http://www.inveslogic.com/latest Biodiesel and Ethanol Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104855?rsstype=latest&cid=44 ConocoPhillips signed a $5 million, multi-year sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) (earlier post), a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104855?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104857?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Diversified Energy Corporation has successfully demonstrated a glycerol combustion system for which it holds an exclusive worldwide license from the developer, North Carolina State University. The system efficiently burns the glycerol byproduct gener... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104857?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:03:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1105129?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Wood has many demands. The slowdown in US housing and the end of mass shipments of chipboard to Iraq to build endless concrete barricades has created surplus... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1105129?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:50:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104859?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Distillates (jet fuel, kerosene, diesel and other gasoil) will remain the main growth drivers of world oil demand, followed by LPG and naphtha (mostly used aspetrochemical feedstocks) and gasoline. Click to enlarge.Despite a weakening in demand in th... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104859?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:48:41 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1104686?rsstype=latest&cid=44 i am writing a special letter for SNS. Here are some stats I have been collecting about oil and renewable liquid fuel industry from jan 2004 thru May 2008. A couple things jump out.1. Oil stocks have been winners, ethanol companies loosers.2. The... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1104686?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:31:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gog2g-converting-green-to-green/1104370?rsstype=latest&cid=44 The world's most heavily traded sugar futures contract, Sugar No. 11 on the ICE, rose Tuesday 4.6% to 13.72 cents per pound after UNICA reported that Brazil will use more sugarcane than expected for ethanol production as crude oil continues its push ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gog2g-converting-green-to-green/1104370?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:17:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104860?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Toyota says it is pursuing all of these energy and powertrain pathways. The brick walls in the diagram represent barriers to be overcome. Click to enlarge.In a presentation at the recent Toyota Environmental Forum held in June in Japan, Masatami Taki... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104860?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:52:14 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104862?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Syntec Biofuel Inc. has, over the past 30 days, consistently achieved more than 110 gallons of alcohols (ethanol, methanol, n-butanol and n-propanol) per ton (US) of biomass. In February, the company reported a yield of 105 gallons per ton of biomass... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104862?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:23:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104864?rsstype=latest&cid=44 The new B6-B20 biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester) blends will have a blue label at the pump to distinguish the fuel from others. B100 will have its own blue label. Click to enlarge. The ASTM International D02 Main Committee approved a trio of ASTM s... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104864?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:58:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104867?rsstype=latest&cid=44 W2 Energy Inc., the developer of a GAT (Gliding Arc Tornado) plasma reactor for gasification for power and fuels generation (earlier post), has formed a subsidiary to build and operate biodiesel plants throughout North America. The new plants will us... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104867?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:04:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104871?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Propel held the grand opening of its newest and largest Clean Fuel Point in downtown Seattle, Washington. The station offers B5 and B20 biodiesel blends, and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.The new Propel station.In building the station, Pr... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104871?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:17:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104874?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Growing biofuel crops on the 385-472 million hectares of once-productive abandoned agricultural land globally could meet up to 8% of the world s current energy demand, according to a recent report from researchers at Stanford University and the Car... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104874?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:15:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104875?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Bangkok Post. Thai Oil Plc, Thailand s largest oil-refining company, plans to delay its cassava-based ethanol investment plan because of rising cassava prices.The company had planned to invest 5.1 billion baht (US$152 million) in an ethanol plant w... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104875?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:49:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104879?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Mascoma Corporation has entered into a series of strategic relationships to further its efforts to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant based on its consolidated bioprocessing methodology in Michigan s Upper Peninsula. (Earlier... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104879?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:33:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104880?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Enerkem s four-step process uses gasification and catalytic synthesis to convert waste to liquid fuels. Click to enlarge.The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada s largest ethanol produ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104880?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=latest&cid=44 GM will offer 18 flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) in the US for model year 2009, ranging from the four-cylinder Chevrolet HHR small crossover to the full-size Cadillac Escalade ESV luxury utility.We continue to believe that biofuels, specifically E85, i... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:36:13 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104618?rsstype=latest&cid=44 06/27/2008 - GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company have signed a 25 year agreement with the city of Edmonton to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste...... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104618?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104619?rsstype=latest&cid=44 06/27/2008 - Soya Mills, a Greek soybean and seed oil processor with ambitions in biodiesel, is planning to offer up to EUR 50m (USD 77...... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104619?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1104612?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Greenfield Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer, and gasification-system developer Enerkem announced this afternoon that they will jointly build and operate (and possibly own?) what they're claiming will be the world's first industrial-scale f... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1104612?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:02:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1103713?rsstype=latest&cid=44 This is an update of my Peak Oil Overview at March '08. The major changes since my earlier post are the recent apparent decline in Russian production, the new ASPO peak oil projection, and discussion of this week-end's consumer producer summit in Sau... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1103713?rsstype=latest&cid=44 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:55:00 -0400