The Global Justice Ecology Project doesn’t like biofuels
The ethanol battle has been joined again now that a new Administration is due to take over the White House. The flurry started late yesterday UK time (for me at any rate) with an email from The Global...
View ArticleAMFI enewsletter arrives
I’ve just been sent a copy of the AMFI enewsletter. The AMFI is the group which is implementing the Agreement on Advanced Motor Fuels of the International Energy Agency. It appears four times each...
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The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Indusries on sustainability
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that...
View ArticleEU puts tarrif on US Biodiesel
The European Union has started applying tariffs to biofuel exported from the US to the EU. The EU says that American biodiesel is being sold at less than the true cost of production in the US because...
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Cellulosic ethanol the US dream and reality
This graph, produced with data from the Des Moines Register, and another good article from Phil Brasher shows the current gap between US cellulosic ethanol production next year and the curent...
View ArticleAntibiotics at heart of corn ethanol
Some US corn ethanol producers are using penicillin and three other antibiotics in corn fermentation process says Minnesota Public Radio. Why? To ensure that the yeast they use in fermentation does not...
View ArticleSmart Choices for Biofuels
I missed this about a month ago, but it is worth looking at, The Sierra Club and World Watch Institute produced Smart Choices for Biofuels.It rounds up quite a lot of stuff we’ve gone over here. It is...
View ArticleTimes twigs that biofuel policies have environmental impacts too
This article in the Sunday edition of the Times understands that there are environmental costs to biofuel policies.
View ArticleCalifornia looks at emissions from crop to tail pipe and legislates
California’s newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol, according to a report on Planet Ark. The new legislation examines the carbon impact from seed to...
View Article25×25 warns on restricting cellulosic biomass
25×25 a pressure group in the US is warning that some proposed legislation in the US could severely restrict the amount of cellulose available for biofuels in what is effectively a call for managed...
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