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  • Ethanols Effects On Classic Cars Fuel Systems

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    Almost a year ago, I reported that the Hagerty Insurance Agency had enlisted Kettering University to study the effects of ethanol blended gasoline on the fuel systems of classic cars and boats. The study attempted to simulate 3000 hours of use in a manner that would duplicate a typical classic [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 6:58pm EDT
    by mus302

  • May Ethanol Production Hits New High

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    Ethanol production hit a new high in May with over 871 million gallons produced. Imports and consumption numbers were also higher. Daily production volume reached 669,000 barrels per day.

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    Ethanol Production Numbers in Gallons


    Production

    Imports

    Stocks
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Valero says all 7 ethanol plants at capacity

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    Top U.S. oil refiner Valero Energy Corp said all seven of the ethanol plants it bought in March from a bankrupt producer were now running at capacity and making money.

    "Ethanol is kind of a bright spot for us right now. They are generating cash flow," Valero spokesman Bill [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Ethanol's lack of compatibility over stated.

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    Gasoline is not a single substance. It is a complex mixture of components which vary widely in their physical and chemical properties. There is no such thing as pure gasoline. Gasoline must cover a wide range of operating conditions, such as variations in fuel systems, engine temperatures, fuel pumps and [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 5:36am EDT
    by American Biofuels

  • Corn Ethanol blamed for Gulf Dead Zones?

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    In recent years, there has been great uncertainty regarding the cause of the hypoxic zone (low oxygen) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This has often been the result of a lack of data to support many of the prevailing theories regarding the size, duration and source of the problem. [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
    by American Biofuels

  • President Obama Announces Over $467 Million in Recovery Act Funding for Geothermal and Solar Energy Projects

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    WASHINGTON – President Obama today announced over $467 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment, and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the United States. The funding announced today represents a substantial down payment that will help the solar and geothermal [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
    by mus302

  • February Biodiesel Production Rises

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    February biodiesel production rose by just over 2 million gallons over January numbers.

    February 2009 - 35,528,366 gallons
    January 2009 - 33,394,510 gallons
    December 2008 - 48,584,837 gallons
    November 2008 - 62,218,170 gallons
    October 2008 - 61,718,000 gallons
    September 2008 - 64,134,000 gallons
    August 2008 - 66,696,000 gallons
    July [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
    by mus302

  • February Ethanol Production Higher

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    The total amount of ethanol produced during February was down from the total from January due to the fact that February had 3 fewer days. The daily production volume increased from 630,000 barrels per day in January to 647,000 barrels per day in February.

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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
    by mus302

  • E85 Stations Finish April At 1991

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    One new E85 station was added during the month of April bringing the total to 1991. This is the lowest amount added for any one month since I started keeping track. Hopefully now that better weather is here more will be added in the near future.

    May 1, [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Panda sells Hereford ethanol plant

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    Panda Ethanol's Hereford facility which filed for bankruptcy in January, has been sold for $25 million to it's creditors. The plant is in the final stages of construction.

    The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas-Dallas Division finalized the sale of the plant to senior lenders of [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
    by mus302

  • American Coalition For Ethanol's E15 Petition

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    The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) has set up an online petition to show support for raising the ethanol content in gasoline to 15%.

    A waiver is being considered at the U.S. EPA to allow up to 15 percent ethanol per gallon of gasoline, raising the now 30-year-old limit [...]
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    Posted: April 16, 2009, 11:51pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Producing Ethanol And Cleaning Waste With Duckweed

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    Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and potentially be part of the answer for the global energy crisis. Their research shows that growing duckweed on hog wastewater can produce five to [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 10:05pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Congressional Budget Office Studies Ethanol's Contribution To Last Years Food Price Increases

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    The Congressional Budget Office has just released a report on ethanol's contribution to last years food price increases.

    CBO estimates that from April 2007 to April 2008, the rise in the price of corn resulting from expanded production of ethanol contributed between 0.5 and 0.8 percentage points of the' [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 1:15pm EDT
    by mus302

  • January Biodiesel Production Falls Sharply

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    January biodiesel production fell sharply to about 33.4 million gallons, the lowest monthly total since April 2007.

