Alternative Fuels News
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28 Aug 2008 at 9:29am
Singer Willie Nelson plans to speak in Salem at the opening of the expansion of a local biodiesel plant. Nelson is a longtime advocate of the alternative fuel.
28 Aug 2008 at 6:07am
researchers. Nick Carpita and Maureen McCann will study genes involved in the formation of cell walls in the group of plants known as grasses, which includes corn. The goal is to find ways to produce more biomass containing more sugars that can be efficiently processed into biofuel.
28 Aug 2008 at 9:56am
Irving-based Flowserve Corp., a provider of fluid motion and control products and services, is forming a joint venture with Linde Group, a gases and engineering company, to develop natural gas and biogas refueling systems to be used at gas stations in Europe.
28 Aug 2008 at 9:02am
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says a backlash against ethanol production may be easing as consumers realize the alternative fuel's value and begin doubting arguments that it is to blame for soaring food prices.
27 Aug 2008 at 7:45am
The Democratic Party is using beer-based biofuel and a recycling brigade guarding trash cans to help ease the environmental impact of its convention in Denver this week.
28 Aug 2008 at 8:36am
By Laura Nesbitt Mountain View Telegraph David Cohen, president and co-owner of Western Water and Power Production LLC, remains "optimistic" that his plans to build a biomass electricity generating plant near Estancia will succeed.
27 Aug 2008 at 9:52pm
As a $2.3 billion contract for biomass power goes before the Austin City Council today, another Texas-based biomass power company is criticizing Austin for not seeking bids for the contract before striking a deal with Nacogdoches Power LLC.
28 Aug 2008 at 3:44am
Willie Nelson will speak Friday in Salem during the grand opening of a local biodiesel plant's expansion.
27 Aug 2008 at 5:33pm
SunEthanol, alternative fuel technology process provider, has announced that it is collaborating with MBI International to scale-up a fermentation method for producing ethanol from non-food agricultural feedstocks.
28 Aug 2008 at 6:23am
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