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Brazil looks to WTO talks to boost biofuel exports
Geneva (AFP) July 23, 2008Brazil said Wednesday it hoped to gain better market access for exports of ethanol to the United States and Europe as part of global trade talks here but is facing resistance from Washington. "Ethanol should be part of a deal this week," said Carlos Conzendey, head of the economic department at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. "For the moment, the United States has said 'no'," he told AFP ... more OECD Report Confirms Overall Benefits Of Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol 
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 21, 2008The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) welcomes the OECD Report "Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies" as another major report that highlights the benefits of sugarcane ethanol in terms of greenhouse gas reduction and urges governments to level the playing field by removing trade-distorting subsidies and tariffs. "In recent weeks, reports by diverse organizations ... more Crop Residue May Be Too Valuable To Harvest For Biofuels 
Pullman WA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008In the rush to develop renewable fuels from plants, converting crop residues into cellulosic ethanol would seem to be a slam dunk. However, that might not be such a good idea for farmers growing crops without irrigation in regions receiving less than 25 inches of precipitation annually, says Ann Kennedy, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service soil scientist and adjunct professor of crop and ... more Verenium And Marubeni Advance Cellulosic Ethanol Facilities 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Verenium and Marubeni have announced that, pursuant to the terms of their joint development agreement, they are continuing to advance the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol projects utilizing Verenium's proprietary technology in Asia with the opening of a three million-liter-per-year plant in Saraburi, Thailand. Marubeni and Tsukishima Kikai have already incorporated Verenium's ... more First Industrial Scale Municipal Waste-To-Ethanol Facility 
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 18, 2008Edmonton will be home to the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company. The $70 million biofuels facility will initially produce 36 million litres of biofuels per year and reduce Alberta's carbon ... more |
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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 Lula and Indonesian president pledge biofuel cooperation 
Jakarta (AFP) July 12, 2008Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Indonesian counterpart pledged cooperation on biofuels during talks here Saturday in a bid to take advantage of surging oil prices. Lula and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed off on an agreement to share knowledge on biofuel technology after meeting at Jakarta's presidential palace. The Brazilian leader called spiralling global ... more Ecologists Warn Biofuels And Biodiversity Don't Mix 
London, UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2008Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found that very little can be done to make palm oil ... more |
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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 Weather clouds future of biofuels 
New York (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 U.S. energy experts say recent storms and flooding highlight the risk of the nation's increasing reliance on corn for fuel. The cost of filling U.S. gas tanks could soon be influenced "as much by hail in Iowa as by the bombing of an oil pipeline in Nigeria," The New York Times reported Tuesday. "We are holding ourselves hostage to the weather," ethanol expert John M. Reilly of ... more Quest for renewable energy is new 'green gold rush': UNEP 
Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008A green "gold rush" is underway, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Tuesday as it announced a 60 percent rise in new investment entering the sustainable energy sector in 2007. More than 148 billion dollars (93 billion euros) of new funds were ploughed into the quest for cleaner energy last year. The current demand for solar, wind and biofuel energy is powered by prevailing climate ... more Kenya greenlights sugar power project 
Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008Kenya has given the green light to a project where sugar will be grown to generate power in coastal wetlands, despite objections by environmentalists, its government said Tuesday. The 24-billion-shilling (369.3-million-dollar or 235-million-euro) Tana Integrated Sugar Project will mill 8,000 tonnes of sugar cane daily, generate 34 megawatts of electrity and produce 23 million litres of ethanol ... more
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