In Washington, the EPA has released its final 2012 renewable fuel requirements. The program being implemented requires blending of over 1.25 billion gallons of renewable fuels over the amount mandated for 2011. According to National Petrochemical & Refiners Association president Charles Drevna, “the standard is not achievable, cost-effective, or environmentally realistic.” More on the story.
In Brazil, a University of Iowa study indicates that Brazillian ethanol fuel producers create up to seven times more air pollutants than originally believed. The new study used survey data to calculate emissions from 2000 to 2008. The results show that pollutants and greenhouse gases were 1.5 to 7.3 times higher than the estimate from […]
Rewind to 2011 with a “best of” New Year’s story? Bah, humbug! Today, we look forward to the sunny possibilities of 2012 in bioenergy. As the sunset of 2011 gives way to the dawn of 2012, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges and highlights of the […]
The Top 100 People in Bioenergy – what are the stories behind the list? Today, we look at the personalities ranked #76 through #100. In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 100 People in Bioenergy” as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the Digest’s editorial board, just edging out […]
In Spain, Cidetec-IK4 technological center will be leading a project to develop bioplastic from waste by using nanotechnology. Waste products will include almond nut shells, banana plants, and crustacean shells. The project will run from 2012 to 2014, with partners from companies, organizations and/or universities in Chile, Columbia, Belgium, Germany and Spain. The principal concern […]
BioFuelsChat: NREL says commercial lawnmowers can consume more fuel as compared to a car poliblogger: @dmataconis The ethanol/corn pander is enough reason to take the first place thing away from Iowa. philipaklein: Newt: “Chuck Grassley said I was the person who saved ethanol from big oil.” ecophotoshot: Algae Fuel: You Could Put Our Product in […]
BioFuelsChat: NREL says commercial lawnmowers can consume more fuel as compared to a car poliblogger: @dmataconis The ethanol/corn pander is enough reason to take the first place thing away from Iowa. philipaklein: Newt: “Chuck Grassley said I was the person who saved ethanol from big oil.” ecophotoshot: Algae Fuel: You Could Put Our Product in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, finished 2011 with a 0.46 percent gain to 70.34 as advanced biofuels stocks surged. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.49 percent to $28.60, while KiOR (KIOR) soared 11.01 percent to $10.18. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) rocketed up 9.58 percent to […]
US federal judge rules that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard interferes with the “maintenance of a national economic union unfettered by state-imposed limitations on interstate commerce.” Today, we look at the ruling’s impact. Over the past several months, the Digest and other media noted that California was importing ethanol from Brazil, a 6000 mile, diesel-churning […]
In Washington, the Global Bioenergy Partnership has approved The Global Bioenergy Partnership Sustainability Indicators for Bioenergy. The report presents 24 voluntary sustainability indicators for bioenergy intended to guide any analysis undertaken of bioenergy at the domestic level with a view to informing decision making and facilitating the sustainable development of bioenergy. GBEP reports: “The uniqueness […]