    January 2009 - 33,394,510 gallons
    December 2008 - 48,584,837 gallons
    November 2008 - 62,218,170 gallons
    October 2008 - 61,718,000 gallons
    September 2008 - 64,134,000 gallons
    August 2008 - 66,696,000 gallons
    July [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Senators Harkin, Thune, Johnson Introduce Legislation To Promote Biofuel Pipelines

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    April 3rd, 2009 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), John Thune (R-SD) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) today introduced legislation that authorizes loan guarantees for the construction of renewable fuel pipeline projects. While the Midwest and Plains states produce the majority of the biofuels in the United States, [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
    by mus302

  • January Ethanol Production Drops

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    January ethanol production dropped to just over 820 million gallons, the lowest level since September of last year.

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    Stocks

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    January 2009

    820,890,000

    15,582,000

    595,812,000

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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
    by mus302

  • E85 Stations Finish March At 1990

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    The number of E85 stations across the country continues to grow reaching 1990 by the end of March. For the month 21 new locations were added.

    April 1 2009 - 1990
    March 1, 2009 - 1969
    February 1, 2009 - 1927
    January 1, 2009 - 1899
    December 1, [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 12:01am EDT
    by mus302

  • Corn Plus ethanol plant explores using city wastewater

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    Corn Plus is exploring the possibility of using treated wastewater from the city of Winnebago in it's ethanol plant.

    The city of Winnebago discharges a minimum of about 350,000 gallons of treated wastewater into the Blue Earth River each day.

    The ethanol plant just east of town uses' [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:34pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Oregon State Researchers Using Algae To Produce Hydrogen

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    OSU researchers successfully got one type of cyanobacteria – more commonly known as blue-green algae – to live, grow and produce hydrogen while the cells were “encapsulated” in a solid state system, an important preliminary step to controlling this interaction of water, light and bacteria for practical use.

    Significant [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2009, 12:29am EDT
    by mus302

  • POET Chancellor Ethanol Plant Powered By Landfill Gas

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    Chancellor, S.D. and the city of Sioux Falls, S.D. have taken "green" to a new level with the completion of a landfill gas pipeline that is now providing methane gas to help power daily operations of the 105 million gallon per year (MGPY) POET ethanol plant.

    The 10-mile, low-pressure [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Minnesota State Study : E20 No Harder On Engines Than Gasoline

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    The fruits, so far, of a $497,000 grant to Minnesota State University to study ethanol: A 20 percent blend appears to be no harder on vehicles than regular gasoline.

    The study, led by Bruce Jones and Jim Rife in MSU’s automotive engineering technology department, has tested the effects of [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 1:11am EDT
    by mus302

  • Kohler Introduces Industry’s First E85 Compatable Small Engine Line

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    Fuel efficient, cleaner burning engines will soon be the standard – not an option – on all KOHLER Command PRO® and Aegis® twin-cylinder engines.

    Starting with its Command PRO 30 gasoline, twin-cylinder model in March, Kohler will introduce the first flex-fuel, electronic fuel injection(EFI) engine. Over the next two [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Landfill to build power plant run on methane gas

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    Waste Management Inc. plans to build Arkansas' second "gas-to-energy plant" near its Tontitown landfill.

    The plant will convert methane gas to generate about 5 megawatts of electricity, which could power 5,000 homes, said George Wheatley, a spokesman for the Houston based company. Methane gas is created naturally as waste' [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 11:54pm EDT
    by mus302

  • VeraSun Energy Selects Valero as Successful Bidder for Seven Facilities

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    VeraSun Energy Corp. today announced that it has selected Valero Renewable Fuels as the successful bidder for assets contained in the “VSE Group”, in addition to ethanol production facilities in Albion, Neb., and Albert City, Iowa, following an auction in Wilmington, Del. The secured lenders submitted successful credit bids for [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 10:55pm EDT
    by mus302

  • POET And Magellan To Assess Dedicated Ethanol Pipeline

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    Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. today announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with POET to continue assessing the feasibility of constructing a dedicated ethanol pipeline. The proposed ethanol pipeline system would safely and efficiently deliver ethanol from the Midwest to distribution terminals in the northeastern United States.

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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 11:36pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Sapphire Energy Algae to Fuel Demonstration Project Receives Funding

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    The omnibus appropriations bill President Obama signed into law last week contained $951,000 for the Sapphire Energy Algae to Fuel Demonstration Project.

