San Francisco-based Cleantech America, LLC says it will build a solar power farm possibly a square mile in size… making it seven times bigger than the world’s largest and 17 times bigger than anything else of its kind in America. This story from CNN.com says the project is slated to be completed in 2011 and would produce 80 megawatts of …
Ethanol Co-Products Use
Roughly half of the cattle and hog operations in a 12-state region either fed ethanol co-products or considered feeding them to their livestock last year, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) with the support and funding of the Nebraska Corn Board. According to Dan Kerestes, chief of the USDA NASS …
FEW Bloggers
Great thing about going to meetings is getting to meet people you only know by email. I got to meet a couple of fellow bloggers at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in St. Louis. Pictured here with me is C. Scott Miller, editor of the BIOconversion Blog. We started our blogs at about the same time and started communicating way back …
Meet the American Biofuels Council
There’s a new player on the block in the alternative energy group sector: The American Biofuels Council. Sean O’Hanlon is the executive director for the new group that he says has gotten a better-than-expected response in their first few months of existence. In an interview with energy.agwired.com, he explains that his council is different than other groups such as the …
US FEW Report
US Farm Report was on location this week at the 2007 Fuel Ethanol Workshop in St. Louis. Agribusiness Director Al Pell taped a segment of the weekly show on the trade show floor. His guests were ICM, Inc. president Dave Vander Griend, National Corn Growers Association chairman Gerald Tumbleson, and BBI International CEO Mike Bryan. The segment will be part …
E85 Summer Promotion
Here’s a good story from the Kum & Go pump promotion about their E85 start of summer promotional price. It’s hard to beat $1.85 gas if you’ve got a flex fuel vehicle in Iowa. If you buy gas at a Kum & Go right now you can take your receipt, go online and enter to win a number of great …
Mitigating Biofuels Effects on Food
AACC International (formerly known as the American Association of Cereal Chemists) is inviting senior food industry executives to a three-day symposium and workshop to discuss the impact the biofuels industry is having on the food market. The AACC web site has more information on the seminar, titled “Biofuels and Food, Mitigating the Impact of Biofuels Demand on Food Ingredients” scheduled …
DuPont Turns Corn Into Oil
No, it’s not corn oil… it’s propanediol, a corn-sugar based product that replaces petroleum in many uses. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman today in Loudon, Tennessee joined officials from DuPont Tate & Lyle in a joint venture to open a $100 million Bio-PDO(TM) facility… the world’s first of its kind. Check out this release posted on PR Newswire: Bio-PDO(TM) …
Clean Diesel Signs Another Patent Deal
Innovator of clean energy technology, Clean Diesel has inked another deal to share its patents with another company to make the technology more widely available. Clean Diesel has agreed to a non-exclusive license agreement with Connecticut-based Combustion Components Associates. CCA is a provider of air pollution control technologies for the power generation and transportation industries. The announcement came in a …
Letter from Ethanol Crusader
I received this letter yesterday from a self-proclaimed “ethanol crusader” in Florida. It was pretty long, but here is an edited version with her key points: Hi Cindy, keep up the good work. I’ve recently join the Movement “Florida Needs Ethanol”.com. Today (Memorial Day) I drove around to distribute fliers to several gas stations. Mostly the small ones like Race …