Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'fuel'
The relationship between corn, ethanol and autofuel replacement US-style
There is a direct relationship between the volume of corn converted to ethanol with the % of gasoline replaced in the US. Its shown more clearly if you click the line which contains the mysterious word Thi at the bottom...
Scoping out biofuels
The Scientifc Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) has produced a report looking at the enviromental impacts of biofuels,. The group makes a number of recomendations for second generation feedstocks, and favours woody or grassy plants. As with the...
Add your pump (if you're in the US)
The people at the US Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center in the US have the kernel of what could be a great biofuel resource. The USAFAVDC has started to waymark E85 pumps in the US. There are nine...
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...
Direct ethanol fuel cells
Japanese researchers say they have gone some way to overcomnig the difficulties in using ethanol as a fuel cell material. Thanks to Hugh Baker...
Wal-Mart is using biofuel and reclaimed cooking oil in truck fleet
Wal-Mart is using biofuel and reclaimed cooking oil in truck fleet, that's according to Tree Hugger. Now if a firm the size of Wal-Mart starts getting really serious about used cooking oil then the price is going to hit the...
Listen to the RFA's outlook for ethanol presentation
Did you miss the US Renewable Fuel Association's teleconference about the outlook for ethanol? I did. But I'll be listening to it over the next couple of days... ...
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...
Tie auto bail out with flex fuel
Check out the Des Moines Register story about calls that any bail out of Detroit automakers should be tied to higher proportions of flex fuel vehicles in their ranges.That is fine, but I think that it would be much better...
Boeing says biojet fuel could be here in three years.
Over on climate progress they've found an interview in Wired with the head of Boeing's biofuel jet program who believes that the first biofuel for jets could be certified in three years. That's going to be good news for people...
Jatropha plantations for Florida--Biofuels Digest
A report in Biofuels Digest says that My Dream Fuels is aiming to plant around 900 000 jatropha trees in Florida. The firm says that its trees will mature in 8 months and significantly out perform wild Jatropha strains. My...
Capturing CO2 from cement works with algae
There's a large algae reactor underway in Spain based around the Holcem cement reactor, which will be around 100 square metres and cost $92m, according to Greentech media. The reactor is being built by Green Fuels Technology Corp. ...
Biofuels from timber, perhaps you should be in Vienna now
Oh the things you find out too late to do much about. That's what comes of thinking strategically of other things. Anyway. It's European Forest week at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. NOW. The website saysEuropean Forest...
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. ...
Consumers want greater fuel efficiency
This is a little old, and I'm only linking to it now for our American readers, the Europeans, will of course be on top of this sort of thing... There is a recent poll which shows there is considerable appetite...
Solazyme algae-based biofuel ok for Jet fuel
Solazyme's algae-based biofuel is ok for Jet fuel, according to Domestic Fuel. Solazyme received more funding last month, and plans to build a commercial scale factory some time in 2010. ...
US ethanol replaced about 2.6% of gasoline demand
US this year diverted 24.5% of its corn crop into ethanol production and replaced 2.65% of the total US demand for road transportation fuels -- assuming that the 2007 figures for fuel use will be around the same as 2006,...
Sustainable biofuels are possible says Gallagher report
The Ed Gallagher, chair of the UK's Renewable Fuels Agency says that sustainable biofuels are possible but:We cannot afford to abandon biofuels as part of a low carbon transport future. Equally, we cannot continue producing biofuels which are ultimately more...
New ASTM standards for Biofuels
The ASTM has produced its ASTM D6751 standard for biodiesel fuels that could help their acceptance in a wider range of engines, and give engine builders something to go on. Co-evolution helped the chicken and egg and the same process...
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