Biofuel
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From Pike Research: Green Garbage
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Pike Research’s Mackinnon Lawrence estimates the theoretical potential for biofuels production from global waste to be around 35bn gal/year today. This would more than double current production of biofuels worldwide while extracting untapped value from nearly 1.5 billion tons of waste. Garbage (or, as the industry refers to it, municipal solid waste, or MSW), is a rising…
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Protected: Zeachem starts cellulosic ethanol output
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Biofuel News Roundup
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A lot of activities going on within the biofuel sector — M&As, the EPA’s proposed RIN changes, increasing biofuels use in aviation — and coming from the ag industry, continued developments for new industrial crops suitable for biofuel use. The latter, I will try to post more especially information coming from my recent attendance at…
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What are the real costs of biofuels?
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Hi folks. Sorry for the sparse blog posts as I’ve been traveling these past few days, one for possible employment position, and today, I am currently at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for tomorrow’s Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop. I will be doing a live blog for this event so this should be exciting as it’s been a while…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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Yes, I am still working on posting earnings news…sigh. I hate reporting earnings… BioFuel Energy lay-offs US ethanol producer BioFuel Energy has reduced staffing at its Fairmont, Minnesota, ethanol facility resulting in the elimination of 40 full-time positions. The plant ceased ethanol production in September 2012, and will continue to operate its adjacent grain storage…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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First biodiesel facility in Bali UK-based Green Fuels has installed its FuelMatic GSX3 at a biodiesel facility in Bali, Indonesia, owned by Caritas Switzerland to convert used cooking oil initially totaling 1,000 liters/day from 150 hotels and restaurants, to fuel. This is the first time that biodiesel production has been introduced in the island, the companies…
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EU biofuel and oilseed prospects
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Here is a good brief updates on the current European biofuels situation from the NNFCC, a UK bio-based economy consultancy. Like in the US, Europe’s biofuel industry is also mired with constant uncertain legislation especially about the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which originally stipulates that there should be 10% biofuels used in transport fuels…