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  • Biofuel Hell

    - by Richard Adri­an Reese, Feb­ru­ary 17, 2013, Wild Ances­tors I keep hav­ing night­mares about one pos­si­ble future: bio­fu­el hell.  Clear­ly, they are visions sent by ances­tral spir­its, and they are meant to be shared.  Per­haps they will inspire writ­ers, movie mak­ers, and oth­er cre­ative peo­ple to pro­duce heal­ing, mind-alter­ing work.  Per­haps they will inspire con­tem­pla­tion…

  • Minnesota Ethanol Plant Fined $25K for Air Pollution and Noise

    - Decem­ber 11, 2014, Asso­ci­at­ed Press The Corn Plus ethanol plant in the south-cen­tral Min­neso­ta city of Win­neba­go has agreed to pay a $25,000 penal­ty and take steps to reduce its air pol­lu­tion and noise levels. The cor­rec­tive actions announced by the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency on Wednes­day mark the lat­est step by offi­cials to bring the…

  • $181,000 Fine for Ethanol Air Pollution in Albany, NY

    - by Bri­an Near­ing, Decem­ber 12, 2014, Times Union An oil ter­mi­nal oper­a­tor at the Port of Albany has been hit with a $181,000 penal­ty by the state Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Con­ser­va­tion for air pol­lu­tion vio­la­tions that last­ed near­ly a year. Buck­eye Part­ners failed to prop­er­ly con­trol vapor emis­sions from ethanol — a corn-based bio­fu­el used as a gaso­line…

  • Tampa Man Sentenced for $3 Million Biofuels Fraud

    - by Susan Sal­is­bury, Decem­ber 9, 2014, Palm Beach Post     A Tam­pa man was sen­tenced today on charges he scammed investors out of more than $3 mil­lion after promis­ing returns on bio-ener­gy crops such as cameli­na that were not even planted William A. Vas­den Jr. who once head­ed the Flori­da Feed­stock Grow­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, was sen­tenced…

  • Windfarms More Efficient than Biofuels?

    - by Aidan Har­ri­son, Decem­ber 5, 2014, Northum­ber­land Gazette Its obses­sion with ‘mar­kets’ has already placed our rail­ways and util­i­ties in the hands of big for­eign state and cor­po­rate-owned monopolies. The first thing to make clear is that the tech­nol­o­gy of wind pow­er is noth­ing like as inef­fi­cient as its fanat­i­cal detrac­tors claim. In terms of ener­gy…

  • Ethanol Spill in Greensboro, North Carolina

    - Decem­ber 8, 2014, Bio­fu­els International Fire­fight­ers in Greens­boro, North Car­oli­na, respond­ed to a leak­ing tanker at a Ryder truck rental facility. Approx­i­mate­ly 2,000 gal­lons of ethanol spilled in an acci­dent in south Greens­boro North Carolina. A tanker filled with ethanol burst after the land­ing gear, which is used to keep the trail­er upright when not…

  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    - by Erin Voegele, Decem­ber 3, 2014, Bio­mass Mag­a­zine   The U.S. Cen­sus Bureau recent­ly released new eco­nom­ic cen­sus sta­tis­tics on renew­able ener­gy, report­ing that rev­enues for elec­tric pow­er gen­er­a­tion indus­tries that use renew­able ener­gy resources increased 49 per­cent from 2007 to 2012, reach­ing $9.8 bil­lion. In 2007, rev­enue was only $6.6 bil­lion. Bio­mass is among the…

  • Over 1,200 New Biomass Incinerators to be Constructed Within the Next 10 Years?

    - Decem­ber 4, 2014, AltEner­gy­Mag Elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion from sol­id bio­mass con­tin­ues to increase through­out the world. In late 2013, around 2,800 oper­a­tional pow­er plants world­wide were incin­er­at­ing bio­mass only or very large shares of this fuel. These plants had an elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of about 42 GWel. Addi­tion­al­ly, around 350 fos­sil pow­er plants were co-incin­er­at­ing bio­mass.…

  • USDA Announces Release of Report Charting Path to Commercialization of Cellulosic Nanomaterials

    - by Lynn L. Berge­son, Novem­ber 26, 2014, JD Supra Busi­ness Advisor On Novem­ber 24, 2014, the U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (USDA) announced that the U.S. For­est Ser­vice (USFS) has released a report that details the path­way to com­mer­cial­iz­ing afford­able, renew­able, and biodegrad­able cel­lu­lose nano­ma­te­ri­als from trees.  The report, enti­tled Cel­lu­lose Nano­ma­te­ri­als — A Path Towards Com­mer­cial­iza­tion, is…

  • Ethanol, Fighting for Its Life, Gets a Temporary Reprieve

    - by Matthew Philips, Novem­ber 24, 2014, Bloomberg Busi­ness­week The ethanol indus­try just avoid­ed a death blow. Rather than decid­ing to per­ma­nent­ly low­er the amount of renew­able fuels that have to be blend­ed into the U.S. gaso­line sup­ply, as it first pro­posed a year ago, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency last week opt­ed to wait until next year to decide.…