there associate Dow Chemical with anything even approaching 'green'? I know I don't. However new research
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Senators Want to Switch Drugs Rather Than Kick the Habit: Flex Fuel Vehicle Legislation Introduced Into Congress
It may be some editorial hyperbole to equate a mandate that would require more vehicles be capable of running on biofuels to switching your drug of choice from, say, heroin to vodka, but ultimately neither situation
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First Commercial-Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Approved for California
You may have read how Verenium recently opened the first demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States. Well, that record may soon not mean as much: BlueFire Ethanol has announced that the first commercial-scale
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Ethanol Requirement For Gasoline Waiver Decision Delayed
You may have read about how Texas governor Rick Perry filed a request with the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard requirement for ethanol, so as to ease pressure on rising corn prices. The
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Kudzu Harvesting for the Production of Ethanol, Redux
Since the first time we reported on developments to use kudzu— the invasive Asian vine covering many areas of the southern United States—as a feedstock for the production of ethanol elicited such an enthusiastic response this short interview may be of
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Municipal Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Planned for Reno, Nevada
Edmonton, Canada is in the process of building a waste-to-ethanol plant. Now, Reno, Nevada will be getting in on the act. The facility in question will be built by Fulcrum BioEnergy and is expected to begin operating in
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Lowering Energy Consumption Better Than Biofuels for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, OECD Report Finds
According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies", not only is public support of biofuels costly it has little impact on reducing greenhouse
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Kenyan Biofuel Expansion in Wetland Halted by Court, Temporarily
Plans by the Kenyan government to approve expansion of sugarcane cultivation in the Tana River Delta by Mumias, the nation's largest sugar cane producer, have been dealt a blow by the courts.
