http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/biofuels Blog Articles Tagged with 'biofuels' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1116147?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels Three years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I posted some remarks concerning the concentration of our energy infrastructure in the Gulf Coast. As we head into the Labor Day weekend with Tropical Storm Gustav bearing in a similarly threate... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:23:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1116147?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115488?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels Refiners face changes in regional supply/demand balances, affecting global trade flows and refining margins. North America will reduce its need for gasoline; Europe will get shorter in diesel;, and Asia will continue to be thirsty for fuels in genera... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:19:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115488?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115492?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels European automakers average CO2 emissions for 2007, and the calculated targets for 2007. (See notes below.) Click to enlarge.BMW AG improved fuel efficiency in 2007 at four times the average rate of other major manufacturers, according to an analy... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:05:29 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115492?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115368?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels SunEthanol, a biofuels company developing consolidated bio-processing (CBP) technology based on the Q Microbe (Clostridium phytofermentans) (earlier post), is collaborating with MBI International to scale-up a fermentation method for producing ... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115368?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115076?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels With about 200,000 miles left to go in the two-year Two Million Mile Haul over-the-road B20 biodiesel demonstration (earlier post), data collected from each truck s electronic data recorder are showing fuel efficiency for the B20 blend comparable t... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:08:21 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1115076?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1113705?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. By that measure, the present debate over energy policy in the Cong... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:26:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1113705?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113875?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels France, the second largest biofuel producer in Europe, consumed 1.15 million metric tons of biodiesel and 420,000 metric tons of bioethanol in 2007, representing 3.5% of French fuel consumption, according to a Global Agriculture Information Network (... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113875?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1113601?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels 08/13/2008 - Allied Minds, a seed investment corporation specializing in early stage university business ventures, has partnered with the University of Washington to establish AXI, LLC to commercialize novel technology to develop and create commercia... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1113601?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bioconversion-blog/1113443?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels One prominent feature of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) is its renewable fuel standard that sets the trajectory for satisfying America's newfound thirst for alternative fuels. 36 billion gallons per year production by the year 2... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:49:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bioconversion-blog/1113443?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112631?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels AE Biofuels Inc. held the grand opening of its integrated cellulosic ethanol commercial demonstration facility in Butte, Montana. (Earlier post.) The 9,000 ft2 facility is one of the first such cellulosic demonstration plants in the US, and the first... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:07:10 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112631?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1112356?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels There is so much emphasis these days on how we power vehicles -- i.e. gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or a combination of each -- we often forget the importance of reducing vehicle weight. Making lighter vehicles, as Amory Lovins has been a... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:38:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1112356?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1112474?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels Last Sunday's New York Times carried an interesting article on the implications of high energy prices for the sustained globalization of supply chains. The reporter described how rising shipping costs were forcing manufacturers and retailers to rethi... Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:27:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1112474?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111309?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels In a speech in Lansing, Michigan, Senator Barack Obama outlined a broad energy plan that included a number of policy elements specifically related to transportation and fuel, among them the goal of putting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on US ro... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:25:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111309?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1111141?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels For how much longer will the US depend on petroleum as our primary source of the energy we use for transportation? Conflicting beliefs about the answer to that question lie at the heart of the current debates about offshore drilling and additional su... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:33:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1111141?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111315?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels The University of Maryland Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) has received a $575,000, three-year subcontract award from the University of California at Berkeley to develop more efficient ways to convert lignocellulose to biofuels such as ethano... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:09:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111315?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111321?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels The Buckminster Fuller Institute has awarded Dr. John Todd the first-annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award for his submission entitled Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia. There are over one and a ha... Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:34:45 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111321?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111332?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) plan to award 10 grants totaling more than $10 million to accelerate fundamental research in the development of cellulosic biofuels.The grants will be awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program be... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:23:13 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111332?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111337?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels Thermotoga maritima (green/yellow rods) growing in co-culture with Methanococcus jannaschii (red spheres). T. maritima ferments sugars to hydrogen and M. jannaschii converts hydrogen to methane.The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $1.6 milli... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:19:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1111337?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bioconversion-blog/1110863?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels I am frequently asked why we should pursue the production of biofuels and biopower when we could substitute other seemingly simpler and cleaner alternatives - like wind and solar - that don't require such complicated biomass logistics. A recent art... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:38:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bioconversion-blog/1110863?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-balance/1111137?rsstype=tag&tag=biofuels As I head-off on holiday to Switzerland tomorrow, I feel a pang of conscience about the added burden to my carbon-footprint, but I will be thinking about turning algae into biofuels and reading a new book that claims that oil is not of fossil origin,... 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