http://www.inveslogic.com/popular/articles/biodiesel-and-ethanol Biodiesel and Ethanol - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104857?rsstype=populararticles&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... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:03:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104857?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104859?rsstype=populararticles&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... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:48:41 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104859?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104867?rsstype=populararticles&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... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:04:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104867?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104871?rsstype=populararticles&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... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:17:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104871?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=populararticles&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... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:36:13 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104619?rsstype=populararticles&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...... Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104619?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1103227?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Just finished a post about the project over on the Foundation web page. All the dirty details.... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:12:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1103227?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1102534?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 At its 76th Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida (20-24 June), the US Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution encouraging the use of life cycle analyses that evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions from the production includingextraction, refining, and... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:12:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1102534?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1102916?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 06/25/2008 - Two European banks have provided the debt finance for what is claimed to be about to become the continent largest wheat-based ethanol plant, at Lillebonne in Normandy...... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1102916?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1102121?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative (HB 1270), an act intended to support the development of a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is now the first state to enact alternative... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:16:09 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1102121?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1101562?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Harvard University s Office of Technology Development and SunEthanol, Inc., a biofuels technology company developing consolidated bio-processing (CBP) technology based on the Q Microbe (Clostridium phytofermentans) (earlier post), have entere... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1101562?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1101465?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 06/24/2008 - German biodiesel firm Petrotec has opened a new plant in Emden with a capacity of 113m litres and has used the opportunity to criticise the government for not subsidising biodiesel made from waste material...... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1101465?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100895?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Denmark-based Novozymes plans to build a new US$80-100 million facility in the US to produce enzymes for existing corn-based ethanol production now and for cellulosic ethanol production in the future.The new facility will be located on a 30-acre prop... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:55:22 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100895?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1100825?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 My Clean Break column today takes a look at the rising interest in industrial-scale heat recovery technologies as pulp and paper, food and beverage, biofuel and a range of other companies cope with rising fossil fuel prices. Tim Angus, president and ... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:49:11 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1100825?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100898?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Japan Airlines (JAL), in cooperation with Boeing and Pratt & Whitney, will conduct a demonstration flight to accelerate current research and development of a viable second-generation aviation biofuel. The flight will be the first biofuel demonstratio... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:52:29 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100898?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100669?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Researchers at Ford Motor Company s Dunton Technical Centre (UK) and Brunel University (UK) are studying CAI (controlled auto-ignition, also referred to as HCCI, homogeneous charge compression ignition) combustion of methanol and ethanol as part of... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:15:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100669?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100670?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 On-going improvements to the pintle-regulated Venturi (PRV) induction system developed by PRV Performance (earlier post) have led to improved performance results. Most recently, a 203-mile highway test loop was completed with 3.9 gallons of fuel (10%... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100670?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100361?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Although the US Department of Agriculture s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2008 Acreage report as scheduled on 30, it will re-interview producers during the week of June 23 in flood-affected areas of Illinois, Indi... Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:47:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1100361?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1100387?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 ... From: Steve Wozniak To: Steve's Joke List: Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:57 AM Subject: Algae fuel (Very interesting)... Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:11:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1100387?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1100288?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Minister: Saudi Arabia can increase oil production JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's oil minister says the kingdom is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, but he cited no specific production increase.The kingdom will pump about 9.7 m... Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:22:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1100288?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1099555?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Floods, $13 nat gas, continued control of Ethanol channel by Big Oil Companies means US ethanol producers are screwed. I expect oil companies to make offers to buy Verasun or Aventine before the end of the year. They have achieved their goal of dri... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:19:23 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1099555?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1099304?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The scenario that resulted in the lowest increase in transport-sector GHG emissions used an economy-wide carbon price beginning at $10/ton CO2, 2% annual improvement inCAFE, and a gasoline and diesel tax increasing at 10% per yearin real terms (tax i... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:28:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1099304?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1099305?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Australis s Orbital Corporation will construct and operate a heavyduty engine test facility after securing Australian Federal Governmentsupport. The new facility will be capable of operating engines on naturalgas, LPG and biodiesel as well as diese... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:15:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1099305?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1098923?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The Nikkei reports that Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. plan to mass-produce cellulosic ethanol using a production method developed by Honda Motor Co. and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) to convert rice st... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:05:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1098923?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1099117?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Attached article explains how 2 companies are building on research to capture CO2 from power plant exhaust to grow algea & then turn that algea into biofuel.... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:46:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1099117?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1098558?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Global air carriers Air New Zealand, Continental, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and biofuel technology developer UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, will be the first wave of aviation-related members to join the newly formed Algal Biomass Organization (ABO).Tog... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:54:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1098558?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1097166?