    Sapphire Energy Algae to Fuel Demonstration Project - $951,000

    This funding establishes a demonstration project in Portales, New Mexico, to create and grow a fuel-producing algae [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2009, 7:10pm EDT
    by mus302

  • Ethanol Fact Check Needed In The Bird Seed Aisle

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    This is another post about how the media is all too willing to place the blame on ethanol without even checking the facts.

    An article in the news talks about how the price of bird seed has gone up and points the blame at ethanol.

    Another factor [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 2:50am EDT
    by mus302

  • 2008 Gasoline Consumption

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    The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released the December fuel numbers recently. With these numbers all the months of 2008 can be added up to get a glimpse of what the years gasoline consumption will look like. Because of the fact that each months numbers were rounded to the nearest 1000 [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by mus302

  • Ethanol Fact Check Needed In The Dairy Isle

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    Remember the days when information was given to a reporter and they checked the facts before they printed the story? Well, those days are long gone. A story in the news today about the troubles facing the dairy industry highlights this fact. One quote stood out to me.

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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 12:23am EDT
    by mus302

  • Kansas State Study Finds No Link Between E. Coli And Distillers Grains

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    Researcher at Kansas State University have conducted another study on the effects of feeding distillers grains and the prevalence of E. coli 0157 in cattle. The conclusions of this study are that feeding distillers grains had no significant effects on the prevalence of E. coli.

    Source : Nebraska [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2009, 12:49am EST
    by mus302

  • December Biodiesel Production Falls Sharply

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    December biodiesel production fell by about 14 million gallons from the number posted in November to 48,584,837 gallons. That number is about 19 million gallons lower than the peak established in July and the lowest level since February 2008.

    December 2008 - 48,584,837 gallons
    November 2008 - 62,218,170 [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 7:32pm EST
    by mus302

  • Aurora Biofuels Pilot Algae Plant Produces Biodiesel

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    ALAMEDA, Calif., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Biofuels, Inc. today announces that it has successfully operated a pilot plant in Florida for 18 months. The biodiesel produced from the Aurora Biofuels pilot facility has successfully passed ASTM standards, and the consistency of fuel production over the trial period marks a [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 12:17am EST
    by mus302

  • DOE Announces Investment of up to $84 Million in Geothermal Energy

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    WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the release of two Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for up to $84 million to support the development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Geothermal energy technologies use energy from the earth to heat buildings and generate electricity. Enhanced Geothermal Systems [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 11:58pm EST
    by mus302

  • E85 Stations Continue To Rise, Reaching 1969

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    The number of E85 stations across the country continues to rise. For the month of February 42 new locations were added bringing the total number of E85 stations to 1969. From March 1, 2008 to March 1, 2009 a total of 468 new stations were added.

    March 1, 2009 [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 11:47pm EST
    by mus302

  • Imported Oil Major Source of 2008 Trade Deficit

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    Americans spent a record $453.3 billion on imported petroleum in 2008, a figure representing two-thirds of the U.S. trade deficit of $677.1 billion, according to new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.

    The 2008 import average price per barrel of crude oil was also a record high of [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2009, 6:17pm EST
    by mus302

  • December Ethanol Production, Imports, and Consumption Up

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    Ethanol production in December rose to a little over 854 million gallons, an increase of about 12 million gallons over November production numbers. Imports also increased by about 8 million gallons and stocks fell by just over 42 million gallons. Consumption rose to the highest level yet, increasing by about [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 1:20pm EST
    by mus302

  • QuantumSphere Awarded Research Grant to Turn Algae into Biofuels

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    QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, today announced that it was awarded a research grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a process using nanocatalysts to convert biomass into biofuels.

    The grant [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 11:44pm EST
    by mus302

  • Mascoma Demonstration Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Starts Up

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    Mascoma Corporation, a leader in the development of low carbon cellulosic ethanol, today announced that the company's demonstration facility in Rome, New York, is now producing ethanol from non-food cellulosic biomass.

    "This is an important milestone for the cellulosic ethanol industry and for Mascoma. We are grateful for the'" [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 4:17pm EST
    by mus302

  • Ethanol's Economic Contribution in 2008

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    In what has become an annual report, John Urbanchuk of LECG LLC has released a report on the economic contribution of the ethanol industry in 2008.

