Biofuel

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By rss@youtube.com (TheAutoChannel) With the recent run up in gas prices and the lingering war in the Middle East, there has been talk of renewable energy sources to power our cars and trucks. Ethanol, a biofuel, can be produced not only from corn, but sugar cane, switch grass, and wood. And using it, instead of gasoline, decreas...

Its renewable feedstocks include wheat, corn, sugar cane, rice, and glycerin (glycerin is an important byproduct of biofuel production). ... and more »

It also should help scientists produce varieties with fibers, stalks and cellular structures that will make corn a better source of biofuel. ... and more »

Advanced biofuels are those that do not rely on the corn kernel starch. Cellulosic ethanol can be made from switch grass, corn stover, forest waste, ...

By Shaoshao Chen First came corn and cane as biomass renewable energy, and then celluose and algae. This year, a new contender to the biofuel industry ... Bugs engineered to make biofuelsPublic Radio International PRI all 2 news articles »

Biofuels aren't new. Henry Ford designed his 1908 Model T to run on ethanol from corn, but Standard Oil and its fossil fuel cohorts, seeing the threat ... Unlocking Biofuel PotentialWallace's Farmer Biofuels could have big impact on water resourcesSeattle Post Global

Biofuel research isn't just a matter of finding the right type of biomass - corn grain, soybean oil, or other material - and converting it into fuel. ...

There are several forms of biofuel, among them ethanol and biodiesel. In the US, ethanol is made primarily from corn. It also can be made from sugar. ... and more »

Corn-based ethanol is the biofuel most in use today. But turning corn into ethanol is expensive and requires a great deal of dirty fossil fuel energy, ... and more »

Europe's wild boar population is exploding because of climate change and increased biofuel production from corn and rapeseed — crops boars like to gorge ...

The company — along with a number of biofuel producers — was hurt by the trifecta of low gasoline prices; higher corn prices and energy costs; ... and more »

Canadian plants produce ethanol from corn and wheat and make biodiesel mainly from animal fat. Biodiesel production, a much smaller part of the biofuels ... Study: Canadian Renewable Fuels Significantly Reduce GHGsSYS-CON Media (press release) all 26 news articles »

The cell wall of corn contains the materials that eventually become biofuel and bioplastics, so any ability to increase the thickness of the cell wall would ... Scientists complete corn genomeAgriculture Online Corn Genome Sequencing and Analysis Papers PublishedGenomeWeb Daily News

By Geoffrey Styles(noreply@blogger.com) The argument that corn ethanol is somehow entitled to perpetual subsidies on the basis of an inaccurate comparison to the tax benefits currently enjoyed by the oil & gas industry--tax benefits that are currently under threat, themselves--is equally unpersuasive. In the posting i...

By Jolly Eco Factor: Biofuel made from grass clippings and other organic waste. In Brazil, nine out of ten cars run on sugarcane ethanol and in the US corn-based ethanol is more of a supplement. The rise in the demand of bio-fuel has forced scientists to...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) The goal is to enable a switch away from corn- and soy-based biofuel to cellulosic energy crops that don't compete on the food or feed market and have a smaller carbon footprint. A 2007 energy law, in fact, requires a total of 160 billion gallons of the plant-based cellulosic fuels by 2022 th...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) First, every dollar spent on corn ethanol is one dollar more in the pockets of U.S. farmers and ethanol producers and one less dollar sent overseas to petroleum-pumping countries. Many ethanol plants in the U.S. are already making the transition from 100 percent grain ethanol to ethanol made...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) By 2022, the U.S. EPA expects the domestic biofuels industry to produce more than 32 billion gallons per year of renewable fuel. However, less than half of that fuel is expected to be corn-based ethanol. The majority, 16 billion gallons, will be cellulosic biofuel. The Energy Independence an...

By Andrew Leonard Simply said, ethanol production today using U.S. corn contributes to the conversion of grasslands and rainforest to agriculture, causing very large GHG emissions... Even if only a small fraction of the emissions calculated in this crude way [through land use change] are added to estimates...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) Conceptualized less than a decade ago, when corn-based ethanol was the darling of policymakers seeking to promote a renewable alternative to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil, NCERC remains a strong advocate for corn-to-ethanol research and production, even though the biofuel in...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Privately-held ethanol producer POET LLC said Wednesday it's moving ahead with plans to ramp up efforts to use corn cobs to produce biofuel. CEO Jeff Broin said the company is creating a new division, Poet Biomass, ...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) North Carolina State University researchers said growing duckweed on hog wastewater can produce five to six times more starch per acre than corn. Professor Jay Cheng and Associate Professor Anne-Marie Stomp said their finding means ethanol production using duckweed could be faster a...

Biofuels such as ethanol were once thought of as planet-savers. But growing the crops (mainly corn) to make the ethanol (a sub for fossil fuels) means using lots of water, chemicals, and land. Mounting studies suggest ethanol is not the greatest way to ...

By Natalie(noreply@blogger.com) After a cold winter of closed plants, bankruptcies and losses, ethanol producers report that the rise in crude oil and wholesale gasoline prices has increased the demand for the corn-based biofuel and returned most plants to at least a modicum of profitability.

