Renewable Fuels

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• Sandia Might Have a Part of the Carbon Back to Fuel Process

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 124
  Using concentrated solar energy for power, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power.  Carbon monoxide could then be used to serve as a building block to synthesize a ...
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• A New Enzyme to Break Free Hydrogen

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 124
  A team from the University of Oxford in the UK and CNRS in France has developed an optimized system that will produce hydrogen gas. Oxfords Hydrogen Release Graphic Powered by light’s energy and using an hydrogenase and photosensitizer co-attached to a TiO 2 nanoparticle the lab sized apparatus ...
  2 days ago

• RFA Provides Former Vice President with Ethanol Facts

  
  AgNewsWire — Authority: 107
  The Renewable Fuels Association wants former Vice President Al Gore to know that he was right the first time about ethanol and other biofuels. RFA CEO Bob Dinneen has written a letter to Gore challenging the chapter about ethanol in his new book “Our Choice.” Full Release
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• EPA Likely to Lift Ethanol Blend Limits

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 130
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to issue a final decision on the proposed increase to the allowable ethanol content in fuel by mid 2010, according to a letter sent today to Growth Energy, a biofuels trade group. In March 2009, Growth Energy requested a waiver to allow for the use of up ...
  1 week ago

• EPA’s Decision to Delay Its Review of Ethanol Content of Gasoline

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  In what is considered to be a blow to U.S. corn growers, the EPA today sent a letter to the Gen. Wesley Clark chaired trade association “Growth Energy” indicating that the EPA needed more time to complete tests on how an increase by 5% (from 10% ethanol to 15% ethanol) in ethanol content may damage engines and ...
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• Renewable Fuels Association Responds to EPA Announcement

  
  World Dairy Diary — Authority: 429
  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is postponing its decision whether to allow for the blending of up to 15 percent ethanol in conventional gasoline. Increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline is critical to both ensuring that the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) is a ...
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• EPA says not now to ethanol boost in gas

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 619
  WASHINGTON — They brought in Democratic Party muscle and a Minnesota Vikings linebacker to help make the case. Even so, the ethanol industry and the St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association  took a jarring hit hit this morning when the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would ...
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• EPA puts off higher ethanol blend decision until mid-2010

  
  Nebraska Corn Kernels — Authority: 125
  The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a letter (.pdf) to Growth Energy - the group the initially asked EPA to allow the use of ethanol blends of up to 15 percent - saying that it will be mid-2010 before it issues a final decision on the request. While EPA is waiting for additional testing data, it did note ...
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• 38 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands Set for 2010

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 132
  This may indicate one of two things. More oil and gas or more lawsuits by enviroMentalists. NEWS BLAZE Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday the department next year will hold 38 onshore oil and natural gas lease sales on public lands, mostly in the West, including one in Alaska. The announcement ...
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• The Merits of Ethanol Fuel

  
  Kabuki Loans — Authority: 127
  1. Crude oil from which gasoline is produced is fast getting depleted and nations are bracing themselves for facing this situation by looking for alternative sources for their fuel needs. Renewable fuels can be the answer to this predicament and one such renewable fuel is ethanol. Since it is produced from crops ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ethanol Facts

  
  The Mind Traveler — Authority: 130
  1. The benefits you can get by using ethanol fuel are many. It is a renewable fuel and as the name suggests, renewable fuel is one that in abundant supply because the ingredients from which it is produced is just as abundant. But the major fuel of the present day, crude oil, is a limited resource and if we do not ...
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• Why Ethanol May Be the Best Fuel Ever

  
  Horse Hubs — Authority: 130
  1. Ethanol fuel has many benefits. It is from natural ingredients that ethanol is manufactured and since these can be made available year after year, it is referred to as renewable fuel. Renewable fuel is gradually being sought by every nation nowadays because it is the best substitute for gasoline. There is no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ethanol Fuel Benefits

  
  Sodafone — Authority: 126
  1. When you consider shifting to a renewable fuel , ethanol automatically comes to mind because it stands out due to the great benefits it provides. Renewable fuels are those that can be produced year after year and you do not rob the earth of its valuable resources whereas crude oil, when extracted from the earth, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ethanol Giant Poet Says It Has Slashed Cellulosic Ethanol Costs by More Than 50%

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  There may be hope: Poet LLC , the worlds largest producer of corn-based ethanol, says it has reduced the cost of making ethanol from corncob waste
  2 weeks ago

• On the Hunt for Cheaper Algae

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 124
  A major potential from algae is they could change the energy source of fuels from the ancient fossil fuels to current account renewable fuels.  That goal has two Kansas State University engineers assessing systematic production methods that could make the costs of algae oil production more reasonable. Algae ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genome Sequenced for Ethanol Producing Yeasts

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 124
  Scientists from Duke University with colleagues from Brazil led by Lucas Argueso have analyzed the genome structures of bioethanol-producing microorganisms , uncovering genetic clues that will be critical in developing new technologies needed to implement production on a global scale. Researchers at Stanford ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fueling the Modern World with… Air?

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  Of all the wacky things that fuel can be made from nowadays – ranging from dirty diapers to confiscated booze – somehow, this one takes the cake. Soon, we may be able to power our vehicles and heat our homes with nothing but air. A biofuel firm called Joule Biotechnologies has discovered a way to produce fuel from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Engineered organisms. Direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide.

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  Joule Biotechnologies Inc has reported that it has achieved “… direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy.”More from a Release dated November 9, sourced from Joule Biotechnologies Inc:Joule Reports Breakthrough in Renewable Diesel ...
  4 weeks ago

• Biofuel Beatdown

  
  Cleantech Blog — Authority: 456
  by Richard T. Stuebi A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled "U.S. Biofuel Boom Running on Empty" , which presented a blistering across-the-board slam on biofuels. Perhaps more interesting than the WSJ article itself was an email reaction I received from a prominent energy tech venture ...
  4 weeks ago

• Weekly Industrial and Environmental Bio Blog Roundup

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 111
  This week we start off with a little Road Music, From Bluegrass to Switchgrass , from our colleagues at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina . They’ve put together a nice set of bluegrass pieces. To listen visit their web site . Gas2.0 announces this week that BP could start selling biofuels in 2010, ...
  4 weeks ago

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