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USDA wants biorefinery grant requests for new technologies

The USDA wants requests for loans to build biofuel plants that do not use corn starch as the raw material starting point. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing advanced biofuels...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
Ethanol wants to cosy up to Detroit

Large sections of the US ethanol business have been writing to the US car makers asking them to support higher volume blends of ethanol in future and tying that message to an innovate or die warning... It could be a good idea...there does need to be more buy in from automakers to help ethanol/butanol...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
There's a plan!

The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels . Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night .

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Ethanol doubts in the heartland

It is worth checking out a story in the Des Moines Register, posted on 17 October by Dan Piller Ethanol cos. hurt by prices may get help from USDA. Read the comments.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
US on track to deliver second biggest ever corn crop

The US is on track to deliver the country's second biggest ever corn crop , according to numbers from the US department of agriculture and reported on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS ) My pal William Lemos' report says: The USDA said in its monthly report it expects 12.07bn...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
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

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