Ethanol's Corrosive Little Secret http://www.ethanol-news.com/archives/ethanol_se... Is the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel a corrosive pipe dream? It could be thanks to ethanol's widely unknown dirty little secret. The infrastructure for transporting oil or fuel is through the use of metal pipelines, tanker truck or railway tanker. But there's just one slight problem. High concentrations of ethanol are corrosive to the metal pipelines. When you stop to think about it, that's actually a major problem.
Jigfo - alcoholfuel - Sugar-powered cars http://www.jigfo.com/article_details.php?id=19... Jigfo.com - Sugar-powered cars may be in our future. Researchers have developed a
Mascoma Corporation moving to be first with switchgrass cellulosic ethanol plant http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/mascoma-c... Mascoma has been working for a long time to turn the cellulosic ethanol hope into reality. Not long ago (in July), they announced a cellulosic ethanol plant in Michigan. Last January, they announced funding for a cellulosic ethanol plant in New York state. Last week, it became Tennessee’s turn for one of these announcements, this time the twist is that the cellulosic ethanol feedstock will be switchgrass.
Ethanol price fallout bringing gas prices down, down, down http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/ethanol-p... Citibank says that the current low ethanol prices are going to last another six months or so. Until prices do go up, according an article by Robert Pore in the Grand Island Independent, the price of gas at the pump should remain somewhat low, thanks to that 10 percent ethanol blend in most of the gasoline supply in the U.S. Pore spoke with Steven Sorum of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, who said that the current excess ethanol production is what’s driving prices down.
Fred Thompson changes mind on ethanol, CAFE, and climate change http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/fred-thom... Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson voted against ethanol subsidies in the Senate but has changed his tune. Thompson said he supports them now because they’re a matter of “national security.”ť Here is exactly what he said:
“I have voted against subsidies in the Senate ”¦
With UL-approved ethanol pumps, 2008 could be big E85 year http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/with-ul-a... Sure, corn farmers and ethanol producers are very keen to see that you always have E85 available to you when you go to fill up your car. 2008 just might be the year when we do stop noticing E85 pumps because they will be everywhere.
NRO on ethanol: it’s not a good idea http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/nro-on-et... The editors over at National Review Online believe that Republicans are drunk on ethanol. Or most of the Republicans running for president are, anyway. The one contender (sorta, at this point) that the NRO singles out as not being drunk is John McCain who claims, jokingly, to drink a glass of the stuff every morning.NRO says that presidential candidates “discover the miraculous properties of ethanol” every four years when they visit Iowa, and that that is “a depressing ritual.” AutoblogGreen wasn’t around for the last presidential election, but we’ll be happy to look back in 2011 and compare what’s going on then with the hoopla today. So, why does the conservative NRO not like ethanol?
Pacific Ethanol, Inc. Suspends Construction of Imperial Valley Ethanol Project http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/pacific-e... The latest note of trouble in the ethanol business comes from conciliatory Ethanol CEO Neil Koehler, who was newly forced to utter the following: “We continue committed to completing our ethanol project in kingly dale. howsoever, given popular ethanol emporium stipulations, we perceive it is discreet and strategic to suspend building till the emporium improves.”Koehler’s announcement came like part of conciliatory Ethanol’s advertisement that the assemblage will obstruct structure (for now, at minutest) a huge ethanol vegetable in kingly dale, California.
Pro-ethanol folks respond to Economist’s ethanol attack http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/pro-ethan... Yesterday, I wrote encircling an article in the Economist that equated the aggregate of maize it takes to create a gallon of ethanol attending a year’s worth of nutrition. Earlier today, we adage the latest crumb of bad news from an ethanol producer (the suspension of erection of a large ethanol plant in Imperial Valley). Still, ethanol does hold its defenders, and individual of them - from Poet Energy - contacted AutoblogGreen to cape us to a fire fresh investigation ward Informa plutology that finds that overall nutrition prices hold a “weekly correlation” attending the expense of maize.
New ethanol plants to be built in Midwest by Washington Group http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/new-ethan... Washington cluster International is edifice three ethanol plants in the Midwest, for a whole expense of $150 million US. The plants are going to be built in Wahoo, Nebraska, and in Red Oak and cabinet Bluffs, Iowa. either vegetable is expected to produce 110 million gallons of ethanol per year. building forward the foremost vegetable (in Wahoo) started in September, since the work forward the two plants in Iowa is scheduled to start during the fourth region of 2007 (i.e., real soon).The product from that this ethanol is going to be made is, you guessed right, corn.
