Green Options » Ethanol http://greenoptions.com/tag/ethanol Posts tagged 'Ethanol' Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:13:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel From Air With Engineered Microbes http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/ http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:13:04 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/

In what could be a major breakthrough, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has directly produced fuel from the plentiful carbon dioxide in the air around us using highly engineered photosynthetic microbes.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/11/10/biofuels-breakthrough-making-fuel-from-air-with-engineered-microbes/feed/ No Volt Brand Planned, Hummer Gets E85 Fuel Capabilities http://gas2.org/2009/11/09/no-volt-brand-planned-hummer-gets-e85-fuel-capabilities/ http://gas2.org/2009/11/09/no-volt-brand-planned-hummer-gets-e85-fuel-capabilities/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:36:17 +0000 Christopher DeMorro http://gas2.org/2009/11/09/no-volt-brand-planned-hummer-gets-e85-fuel-capabilities/

While Chrysler’s alt-fuel plans for the future—and its integrity—seem uncertain at best, its cross-town rival General Motors is trying to make good on its fuel efficient pledges in a different way. This includes (finally) offering a Hummer with E85 flex-fuel capabilities, as promised in 2007.

Oh, and for those who are wishing for a Volt sub-brand, keep wishing. GM has no plans of spinning off the Volt as a brand of its own (as Toyota might do with the Prius). That won’t stop the General from spreading its hybrid drivetrain across other models, however.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/11/09/no-volt-brand-planned-hummer-gets-e85-fuel-capabilities/feed/ BP Could Start Selling Biofuels By 2010 http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/bp-could-start-selling-biofuels-by-2010/ http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/bp-could-start-selling-biofuels-by-2010/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:35:23 +0000 Christopher DeMorro http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/bp-could-start-selling-biofuels-by-2010/ As it stands right now, there are comparatively few places to purchase alternative fuels. As of 2005, there were approximately 168,987 gas stations in the United States; of those, just 2,200 sell E85 ethanol fuel.

No major oil outlets have fully embraced biofuels, although British Petroleum has just announced that it may begin commercial production of ethanol starting in 2010.

BP has partnered with Verenium to bring a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility online next year to start bringing alternative fuels to a gas pump near you.

BP has big plans for biofuels and seems to be marching towards an alternative fuel future faster than many of its competitors. Verenium already has a demonstration plant in Louisiana capable of producing over a million gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually, and BP hopes to ramp production up. The Verenium process uses proprietary enzymes to break down grass feedstock and convert it to ethanol more efficiently.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/bp-could-start-selling-biofuels-by-2010/feed/ Video Shows How Coskata’s Next-Gen Flex Ethanol is Made http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/video-shows-how-coskatas-next-gen-flex-ethanol-is-made/ http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/video-shows-how-coskatas-next-gen-flex-ethanol-is-made/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:45 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/video-shows-how-coskatas-next-gen-flex-ethanol-is-made/

On the heels of the opening of Coskata’s first flex ethanol facility capable of making ethanol from virtually any organic material, GM and Coskata have released a video (below) detailing the Coskata process. Unlike most promotional/informational videos that get dumped on the public, this one is actually rather informative.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/10/28/video-shows-how-coskatas-next-gen-flex-ethanol-is-made/feed/ Up Close And Personal With Coskata’s New Flex Ethanol Plant http://gas2.org/2009/10/19/up-close-and-personal-with-coskatas-new-flex-ethanol-plant/ http://gas2.org/2009/10/19/up-close-and-personal-with-coskatas-new-flex-ethanol-plant/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:23:28 +0000 Christopher DeMorro http://gas2.org/2009/10/19/up-close-and-personal-with-coskatas-new-flex-ethanol-plant/

Pennsylvania is beautiful this time of year, but I missed most of it since I made the 400+ mile drive mostly in the dark. It took eight hours of dodging speeding semi-trucks and going through many miles of tunnels, but I finally made it to the Westinghouse Plasma Center in Madison, PA. In case you’re asking, yes, the same Westinghouse that makes flat screen televisions (among other nifty tech stuff).

The Coskata semi-commercial flexible ethanol plant, dubbed “Lighthouse”, is located here. This facility is essentially a working scale model of a full size ethanol plant, and the processes and technology here can one day soon be scaled up to produce as much as a 100 million gallons of flex ethanol annually. The important word here is flexible, because unlike other ethanol products, the Coskata process can use just about any carbon matter to produce ethanol. This means the very garbage filling our dumps may one day instead fill our cars.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/10/19/up-close-and-personal-with-coskatas-new-flex-ethanol-plant/feed/ Study: Electric Cars Produce 30% More Emissions Than Ethanol Cars http://gas2.org/2009/10/14/study-electric-cars-produce-30-more-emissions-than-ethanol-cars/ http://gas2.org/2009/10/14/study-electric-cars-produce-30-more-emissions-than-ethanol-cars/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:02:27 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/10/14/study-electric-cars-produce-30-more-emissions-than-ethanol-cars/

An analysis done by Biofuels Digest has come to the very surprising conclusion that an electric car will produce 30% more carbon dioxide emissions over its lifetime than a car powered by E85 corn ethanol. Not only that, the study also found that the same electric car will produce 21% more carbon dioxide than even a gasoline powered car.

