Ethanol Message Lights up Times Square
Ethanol is on the big screen in New York City during Farm-City Week this year. A 30-second video featuring the benefits of farm-based ethanol will be displayed on the new NBC Universal High Definition screen in Times Square November 13-26. The campaign includes the week prior to Thanksgiving, which is national Farm-City week, and it will be seen by millions …
Domestic Fuels Go Hollywood
Ethanol and biodiesel took center stage in Hollywood over the weekend with the World Premiere of the award-winning “Freedom Fuels,” directed and produced by Martin O’Brien. The picture debuted on November 11 at the “Third Annual Artivist Film Festival and Awards” in Hollywood. “Freedom Fuels” received an award for best short in the Environmental Preservation category. According to the filmaker’s …
US Farms Studies
US Farms, Inc. and Imperial Ethanol, Inc. are doing a feasibility study for an ethanol plant to be located in Imperial Valley, Ca. BBI International will be doing the study. According to a US Farms press release, US Farms president Yan K. Skwara said, “BBI will be targeting at utilizing sugar cane and corn as feed stocks for Ethanol in …
SD Plants Merge With MN Company
Advanced BioEnergy LLC of Minneapolis and Heartland Grain Fuels of Dakota Fuels Inc. are joining forces. With the agreement, two ethanol plants in South Dakota will merge with the Minnesota company. Under the transaction, Heartland owners will invest in Advanced BioEnergy and, for that investment, will receive about $16.8 million in cash and about 2.6 million newly issued share units …
Biomass Potential
As cellulosic ethanol looms on the horizon with the goal of producing ethanol from biomass, the questions are how much biomass is there and how much will it cost to convert to ethanol? Nathan Danielson of Biocognito addresses those questions in a recent Ethanol Technical Update for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC). Danielson cites a Department of Energy …
Biofuels Could Complicate WTO
The International Food and Agricultural Policy Trade Council has conducted the first comprehensive assessment of how World Trade Organization disciplines may apply to the rapidly expanding biofuels sector. The study sets out key WTO issues that need to be clarified, such as the classification of biofuels and their feedstocks and whether they are to be considered industrial, agricultural or environmental …
Domestic Fuel on I-65
From the Birmingham (AL) News – The installation of the first ethanol-and-biodiesel-blended-fuel pumps along Interstate 65 in Alabama should begin in early 2007, state officials said Thursday. State officials are talking with interested gasoline-selling convenience store operators and working quickly to make alternative-fuel purchase an option for drivers, said Kathy Hornsby of the Alabama Department of Economic and Development Affairs. …
Less Corn at Higher Prices Means Farmers Will Likely Plant More
The US Department of Agriculture lowered its corn production forecast Thursday by one percent from last month to 10.7 billion bushels, but that’s still the second largest crop on record. Meanwhile, the corn price forecast rose 40 cents to $2.80 to $3.20 a bushel as demand remains brisk. Expected corn use for ethanol this year was left unchanged at 2.15 …
Domestic Fuels Power Transportation Expansion
Increased demand for E85, biodiesel products brings need for more trains, trucks and storage. Story by David Pitt of the Associated Press. With new ethanol and biodiesel plants going online, transportation companies are scurrying to provide the needed trains, trucks and storage tanks to keep up. The fuel-additive industry is growing from regional to national distribution, driven by a federal …