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N-Viro International Biofuel Project Receives Initial Approval
Toledo OH (SPX) Jan 05, 2009N-Viro International has announced that the Michigan State University Board of Trustees has authorized MSU to proceed with the planning and design of a biofuel processing facility adjacent to the T.B. Simon Power Plant, which is located on the University's 5,200 acre campus. Subject to approval of a definitive agreement between MSU and N-Viro by the MSU Board of Trustees, this facility wil ... read more GreenShift To Build Twelve Corn Oil Extraction Facilities 
Adrian MI (SPX) Jan 05, 2009GreenShift has announced that it has executed agreements to receive a $38 million investment to produce 20 million gallons per year of biodiesel from corn oil extracted from ethanol plants. Under the terms of the agreements, GreenShift will receive an investment of $38 million in a new GreenShift joint venture subsidiary that will use the proceeds to build twelve corn oil extraction facili ... read more First Seed Sales Of Dedicated Energy Crops Begin 
Thousand Oaks CA (SPX) Jan 05, 2009Ceres has announced that it has begun booking switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum seed under its Blade Energy Crops label. The highly anticipated launch marks the first seed sales of non-food, low-carbon crops developed specifically as raw materials for biofuels and biopower. The company simultaneously launched a Blade website to support direct-to-farm sales. The company reported th ... read more Camelina-Based Aviation Fuel Cleared For Takeoff 
Bozeman MT (SPX) Jan 05, 2009Sustainable Oils will participate in an historic flight by Japan Airlines (JAL) planned for January 30, 2009. The demonstration flight will make JAL the first Asian carrier to fly on fuel derived from sustainable feedstocks and the first airline to use camelina-based bio-jet fuel. "We're proud to have been selected to participate in this historic event," said Tom Todaro, CEO of Sustainable ... read more Analysis: Brazil pumps ethanol to Japan 
Miami (UPI) Dec 30, 2008 Brazilian state energy firm Petrobras is planning to open gas stations in Japan with the intent of distributing its sugar-based ethanol to the energy-hungry nation. While gasoline will constitute the majority of sales at Petrobras stations in Japan for now, sugar-based ethanol produced in Brazil will also be a featured fuel. Brazilian energy officials said they hope to establish ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 22, 2008 Up to $200 million for pilot and demonstration-scale biorefineries is available to develop cost-efficient advanced biofuels, the U.S. Energy Department says. The money is to support development of programs that include using feedstocks such as algae and production of advanced biofuels such as bio-butanol, green gasoline and other innovative biofuels, the department said Monday in a news ... read more Obama names agriculture, interior picks 
Chicago (AFP) Dec 16, 2008President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday filled out his incoming cabinet with nominees to take over the agriculture and interior departments, two hot-button jobs where controversy is never far. The Democrat nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar ... read more Obama rounds out cabinet, games out global crises 
Chicago (AFP) Dec 17, 2008President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday filled out his incoming cabinet with picks for agriculture and interior, while stepping up his contingency planning for a post-inauguration emergency. The Democrat nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar ... read more New method of killing bacteria is created 
Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Dec 16, 2008 U.S. scientists say they have developed a method of "fooling" a bacterium's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death. Researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst said their achievement shows a synthetic "hole punching" anti-microbial depends upon the presence of phosphoethanolamine -- a cone-shaped lipid found within ... read more VIASPACE Plants Biofuel And Animal Feed Grass 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008VIASPACE has announced that it has planted 1.2 million seedlings of its proprietary fast-growing China Giant King Grass near the IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. Giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass which is propagated from seedlings rather than seeds. In tropical and subtropical areas such as Southern China, it can yield four crops per year and up to 156 tons of ... read more |
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Havre MT (SPX) Dec 12, 2008The Montana Agriculture Development Council awarded $50,000 in grant funding from the Montana Growth Through Agriculture (GTA) program to Great Plains - The Camelina Company. The funds will be used to conduct a feasibility study for an oilseed crushing plant in Montana. Great Plains is focused on developing Camelina sativa (camelina) as an oilseed crop for biodiesel production in Montana ... read more Frost And Sullivan Award Honours Global Biofuels 
London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2008The 2008 Sub-Saharan Africa Biofuel Emerging Company Award is presented to Global Biofuels Limited of Nigeria in recognition of its commitment to producing biofuel, promoting the socio-economic upliftment of Nigerians and reducing greenhouse gases as set out in the Kyoto protocol. "Global Biofuels Limited is establishing the first refinery for the production of bioethanol from sweet ... read more Continental Airlines Will Start 2009 With Flight Powered By Biofuels 
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 12, 2008Continental Airlines has announced plans for the first biofuel-powered demonstration flight of a U.S. commercial airliner, to be conducted in Houston on Jan. 7, 2009. The demonstration flight, which will be operated with no passengers, will be powered by a special fuel blend including components derived from algae and jatropha plants - sustainable, second-generation fuel sources that don't ... read more Scientists get closer to creating artificial life: study 
Chicago (AFP) Dec 4, 2008Scientists have discovered a more efficient way of building a synthetic genome that could one day enable them to create artificial life, according to a study released Wednesday. The method is already being used to help develop next generation biofuels and biochemicals in the labs of controversial celebrity US scientist Craig Venter. Venter has hailed artificial life forms as a potential ... read more Analysis: Brazil says, drop ethanol tariff 
Miami (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States. The head of the Petrobras biofuel division, Alan Kardec Pinto, couched his call for lower tariffs on Brazilian ethanol in remarks on "environmental responsibility" clearly ... read more
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