Tag: biofuels

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Energy, fuel and the federal regulatory tsunami dominate the conversation at the 2013 Construction Symposium
Contractors and heavy equipment fleet managers got an earful of what challenges await them in the construction industry and what the solutions might be at the Randall Reilly Construction Symposium held Wednesday and Thursday in Dallas, Texas. In a nutshell—the shale oil and gas revolution is going to be great for the construction industry, but […]
August 23, 2013
Brett Hoffman Symp
Construction Equipment
Discovery could lower cost of making biofuel
Scientists at the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have discovered a breakthrough that could lead to greater sugar yields and lower costs to make biofuels, Science Daily reported. In the production of biofuels, enzymes gently break down cells by speeding up fermentation and […]
December 6, 2012
Plant cell as seen under a microscope
Equipment
EPA creeps up on E15
Despite the strenuous objections from every auto, motorcycle and small engine manufacturer in the United States, the Environmental Protection agency is pushing forward in its quest to ramp up the ethanol content in gasoline to 15 percent. The agency announced today that it has “approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in […]
April 2, 2012
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Ethanol consumes one-quarter of corn crops
One fourth of our amber fields of grain is now used to create ethanol alcohol to power motor vehicles. And that’s twice as much as was produced in 2007. That’s good for the biofuels industry, which has built 80 new ethanol plants in recent years, but it’s also driven the price of food up all […]
January 25, 2010
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Biofuels may speed up global warming
This doesn’t mean biofuels have to be scrapped. What it does mean is that there are no silver bullets, no magic solutions to the climate change issue. What bothers me is that so many environmentalists desire these miracles, when any good scientist would tell you there are trade offs in every solution. The mainstream media […]
January 11, 2010
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