Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'diesel'
New Generation biofuels plans to list on Nasdaq
New Generation Biofuels plans to move its listing from the American Stock Exchange to Nasdaq and has announced plans to build a 50m gal/year plant in Baltimore, Maryland. New Generation says it will be making second generation biofules from oils...
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain
Splash dash and a lot of biodiesel pain European Biofuel producers are considering legal action through the European Commission to halt they see as US biofuel producers dumping biofuel within the EU. Exports from the US gain...
ABS to build UK's biggest biodiesel plant in Bristol
ABS Biodiesel is to build the UK's biggest biodisel plant in Bristol, according to Biofuels International. The plant will have capacity for 225 00 tonne/year, can be expanded to 500,000 tonne/year, is well placed for crops and for nearby refineries,...
Inside Lovecraft biofuels
Converting cars to run on veg oil ......
The carbon footprint of biofuels and petrofuels
SRIC’s Carbon Footprint of Biofuels & Petrofuels report suggests that... land use is so critical [to the environmental impact of biofuels] that – at least from a global warming viewpoint – northern European farmers should plant trees and burn petrodiesel...
Biofuels are bad for the planet (again)
Trans National Insitute (which calls itself a world wide fellowship of committed scholar-activists (they'd hardly be uncommited)) has published Paving the way for agrofuels: an unsustainable path It starts by stating: In the face of the climate change threat and...
OPEC plans to keep oil above $70/bbl
According to Paul Hodges (aka the chief economist) over on Chemicals and the Econonmy, the spat brewing between OPEC (the oil producers' club) and the International Energy Agency (the rich countries energy watchdog) is coming along nicely. According to Hodges,...
Wood processing waste is a biofuel source
Wood processing waste is a biofuel source, accordding to the Energy blog which says Adding a little coal and processing the papermaking industry's black liquor waste into synthesis gas is a better choice than burning it for heat, improves the...
Eastman moves to B20 for inhouse locomotives
Eastman has moved to B20 for in house locomotives at its Kingsport, Tennessee plant, according to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen....
Neste inaugutes new biorefinery
Neste Oil of Finland has inaugurated a new biorefinery in Porvoo which converts animal fat and veg oil to biodiesel. Hattip to GAVe-mail....
Biofuels: The Next WTO Spat
The Wall St Journal's Grace Fan has rounded up a bunch of global biofuels cat fights and suggests that Biofuels will be the next WTO spat. That's a bit tentative, and I'd agree with that position in terms of being...
US Energy Department may bail out failed biofuel investments
The US Energy Department may bail out failed biofuel investments under proposed regulations that were announced yesterday. There could be up to $4bn in this financial year and $9bn next year, according to Planet Ark. They're being optimistic. So taxpayers...
No joined up thinking about biofuels
There's no joined up thinking on biofuels at the UN, according to Global Dashboard reporting on the Guardian Newspaper this morning. This needs more work than I can give it at the moment, and I'm not sure why the UN should...
Philippines enact biofuel law
The Philippines government has enacted a law covering biofuel composition of gasoline/diesel, according to info.davaoexchange.com. The 2006 Biofuel Act, which calls for a mandatory mixing of a 1% biodiesel in petrodiesel and 5% bioethanol in gasoline, has been implemented last...
BBC biofuel resource
Have a look at the BBC's biofuel resources for reporting that is likely to be unbiased and pretty good quality....
Brazilian dilemmas
Two interesting and contrasting views on how biofuels could affect the Brazilian ecosystem are outlined in Ethablog and biopact. Ethablog looks at the common interests between Archer Daniels Midland and the governor of Matto Grosso state. Biopact wonders whether Brazil...
Biofuels only by 2025?
Could the G8 make it impossible to register and license cars that run on gasoline by 2025? Would it be desirable? Two economists, Volker Perthes and Friedemann Müller from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, believe that it...
Biofuel on the buses
Bioethanol can be blended with many other fuels as an oxygenate, the idea being, I guess, to improve combustion and fuel efficiency. With diesel it can lower the temperature it starts to solidify which could be useful in winter months....
Virgin looks to railroad biofuels
Virgin, run by Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur extraordinaire who recently announced plans to invest around $3bn in biofuels over the next 10 years. hopes that invoking biofuels will help him win an advantage over the competition from other applicants for...
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