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OECD issues report critical of biofuels, favours moratorium
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008The OECD favours a moratorium on expanding biofuel production, a senior official with the Paris-based body said on Wednesday following the release of a report critical of vegetable-based fuels. "It would make a lot of sense to have a moratorium," Stefan Tangermann, head of agriculture and trade analysis at the OECD told AFP. "All these programmes should be reconsidered because we found ... more Propel Brings Clean Fuel To Downtown Seattle 
Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Propel has announced the grand opening of its newest and largest Clean Fuel Point, offering consumers and businesses an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum fuel. Located in South lake Union at the corner of Westlake Avenue and Valley Street, the station is unique in its use of environmentally-friendly standards for design, construction and operation - all ... more Technological Innovations Fuel Production Of Advanced Biofuels In Latin America
Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Latin America, with its abundant natural resources for biofuel production, has become a hot destination for biofuels suppliers and end users. This region is all set to benefit from the increasing need for alternative, sustainable, and environment-friendly fuels, since rising oil prices and stringent environmental regulations have made the use of biofuels imperative. New analysis from ... more Research Yields Pricey Chemicals From Biodiesel Waste 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 16, 2008In a move that promises to change the economics of biodiesel refining, chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit. The latest research is available online in the journal Metabolic Engineering. The new paper and others published earlier this year describe a new fermentation ... more Iowa State Researchers Study Ground Cover To Reduce Impact Of Biomass Harvest 
Ames IA (SPX) Jul 15, 2008Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living grass planted between the rows of corn, in production farming. The seemingly limitless national appetite for ethanol has industry and government looking beyond the kernel to ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 8, 2008 U.S. scientists say a byproduct of corn ethanol fuel production might become useful as a way of controlling weeds in potted ornamental plants. Researchers said the potential herbicide -- dried distillers grains with solubles, or DDGS -- is a byproduct of converting corn to fuel ethanol. DDGS is typically used as livestock feed but U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers Rick ... more Britain to slow adoption of biofuels 
London (AFP) July 7, 2008The British government said Monday it would slow the expansion of biofuels following a report which found they could increase greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to food price rises. Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly said a review had not recommended a temporary halt to the use of biofuels, which are sourced from organic materials such as palm oil and sugar beet. But she said that while ... more Ethanol Byproduct Produces Green Results
Prosser WA (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Commercial flower and plant growers know all too well that invasive, ubiquitous weeds cause trouble by lowering the value and deterring healthy growth of potted ornamental plants. To control weeds, many commercial nursery owners resort to the expensive practice of paying workers to hand-weed containers. Some growers use herbicides, but efficacy of herbicides is questionable on the wide ran ... more EU ministers 'discover' biofuels not an obligation after all 
Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008European Union energy ministers said at an informal meeting Saturday they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels. What seems to be a stunning misreading on the part of policymakers in Brussels comes at a time when the image of biofuels has shifted over a matter of a months ... more Biofuel waste becomes valuable chemicals
Houston (UPI) Jul 3, 2008 U.S. chemical engineers say they have developed a technology for cleanly converting problematic biofuel wastes into valuable organic acids. Rice University researchers said their techniques promise to change the economics of biodiesel refining by a fermentation process that allows E. coli and other enteric bacteria to convert glycerin -- the major waste byproduct of biodiesel production ... more |
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Dili (AFP) Jun 24, 2008East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant. The agr ... more Japan Airlines plans biofuel test flight 
Tokyo (AFP) June 23, 2008Japan Airlines (JAL) said Monday that it will join a project by US aircraft maker Boeing to test biofuel for commercial airplanes as part of efforts to cope with soaring jet fuel costs. JAL, Asia's largest carrier, will fly a Boeing 747 partly using biofuel by March next year, the company said, adding that it will be the first such flight in Asia. "The technology to produce biofuel from ... more Stratos Renewables Comments On Advantages Of Sugarcane Ethanol 
Lima, Peru (SPX) Jun 24, 2008Stratos Renewables has commented on the recent controversies surrounding the corn ethanol industry. Studies on corn ethanol published in, among other sources, Science magazine, and recent reports about the delays in the openings of corn ethanol facilities are mounting. The consensus in many of these reports is that the greenhouse gas benefits of ethanol have been greatly overstated - parti ... more Waste-to-Energy Isn't Rubbish Says BioGold Fuels 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2008Never one to waste words, Steve Racoosin, CEO of BioGold Fuels has become the subject of the next AudioStocks.com interview. Renewable fuels expert, BioGold Fuels Corporation was formed via merger with Full Circle Industries in April, 2007. Their mutual goal: to reduce and eliminate trash being dumped into landfills by processing waste into usable by-products. Mr. Racoosin discusses ... more Performance Plants Establishes US Biofuels Facility 
Kingston, Canada (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Performance Plants has announced that it has established an American Research Center to develop specialized non-food crops for industries seeking renewable feedstocks for liquid transportation fuels, biochemicals and coal replacement. The facility, located in Waterloo, New York, will develop biomass feedstocks adapted to maximize cellulose energy productivity per acre on land less suitable ... more
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