    The following summarizes the economic contribution of the American ethanol industry.

    The full impact of the spending for annual operations, ethanol transportation, [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 1:06pm EST
    by mus302

  • MODERN ETHANOL PLANT HAS NEGLIGIBLE IMPACT ON LAND USE, NEW SCIENTIFIC STUDY FINDS

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    Proposed EPA and California renewable fuel standards relying upon incomplete science may threaten ethanol market and worsen global warming impact

    Chicago, IL-(February 24, 2009)- A new study announced today on ethanol land use impact found that a modern ethanol plant does not meaningfully change farmland use, neither the [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2009, 1:01pm EST
    by mus302

  • UL Announces Support For Dispensing E15 From Existing Gasoline Pumps

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    The Underwriters Laboratory (UL) announced today that it supports Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) who decide to permit legacy system dispensers, Listed to UL 87 and currently installed in the market, to be used with fuel blends containing a maximum ethanol content of 15 percent.

    "UL determined that there is" [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 8:51pm EST
    by mus302

  • BP and Verenium Form Cellulosic Ethanol Venture

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    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb 18, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BP and Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM) today announced the formation of a 50-50 joint venture to develop and commercialize cellulosic ethanol from non-food feedstocks. The joint venture company will act as the commercial entity for the deployment of cellulosic ethanol technology [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 12:05am EST
    by mus302

  • Saudi Oil Minister Warns Against Hasty Transition to Renewable Energy

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    According to Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali Naimi, renewable energy sources are not fully equipped to meet the world’s energy demands and that governments should avoid making huge investments in developing clean energy systems.

    At a conference in Huston, Mr. Naimi argued that recent injection of billions of dollars [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 10:06pm EST
    by mus302

  • DDGS show opportunities for pig farmers

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    Preliminary results show that rations high in distillers' dried grains with solubles (DDGS) suggest an opportunity for Canada's pork producers to load up on cheap feed.

    Pork quality
    The study, he said, is now in the process of determining the impact on growth performance and pork quality with the [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 3:49pm EST
    by American Biofuels

  • Purdue Creates Renewable Energy Website

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    WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University Extension has powered up a Web site on cleaner, greener energy.

    The Renewable Energy site offers an array of resources on environmentally friendly energy sources and conservation. The site is located at [www.extension.purdue.edu].

    Web site visitors can learn about installing wind [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 3:01pm EST
    by mus302

  • November Biodiesel Production Numbers Up

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    November biodiesel production numbers were up by about 500,000 gallons over that of October, but still down by about 5 million gallons from it's peak in July.

    November 2008 - 62,218,170 gallons
    October 2008 - 61,718,000 gallons
    September 2008 - 64,134,000 gallons
    August 2008 - 66,696,000 gallons
    July 2008' [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 3:41am EST
    by mus302

  • A Closer Look At Ethanol And Fuel Mileage

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    Ever since I wrote about ethanol and fuel mileage for the first time I have received emails from readers about how they have experienced larger losses than what can be explained by the difference in the BTU content of ethanol blended gasoline and regular gasoline. A couple of days ago [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by mus302

  • Is The Underwriters Laboratory Biased Against Ethanol?

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    That is the question being asked by the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) in a recent letter from Ron Lamberty, ACE’s Vice President / Market Development, to August Schaefer, UL’s Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer.

    The Underwriters Laboratory (UL) has made a couple of moves in [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 12:01am EST
    by mus302

  • VeraSun Energy Obtains Bid from Valero For Five Facilities

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    Sioux Falls, S.D., February 6, 2009 – VeraSun Energy Corporation today announced that the Company filed a Bid Procedures and Sale Motion in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware seeking authority to sell substantially all of the assets of VeraSun Energy Corporation and 24 of its [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 9:38pm EST
    by mus302

  • Kinder Morgan To Transport Biodiesel By Pipeline

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    Kinder Morgan Energy Partners said Wednesday it expects to move fuels blended with five percent biodiesel across the South in the Plantation oil products pipeline this year.

    The company, one of the largest pipeline companies in the United States, recently moved 20,000 barrels of the blended fuel via a [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 4:09pm EST
    by mus302

  • Wesley Clark To Join Growth Energy

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    The Politico is reporting that retired General Wesley Clark will be announced as the co-chair of the ethanol industry group Growth Energy at a press conference to be held tomorrow.