These claims assume that 100% of the electricity for the EV comes from coal-fired power plants and that a comparable car would get 35 mpg—both of which seem like unrealistic assumptions. So I dug around the internet today to try and come up with more realistic numbers.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/10/14/study-electric-cars-produce-30-more-emissions-than-ethanol-cars/feed/ Seven Weeds That Could Power Your Car http://gas2.org/2009/09/30/seven-weeds-that-could-power-your-car/ http://gas2.org/2009/09/30/seven-weeds-that-could-power-your-car/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:52:51 +0000 Tina Casey http://gas2.org/2009/09/30/seven-weeds-that-could-power-your-car/ Jatropha could be cultivated as a biofuel crop.

With the attention on first generation corn ethanol fading, the next big thing on the sustainable fuel horizon is nonfood biofuel crops. Within that category, inedible weeds are taking a front-row seat due to their relatively low demands on water, pesticides, and herbicides, and their reduced need for tilling and other mechanized soil prep. Some weeds with biofuel potential can also thrive on contaminated soils, absorbing and cleaning pollutants in a process called phytoremediation.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/09/30/seven-weeds-that-could-power-your-car/feed/ Iraq Approves Plan to Make Ethanol From Rotten Surplus Dates http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/iraq-approves-plan-to-make-ethanol-from-rotten-surplus-dates/ http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/iraq-approves-plan-to-make-ethanol-from-rotten-surplus-dates/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:52:42 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/iraq-approves-plan-to-make-ethanol-from-rotten-surplus-dates/

You might wonder why Iraq, one of the most oil-rich countries in the world, would want to invest in building up its biofuels sector. At first blush it seems like a stretch of resources for a country trying to recover after years of war.

However, In Iraq the agricultural sector has long been the dominant source of jobs. In fact, much of modern agriculture was developed in the Iraqi area over 7,000 years ago. With the recent devastation caused by the instability of war coupled with an extended drought, those jobs have disappeared. So, although Iraq does have the third largest oil reserves in the world, its agricultural sector is in many ways more important to its economic recovery.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/iraq-approves-plan-to-make-ethanol-from-rotten-surplus-dates/feed/ New Bugatti Galibier Proves the Tide Has Turned: Green is the New Fast http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/new-bugatti-galibier-proves-the-tide-has-turned-green-is-the-new-fast/ http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/new-bugatti-galibier-proves-the-tide-has-turned-green-is-the-new-fast/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:57:08 +0000 Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/new-bugatti-galibier-proves-the-tide-has-turned-green-is-the-new-fast/ Bugatti Galibier

Bugatti’s latest concept car points the way forward for the brand most associated with excess: excessive wealth, excessive power, excessive luxury, and excessive performance… but the new Galibier signifies something more, as well, and it is nothing less than a turning of the tide in the way the world’s automakers see their flagship luxury cars.

More on Bugatti’s million-dollar flex-fuel Galibier — including video! — after the jump.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/09/15/new-bugatti-galibier-proves-the-tide-has-turned-green-is-the-new-fast/feed/ LanzaTech Plants New Zealand Flag on New Waste Gas-to-Ethanol Process http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/10/lanzatech-plants-new-zealand-flag-on-new-waste-gas-to-ethanol-process/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/10/lanzatech-plants-new-zealand-flag-on-new-waste-gas-to-ethanol-process/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:56:15 +0000 Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/10/lanzatech-plants-new-zealand-flag-on-new-waste-gas-to-ethanol-process/ LanzaTech of New Zealand develops microbe that converts waste gas from steel mills into pure ethanol.LanzaTech, a small company based in New Zealand, has developed a proprietary microbe that feasts on the carbon monoxide in waste gas from steel mills and converts it to pure ethanol.  Last year the company launched a pilot facility at the New Zealand Steel plant near the city of Auckland, and its microbes have been happily churning out ethanol without the need for expensive pre-conditioning to remove contaminants.

LanzaTech has found that the same low-cost technology can be applied to biomass syngas, but the real excitement is in the success of this first-ever attempt to capture and convert steel mill waste gas into a clean, sustainable fuel.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/10/lanzatech-plants-new-zealand-flag-on-new-waste-gas-to-ethanol-process/feed/ 7 Odd Food-for-Fuel Solutions http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/ http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:08 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/ Using food as a resource in biofuel production is one of the biggest mistakes our country could make. And while we all shake our heads at the idea of corn ethanol…what about using turkey innards? Or Mountain Dew for that matter.

