Archive for May, 2009
DTN reporter Keiran Gartlan ex…
DTN reporter Keiran Gartlan exposes the truth behind Brazilian
deforestation issues. – http://bit.ly/15XOW8
EPA’s top gun on indirect land…
EPA’s top gun on indirect land use change confesses she has never set foot on a US farm – http://tinyurl.com/ncovag
Allard R&D readies ethanol “mini-refinery” suitable for munis, farms and ranches
In Texas, Allard Research and Development announced that it has completed design on a “mini-refinery” ethanol production system suitable for capabilities to business, municipalities, farms and ranches. The company is offering a fully automated and a manual production system that produce ethanol in a small unit that is computer controled.
EPA’s top gun on ILUC confesses she has never visited a US farm; “I’m inviting her to mine,” says Sen. Grassley
Seasons of Love
“In 525,600 minutes – how do you measure a year in the life?”
—Seasons of Love, from RENT
If my math is right, 21 million minutes have passed since the 1968 arrival of Margo Oge in Lowell, Massachusetts as a 19-year old from Greece, speaking no English, en route to university and the beginnings of [...]
Sustainable Power hydrogen on demand system raises Ford F350 mileage to 40 mpg in test
In Texas, Sustainable Power announced that in a three-month test conducted in the Dominican Republic, a Ford F350 hydrogen on demand system averaged of 40 miles per gallon, compared to a previous 8 mpg average with conventional fuels. Sustainable Power produces power and hydrogen as outputs from its biomass-based thermochemical conversion process.
Former DARPA head joins Qteros board
In Massachusetts, advanced biofuels developer Qteros announced that Dr. Anthony Tether, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has joined the company’s board of directors. Tether served as DARPA director from 2001 until this year.
In addition, a former senior director of biofuels research and development at Verenium, Dr. Kevin Gray, will join [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Is it a good fuel? It’s an ugly baby, but it’s our ugly baby. I’d rather use ethanol than foreign fuel.”
T. Boone Pickens: “Is it a good fuel? It’s an ugly baby, but it’s our ugly baby. I’d rather use ethanol than foreign fuel. We’re going to get off of foreign oil, and it’s going to open up all kinds of opportunities for all of us. In 2008 we spent $5 more billion for foreign [...]
European Commission proposes five-year extension of punitive tariffs against US biodiesel
The European Commission has proposed a five-year extension of punitive, anti-dumping tariffs on US biodiesel, according to a report published in Reuters. The Commission plans calls for duties that range from 213 to 409 euros per tonne. Companies that “cooperated with the EC probe” into dumping received a rate of 335 euros per tonne compared [...]
Ardent Energy to acquire 15,000 hectares in Ethiopia for jatropha biodiesel
In Ethiopia, Ardent Energy Group announced today an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MOARD) of Ethiopia to transfer 15,000 hectares, approximately 37,000 acres, to AEG for the purpose of cultivating jatropha and castor.
The resultant crop will be refined into usable biodiesel fuel. The 15,000 hectares outlined in the memorandum of understanding [...]
South Korea’s Eco Solutions, Eco Global Bio-Oils to invest $175 million in Philippine biodiesel production
In the Philippines, South Korean biodiesel producer Eco Solutions and Eco Global Bio-Oils announced that they will invest $175 million in a 9.6 Mgy biodiesel plant in South Cotabato that will utilize jatropha grown by Eco Solutions from an 11,000 hectare plantation that will be expanded to 100,000 hectares.
In 2006, the Philippines established a B2 [...]
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