n last week’s Energy Trends Insider (ETI) I explained Why Sugarcane Bagasse is the Most Promising Pathway for Cellulosic Ethanol. Continue reading
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Deroy Murdock: High cost of fantasy fuel
Team Obama fines companies for not buying fuel that doesn’t exist Continue reading
US Air Force Completes First Test Flight Run on New Alcohol Based Jet Fuel
“The United States Air Force announced that they have flown the first aircraft that runs on a new fuel blend based on alcohol.“
Huh… there was a time the airforce knew what to do with alcohol. Continue reading
Marlo Lewis: Rep. Jeff Flake’s Commonsense Fix for Cellulosic Biofuel Folly
In his 2006 State of the Union message, President G.W. Bush famously (and falsely) declared that America is “addicted to oil.” As a solution, Bush proposed to “fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.” He set a “goal” to ”make this new kind of ethanol [a.k.a. cellulosic] practical and competitive within six years.” Continue reading
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Tagged cellulosic ethanol, ethanol, ethanol mandates, really stupid idea
American Energy Alliance Releases ‘Phantom Fuels’ Video
The American Energy Alliance released a video today exposing the failure of renewable energy mandates that raise the cost of producing and consuming transportation fuels in the United States. Continue reading
EPA Continues the Cellulosic Ethanol Folly
Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012: Continue reading
Canadian biofuel plans derailed
Iogen cancels a pioneering facility to turn crop waste into ethanol Continue reading