    Source : Politico

    Growth Energy press release on the announcement.

    Related Posts:
    November Ethanol [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by mus302

  • Underwriters Laboratories Announces Position on Use of B5 Biodiesel Blends

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    Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is announcing that products intended to use biodiesel blends up to B5 that are compliant with applicable ASTM International fuel standards will not require special investigation by UL. This is consistent with ASTM standards for heating oil and diesel fuel, which were recently updated to indicate [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 9:02am EST
    by mus302

  • Upcoming University Of Minnesota Study Critical Of Corn Ethanol

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    University Of Minnesota researcher Jason Hill is set to release a study comparing the human health effects of corn ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and gasoline.

    The study is the first to estimate the economic costs to human health and well-being from gasoline, corn-based ethanol and cellulosic ethanol made from biomass. [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 9:41am EST
    by mus302

  • Global wind energy capacity grew by 28.8% in 2008

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    That is the conclusion of a new report from the Global Wind Energy Council, that global wind capacity grew by 28.8% last year. Global wind capacity reached 120.8 GW by the end of last year. Over 27 GW of new wind power generation capacity came online in 2008, 36% more [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 4:44pm EST
    by mus302

  • Iowa E10 Sales Reach 75 Percent of Gasoline Market in 2008

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    JOHNSTON, IA – The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) today announced that Iowans chose E10, a 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline blend, 75 percent of the time in 2008. While this was slightly higher than 2007, it was the same level as 2005. With a typical savings at [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 8:29am EST
    by mus302

  • E85 Stations Continue To Rise, Reaching 1927

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    The number of E85 across American continues to rise. For the month of January there were 28 new locations added bringing the total to 1927.

    February 1, 2009 - 1927
    January 1, 2009 - 1899
    December 1, 2008 - 1868
    November 1, 2008 - 1837
    October 1, 2008 - [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2009, 12:01am EST
    by mus302

  • November Ethanol Production Steady, Imports And Consumption Down

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    Ethanol production in November remained steady at pretty much the same level since August. Imports for the month dropped by over 50% and consumption fell by almost 50 million gallons from the number posted in October to the lowest level since August.

    The numbers are skewed downward somewhat since [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 1:25pm EST
    by mus302

  • Japan Airlines Conducts Biofuels Test Flight

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    Japan Airlines successfully conducted a test flight today of an unmodified Boeing 747-300 aircraft with one engine running on a 50% biofuels and 50% aviation jet fuel.

    Tokyo, January 30, 2009: Today, Japan Airlines (JAL) became the first airline to conduct a demonstration flight using a sustainable biofuel [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 11:35am EST
    by mus302

  • Is Ethanol Responsible For High Milk Prices?

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    Over the last year ethanol has been blamed for the high price of milk along with a number of other food cost increases. There is an article in the news today with a quote from dairy farmer Brian Getty that provides some insights into what has pushed milk prices up.
    [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 9:32am EST
    by mus302

  • Cornell Professor David Pimentel Releases New Study Critical Of Biofuels

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    Cornell professor David Pimentel has just published another study critical of ethanol and other biofuels. Pimentel has published several studies over the last several years that have all come to the same conclusion that it takes a lot more energy to produce ethanol than the finished ethanol contains. And these [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 2:40pm EST
    by mus302

  • WIND ENERGY GROWS BY RECORD 8,300 MW IN 2008

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    The U.S. wind energy industry shattered all previous records in 2008 by installing 8,358 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity (enough to serve over 2 million homes), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today, even as it warned of an uncertain outlook for 2009 due to the continuing financial [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 9:04am EST
    by mus302

  • ICM to operate 3 Conoco stations selling ethanol

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    ICM has formed a partnership to operate three ethanol-blend stations in Conoco's name, including one that is set to open within a few weeks in Wichita.

    They are the country's first stations offering ethanol fuel to operate under the canopy of a major oil company, ICM marketing director Alan [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 5:02am EST
    by mus302

  • October Biodiesel Production Numbers Down

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    October biodiesel production numbers continued to slide ending the month at 61,718,000 gallons compared to 64,134,000 gallons for the month of September. Since peaking in July production has dropped by almost 6 million gallons per month.

