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Construction has begun on a biofuel refinery in east Tennessee, US, which will use switchgrass, a perennial crop, as a feedstock to produce cellulosic ethanol. The pilot plant is a partnership between DuPont Danisco Cellulosic, the University of Tennessee (UT), and Genera Energy, which aims to produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol by the end of 2009.
DuPont's Danisco subsidiary will develop…
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Prices of major grains and oilseeds such as corn, wheat, soyabeans, and palm oil that are used to make biofuels are tumbling, indicating green fuels have played virtually no role in the recent global surge in food prices.
Corn and soyabeans have lost more than half of their value, whereas wheat now costs 55% less than at its highpoint in March of this year. Canola fell from a high of $730 (568.7…
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Kenya expects $500 million (389.4 million Euro's) worth of foreign investments in biofuel crop production over the next two years, a government official has announced. Romano Kiome, permanent secretary in the agriculture ministry, says five multinational firms from the US, Japan, and the UK had applied to be considered in a government land-lease scheme.
Crops such as jatropha, croton, sweet…
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Roxol Bioenergy is investing P1.433 billion (23.2 million Euro's) for the production of bioethanol and potable ethanol to be sold to local oil refining companies and manufacturers in the Philippines.
The project, which is 99.99% owned by the publicly-listed Roxas Holdings, led eight project approvals by the Board of Investments (BOI).
Based on its registration with the BOI, the company…
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UK-based Isis Innovation, the technology transfer company for the University of Oxford, has announced that researchers in the University's Department of Chemistry have discovered a new way to produce methanol from an industrial waste chemical, glycerol. Presently, 90% of methanol is produced from natural gas, and this new process offers an alternative which does not rely on fossil…
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The transshipment of biofuels in the port of Rotterdam increased in the first half of 2008 from 1 to 2.5 million tonnes. The ratio of ethanol to biodiesel was almost 50/50. The products were manufactured mainly overseas: ethanol in Brazil and biodiesel largely in the US.
Part of the incoming trade was used on the continent and some shipped on further by smaller sea-going vessel to England, UK,…
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US-based agricultural company Monsanto will purchase Brazil-based Aly Participacoes for $290 million (225.3 million Euro's) to invest in sugarcane to feed global demand for raw sugar and biofuels.
Aly Participacoes operates the sugarcane breeding and technology companies, CanaVialis, the world's largest private sugarcane breeding company, and Alellyx, an applied genomics company that…
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A tree fungus discovered in the Patagonian rainforest in South America has been found to naturally produce a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules similar to diesel.
'This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of fuel substances,' Gary Strobel, a plant scientist from Montana State University, comments. 'We were totally surprised to learn…
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Houston-headquartered GreenHunter Energy is mulling plans to construct a $70 million (54.8 million Euro's) facility that would store and produce biofuels at the Port of Tampa. The company recently paid $1 million for an option to lease the 22-acre site.
The project will give GreenHunter a foothold in a deep-water port that handles over half of the transportation fuel used in the state of…
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France's government decided on Friday 24 October to reduce a planned tax increase for biofuels from next year.
The original tax changes for biofuels, announced in the draft budget at the end of September, were criticised by industry representatives as a reversal of commitments to support the expansion of the fuels as part of national environment targets.
In an amendment approved by the…
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The Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson, has launched the Australian Government's AUS$15 million (7.6 million Euro's) Second Generation Biofuels Research and Development Programme (Gen 2).
Businesses and institutions researching second generation biofuels are now able to apply for grants of between $1 million and $5 million. Second generation biofuels use fuel stocks…
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Aircraft manufacturer Boeing says biofuel-powered aircraft could be carrying millions of passengers around the world within three years. 'The certification will happen much sooner than anybody thought,' Darrin Morgan, an environmental expert at the US jet manufacturer, says, adding the group was expecting official approval of biofuel use in the near future.
'We are thinking that…
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Several international renewable energy investors are pumping F$174 million (74 million Euro's) into plans to produce biodiesel in Fiji using Pongamia oil. Pongamia is a deciduous tree that grows to about 15-25 metres in height with a large canopy.
Bio Fuels International, Evergreen Fuels from Australia and biofuels investors in the US are collaborating with Naitasiri Provincial Council…
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The construction of a government-backed, privately-led bioethanol project in barangays Bayanga and Mambuaya, the Philippines, could pollute the Cagayan de Oro River, an environmental conservation group has warned.
The Kagayan Watershed Alliance (Kawal) has vowed to oppose the P2.4 billion (38 million Euro's) project that Alsons Consolidated Resources (ACR) had planned to build on a…
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The first compressed biomethane (CBM) re-fuelling facility in London, UK, has been set up to support a trial of a CBM-powered street cleansing vehicle. Following the launch earlier this year of a commercial trial of the vehicle in the London Borough of Camden Council, the group has now announced that the re-fuelling facility is ready.
Gasrec, the UK's first producer of liquid biomethane…
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