By Erin Voegele / Ethanol Magazine / November 20, 2009 Poet LLC recently announced it has reduced the per-gallon cost of cellulosic ethanol production by $1.78 during the first year of operation at its Scotland, S.D.-based pilot-scale production facility. According to the company, the cost reductions achieved during their first year of operating the pilot plant [...] [...more]
By David Paulk | The Eastern Echo | November 22, 2009 The use of biofuels such as ethanol to provide energy is in a state of flux, but one Eastern Michigan University professor is doing his part to make it more efficient. Aaron Liepman is a molecular biology professor at EMU and is researching the process of [...] [...more]
UOP process technology produced green jet fuel from camelina used in Boeing 747 demonstration flight DES PLAINES, Ill., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — UOP LLC, a Honeywell ( HON) company, announced today that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM [...] [...more]
By Jim Massey / The Country Today / 11/18/2009 The company that built the manure digester at Crave Brothers Farm in Dodge County has been selected as the builder for the Cow-Power Project in Dane County. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced Nov. 9 that Wisconsin-based biogas energy developer Clear Horizons and SCC Americas have been selected [...] [...more]
Press Release United States Department of Energy November 12, 2009 Washington, DC – The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy today announced projects selected for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. Of the $24.4 million announced today, DOE plans to invest up to [...] [...more]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/11/09 CONTACT: Gary Radloff, (608) 890-3449, gradloff@wbi.wisc.edu WISCONSIN BIOENERGY INITIATIVE HIRES MIDWEST ENERGY POLICY ANALYSIS DIRECTOR The Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) has hired Gary Radloff as its Midwest energy policy analysis director to bridge the gap between applied energy research and public policy. The WBI brings together scientists, policymakers, industry professionals and the general public [...] [...more]
By Erin Voegele / Ethanol Producer Magazine / November 4, 2009 Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., challenged information presented in the opening statement of Rajiv Shah, USDA Undersecretary of Research, Education, and Economics, at a Oct. 29 House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on biofuels. In his opening statement, Rajiv said that an increase in corn acreage has supported greater [...] [...more]
By Craig A. Johnson / Ethanol Producer Magazine / Nov. 5, 2009 At the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison, Wis., researchers are looking to leafcutter ants for new enzymatic processes that will further progress efforts to commercialize cellulosic ethanol. Leafcutter ants, which are found in tropical climates and live in enormous colonies that can [...] [...more]
Clean Skies News / October 29, 2009 Agriculture officials want to expand research and commercialization of second and third generation biofuels. With Americans’ usage of gasoline dropping, ethanol producers are struggling to find a market for their product. [...more]
By Matthew DeFour | WI State Journal | November 8, 2009 Dane County’s first community manure digester, the first cooperative project of its kind in Wisconsin, will be built and operated by a Milwaukee-based company that plans to finance most of the project itself. By letting Clear Horizons, in partnership with SCC Americas, a global developer of [...] [...more]