    October 2008 - 61,718,000 gallons
    September 2008 - 64,134,000 gallons
    August 2008 - [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2009, 11:53am EST
    by mus302

  • Panda Ethanol Hereford Subsidiary Files Bankruptcy

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    Panda Ethanol has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for it's Hereford, TX Subsidiary. The subsidiary has been plagued by construction problems and delays that caused Panda to fire the general contractor and assume control of the construction process. Plans are to put the facility, which is in the late stages of' [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:28pm EST
    by mus302

  • Senator Nelson Introduces Biogas Legislation

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    Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson has introduced legislation that promotes the development of biogas – a natural gas substitute created by converting agricultural, animal or other organic wastes – through tax incentives.

    “We already have the technology to break down these wastes to create biogas but it needs encouragement from [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 6:40am EST
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  • Ethanol Production More Energy Efficient Than Previously Thought

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    In September I wrote about an study to be released by researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln that concluded that ethanol production was more energy efficient than previously thought. Previous studies were done or relied on data acquired before the most recent ethanol plant building boom occurred. [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:09pm EST
    by mus302

  • Ethanol Phase Separation

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    The EPA published a report in 1995 that describes the conditions under which phase separation can occur in oxygenated fuels. The primary oxygenates discussed in the report are ethanol and MTBE.

    Phase separation occurs when the water content reaches the maximum amount that the gasoline blend can dissolve, any [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2009, 7:14am EST
    by mus302

  • Brazil Through An American Farmers Perspective

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    A group of corn farmers from Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska are on a two week study tour of Brazil and Argentina. A blog has been set up to follow the tour which started on January 10 and runs through January 25. The tour thus far is still in Brazil.

    [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 3:21pm EST
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  • Biofuel Carbon Footprint Not As Big As Feared

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    Publications ranging from the journal Science to Time magazine have blasted biofuels for significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, calling into question the environmental benefits of making fuel from plant material. But a new analysis by Michigan State University scientists says these dire predictions are based on a set of [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 9:59pm EST
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  • New Tool To Determine The Cost Of Producing Corn Ethanol

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    Iowa State researcher David Peters has created a tool to determine the cost and profitability of producing corn ethanol.

    David Peters, an assistant professor of sociology in Iowa State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been getting questions about the profitability of ethanol plants under current market conditions' [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 3:28pm EST
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  • Flometrics Tests BioDiesel As Rocket Fuel

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    Flometrics Inc. announced today that it had successfully tested biodiesel as rocket fuel.

    Flometrics, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed its first series of tests on a RocketDyne LR-101 rocket engine with BioDiesel as a rocket fuel. The engine was also tested with RP-1 kerosene rocket fuel [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 11:02pm EST
    by mus302

  • Dynamic Fuels Renewable Diesel Plant Begins Construction

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    Construction has begun on the Dynamic Fuels plant in Geismar, LA. The plant will produce renewable diesel and jet fuel from animal fats such as beef tallow, pork lard, chicken fat and greases.

    Dynamic Fuels is a joint venture between Tyson Foods and Syntroleum. The animal fats will be [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 10:06pm EST
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  • POET To Annouce Cellulosic Ethanol Pilot Plant Opening

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    Indications are that POET will officially announce the opening of their cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in the morning. The pilot plant is located in Scotland, South Dakota and is meant to help them fine tune their production process ahead of building a commercial scale plant. The pilot plant is capable [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 8:45pm EST
    by mus302

  • Ethanols Use In Snowmobiles

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    The NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine posted an article on snowmobile users having problems with ethanol blended gasoline. My guess is there will be more over the next few days as this echoes through the internet.

    Snowmobilers Have Trouble With Ethanol Gas

    Some time back I ran [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 4:47am EST
    by mus302

  • Corn Plus Ethanol Plant Trading Carbon Credits

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    There is a really good article in the Mankato Free Press about Corn Plus. Corn Plus is one of the ethanol producers that I admire for the fact that they have gone to great lengths to make their operation more efficient.

    The net effect of all their efforts to [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 1:01pm EST
    by mus302

  • Verenium's Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Begins Production

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    The USA Today has an article on Verenium's demonstration scale cellulosic ethanol facility. The facility began startup operations in April and after some initial equipment and process problems, started production earlier this week.

