Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'California'
Pacific Ethanol
Video from WSJ Marketline about Pacific Ethanol's Plant in Stockton, California. Production at the Stockton was suspended in February. It is now mothballed. Too much capacity, margins too thin, seem to be the story. This isn't the first time that...
California looks at emissions from crop to tail pipe and legislates
California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol, according to a report on Planet Ark. The new legislation examines the carbon impact from seed to tailpipe, which seems sensible. ...
Algae lovers united
Algae, another putative bifouel source has its backers, and one group of algae lovers have untied in the Chorophyll collective, based in Berkeley, California. How I didn't find them before, I just don't know. ...
Primafuel to build plant in West Sacramento
Primafuel will build a 60m gallon biodiesel plant in West Sacramento with a $164,000 grant from the California Air Resources Board, so its not all doom and gloom. Hattip to Sacremento Executive....
Water ethanol and California
This pushes many of my buttons, its got water, its got California and its got Ethanol. It is symptomatic of the increasing doubt that the biofuel industry is facing in the US....
Shell and codexis see 2nd generation biofuels in five years
Shell is taking a seat on Codexis' board and making a capital investment into the biofuels technology company as the firms announced their research collaboration is being extended by five years, according to a report on ICIS news. (Disclosure I...
Silicon Valley in thrall to the car
There's a graphic post over on Green Wombat, about just how the US is in thrall to inefficent cars. It takes the stance that Silicon Valley is one of the most 'green' areas in California, yet they commute long distances...
Berkeley's biofuels research gets $10m extra
University of California, Berkeley, has won a further $10m from the Federal government to research biofuels, according to Deepti Arora in the Daily Californian, which says: A group headed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received an extra $10 million...
Branson and Kholsa in celeb bioufel link up
Over on Scalarparty, it seems Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Biofuels will be working together to develop biofuels with Gevo of California. Vindod Kohsla is linked to Gevo in that post. Secondly, Gevo Biofuels has a new CEO who's come from...
Biomass gassification
One way of using renewable fuels for energy production does not necessarily involve converting materials into liquid fuels by fermentation or wet chemistry. Instead biomass can be heated up and the gasses which come off can be burnt themselves... This...
US EPA awards $200 000 to San Francisco City College to promote biodiesel
The US EPA has awarded $200 000 to the San Francisco City College to promote biodiesel in the city and the state. The grant will be used to bring together a consortium of bio-diesel advocates to help develop distribution and...
Biofuels: its not just Bullocks
Biomethane from cows. It had to happen, according to Planet Ark Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday it will purchase natural gas from cow manure produced at dairy farms in California to fuel power plants. The utility, a subsidiary...
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