Though there are now thousands of gas stations worldwide that sell gasoline blends containing some ethanol fermented from corn or sugar cane, the Ottawa station is believed to be the first to sell ethanol derived from straw, Shell said. ...

Green Right Now  NH Of the 36 billion gallons, no more than 15 billion gallons can be corn-based ethanol, the remainder being advanced biofuels that meet at least a 50 percent GHG reduction requirement. Algae has emerged as a promising feedstock for future biofuels due to ... Green Right Now

 NY Algae biofuels at least are still getting millions in funding, though the idea is no closer to commercial development, in Earth2Tech. One biofuel feedstock is losing ground: Jatropha uses five times as much water as corn, making it an even less likely ...

By Sharon Dowdy ATHENS, Georgia - Corn and soybeans are excellent crops for use in ethanol and biodiesel production, but chickens, cows and people like to eat the crops, too. University of Georgia engineers are searching for non-food crops that can be ...

Related articles from RenewableEnergyAccess.com, Biofuels International.

Biofuel Production Will Continue to Grow In order to relieve any food versus biofuel concerns at most 15 billion gallons of the renewable fuel mandate can be met with conventional bio-fuels, including corn and soy-based ethanol. The remainder can be met using algae or switchgrass crops. ...

Bruce Lindquist, a UC researcher, said that should be a primary consideration for any biofuel crop. Corn has been the short-term ethanol solution, said Hutmacher. Technology for large-scale production of ethanol from the high-fiber switchgrass isn't ...

By Dave Demerjian Sapphire isn’t shy about talking up the benefits of fuel made from algae, saying it  delivers 10 to 100 times more energy per acre than corn-based ethanol, which has gone out of fashion because it’s derived from food crops. Algae also uses less water than corn, and can be grown on non-arable...

Measuring Corn Ethanol's Thirst for Water MIT Technology Review Midwestern Ethanol Industrial Processes Use Much Less Water Than ... Science Daily (press release) Daily Digest: Pirates, ethanol production and stimulus bonds Minnesota Daily

By Dave Demerjian Al-Najimi's comments come as a faltering economy prompts the closure of many ethanol plants and corn-based biofuels draw increasing fire in the "food for fuel" debate. There are more than 250 million "flex fuel" cars capable of running on E85, a blend containing 85 percent ethanol, in th...

 PA - A form of alcohol, ethanol is a biofuel made from corn and other crops; its increasing use as an additive to gasoline is based on requirements of the Energy ...

By Mike Millikin GreenShift plans to co-locate bioreactors at corn ethanol production plants and other fermentation processes where concentrated supplies of carbon dioxide are naturally emitted and are relatively easy to capture and control. GreenShift plans to leverage its existing corn oil extr...

By Biopact team(noreply@blogger.com) Research is ongoing at Michigan State University to evaluate the environmental, agronomic, and economic sustainability of bioenergy cropping systems. Support for this work was provided by USDA-CSREES, the CASMGS program, and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.

I've said it before that this kind of pyrolysis could prove to be the wayahead in converting corn waste into biofuels. I'm a big fan of this kind of technology providing that it is energetically sensible to collect the feed for the pyrolysis plant.

By Geoffrey Styles(noreply@blogger.com) In many ways VeraSun exemplifies the US corn ethanol sector under the present system of federal renewable fuel mandates and price subsidies. In 2006 VeraSun operated two ethanol plants with combined capacity of 230 million gallons per year (MGY) of ethanol. After an aggressive program o...

By Alok Jha Converting this plant waste into useful fuels is a major goal for the biofuel industry, which currently uses food crops such as corn and has been blamed for high food prices. Normally, cellulosic materials are treated with enzymes that first convert it to sugar, with microbes then used to...

By Mike Millikin If ethanol yield per bushel of corn remains at the current level of 2.75 gallons per bushel, total corn ethanol production in 2030 would be 33 billion gallons, compared to estimates of 7.1 billion gallons for calendar year 2007. If ethanol output per bushel of corn increases to 3.0 gallons per...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Farming algae doesn't require much space or good cropland, so it avoids the fuel-for-food dilemma that has plagued first and second generation biofuels like corn, rapeseed and palm oil. It also consumes nearly twice its weight in carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas that is di...

By David Roberts grist.orgPicture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy. Unlike cellulosic ethanol, this...

By Mike Millikin Starch-to-ethanol from grain sorghum. About 15% of the US grain sorghum crop currently goes into ethanol production with one bushel of grain sorghum producing the same amount of ethanol as one bushel of corn, according to the National Sorghum Producers.

By Mike Millikin As an example, a 213-bushel-per-acre corn yield leaves farmers an average four tons per acre of cornstalks after harvest. Farmers could then harvest about two tons of cornstalks per acre for conversion to ethanol—but only from land with low erosion risks, using little or no tillage. If th...

By Chris McGowan Unfortunately, large-scale production of biofuel from corn, sugar cane, soybeans and other food crops could disrupt world food supplies and add to deforestation in tropical countries. And if the latter occurs, the carbon release from deforestation will outweigh the claimed biofuel...