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  • Corn stover research gets started

    Just how much corn stover can you remove from fields without destroying the soil structure or significantly reducing the amount of organic material in the soil? With luck this collaboration by Monsanto, John Deere and ADM will answer that question and develop a series of rules that could help to make...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • 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

  • Switching to switchgrass isn't easy

    Switching to switchgrass isn't going to be easy, according to this useful piece from redorbit. Worth reading.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008

  • Gulf of Mexico deadzone all bad for biofuels?

    Interesting piece over on Maribo about the way that flooding in the Midwestern US could lead to a big increase in the size of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico . This is caused each year when excess fertiliser is washed out of farmland along the Mississippi, flows into the gulf and feeds algae which...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-30-2008

  • Cellulosic biofuel could lower US carbon emissions by 370 megatons by 2030

    "Lower carbon fuels, such as celluosic biofuels, could abate between 100 and 370 megatons of emissions, though this potential is highly dependent on innovation rates and near-term commercialisation of these technologies" With the kicker about the US Auto industry that: "Improved fuel efficiency...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008

  • RFA comes out against Texas' plan for a biofuels waiver

    The US Renewable Fuel Association has come out strongly against Texas' request for a standstill in the amount of biofuel it consumes . The Association's point of view is pretty much that this is a federal mandate and so should be followed because the Texans haven't shown why, under the terms...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-25-2008

  • Tyson to turn fat into fuel

    Tyson, a big US food processor is to turn waste fat from its food processing business into biofuels and jet fuel with Syntroleum, according to Green Energy Trends. Tyson produces an estimated 300m gallons of animal fat each year.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2008

  • EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping - AFP

    Story on ICIS news this morning , that the EU to probe alleged US biodiesel dumping. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS ) Good to see the EU getting up and protecting its biofuel producers from what it sees as unfair competition from US biofuel producers. I wonder what the Americans think of this...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008

  • Obama and McCain edge closer on biofuels

    Obama and McCain are edging closer on biofuels policy as the campaign to become the next president of the US runs on, according to Reuters today .
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-30-2008

  • Off to America for some biofuels filming

    Sorry, its been so long. I've been up to my eyes in the other parts of my job. The good news is that there should be some more biofuels content in a day or two, possibly a nice video with a couple of the chaps from our Houston office. The bad news is that I've got a week in the US filming many...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008
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