Roundtable Reveals International Biofuel Standard
US - Biofuels offer the promise of a low-carbon fuel that could power vehicles and stimulate the world's rural economies. Yet biofuels are also among the most vilified of environmental...

Green Fuels Group Calls for Sugar Cane
US - The Louisiana Green Fuels Group is to build a plant capable of producing 25 million gallons of ethanol annually at the St. James Sugar Mill, which it bought two years ago.

Cellulosic Ethanol - the Way Ahead
US - Construction of a $4 million pilot-scale cellulosic ethanol production facility will be completed later this year.

Call to Abandon Biofuel Targets and Subsidies.
UK - A UK think tank has called on the British government to abandon biofuel targets and subsidies.

India's National Biofuels Policy to Boost Investment
INDIA - The National Biofuels Policy currently awaits Cabinet approval has set ambitious targets for boosting the prospects of biofuel as an alternative energy source and provide a...

The Decline of Corn-based Ethanol
US - From his office window at the Al-Corn Clean Fuel ethanol plant, manager Randy Doyal watches a steady stream of trucks roll in, weighed down with grain.

China and US Sign Biofuels Research Agreement
US - A collaborative agreement for biofuels research was signed by the US Department of Agriculture and China's Ministry of Science and Technology during the International Conference...

NCSU Gets Grant for GM Ethanol Trees
US - North Carolina State University is getting a $1 million federal grant to study the feasibility of growing genetically-modified trees to produce ethanol.

Analysts Get to the Heart of Food Vs Fuel Debate
GLOBE - The search for alternative fuels is often blamed for the high cost of food but, according to a new Rabobank podcast, it is just one of many factors.

Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn in Ethanol Study
US - In experiments, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in those states,

VeraSun Revenues Exceed $1 Billion for Quarter
US - Ethanol producer, VeraSun Energy Corporation, increased revenues by 499 per cent in the second quarter of the year compared to the second quarter of 2007.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Senate Hears Experts on Food, Feed and Fuel
US - Members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee traveled to Nebraska Monday for a hearing on food, feed and fuel production. The hearing drew participants from around the Corn...

Biofuel Plant Coming to Pike County
INDIANAPOLIS - Agresti Biofuels has announced that it will begin contract negotiations with Pike County, Ky. for the first commercial municipal solid waste (MSW) to cellulosic ethanol...

Switchgrass Growing in Biofuel Debate
US - Nebraska scientists are researching the possibility that switchgrass may be more beneficial than corn for ethanol production.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A Better Way to Make Hydrogen from Biofuels
US - Researchers here have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently.

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