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A car that runs on wood pellets alone has achieved a world speed record at the World of Speed 2010 competition held at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, US after reaching 48mph. Speaking about the competition the owner of the 1989 Mercury Cougar XR7 Robert ‘Chip’ Beam said: ‘There’s no category for a wood-powered car. This year we set the record. Next year we’re hoping to break the…
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October this year saw Imperial Petroleum’s wholly owned subsidiary e-biofuels, based in Middletown, Indiana, sell 1.98 million gallons of biodiesel, bringing in approximately $6.3 million (€4.48 million) in revenues for that month alone. First quarter revenues for biodiesel sales represent approximately $16.7 million on 5.2 million gallons sold. ‘It has been very exciting to see the…
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Illinois is traditionally known for mass ethanol production owing to its position in the US corn belt, but now biodiesel availability is on the up thanks to fuel terminal operator Kinder Morgan. From mid-December Renewable Energy Group’s REG 9000/1 biodiesel will be available for splash blending at Kinder Morgan’s Argo, Illinois, terminal. REG expects biodiesel from its Illinois facilities,…
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Novasep Process, the bioprocess division of Novasep, a supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industry, and Danisco, a Denmark-headquartered company dedicated to food and feed ingredients, enzymes and biobased solutions, are to scale-up a new extraction process for the production of natural betaine. The plant will use vanasse, a byproduct of bioethanol derived from sugar beet.…
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A $308 million (€212 million) bioethanol project will be constructed in Grimsby, northern England, thanks to a partnership between Future Capital Partners, biofuels company Vireol and the engineering group Simon Carves. Vireol will operate the ethanol plant once it has been completed, while Future Capital plans to sell or offer shares in its percentage within six years. A contract worth a…
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The flowering plant camelina is the subject of a biofuels research project linking researchers across Canada to Germany. Canadian gene discovery company Genome Atlantic has now launched a project after receiving $2.8 million (€1.98 million) from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency – Atlantic Innovation Fund, a significant part of its $6.1 million budget. The biofuels world is also…
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After signing a contract with Biffa, a UK-based integrated waste management business, Sainsbury’s supermarket looks set to turn all of its food waste into biogas by 2012. Biffa will use anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to create biogas from the discarded foodstuff, before it is injected into the national grid. AD is a green and cheap solution of disposing of waste, while extending the…
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A Greenfield project is currently being developed in Sierra Leone, West Africa, by Addax Bioenergy. A division of the Swiss-based energy corporation Addax and Oryx Group (AOG), Addax Bioenergy’s project will consist of a sugarcane plantation, an ethanol distillery and a biomass power plant. Supported by the government of Sierra Leone and financed by European Development Finance Institutions…
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Cellulosic ethanol producer Range Fuels has received a loan note guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and closed its related $80 million (€58.8 million) bond issuance. The proceeds from the $80 million bond will be used to partially finance the first two phases of construction of Range Fuels' first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant using renewable and sustainable…
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A sewage work upgrade project planned by UK utility provider Thames Water will also introduce an anaerobic digestion process, where solid waste is broken down in enclosed tanks in the absence of oxygen. This process forms biogas which can be used to generate renewable energy, and it is intended to produce enough energy to power the entire site. Thames Water began the £85 million (€94.7…
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Based in Denver, US, ethanol producer BioFuel Energy Corp. has had an increase in share purchases after it reported its first quarterly profit. On Tuesday at midday trading BioFuel Energy’s shares rose by 15.6% to $3.56 (€2.64). During 4Q of 2009 the company earned $6.8 million, with each share selling for 21 cents. During the same period in 2008 it lost $6.9 million. However there is…
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Renewable energy firm Jatoil will become majority shareholder in its Vietnamese jatropha plantations as it invests further into the joint venture with Green Energy Vietnam (GEV). The company hopes this investment will dramatically increase its production of jatropha oil. CEO at Jatoil Phil Hodgson said: ‘Now is the time to expand our jatropha plantings to enable the production of much…
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US vehicle manufacturer General Motors has increased annual production of flex-fuel vehicles to more than 850,000, an increase of 55% from 2006 volumes. GM offers 17 models in its 2010 lineup with flex-fuel capability, allowing them to run on E85 ethanol, petrol, or any combination of the two. More than 5 million of the 7.5 million flex-fuel vehicles on the road in North America are GM cars…
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The Brazilian Innovation Agency, FINEP (Research and Projects Financing), and Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) have entered into a new partnership to promote bioethanol development, establishing a programme which will provide up to $540 million (€438.9 million) in financing to the country’s biofuels sector. With operations scheduled to begin on 30 July the project aims to promote…
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