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All Systems Go at World's Largest Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

All Systems Go at World's Largest Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

Inbicon Biomass Refinery now producing The New Ethanol and other biofuel at Kalundborg, Denmark KALUNDBORG, Denmark - July 08, 2010: Inbicon is declaring Energy Independence Day for Planet Earth as the first Inbicon Biomass Refinery swings into operation. It turns wheat straw into 1.4 million gallons a year of cellulos ... Continue reading

Ethanol Industry Counters Environmental Divisionary Stall Tactics

Ethanol Industry Counters Environmental Divisionary Stall Tactics

Washington, St. Louis, and Sioux Falls (June 15, 2010) – The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), Growth Energy, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), and the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) today countered the tired claims of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) that American ethanol is not a sound in ... Continue reading

Consumer Fuels Choice Act introduced in U.S. House

Consumer Fuels Choice Act introduced in U.S. House

Sioux Falls, SD (June 30, 2010); U.S. Representatives Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) and Adrian Smith (R-NE) today introduced the Consumer Fuels Choice Act, legislation that would promote ethanol use through grants for the installation of blender pumps. The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) applauded the legislati ... Continue reading

Alternative Fuels and the Roles They are Destined to Play in the Automotive Scheme of Things

Alternative Fuels and the Roles They are Destined to Play in the Automotive Scheme of Things

Alternative Fuels and the Roles They are Destined to Play in the Automotive Scheme of Things What is an alternative fuel? "Alternative fuels" are vehicle fuels that aren't made from petroleum. There are many kinds of fuels that vehicles can run on that aren't made from petroleum. The United States Department of Energy ... Continue reading

FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership Given 'Thumbs Up' Review Plus Support for Multiple Technologies R&D

FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership Given 'Thumbs Up' Review Plus Support for Multiple Technologies R&D

National Research Council report says continued near- and long-term Government /Industry R&D is needed to reduce petroleum dependence and greenhouse gases SOUTHFIELD, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In its third report on the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership (FC&FP), the National Research Council (NRC) of the ... Continue reading

Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Concludes Knockout Qualifying Stage; Announces Teams Moving into Finals

Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Concludes Knockout Qualifying Stage; Announces Teams Moving into Finals

15 Vehicles from 12 Teams Continue in Pursuit of Ten Million Dollars in Prize Money for Super Fuel-Efficient Cars BROOKLYN, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of vehicles capable of achieving 100 MPGe (mile ... Continue reading

This 4th of July, Flex Fuel Vehicles Owners Should Think About Their Fuel

This 4th of July, Flex Fuel Vehicles Owners Should Think About Their Fuel

BISMARCK, N.D., June 30 This 4th of July weekend, some fortunate North Dakota drivers will celebrate a relatively new freedom - the freedom to choose what type of fuel to put in their car, truck or van. For those with flex fuel vehicles, ethanol-based E85 is an option at a growing number of stations in North Dakota. "E ... Continue reading

Institution of Engineering and Technology Says Electric Cars Unlikely Ever To Offer A Viable Alternative To Conventional Powered Models

Institution of Engineering and Technology Says Electric Cars Unlikely Ever To Offer A Viable Alternative To Conventional Powered Models

SEE ALSO: Electric Vehicles-Solution or Diversion? Hertfordshire UK June 16, 2010; Long-term limitations in battery technology could restrict electric cars to under a 100-mile range – while rapid charging is likely to limit battery life to just two years An investigation by E&T magazine has raised serious question ... Continue reading

Oil Spill Reignites Argument for Flex Fuels - VIDEO STORY

Oil Spill Reignites Argument for Flex Fuels - VIDEO STORY

SEE ALSO DETROIT - June 30, 2010: As the largest oil spill in U.S. history continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico, the argument for domestically produced alternative fuels, like ethanol (E85), is back on. Manufacturing plants continue to research and develop biofuels from a variety of unique sources. In fact, scient ... Continue reading

American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. Begins Construction of Second Clean Fuels Production Plant

American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. Begins Construction of Second Clean Fuels Production Plant

NEW YORK, June 28 -- American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. (OTC:AJGH) (BULLETIN BOARD: AJGH) (the "Company"), which is engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing and distributing alcohol-based automobile fuel products in the People's Republic of China, manufactured by its affiliate Tieling Jianye Greentech ... Continue reading

Stanford Graduate School of Business Research: Toward Electric Cars and Clean Coal

Stanford Graduate School of Business Research: Toward Electric Cars and Clean Coal

STANFORD, Calif.--What will it take for major world powers to move toward environmentally friendly technology such as electric cars and clean coal? “the capacity to understand what's in the mind of strategic decision-makers” Professor Robert A. Burgelman and Andrew S. Grove, a lecturer in management and forme ... Continue reading

Korea Approves Patent on Critical Component of Cyclone Power Technologies Green Engine

Korea Approves Patent on Critical Component of Cyclone Power Technologies Green Engine

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets:CYPW) announced today that the Korean Intellectual Property Office has issued a notice of decision to grant the company a patent on the steam generator of its award-winning, heat regenerative external combustion engine. “This is very rare for such a smal ... Continue reading

Cobalt Technologies Selected by Biofuels Peers as 2010 Transformative Technology

Cobalt Technologies Selected by Biofuels Peers as 2010 Transformative Technology

Company Also Ranked First for Biobutanol Category in Biofuels Digest Competition MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 22 -- Cobalt Technologies, the leader in commercializing biobutanol as a renewable chemical and fuel, today announced it was named to the Biofuels Digest "30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010" and ranked ... Continue reading

Switzer Builds e85-capable 900 hp Nissan GT-R

Switzer Builds e85-capable 900 hp Nissan GT-R

When Nissan introduced the latest R35 version of its GTR Skylines in 2008, the international press was quick to nickname the car "Godzilla" - as much for the car's size as for its fire-breathing performance - and Nissan was equally quick to call the car both "perfect" and "untunable." ... Continue reading

Tach Visitors Write, Tach Writes Back

Tach Visitors Write, Tach Writes Back

Hi Farid - Thank you for taking the time to read Bob's story "Yes Virginia There Is A Single Solution To "No More Gasoline Now" and for contacting us. Whether you are aware of it or not, your questions are some of the most typical objections and cited points-of-contention proffered by those individuals and entities see ... Continue reading

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