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Seattle, Washington-based Inventure Chemical has entered into a joint venture with Tel Aviv, Israel-based Seambiotic Ltd. to construct a pilot commercial biofuel plant in Israel, using algae grown with CO2 from flue gas as feedstock. The plant will u... Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:29:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1097166?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1097522?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Dow Jones Newswire Heartland Ethanol announced it is dropping plans to build 7 plants in Illinois due to market conditions and difficulty in obtaining... Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:51:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1097522?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1096360?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The Nikkei reports that Petrobras will supply E3 (3% ethanol) as early as this year to independent gasoline stations in Japan, with the wholesale price expected to be 1-2 yen less per liter (US$0.035 - $0.07 /gallon US) than conventional gasoline.Pet... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:10:37 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1096360?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1096085?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Case Construction Equipment has approved the use of B20 biodiesel blends (20% biodiesel) for more than 85% of its construction equipment. In June 2006, Case became the first construction equipment manufacturer to approve the use of B5 blends.Biodiese... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:22:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1096085?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1095466?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 here... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:52:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1095466?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1095281?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Lufthansa has joined a number of air carriers announcing plans for biofuel use. Among the set of 15 guidelines the air carrier announced to improve its environmental efficiency by the year 2020 is an increase in the amount of biofuel blended with con... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:50:47 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1095281?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1095237?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The ongoing debate about the growing connections between food and energy has focused mainly on the influence on food prices of high energy prices and the diversion of crops into biofuel production. We are about to get our first real taste of the othe... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:56:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1095237?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1094517?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Virgina, Thought a bit more on rebuilding soil. Everything I could think of would reduce aggregate crop production for years. We could as an energy policy... Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:42:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1094517?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093989?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 In a statement issued at the conclusion of their meeting in Osaka, Japan (13-14 June), the G8 finance ministers expressed strong concern about the sharp rise in oil prices, and called for the energy efficiency of all economies to be further improved ... Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:06:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093989?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1093993?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output to Highest EverSaudi Arabia, the world s biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to analysts and oil traders who have been briefed by Saud... Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:19:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1093993?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093427?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Mazda Motor Corporation and Hiroshima University are collaborating on research to develop a new bioplastic from cellulosic biomass and have it ready for use in vehicles by 2013.The Mazda Bioplastic Project will focus on designing a production process... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:07:27 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093427?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093428?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Neste Oil will build an 800,000 tonne/year (about 240 million gallons US) plant to produce NExBTL renewable diesel in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Construction will start immediately and the facility is scheduled to be completed in 2011. Total cost ... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:41:14 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093428?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Cirol. Students at the RV College of Engineering, Bangalore have developed India s first indigenous plug-in hybrid for city roads a REVA electric vehicle converted to a biodiesel-burning PHEV.Called the Chimera, the PHEV is the result of a collab... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:22:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1093060?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1092975?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, has published, on the occasion of the publication of BP's statistical yearbook, an Op-Ed in the Financial Times with a pretty self-explicit title: Let the markets solve the energy crisis. But it's also very devious, as hi... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1092975?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1092774?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will award a $200,000 grant to Mississippi State University (MSU) for research into significantly increasing the yield of biodiesel from the processing of sewage plant sludge. MSU assistant professors Rafa... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:09:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1092774?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1092797?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 This story was sent to you by redpine@... with these comments: From MarketWatch, online at:... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:44:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1092797?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1092564?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Solazyme has unveiled a microalgae-derived renewable diesel fuel, SoladieselRD, that meets American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D-975 specifications for petroleum diesel fuels. SoladieselRD is the first algal renewable diesel to meet the... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:26:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1092564?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/1091651?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Alameda renewable energy firm Aurora Biofuels Inc. raised $20 million in a second round of venture financing.... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:05:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/1091651?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1091405?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Ford s flex-fuel Escape PHEV.Ford Motor Company delivered its first-ever flexible-fuel capable plug-in hybrid (PHEV) SUV to the US Department of Energy (DOE).Like the other prototype Escape PHEVs, this vehicle is equipped with a 10 kWh lithium-ion ... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:55:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1091405?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1091099?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 As tempting as it was to try to somehow blame ethanol, it looks like there is a new culprit for high corn prices: Mother Nature. Torrential rain across parts of the Midwest pushed US corn prices to record levels on Friday, prompting concerns about ... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:40:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1091099?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1090883?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Toyota Motor Company (TMC) President Katsuaki Watanabe outlined the company s new action plans in the areas of research and development, manufacturing and social contribution for promoting energy diversity in automobiles and reducing its carbon foo... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:28:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1090883?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1090938?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 What Congress should do now about gasoline pricesThis is a list of basic actions by Congress that would begin to address the devastating impact on U.S. consumers of the unpredictable surges in oil prices. They also would have a positive impact global... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:10:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1090938?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1090592?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 Higher energy prices are feeding through to rampant consumer energy price inflation. And yet the authorities and many investment houses still see energy prices falling in the future. This naive view of global energy supplies is starving energy market... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/peak-oil/1090592?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1090264?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44 A heat wave is hardly the ideal time for one's home/office air conditioning to break down--an unspoken risk of telecommuting, I suppose--but it's given me an opportunity to catch up on a raft of articles, as I camp out in libraries, coffee shops, and... Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:18:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1090264?rsstype=populararticles&cid=44