Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'National'
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...
There's a plan!
The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels. Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night....
South Africa looks to biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps
South Africa is looking at biodiesel to plug future fuels gaps, according to Engineering News from Creamer Media. According to the report: Dr Titus Mathe, The South African National Energy Research Institute's (Saneri's) programme manager, said that, although the country...
National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September
National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September was one of the first of a range of events across the US in the coming months. I missed this at the time, travelling may broaden the mind, but you can't do...
National Algae Association
I've just been pointed at the US-based National Algae Association, which recently appointed Will Thurmond as Chairman, Research and Development Round table. Membership of the organisation is $750/year Researchers can join for £250. ...
Clinton backs push to cellulosic ethanol
Bill Cliniton, sometime US president, has been talking at the National Clean Energy Summit, in Las Vegas, last night. According to earth2tech, in 10 Things the US Government should do for clean power he said: We need to accelerate the...
Two US associations react to rising food prices
The National Biodiesel Board and the Renewable Fuels Association have issued statements refuting the position of many of the US food sales companies that rising food costs are being caused by rising crop prices. They may have a point in...
US biofuel industry says: don't blame us for food price hikes
The US National Biodiesel Board is telling people that the rise in prices at grocery stores is down to the rise in fuel prices not down to the diversion of food crops in the US into fuel. Joe Jobe, the...
Raising and maintaining biodiesel standards
One of the biggest problems, it seems to me, that biofuel producers face is ensuring that product is the same batch to batch. So its good to see on Domestic Fuel that one third of US biodiesel producers have...
The cost of lobbying for biodiesel
The cost of lobbying by the National Biodisel Board in the US has been published by Congress. In 2007 the National Biodiesel Board spent about $1.2m, which seems pretty small beer to me, according to Hemscott...
Jim Lovel speaks at National Biodiesl board meeting
Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 spoke at the recent National Biodiesel Board meeting in Orlando, covered by my colleague Stephen Burns for ICIS and caught for posterity on his camera phone....
Drying of the West
You might not want to build an ethanol plant west of the Mississippi after you've read this article in National Geographic Magazine about the Drying of the West. It looks like the Western states of the US have been enjoying...
The potential for waste as a biofuel
I'm giving a paper on 4 December at the 1st ICIS Bioresources Summit in Sedgfield Co Durham UK. Its been a salutary lesson to me about having too much fun over the past 18 months. Its like asking a Jackdaw...
Chevron is examining Algae as a fuel source with Governemnt funding
Chevron, the US oil company, and US National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists will collaborate to identify and develop algae strains that can be economically harvested and processed into finished transportation fuels such as jet fuel. Chevron Technology Ventures, a division...
Water corn and alternative fuels
I've been going on about water, quite a bit. I make no apologies for it. If I could just quote from Dr Strangeglove (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb) Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting...
Four US biofuel projects get $97m in loans from the US Department of Agriculture
Four US biofuel projects get $97m in loans from the US Department of Agriculture, according to Green car Congress. The firms are * Clean Burn Fuels LLC, in Hoke, County, N.C., is approved to receive $10 million from the Section...
UK has enough land to meet RTFO says NUF
The UK has enough spare land to grow crops that would enable the country to meet its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, according to a post over on FWi's Food for Thought blog. Charles Abel says Significantly, the NFU estimates that...
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