Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'distillation'

The energy needed to produce ethanol

Rajesh Valluri has an interesting take on the amount of energy it takes to produce fuel grade ethanol over on his blog. One of the things that strikes me about the fuel ethanol debate is that there is very little...

EU opens distillation tender

EU opens distillation tender to convert unwanted wine into industrial ethanol, according to the Turkish Daily News. The distillation will help take excessive wine off the market and support prices in Europe. As I said in July, this is not...

More on water and biofuels production

There's more on water and biofuels producion, strictly ethanol on watercrunch. It concentrates on the amount of water used to process the grain once it has grown, rather than on the amount of water needed to grow it in the...

Crisis Distillation to start in France and Italy

The French and Italian wine industries are being paid by the EU to distil wine into ethanol, rather than have the price of wine fall because of overproduction. It is a mad world my masters. Why can't they sell the...