    Come visit a scruffy patch of land here in sugar-cane country, where 15-foot-high piles of what' [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 12:02am EST
    by mus302

  • Continental Airlines Conducts Biofuels Test Flight

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    Continental Airlines successfully completed a test flight of an unmodified Boeing 737-800 with one engine running on a mixture of 50% biofuels and 50% aviation jet fuel yesterday. This marks the first test flight undertaken by an American airline on biofuels and data gained from the test indicate that the [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 3:41pm EST
    by mus302

  • Michigan School Installs Corn Burning Furnace

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    The Merrill Community Schools of Michigan installed a corn burning furnace to provide heat to the middle school and high school as part of a 2006 construction project that also included installing more efficient lighting. Although initial problems were encountered, the system seems to running properly now.

    "We saved" [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2009, 2:16pm EST
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  • E85 Stations Top 1900

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    The number of E85 stations across the country have now topped 1900 locations.

    In my last post I noted that the number of E85 stations closed out 2008 at 1899 and I knew that the 1900 mark would be just days away. According to the National Ethanol [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 10:42am EST
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  • E85 Stations Finish Year At 1899 Locations

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    2008 was a good year for E85 stations. Over the course of the year over 400 new locations were added bringing the total at years end to 1899.

    January 1, 2009 - 1899
    December 1, 2008 - 1868
    November 1, 2008 - 1837
    October 1, 2008 - 1782
    September [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2009, 12:06am EST
    by mus302

  • October Ethanol Production Up, Stocks and Imports Down

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    October ethanol production was up from September numbers but slightly below the high set in August. Imports for the month of October were down and with consumption hitting a new high, stocks fell from it's high point set last month.

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    Ethanol Production' [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 8:28pm EST
    by mus302

  • Grocery Manufacturers Association: Trust Us On Ethanol Facts

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    I have been on the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) website hunting a quote I saw sometime back and happened across a document titled 'Food to Fuel Fact Sheet'. While glancing through it I noticed this section.

    Food-to-fuel policies have little impact on gasoline prices. Because ethanol displaces a [...]
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    Posted: December 26, 2008, 9:57am EST
    by mus302

  • POET plant begins $2 million expansion project

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    POET issued a press release yesterday saying that their Laddonia, Mo. plant is undergoing a $2 million dollar expansion which will allow it to produce an additional five million gallons of ethanol. According to the press release the expansion is already underway and is expected to be completed in April [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 8:27am EST
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  • September Biodiesel Numbers Down

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    September biodiesel production number were down slightly to 64,134,000 gallons from 66,696,000 gallons in August. Part of the difference can be explained by the fact that September has 30 days whereas August has 31, but not all of it. Even adding another days worth of production would bring the total [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 8:01am EST
    by mus302

  • Is Ethanol Off The Hook For Rising Food Prices?

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    There have been several articles over the last few days that articulate the disconnect between the rhetoric waged by the anti-ethanol campaign in blaming food prices increases on ethanol production and the fact that food prices have remained high despite the recent fall in commodity prices. Here is a sampling [...]
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    Posted: December 22, 2008, 2:34am EST
    by mus302

  • Distillers Grain Research Update

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    The Beef Checkoff recently funded a body of research related to the beef quality and safety implications of feeding ethanol co-products to beef cattle. The research consisted of six studies and a summary of the conclusions is available below.

    Ethanol Co-Product Research Executive Summary (PDF)

    Related Posts:
    [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 8:06am EST
    by mus302

  • Canadian Ethanol Production Reaches 1 Billion Liters Per Year

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    The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association announced yesterday that with the official opening of the 150 million liter per year Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative (IGPC) ethanol plant that Canada's ethanol production capacity exceeded the 1 billion liters per year mark.

    "Today marks a milestone day in the production of'" [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 6:50am EST
    by mus302

  • Chevron funds jatropha study in California

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    HOLTVILLE, CALIF.: A trial jatropha plantation funded by Chevron will see the transplanting of jatropha seeds this spring into an acre parcel at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center (DREC) in Holtville, Calif.

    "I think jatropha would be ideal for this area," said Sham Goyal, University [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2008, 4:55am EST
    by mus302

  • Military Trash To Energy Refinery Successful

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    In March I wrote about a military project to solve two problems that every military faces, supplying fuel to remote bases and disposing of trash. The solution was to develop a refinery that could convert the trash to fuel to power a generator.

