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Butanol as Biofuel for Vehicles
Butanol shows strong potential to be used as a biofuel. Now, a new ASTM International standard covers butanol that is intended to be blended with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 volume percent for use as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. D7862, Specification for Butanol for Blending with Gasoline for Use as Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel, was developed by Subcommittee D02.A0 on Gasoline and ...
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New database from NREL makes costs of energy technologies more transparent
A new web application collects cost and performance estimates for electric generation, advanced vehicles, and renewable fuel technologies and makes them available for utilities, policy makers, consumers, and academics. The Transparent Cost Database (TCDB) app provides technology cost and performance estimates that can be used to benchmark company costs, model energy scenarios, and inform research ...
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US to launch $4bn green bank loans
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will channel US$4 billion in loans to renewable energy companies in a bid to rejuvenate a key government backed programme. The Obama administration has submitted a draft plan that would provide loan guarantees for innovative clean technology projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Once the solicitation is finalised, the Department’s Loan ...
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Top 10 Uses for Biofuel
As biofuel is known as an alternative to diesel fuel, there are other uses. Many assume that the material is used just for transportation. But biofuel can provide hydrogen, clean up oil, work as cooking oil and more. Biofuels can work as an alternative to replacing energy needs from vehicle fuel to central home heating. Here are the top ten uses for biofuel. 1. Transportation More than 30% ...
By SG Bio Fuels
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Suspend 10% biofuels target, says EEA`s scientific advisory body
The EEA Scientific Committee has made public an opinion on the environmental impacts of biofuel use in Europe. The Scientific Committee recommends a new, comprehensive scientific study on the environmental risks and benefits of biofuels, and that the EU target to increase the share of biofuels used in transport to 10 % by 2020 should therefore be suspended. The Scientific Committee assists the ...
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Biofuel labeling often inaccurate, new study claims
Biofuel blends may not always be what the label claims. A study at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that many smaller distributors could be 'splash blending.' While sampling blended biodiesel fuels purchased from small-scale retailers, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that many of the blends do not contain the advertised amount of biofuel. Marine ...
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Towards a more sustainable future with biofuels
Biofuels have a role in future energy production. However, the way in which they are produced and managed can determine if they benefit society, the economy and the environment, concludes a recent report on the sustainable production and use of biofuels. The report examined the life cycle of biofuels for impacts on the climate and environment, focusing on first generation biofuels, such as ...
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Caren Franzini, N.J. Economic Development Authority CEO, Named Keynote for CLEANTECH NJ 2011 Conference
Caren Franzini, CEO of New Jersey's Economic Development Authority (EDA), has been named keynote speaker for "CLEANTECH NJ 2011: The Business of Clean Technology," New Jersey's first business- and investor-focused clean technology conference, which will convene prominent clean technology and energy stakeholders on Oct. 25 at the Woodbridge Hilton in Iselin, N.J. The event is being hosted by ...
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Media invitation: Advanced biofuels – Nordic region in the forefront
The Nordic region is in the forefront both for production and demand of advanced biofuels from cellulose, residues and waste. One example: both Norway, Sweden and Finland have targets for 30% biobased jetfuel in 2030. Another example: there are more than 60 projects for production of biofuels, up and running, under construction, or in planning. Both pilots, demonstration plants, and commercial ...
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Goals for Biofuel Production Could Collide with Market Realities
Hart Energy's newly released study, Global BiofuelsOutlook to 2025, finds a disconnect between mandates (Renewable Fuels Standard in the U.S. and Renewable Energy Directive in the European Union) and actual market demand. This has been known for some time but not acknowledged and addressed. The study analyzes local and global drivers, public and fiscal policy developments, production capacity, ...
By Hart Energy
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Europe, Brazil Pledge Sustainable Biofuels Development
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 5, 2007 (ENS) - The European Union is committed to developing and producing biofuels 'in ways that protect our planet – not in ways that create new risks,' said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in his keynote speech to the International Biofuels Conference in Brussels today. The linked issues of energy security and climate change have placed biofuels such ...
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Nation`s Capital Turns Its Eyes to Greener Cars
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - The team of transportation experts that helped to write California's new Low Carbon Fuel Standard will be in Washington, DC tomorrow to brief members of Congress and their staffers on the status of clean car and truck fuels and technologies. The experts from the University of California - Davis will focus on the future of automotive technologies and fuels that have the ...
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What makes consumers buy alternatively-powered vehicles?
Better fuel economy, lower emissions and longer driving ranges are important factors for people considering the purchase of alternatively-powered vehicles (APVs), new research suggests. The German study also found that people would consider paying more for an APV if they could enjoy vehicle tax exemptions, free parking or bus lane access. Transport is a major contributor to the EU’s ...
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$55 Million Propels St. Louis Renewables Research Center
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (ENS) - Washington University in St. Louis is creating a new International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability, I-CARES, to encourage and coordinate research in renewable energy and sustainability. The university will invest more than $55 million in the initiative, says Chancellor Mark Wrighton. I-CARES aims to foster research on the development and ...
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The Alternative Clean Transportation Expo
Welcome to the future of transportation and the largest gathering of alternative fuel and advanced, clean technology vehicles in the United States. The ACT “Alternative Clean Transportation” Expo is designed to showcase the emerging technologies, vehicles and equipment innovations, and future funding opportunities that can fuel long-term success in fleet operations. This fleet-driven, ...
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Report: Military Biofuel Programs Poised To Drive Major Economic, Job Growth
The military's plans to expand its use of biofuel in planes, ships and other vehicles would generate at least about $10 billion in economic activity and create more than 14,000 jobs by 2020, according to a report commissioned by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Just as importantly, if the Department of Defense is able to expand its use of advanced biofuels like it has said it wants to do, it ...
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Biofuels: Many Possibilities To Decarbonise Transport
Since the turn of the millennium, virtually all of the UK’s industrial sectors have been on a consistent trajectory of reducing emissions, all aside from transport, whose emissions reduction has flatlined over the last 10 years. This is not through a lack of available technology: options certainly exist that could play big roles in decarbonising the transport sector, but many have yet to be ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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Two die in European truck drivers` fuel price protest
Two truck drivers were killed in fuel price protest actions in Spain and Portugal last week as governments across Europe struggle to contain strikes by thousands of truckers, fishermen and railway workers over soaring fuel prices. In Portugal, a picketing trucker died as he tried to stop a truck on a road north of the capital city, Lisbon. Truck drivers' unions Fenadismer and Confedetrans ...
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America`s Biofuel Industry Moves From The Beaker To Barrel, ABFA President Testifies To Congress
Testifying today before the U.S. House Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, Michael McAdams, president, Advanced Biofuels Association – ABFA, said he is, "proud to report to this Committee and to this Congress that America's domestic advanced biofuels industry has moved from the beaker to the barrel, all in record time. And like most parts of our ...
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Energy Department Announces $13.4 Million Investment in Community-based Advanced Transportation Projects
Recently, (8/23), the Energy Department (DOE) announced $13.4 million in support of five new cost-shared, community-based projects focused on energy efficient mobility systems including connected and autonomous vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure including natural gas, propane, biofuels, hydrogen, and electricity. The Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) funding is seen as an ...
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