Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'York'

Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost

Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...

Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost

Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...

Distillers grains and cattle.

OK this is slightly off beam, but a lot of people are very keen of feeding distillers grains to cattle. For some ethanol plants it is the most profitable part of the business. Animal husbandry is not an area that...

Now Silkweed is a potential biofuel

Silkweed is a potential biofuel, according to a website connected to a local TV station in Vermont. Silkweed is good for butterflies. It will be planted by Innovation Fuels, which it will turn into biodiesel. ...

I'm off to New York

I'm sitting in a very noisy cafe on a seat with a great view of people bored with shopping in Termainal 3 at Heathrow. I had hoped to be able to fit in a stint as a moderator at the...

Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food?

Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food? Despite the measured tones (and graph) in my previous post (Is the price of corn too low?),the price of bagels in New York seems to be more closely...

Genencor has given more details of its enzyme for 2 gen biofuels

Genencor has given more details of its enzyme package for second generation biofuels at a press conference in New York today....

The New York Times gets Jatropha

The New York Times gets Jatropha! in a recent story the newspaper with its finger on the beating pulse of the world's most important city (after the city in which you live) has discovered the magic plant. My advice: Look...

Renewable Power and Light goes to court

Renewable Power and Light is going to court in the US to sue Safari, which has found itself unable to supply palm oil at a price agreed about two years ago. In a statement to the Alternative Investment Market, part...

Now uncertainty over ethanol is keeping US gas prices up

Now uncertainty over ethanol is keeping US gas prices up according to the NW Republican blog quoting a report by Jad Mouawad in the New York Times. Gas prices are spiking again -- to an average of $3.22 a gallon,...