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  • BP investst in Verenium

    There's a Wall Street Journal article about BP investing $90 m in Verenium a US cellulosic ethanol technology company. Both firms hope to start a jointly making biofuel in a few years. The WSJ says this is BP's first venture into cellulosic biofuel.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • Ethanol is great, (but not to popular technology)

    Ethanol is great if you're standing for election in the US this year, says Popular Technology and then starts a balanced video about that . The nugget in the middle of this video is from the University of Minnesota: If the US converted all of its corn into ethanol for fuel it would equivalent to...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • EPA to rule on Texas' exit from biofuel mandate on 24 July

    A piece on B loombergg today goes into some detail behind Texas' Governors' plan to try and get out of the national requirement to make 9bn gallons of ethanol . The story says that there will have to be a decision by Friday. You may remember, I mentioned Texas' cattle ranchers plans in early...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

  • Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste

    Ineos goes down the Fischer-Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste, according to a press release from the company, reported on ICIS news and in newspapers like the Times today . I like this technology, as you'll know by now and I think that it is important that it is being widely talked about...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • Kudzu its catching on

    I reported that Kudzu could be a good biofuel source for ethano l. Looks like the Huffington post agrees. Kudzu is the latest new craze, according to Huffington . Like all crazes I'll give it a couple of months. Now what about water hyacinth as a possible biofuel?
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008

  • Biofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer

    There's been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman . Two secretaries of state Samuel W. Bodman (energy) and Edward T. Schafer (agriculture) respond to a series of questions from...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008

  • Why fuel efficiency might not help reduce gasoline consumption

    I've been happily espousing the cause of greater fuel efficiency in this blog over the past few months as a way of reducing fuel consumption . I may have been wrong. I've just discovered the Jevons paradox . To cut a long story short: making things efficient reduces the cost of the input per...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
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