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  • 19% of UK biofuel meets ethical standards -- RFA

    The UK Renewable Fuel Agency says that 19% of biofuel used in the UK under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation conformed to environmntal standards between April and May this year. During that timeBiofuels accounted for 2.14% of UK fuel automotive fuel demand compared to a target of 2.5% for the year...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • World Bank blames biofuels for rising food prices

    The World Bank's Development Prospects Group blames biofuels for rising food prices. For me the key passages in the 21page pdf are these. The United States is the largest producer of ethanol from maize and is expected to use about 81 million tons for ethanol in the 2007/08 crop year. Canada, China...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • Catalyst break through for biofuels

    The Ames Laboratory (at the US Department of Energy) and Iowa State University recently published a press release claiming that it should be possible to produce ethanol from all types of carbon-based biomass. This is reported on Senter Novem . The key lies in the catalyst of which there is little detail...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • 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

  • Inside Ineos' waste to ethanol plant

    And finally, is usually a piece about a skate-boarding duck used to round off a news show of unremitting depression. This is at least optimistic, its about Ineos' plans to use waste to develop gas that will be fed to algae and which will make ethanol ....
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008

  • 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

  • Ethanol plants recieve big subsidy cheques

    A couple of plants in North Dakota have been heavily subsidised by the state in the past 18 months, according to the Grand Forks Herald and posted by Ron Steenblik onto Del.icio.us . For me the interesting thing is that the plants have only been in existence for around 18 months...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008

  • DuPont in cellulose ethanol trial in Tennessee

    DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE) and the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Foundation, through its Genera Energy LLC , have announced a partnership to c onstruct an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art research and development facility for cellulosic ethanol in Vonore...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008

  • 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
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