Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Texas'
US ethanol overview
There's an overview of the US market for ethanol, the state of plant building and possible directions for the corn price, over at the Agrilife Extension of the Texas A&M University website. The credit crunch might have been a good...
Coconuts for biofuels
Researchers at Baylor University, Texas have been working with academics from Papua New Guinea to make biofuel from coconut oil. The technology looks to centre around a device which separates coconut milk from the oil as it crushes individual coconuts...
EPA to rule on Texas' exit from biofuel mandate on 24 July
A piece on Bloombergg today goes into some detail behind Texas' Governors' plan to try and get out of the national requirement to make 9bn gallons of ethanol. The story says that there will have to be a decision by...
RFA comes out against Texas' plan for a biofuels waiver
The US Renewable Fuel Association has come out strongly against Texas' request for a standstill in the amount of biofuel it consumes. The Association's point of view is pretty much that this is a federal mandate and so should be...
Texas' cattle ranchers oppose ethanol
A story in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago says that Texas is now opposed to corn-based ethanol. Why? Because it is making corn, used to feed cattle, and Texas is big in the world of cattle,...
Off to America for some biofuels filming
Sorry, its been so long. I've been up to my eyes in the other parts of my job. The good news is that there should be some more biofuels content in a day or two, possibly a nice video with...
A short video about algae that grow in brackish water and can produce biofuel feedstock
A short video about algae that grow in brackish water and will only take around 5000 square kilometres. The researchers at the Unviersity of Texas at Austin estimate that it would take 820,313 square miles of corn or 234 000...
If you're in Texas on 22 February ....
Then you might like to head along to hear Dr Michael Webber, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas talking about the chances of ethanol taking off....
Panda ethanol gets permit
Panda Ethanol has got an air-quality permit, enabling it to proceed with a 115 million gallon/year ethanol plant that will use 38 million bushels of feedstock-grade corn at Muleshoe, Texas. The firm will use cattle manure for power. View Larger...
Will Jatropha grow in the Catskills?
I've had a sort of answer to my flippant question about whether Jatropha will grow in the Catskills mountains of New York state. One of my colleagues who works in an office in New York, New York has sent me...
The linkages between oil and soy prices
The linkages between oil and soya prices, and, more broadly, the link between food and fuel prices is investigated in this report by Judith Taylor, on ICIS News (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Quoting from Judith's report for...
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