Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'China'
Novozymes in China biofuel project.
Novozymes and China National Cereals, China Oil & Foodstuff Corp (COFCO) and Asian refiner China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) in February to develop an industry chain to collect agricultural waste, process it into bioethanol and distribute the clean fuel...
China expects to make 5m tonne ethanol by 2010
According to the Huaxlee website, China expects to make 5 m tonne ethanol by 2010, in a post quoting from the China Daily. It will be fueling the need wtih biomass. This blog has noted before that China has looked...
Dynamotive in stover to biofuel process in China
A Dynamotive press release today says that Dynamotive is involved in a project to use pyrolysis to convert corn stover into liquid biofuels in China... I've said it before that this kind of pyrolysis could prove to be the wayahead...
Tapioca shortage may hit china's biofuels
According to a report on reuters, China is facing a tapioca shortage which may hit the country's bioethanol business. This looks like demand has outstripped supply, in December 2006 ust over a year ago the Chinese government saw the biofuel...
China to offer support for non-food biofuels
China is going to support growers of non-food derived biofuels. The Ministry of Finance will pay farmers a 3,000 yuan (about $405) subsidy for each hectare of forest products for biofuels, such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and 2,700 yuan for...
Water a problem for biofuels in china and india
Water shortages could follow Chinese and Indian plans to use sugarcane to make biofuels, according to a report from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) , carried on Planet Ark this morning. The report, Biofuels and implications for agricultural water...
China Philippine deal could lead to more deforestation
Up to 8.8m hectares (33, 980 square miles) of the Philippines could be turned into biofuel plantations under an agreement between the Phillippine and Chinese governments, according to IBON, a Philippine consultancy quoted on ABS-CBN interactive. Last week, the Department...
China has a lot of biomass
China has a lot of biomass, it is estimated that the total amount of biomass resource is up to 5.2x108 tons of oil equivalent (TOE), according to a paper published on research and development in biomass energy in China. The...
Water and biofuels
The threat to world water supplies posed by biofuels has come to the surface following a water conference in Copenhagen earlier this week. It is worth reading Adam Cox's feature on Planet Ark for an interesting analysis of some of...
Sand willows slow Gobi Desert's spread in Mongolia
Sand willows are slowing the Gobi Desert's spread in Mongolia, according to Greening The Desert blog. The trees will be used to generate electricity at power plants in the region According to Greening the Desert In early 2007, the first...
China to grow forests for biofuels
China plans to grow a staggering 13.33 million hectares of forests by 2020 for biofuels, according to a report in English on Hungarian website BBJ , quoting a Chinese official. (If there's not room for Chinese whispers there, then I...
Drought may push corn prices higher
A drought in China that is affecting the key corn growing region of Jilin could mean a smaller harvest in that country and larger demands on global corn reserves, according to Planet Ark....
Japan and now China pile into Brazil's biofuels
Investors from Japan and China have made big commitments to the Brazilian Biofuels market in the last couple of days... according to Ethanol Brasil....
Philippines to grow biofuels for China
The Philippine and Chinese Governments have signed memoranda of understanding enabling large areas of the Philippines to be turned over to biofuels production for Chinese consumption according to BioPact.com...
China's biofuel policy
China's biofuel: bioethanol and biodiesel policy is driven by three goals, says the US Foreign Agriculture Service in a report published in late September. The FAS lists China's objectives as including: improving welfare of Chinese rural citizens strengthening China’s energy...
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