On Our Radar: Brazil May Import Ethanol From U.S.
Brazil moves to control spiking ethanol prices.
View ArticlePiston Engine Holds Promise for Fuel Economy
A start-up venture is developing a four-stroke opposed piston engine that runs on a variety of fuels and wastes less energy as heat than internal combustion engines do.
View ArticleTurning Garbage Into Car Fuel? Venture Gains Momentum
Valero is raising its investment in the company Enerkem, which is starting up plants to convert solid waste into motor fuel.
View ArticleSenate Blocks End to Ethanol Subsidies
The 40-59 vote reflected a split among Republicans and the continued acrimony over the issue.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Fracking vs. Drought
Although the Texas water code exempts oil and gas drilling from some rules enacted by groundwater districts, they will apply to fracking nonetheless, some local officials decide.
View ArticleUnlocking Seaweed's Next-Gen Crude: Sugar
A start-up pins its hopes on research showing that a genetically modified strain of bacteria can break down the sugars in brown seaweed, or macro-algae, to produce ethanol.
View ArticleA New Skirmish in the Ethanol Wars
A study backed by automakers contends that an ethanol blend approved by the Environmental Protection Agency damaged some car engines in tests.
View ArticleSwapping Out Charcoal With Ethanol
A company opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.
View ArticleE15 Fuel Reaches the Masses (at One Station)
E15, a motor fuel that is 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline, will finally be available for sale at one gas station in Kansas.
View ArticleEthanol 15: The View from the Road
A new ethanol blend makes its debut in Lawrence, Kan.
View ArticleAn E15 Update
A service station owner in Kansas reported that the new ethanol blend known as e15 already accounts for 20 percent of his sales.
View ArticleA Glimpse of the Alternative Fuel Future
While the biofuel, electric battery and liquefied natural gas technologies are advancing, the internal combustion engine will reign supreme for decades, a group reports.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: A Diminished Dead Sea
The makers of potash, a raw material for fertilizer, are competing with the tourism industry for water.
View ArticleE.P.A. Upholds Ethanol Requirement
The agency said it found no evidence that the renewable fuel requirement for gasoline is causing severe economic hardship.
View ArticleAnother Path to Biofuels
At a sugar plantation in Brazil, a company will use genetically modified algae that eats carbon dioxide from sugar and excretes ethanol.
View ArticleTrying Again on Celluosic Biofuels
Despite last year's problems, the Environmental Protection Agency sets a higher quota for refiners. And it takes steps to combat fraud on renewable energy credits.
View ArticleEthanol Plant Is Switching to Butanol
When butanol goes into rubber and plastics, it not only replaces oil but also becomes a place where carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, can be stored after it is pulled out of the atmosphere.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Brazil May Import Ethanol From U.S.
Brazil moves to control spiking ethanol prices.
View ArticleEthanol Plant Is Switching to Butanol
When butanol goes into rubber and plastics, it not only replaces oil but also becomes a place where carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, can be stored after it is pulled out of the atmosphere.
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Brazil May Import Ethanol From U.S.
Brazil moves to control spiking ethanol prices.
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