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Enhanced R And D In Biofuel Production Attracts Investors To Latin America
Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Latin America is all set to make a splash in the global biofuels market, thanks to its inherent advantages of land availability, technological developments, agricultural knowledge, and low labor costs. Biofuel feedstock production already has a move on in Brazil and Argentina, which produce significant amounts of ethanol and soy, respectively. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Latin ... read more EPIC Joins Growth Energy 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Statement from Toni Nuernberg, Executive Director, Ethanol Promotion and Information Council: I am proud to announce that the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) Board of Directors will be recommending a transition plan to EPIC's membership to join Growth Energy, a newly formed organization dedicated to the promise of agriculture and growing America's economy through cleaner ... read more Advanced Cellulose Ethanol Development 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2008Swedish researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on development and large scale implementation of a new improved bio-technical process for production of ethanol from lignocellulose feedstocks. The development is based on Taurus' yeast technology for fermentation of both six- and five-carbon sugars. Ethanol ... read more National Algae Association Meeting 
The Woodlands TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2008The National Algae Association is growing at an astronomical rate. We are the first national trade association for the algae industry in the United States. Algae is renewable, does not affect the food channel and eats C02. Due to the high cost of oil, commercializing the algae oil industry is now on a fast track. Algae can be converted into fuels such as jet fuel, biodiesel, ethanol ... read more New Generation Biofuels Announces Test Burn Agreement 
Lake Mary FL (SPX) Nov 24, 2008New Generation Biofuels has announced that it has entered into a Test Burn Agreement with Progress Energy Florida to demonstrate its proprietary biofuel technology in utility boiler applications. The Agreement calls for New Generation Biofuels to supply its biofuel for a test program that will be performed in early 2009 at Progress Energy Florida's Bartow Plant in St. Petersburg. ... read more |
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Hadley MA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008SunEthanol has raised $25 million in Series B financing from a consortium including BP and Soros Fund Management LLC, and is changing its name effective immediately to Qteros. The new name refers to its breakthrough Q Microbe(TM) technology for producing sustainable liquid fuel from non-food plants and wastes. Leading the Series B financing is new investor Venrock, with previous investor ... read more Nexterra Energy To Supply Biomass Gasification System 
New Westminster, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2008Nexterra Energy has announced that it has been selected by Kruger Products to supply a biomass gasification system for its tissue mill in New Westminster, B.C. The new system will be the first of its kind in the pulp and paper industry. Kruger Products is Canada's leading paper tissue manufacturer. Kruger operates facilities in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and ... read more OriginOil Named Among Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2008OriginOil has announced that the company has been named as one of the Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies by the New Energy Congress. NEC ranks OriginOil as the top algae company. The New Energy Congress is an association of energy professionals from around the world who review the most promising claims to existing and up-and-coming energy technologies that are clean, renewable, affordable ... read more Food Insecurity Complicates Land Use For Biofuel Feedstock Production
Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Nov 21, 2008Significant potential exists for additional crop production in Southern Africa based on land availability. However, growing crops for biofuel feedstock will only be realised if there is concerted effort from key stakeholders to address the food shortages in the region. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Opportunities for Biofuel Feedstock Production in Southern Africa, finds that the ... read more Brazil Says Ethanol Having Little Impact On Amazon Basin 
Miami (UPI) Nov 19, 2008 Increasing ethanol production in Brazil will not lead to greater deforestation of the Amazon, as some critics of the world's largest ethanol exporter contend, according to a top Brazilian official at the outset of a five-day international biofuel conference in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff, the chief of staff for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told representatives from 40 ... read more |
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Sioux Falls SD (SPX) Nov 13, 2008Consumers in South Dakota are reaping the benefits of the blender pump program offered by the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council (SDCUC) and the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). Forty-five stations have filed applications to receive grants to install blender pumps and to date, 34 stations are operational. For years, E10 (10 percent ethanol, 90 percent gasoline) and E85 ... read more BIO Urges EPA To Complete Review Before Publishing Emission Estimates For Biofuels 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2008The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must establish a sound, science-based model for measuring net greenhouse gas emissions related to biofuels production before releasing estimates that may understate the positive role biofuels play in reducing climate change emissions. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) released a letter sent to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson on ... read more Scientific Community Called Upon To Resolve Debate On Net Energy 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2008"Net energy is a (mostly) irrelevant, misleading and dangerous metric," says Professor Bruce Dale, editor-in-chief of Biofuels, Bioresources and Biorefining (Biofpr) in the latest issue of the journal. Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientist ... read more Fill her up please, and make it myco-diesel 
Paris (AFP) Nov 4, 2008Will the Ferrari of tomorrow be fungus-powered? A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rainforests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists. Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the term "myco-diesel" -- a derivation of the word for fungus -- to describe the bouquet of hydrocarbons that it ... read more Innovation Valley Builds First-of-its-Kind Biofuels Facility
Knoxville TN (SPX) Nov 04, 2008Construction started this week in the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley of East Tennessee on a biofuel refinery that will use switchgrass, a perennial crop, as a feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol. The pilot plant, a partnership between the University of Tennessee (UT), DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol and Genera Energy, should produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol by the end of ... read more
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