In Kansas, hopes that California-based Nexsun Corp. will build a $100 million ethanol plant in Ulysses remain despite a 2.5 year halt in construction. The project is reliant on foreign investment, investors who are seeking visas due to their investment. Even though another company is interested to build a milk processing facility on the land […]
In Oregon, new research from Oregon State University shows that producing biofuels from forests on the West Coast could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 14%, and that’s even under the best circumstances. The only way that the study said producing biofuel was a good idea was in high fire risk areas due to insect or […]
In La Reunion, Bioalgostral SAS (BAO) has teamed with Germany’s IGV for delivery and establishment of an industrial plant for the production of biofuels from microalgae with a total volume of 82,000 litres in 2012. The recently commissioned facility is the result of cooperation since 2010. The first phase of the project through 2014 will […]
In Spain, Rivamadrid, the company responsible for trash and recycling collection in the capital, has converted 100 of its fleet to B20 from gasoline. The deal for $3.13 million with Repsol to supply the B20 will guarantee at least a 20% reduction in the company’s CO2 emissions in line with the city’s goal to be […]
In Thailand, an affiliate of Bangchak Petroleum has signed an agreement to supply 100 million liters of ethanol annually to China. The production will come from the affiliate’s new Ubon Bio Ethanol Co. cassava-based plant that will produce 400,000 liters of ethanol per day. Shipments will begin in October next year. The technology used in […]
In California, UC San Diego researchers have unraveled the complete biochemical reaction chain for the synthesis of auxin, the plant growth hormone, which regulates almost all plant growth and development. Using genetic approaches and analytical biochemistry, the researchers identified the two step chain of tryptophan to indole-3-acetic acid in Arabidopsis, a genetic model plant. The […]
Today on Twitter. gnegrinioil: Via @nprnews: Air Force And Navy Turn To Biofuels TheBiofuelTrap: Boeing, Embraer and Sao Paulo Research Foundation to Lead Aviation Biofuels Program in Brazil GreenForum: Making Biofuels from West Coast Forests is a Bad Idea fionahirnguy: Ethanol plant to resume production nitrogencycle: USDA finds distillers grains offer greater feed value than […]
In Indiana, researchers at Purdue University have discovered that not all corn waste is the same and that more efficient cellulosic ethanol production could result from treating the different types of cellulose—the rind, the leaves and the pith—differently. The pith and leaves of stover are fairly easy to break down while the rind, which only […]
In New Jersey, it turns out that Westwood and Woodcliff Lakes’ attempts to reduce their diesel bill by using locally recycled cooking oil may not be exactly legal as the state’s Department of Environmental Protection says the fuel they’re using does not meet ASTM standards as a biodiesel nor has the state registered the use […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 2.80 percent to 74.78 on a broad surge in biofuels equities. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) recovered 2.66 percent to $28.90, while Rentech (RTK) soared 18.33 percent to $1.42. Among other equities, Valero (VLO) soared 15.16 percent to $25.15 on rumors […]
