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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
Straight from the cow to biodisel

Over on Domestic fuel there's a piece about a tallow rendering plant giving? selling? its output to a biodiesel producer . Is it any wonder that the price of tallow is rising globally? Will the refiners be paying the market rate for the tallow or are they getting it at a fixed price or free?

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
More green needed for biochems

Thanks to Paul from Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO ) for alerting me on this hot off the press market study on industrial biotechnology by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). According to the ITC, research and development within the US bio-based chemical industry (including pharmaceuticals...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
Safety: when was the last time your site had a lost-time accident

The US Chemcial Safety Board has a number of interesting videos on youtube. Check out the latest one on welding hazards . Would this kind of behaviour be tolerated on your site?

Posted to Disasters (Forum) by carothers on 07-17-2008
Change is in the air

Chinks in the Chinese textile and clothing export machine have started showing with shipments to the US in the first quarter of this year declining by nearly 10% from the same period in 2007. A new report from Textiles Intelligence states that the country is losing its competitive edge in this industry...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008
Nuclear could get a boost from current low opinion of biofuels

The nuclear industry could get a boost, given the low opinion many people have about biofuels, if this piece from Biofuels to BioFailiure from the Heritage Foundation is anything to go by.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
Louisana signs advanced biofuels law into being

Lousiana has signed the HB1270 Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative into law. It features the use of hydrous and anhydrous ethanol as a fuel blend stock that will be derived from plants grown in Lousiana (but not corn) and capable of producing 600gal/acre, with only one-third nitrogen input...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
The high cost of corn in the US is choking off demand from ethanol producers

The high cost of corn in the US is choking off demand from ethanol producers, according to a report in the Des Moines Registe r. The report goes on to add that around 1.6bn bushels of corn will be left from last year's harvest compared to earlier forecasts of 1.4bn bushels.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
Ethanol without the microbes

Interesting comment from David Benson, a bit off topic, but bang on the money about alternative technologies. This has a lot of things I like, especially the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis plant which uses hydrogen from electrolysed water, (electricity generated by wind) and smokestack carbon dioxide to make...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008

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