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Racing Cars and Ethanol Join Forces with Indy Racing League to Get Ethanol Sponsorship

A decision by Brazil's trade promotion agency, APEX-Brasil, to sponsor the top ethanol-powered auto racing category, the Indy Racing League (IRL), contributes to consolidate ethanol as a global commodity

18 Nov 2008

U.S. Sugar and Coskata Look to Build 100 Million Gallon Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

U.S. Sugar Corp. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Coskata, Inc of Warrenville, IL to explore building a 100 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol facility in Clewiston, Florida

18 Nov 2008

Cleantech Biofuels Set to Expand into France

CleanTech Biofuels announces that it has begun exploring opportunities to implement its technology in France

17 Nov 2008

Ethanol Production Will Not Result in Deforestation or Less Land for Food Production

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) released a report this week systematically refuting claims that ethanol production will divert land from agricultural use

17 Nov 2008

How Growing Demand for Ethanol Production and Changes in Land Use

The amount of agricultural land required to produce 15 billion gallons of grain ethanol in the United States by 2015, as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), is likely to be less than 1 percent of total world cropland

16 Nov 2008

Using Natural Plants to Produce Oil

Crude oil is getting more and more expensive, a fact clearly felt by the chemical industry. An alternative source of carbon is biomass, for instance colza and whey, which can likewise be used to produce chemical products

10 Nov 2008

Ethanol Demands Ties Crop Prices to the Petrol Pump, Not to the Grocery Shelves

Ethanol helped drive two years of record profits for grain farmers, but also will hold income down during a looming recession that has already sliced crop prices in half

10 Nov 2008

World's First Biodiesel Trans Continental Jet Flight Completed

Leading the way in the biodiesel industry, Lake Erie Biofuels, LLC has made history with co-sponsoring the first ever biodiesel trans-continental jet flight "Green Flight International."

10 Nov 2008

Scientific Community Asked to Resolve Debate on Net Energy

Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientists are undecided on its merits as a tool

9 Nov 2008