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January 19, 2012 · 2 Comments 

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Biodiesel

New algae may be biofuel breakthrough

May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

A new strain of yellow-green algae, called “heterococcus sp. DN1,” that may prove to be an efficient source for biodiesel, has been discovered in the snow fields of the Rocky Mountains.   Research examining the discovery, published in Biotechnology Progress, reveals that H. sp. DN1 was found to grow at temperatures approaching freezing and to accumulate large intracellular stores of lipids. The algae produces the highest quantity of lipids when grown undisturbed with high light in low temperatures, according to David Nelson, of the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota,... [Read the full story]

Biofuels

The true cost of biofuels

May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

The U.S. Army has recently purchased a large quantity of biofuel-derived jet fuel at a cost of $59 per gallon — in spite of our financial crisis.   The insanity of biofuel advocates lingers on like a bad case of the flu that people just cannot shake. As a last-ditch effort to save a doomed energy policy, our politicians are now financing wildly irresponsible genetic-engineering research into creating artificial algae and bacteria they hope will miraculously lower the stratospheric cost of making biofuels. The problem is, the qualities you need to make biofuels even remotely affordable also... [Read the full story]

Ethanol

The true cost of biofuels

May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

The U.S. Army has recently purchased a large quantity of biofuel-derived jet fuel at a cost of $59 per gallon — in spite of our financial crisis.   The insanity of biofuel advocates lingers on like a bad case of the flu that people just cannot shake. As a last-ditch effort to save a doomed energy policy, our politicians are now financing wildly irresponsible genetic-engineering research into creating artificial algae and bacteria they hope will miraculously lower the stratospheric cost of making biofuels. The problem is, the qualities you need to make biofuels even remotely affordable also... [Read the full story]

Energy

Analysis finds 41% of Canada’s ethanol came from the U.S.

May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

U.S. corn making much of Canada’s ethanol   Canada’s ethanol mandate is being met in a large part by a torrent of U.S. corn ethanol flooding across the border. The five percent federal mandate requires 2.2 billion litres of ethanol to be blended into the fuel supply annually. Canadian fuel blenders imported 893 million litres of U.S. ethanol in 2012, according to the U.S. Renewable Fuels Association. That’s enough foreign fuel to meet 41 percent of the national mandate. It is not what the federal government had in mind Sept. 1, 2010, when it announced that regulations requiring a five... [Read the full story]

Producer News

Oshawa council seeks ethics probe into ethanol plant decision

August 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Oshawa council seeks ethics probe into ethanol plant decision   Disagreement is heating up over an ethanol refinery to be built in Oshawa, with the city’s council calling for an investigation into the relationship between the federally controlled Oshawa Port Authority, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and FarmTech Energy Corp., the company building the plant. The port authority approved the controversial $200-million project for Oshawa’s waterfront in a closed-door meeting Aug. 9. At a special meeting last week, council fired back. Mayor John Henry was directed to ask that the federal... [Read the full story]

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POSTED: 05/20/2013

The true cost of biofuels

The U.S. Army has recently purchased a large quantity of biofuel-derived jet fuel at a cost of $59 per gallon — in spite of our financial crisis.   The insanity of biofuel advocates lingers on like a bad case of the flu that people just cannot shake. As a last-ditch effort to save a doomed energy policy, our...

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POSTED: 05/20/2013

Analysis finds 41% of Canada’s ethanol came from the U.S.

U.S. corn making much of Canada’s ethanol   Canada’s ethanol mandate is being met in a large part by a torrent of U.S. corn ethanol flooding across the border. The five percent federal mandate requires 2.2 billion litres of ethanol to be blended into the fuel supply annually. Canadian fuel blenders imported...

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POSTED: 05/20/2013

New algae may be biofuel breakthrough

A new strain of yellow-green algae, called “heterococcus sp. DN1,” that may prove to be an efficient source for biodiesel, has been discovered in the snow fields of the Rocky Mountains.   Research examining the discovery, published in Biotechnology Progress, reveals that H. sp. DN1 was found to grow at temperatures...

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POSTED: 05/20/2013

Canadian Biodiesel Plant Plans to Ship to Germany

A Canadian biodiesel plant plans to crank out 7 million gallons of the green fuel a year, but none of it is intended for use north or south of the border.   Biodiesel Magazine reports Biofuel Weiss Inc.’s Halifax, Nova Scotia, multifeedstock biodiesel refinery product will go to Germany: “We are different...

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Green Plains Renewable Energy Earns International Sustainability & Carbon Certification

Omaha-based biofuel producer Green Plains Renewable Energy has qualified for recognition under the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) program, based on the findings of a third-party audit conducted by SCS Global Services.   SCS found that Green Plains’ biofuels production and...

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Ethanol Tries To Make The Cellulosic Switch

The U.S. ethanol industry, not long ago booming, is in decline. Rising commodity prices have hurt, as has a trend toward folk driving less; there’s just not enough gasoline out there to blend the ethanol into.   That’s a big part of the backstory that makes the developments last week out of Visalia, Calif.,...

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AGP Permanently Closes Corn Processing Plant in Hastings, NE

Ag Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP) announced May 17 that it has permanently shut down operations of its corn processing plant at Hastings, Nebraska.   The plant had been on an extended shutdown since February 1, 2013 amid challenging economic conditions. At that time, the Company said it would continue to evaluate...

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RFA and Growth Energy take EU to court over ethanol anti-dumping tariff

Renewable Groups File Action Against European Ethanol Duty   Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association have filed a complaint with the General Court in Luxembourg challenging the European Commission’s 9.6 percent anti dumping duty on all ethanol imported from the United States. Growth Energy CEO Tom...

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50 Billion Reasons to Support Ethanol

The mandated blending of ethanol in motor fuel — specifically when produced from corn — is a highly controversial issue.   Is it really corrosive to engines at concentrations of just 10%? What about 15% blends? Does it really cost drivers at the pump? If so, how much? While ethanol does, in fact ,have...

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Minnesota’s struggling ethanol makers hope to snap back this year

After a drought, record-high corn prices and plant shutdowns, ethanol producers say 2013 has to be better.   Farmer Dwayne Ehlert remembers the moment last August when he delivered a truckload of corn to an ethanol plant here and sold it for a record $8.16 a bushel. “I knew it was good for me, and I knew it...

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Solar

China says EU solar duties to “seriously harm” trade ties

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Solar power catching on with Indiana property owners

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Wind

Wind is Iowa’s biggest economic project ever

Iowa’s largest energy company announced plans Wednesday to spend $1.9 billion...

US wind industry braces for Congress fight

The US wind-power industry is expecting a tough battle in Congress as it seeks another...

Nebraska lawmakers advance wind tax-incentive bill

Nebraska lawmakers move ahead on tax-incentive measure for wind-energy companies   Lawmakers...

Pennsylvania wind energy creation soars in 2012

Wind energy installations almost doubled in Pennsylvania last year, but the industry...

IRS Sets Wind Tax Credit Regulations for 2013 Projects

The Internal Revenue Service completed rules today that define how wind-farm developers...

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