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Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?
Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology...
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FAQ: New Energy Act gets green light
Fuel efficiency mandates are raised for first time since 1975, but tax incentives for renewable power get cut.
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Five dirty truths about clean technology
Venture capitalist Kirk Washington cautions that achieving eco-excellence in the 21st century won't be fast or easy.
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BlueFire pushes cleantech approach to ethanol production
BlueFire Ethanol, which is a company that has developed technology to transform non-food cellulosic waste (aka wood wastes and related sorts of urban trash), is getting closer to nailing financing...
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Corn chips or biofuel? Feds push for more ethanol
EPA rules that ethanol is greener than gasoline.
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Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.
The good, the bad, and the unreal. Read all about it on this blog. Meanwhile Murphy Oil spends over $90-million for a corn ethanol plant in North Dakota. Canada's largest oil company, Suncor,...
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Ethanol, our trash and our economy
This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build...
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Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis....
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Trash to cash, any investor's dream
How the process works. Courtesy: BlueFire The folks at Blue Fire Ethanol see a bright future for ethanol. But they are not using corn or sugar or other food crops, they're planning to use all...
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Landfill trash to methane to ethanol--a fuel cycle
There are now three landfills in America that supply methane to a nearby ethanol refinery. The newest is in Sious Falls, South Dakota. Methane is pumped ten miles from the city landfill to an...
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Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of...
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Another morning hangover for ethanolics
This time a major U.S. newspaper editorializes against the American subsidies for ethanol. Their conclusion: "This does not mean that Congress should give up on biofuels as an important part of...
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Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?
Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology...
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GM invests in 'trash to ethanol' start-up
General Motors buys undisclosed share in the cellulosic ethanol company Coskata to bring E85 fuel to market faster.
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FAQ: New Energy Act gets green light
Fuel efficiency mandates are raised for first time since 1975, but tax incentives for renewable power get cut.
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Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death
We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years. And that, unnaturally, means more fertilizer is being used. That means more...
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Yeee-ouch: Another black eye for the ethanol guys
Harry has done a great job of keeping on top of the debate about ethanol that has been bubbling up through the green ranks. Here's the overriding question: Is this cure worse than the original...
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Ethanol, continued: creates heat over energy production
Another voice raised in doubt about whether ethanol production is really environmentally friendly. Here's an editorial in a Columbus newspaper explaining why it opposes a new ethanol plant in the...
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Ethanol from corn: does it need a subsidy?
Prominent researcher tells "newsweek" that corn and ethanol are not silver bullet for ernergy future. He also says the ethsanol industry does not need a subsidy for corn. growers Of course, the...
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Ethanol isn't a magic word
Cascadia Capital's Michael Butler says hype around ethanol may blind people to complex realities of the clean-technology business.
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