    The tactical garbage-to-energy refinery (TGER, [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 12:21pm EST
    by mus302

  • OPEC President Calls For Production Cut

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    OPEC President Chakib Khelil is calling for a production cut much larger than 1 million barrels per day to stabalize oil prices.

    "Even a million barrels is not enough, it should be much more for the stability of markets," he said, adding that the $75 a barrel price target [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 1:58am EST
    by mus302

  • Two Iowa Ethanol Plants Getting Wind Power

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    The Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative (ILEC) is installing wind turbines at two wind farms located near ethanol plants.

    ILEC, which serves customers in the counties of Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto and Pocahontas, is building two separate wind farms near the 110 million-gallon Global Ethanol [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 3:18am EST
    by mus302

  • UAE Building Regions First Biodiesel Plant

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    The United Arab Emirates is building the first biodiesel plant in the GCC (Gulf Cooperative Council) region.

    The first UAE-based biodiesel plant in the GCC region will produce 3 million gallons annually of environmentally-friendlier diesel to power vehicles, drastically reducing greenhouse gas emission due to its less toxic content, [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2008, 9:33pm EST
    by mus302

  • Did The IRL Snub American Ethanol Producers?

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    The Indy Racing League (IRL) announced on November 18, 2008 that the official ethanol supplier would be the Brazilian trade promotion agency APEX-Brasil. The move from an American fuel supplier to a Brazilian based supplier has caused quite a stir especially among ethanol supporters and corn growers.

    I have [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 12:52pm EST
    by mus302

  • Biodiesel Stations Grow Reaching 1131

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    The number of biodiesel refueling locations across the country has grown since the middle of October by 113 locations to reach a total of 1131.

    December 1, 2008 - 1131
    October 11, 2008 - 1018

    Please note that this number includes all biodiesel blend levels. For a [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 4:39pm EST
    by mus302

  • Number Of E85 Pumps Continues To Grow

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    The number of E85 stations continues to grow reaching 1868 stations through the end of October. For the month 31 new locations were added.

    December 1, 2008 - 1868
    November 1, 2008 - 1837
    October 1, 2008 - 1782
    September 1, 2008 - 1743
    August 1, 2008 - 1663
    [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2008, 12:02am EST
    by mus302

  • August Biodiesel Production Down Slightly

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    August biodiesel production totaled 66,696,000 gallons, down from 67,410,000 gallons in July.

    August 2008 - 66,696,000 gallons
    July 2008 - 67,410,000 gallons
    June 2008 - 63,378,000 gallons
    May 2008 - 52,500,000 gallons
    April 2008 - 52,836,000 gallons
    March 2008 - 49,056,000 gallons
    February 2008 - 43,260,000 gallons
    January 2008 [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2008, 8:18am EST
    by mus302

  • September Ethanol Production Down Slightly

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    September ethanol production dipped slightly from the prior months totals. Imports, stocks and consumption all rose.

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    Ethanol Production Numbers in Gallons


    Production

    Imports

    Stocks

    Consumption

    September 2008

    806,274,000

    103,572,000

    671,748,000

    863,142,000

    [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2008, 7:11am EST
    by mus302

  • Poet in buyout talks with other ethanol producers

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    POET LLCPOET LLC, the nations largest ethanol producer said in an AP article that it was in buyout talks with a number of ethanol companies.

    "We just feel there is a lot of promise in the future of the ethanol industry," said Jeff Broin, chief executive [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 7:42am EST
    by mus302

  • VeraSun Receives Indication Of Interest Of Purchase Of Assets

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    VeraSun EnergyVeraSun announced in a press release that it had received indication from an interested buyer.

    VeraSun Energy Corporation (VSUNQ), one of the nation’s largest ethanol producers, today announced that it recently received a non-binding unsolicited indication of interest with respect to the purchase of substantially [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 7:26am EST
    by mus302

  • Renewable Fuel Standard Increased for 2009

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    The EPA recently announced the renewable fuels requirement for 2009.

    The 2009 renewable fuel standard (RFS) will be 10.21 percent to ensure that at least 11.1 billion gallons of renewable fuels be blended into transportation gasoline.

    The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) established the annual [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 8:52am EST
    by mus302
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