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National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September was one of the first of a range of events across the US in the coming months. I missed this at the time, travelling may broaden the mind, but you can't do much at all when you're laptop's battery is on the blink.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2008
National Algae Association

I've just been pointed at the US-based National Algae Association , which recently appointed Will Thurmond as Chairman, Research and Development Round table. Membership of the organisation is $750/year Researchers can join for £250.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008
Clinton backs push to cellulosic ethanol

Bill Cliniton, sometime US president, has been talking at the National Clean Energy Summit, in Las Vegas, last night. According to earth2tech, in 10 Things the US Government should do for clean power he said: We need to accelerate the move from corn-based ethanol to more sustainable biofuels. The conversion...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008
Two US associations react to rising food prices

The National Biodiesel Board and the Renewable Fuels Associatio n have issued statements refuting the position of many of the US food sales companies that rising food costs are being caused by rising crop prices. They may have a point in the US which consumes a significant amount of processed food where...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008
Raising and maintaining biodiesel standards

One of the biggest problems, it seems to me, that biofuel producers face is ensuring that product is the same batch to batch. So its good to see on Domestic Fuel that one third of US biodiesel producers have won BQ 9000 certification from the US National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission (NBAC). Consistent...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-21-2008
The cost of lobbying for biodiesel

The cost of lobbying by the National Biodisel Board in the US has been published by Congress. In 2007 the National Biodiesel Board spent about $1.2m, which seems pretty small beer to me, according to Hemscott

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-04-2008
Jim Lovel speaks at National Biodiesl board meeting

Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 spoke at the recent National Biodiesel Board meeting in Orlando, covered by my colleague Stephen Burns for ICIS and caught for posterity on his camera phone.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-07-2008
Drying of the West

You might not want to build an ethanol plant west of the Mississippi after you've read this article in National Geographic Magazine about the Drying of the West . It looks like the Western states of the US have been enjoying something of a bath for the past 200 years and global warming is pulling...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-28-2008

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