Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'biodiesel'
Biofuel prices and farewell
ICIS has a series of price reports to assess biofuels markets globally. We now cover ETBE, biodiesel and fuel-grade ethanol prices in Europe, Asia, the USA and Latin America. In addition to price reporting, ICIS also provides news coverage of...
NW Biodiesel Network Forum in May
I've just come across the NW Biodiesel Network. It will be holding a forum in Seattle on May 20. The East Side Chapter has meetings at the North Bend Railroad Depot every second Wednesday. (Which looks a lot better than...
Follow the tweets on biofuels
For those of us who love Twitter. I've aggregated four hash tags relating to biofuels in a single handy to view feed called #biofuelhashtags. It aggregates #algae #ethanol #biodiesel and #biofuels into one place. You can see it in the...
The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Indusries on sustainability
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of...
AMFI enewsletter arrives
I've just been sent a copy of the AMFI enewsletter. The AMFI is the group which is implementing the Agreement on Advanced Motor Fuels of the International Energy Agency. It appears four times each year, apparently, and gives around up...
CORRECTED: Two Jatropha projects in India
CORRECTEDLinks sorted out.Two Jatropha to biofuels projects have got under way in India in the past two days. According to the SindhToday 100 million Jatropha saplings have been planted in Chhattisgarth. Meanwhile Sulekha.com has Bharat Petroleum to invest Rupee 21.31bn...
Food vs fuel the debate rumbles on
Its 2009 and some things don't change... the its your fault, no its your fault arguments over how much the biofuel industry is to blame for high food prices is one argument that is bringing some heat to this frigid...
A Short Essay on Biofuels and Related Matters
This is a guest post from Professor David B. Benson (retired), who is a regular commenter on The Big Biofuels Blog.David's contact details: dbenson@eecs.wsu.edu Biofuel------- Photosynthesis uses only a very small fraction of the available sunlight. This means that growing...
A time to look back and a time to look forward
As 2008 draws to a close it is time to look back and assess how well I did in my predictions for 2008, at the start of the year, and let you know about a couple of guest bloggers who...
Life on Myanmar's biofuels plantation
Tidied upLife on a Myanmar biofuels plantation is explored and found to be pretty rosy in this article from Singapore's Straights Times. Well it would be, its the Straights Times and its a Singaporean investment. Didn't look around at any...
USDA wants biorefinery grant requests for new technologies
The USDA wants requests for loans to build biofuel plants that do not use corn starch as the raw material starting point. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing...
Biofuels are sticking point for EU renewable policy
According to ReutersThompson Biofuels have deadlocked the EU'a renewables policy. ...
Phonix fire department needs to educate home brewers
Nice story about a lack of communication in Phoenix, Arizona carried by the New York times. It seems biodiesel home brewers are neglecting to get permits to make biofuel. Story is interestingly written in that it does not attempt to...
Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?
Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease? That is the question posed by Ron Steenblick, and Richard Doornbosch in a recent online publication....
India's biofuel market: a report
There's a new report on the outlook for India's biofuels market. The key take-away for me is that despite a growing ethanol industry, India is going to have an ethanol deficit until at least 2017 as demand outstrips supply by...
Pertamina launches biodisel in Indonesia
Palm oil biodiesel is being sold to industry by Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil company, says Planet Ark. There is no comment about sustainabilty, or biodiversity. Indonesia sees this as one move to reduce dependency on foreign oil....
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....
Fungus joins biofuel armoury
There's some excitement about a newly discovered fungus that makes chemicals similar to biofuels from cellulose. (Thanks David). It looks legit, because a couple of my colleagues sent me this link (thanks Clay and Doris). This isn't the first time...
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...
ICIS bioresources summit
ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers...
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