In the Philippines, the national auto industry is asking the country’s Board of Investments to ensure that the manufacture or assembly of alternative fuel and electric vehicles would be granted incentives on pioneer status or income tax holiday of up to eight years, given that for vehicles that use a minimum of 10% biodiesel.
In the UK, Ensus’ wheat-based ethanol plant in Teeside will shut down for at least four months because of high wheat prices as well as slow implementation of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive. November wheat futures in London are trading at a 15% discount to May. Farmers shouldn’t be directly affected because they are supplying […]
Kosaka7654: Biofuels in Africa: Opportunities, Prospects, and Challenges (Directions in Development: Countries and Regions): BackRoadsRider: UK – Campaign against biofuels stops at DfT office: WSU_CEA: Check out this exciting project on converting waste into useful biofuels! SustainableNet: Could Australia become the Saudi Arabia of biofuels? – ATWOnline Soulfulmess: Port of Vancouver, USA first to step […]
In Texas, students at Texas A&M’s Agrilife Research Center have created a system that feeds nutrients from shrimp production into saliconia plants that are later harvested and pressed into oil for biodiesel. The meal byproduct is then fed back to the shrimp for feed.
In California, Hoover Institution Press released Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Wins? by Ken G. Glozer. In Corn Ethanol, Ken Glozer— who spent 26 years at the White House Office of Management and Budget in the energy, environment, and agriculture areas— presents the history, the promises, and the truth about federal corn ethanol policy. The book […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, plummeted 1.36 percent to 87.82, as renewables dumped value across the board. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) slipped 0.59 percent to $32.01, while BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB) lost 13.16 percent to $0.33 after being as much as 31 percent down during the day’s […]
By Don Siefkes, Executive Director, E100 Ethanol Group The United States currently imports 3.3 billion barrels/yr of crude oil. This yields 66 billion gallons/yr of gasoline, about 50% of America’s total gasoline usage. As article after article in Biofuels Digest has pointed out, the ethanol industry knows how to make ethanol from a variety of […]
SG Biofuels announces 250K acres secured for with JMax jatropha hybrids – 1MM acres in pipeline. What’s different about jatropha 2.0? In California, SG Biofuels announced it has signed customers for the deployment of 250,000 acres of Jatropha using its JMax hybrid seeds. According to SG, “the JMax hybrid seeds on average provide double the […]
In Texas, Waste Management announced a strategic investment in Agnion Energy, to advance Agnion’s small-scale allothermal gasification technology. Waste Management joins other investors in Agnion including, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Munich Venture Partners and Wellington Partners. Agnion’s innovative allothermal gasification technology converts solid biomass feedstock into a high hydrogen and carbon monoxide-rich synthetic gas (syngas) […]
In North Carolina, Avjet Biotech has selected Continental Technologies to establish a prototype laboratory system, prototype aviation biofuel facility and commercial scale aviation biofuel refinery. Marty Oliver, President of ABI explains, “Our agreement with Continental Technologies will produce plans, specifications, schematics and equipment designs that we can implement at other small, distributive refineries across the […]