Shaq Wants Your Leftover Beer and Wine for Making Ethanol

First, who ever has leftover alcohol except maybe these guys? The Shaq-backed MicroFueler is a 250-gallon tank for organic feedstock, such as waste wine and beer, that converts it into pure ethanol. It also doubles as a fuel pump and the only waste product is distilled water.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/feed/ Angola Aims to Double its Fuel Riches http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/03/angola-aims-to-double-its-fuel-riches/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/03/angola-aims-to-double-its-fuel-riches/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:51:02 +0000 Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/03/angola-aims-to-double-its-fuel-riches/ cane sugar

Angola has been riven by conflict and it’s more than three decades since the government subsided sugar cane production, but now a 30,000 hectare area of land is to be planted with sugar cane in a dual attempt to establish a biofuel industry and to rebuild the poor agricultural sector which suffered after years of conflict.

Oil rich but food poor

Angola’s economy has been largely dependent on oil and diamonds since the civil war ended in 2002. Now the government aims to recreate some farming sectors. The country used to produce sugar, but for many years the entire sugar consumption of Angola has been imported. Now, in an attempt to decentralise industry away from Luanda, to boost farming and to create new jobs, the sugar cane project is taking shape.

It’s hoped the plantation will produce 280,000 tonnes of sugar from its own processing plant, and that the waste will be used, along with the ethanol harvested from the cane residue, to produce around 217 megawatts a year of electricity.

Foreign investment fears

While this is a multi-layered project, the tendency of African nations to invest in non-food crop is worrying the FAO which says that private and foreign ownership of large tracts of African land could destabilise local communities who will be deprived of access to water, food and other natural resources. The company managing the project, Biocom, is a three way partnership between Brazil’s Odebrecht, Angola’s Damer, and Sonangol, the Angolan state oil company. African governments need support to build the agricultural infrastructure that will allow them to become food secure, but partnership processes like this one are often viewed with suspicion by local people who fear that they will lose their land, or that the crops will be grown or processed in ways that have been outlawed in the developed world.

Sugar cane courtesy of Cristobal Alvarado Minic at Flickr under a creative commons license

360,000 Tons of Watermelon Spoil Every Year in the U.S.

Almost 40% of all watermelons grown here in the U.S. never make it to market due to imperfections, bad spots, or for being oddly shaped (um, haven’t these farmers seen the square ones). But waste not, want not. The watermelon juice could actually be used to produce ethanol.

Truck Runs on 100% Recycled Coffee Grounds

The truck above is powered by a wood gas generator, except it runs fully on coffee grounds. The Cafe Racer is a 1975 GMC pickup that essentially burns used coffee to create a combustible gas. The gas is filtered on its way to the engine. I hope it’s fair trade coffee.

The Innards of 45 Million Turkeys Turned in to Fuel

On Thanksgiving–which is just around the corner–Americans will gobble down over 45 million turkeys. But we don’t eat the whole turkey so slaughterhouses are left with rotting heads, feet and all those innards. So a factory farm in Carthage, Missouri is turning all that waste into fuel using a thermal conversion process from Changing World Technologies.

Guy Builds Engine that Runs on Mountain Dew

Inventor Paul Patone has created the GEET (Global Environmental Energy Technology) Fuel Processor. A mod that allows you to run your car on about 80% water. Or possibly, just a nice cold Tab. He prefers Mountain Dew.

5,000 Miles Traveled Using 80,000 Chocolate Bars

A chocolate powered Ford Iveco Cargo lorry traveled for almost an entire month through France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania and all the way to Timbuktu and doing so while facing the unforgiving Saharan Desert. The whole trip took about 80,000 chocolate bars.

Farm Saves More Than $700K Using Onion Juice for Energy

Gills Onions has saved a whopping $700K off their electricity bill by using onion juice to power most everything on the farm. They saved an additional $400K just on disposal costs alone. Using an anaerobic digester, they convert onion waste into biogas which is then conditioned and finally turned into methane.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/03/angola-aims-to-double-its-fuel-riches/feed/ Alkol Says your Car Can Run on E85 in About an Hour http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/28/alkol-says-your-car-can-run-on-e85-in-about-an-hour/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/28/alkol-says-your-car-can-run-on-e85-in-about-an-hour/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:28:52 +0000 Jeff Kart http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/28/alkol-says-your-car-can-run-on-e85-in-about-an-hour/

Is Al Costa pulling our leg? The CEO of Delaware-based Alkol Inc. says he has a system that will convert your car to run on E85 in about an hour.

“Flexing” your vehicle with the Alkol conversion system will allow you to use one of those high-ethanol pumps, which contain a mix of 85 percent ethanol, as opposed to the normal 10 percent mix in conventional gasoline. You won’t need a brand new shiny vehicle with one of those “Flex Fuel” badges either.

How does it work? Does it work? Is it like one of those quick-fix radiator sealer bottles that high school kids used to pour into their old jalopies?

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/28/alkol-says-your-car-can-run-on-e85-in-about-an-hour/feed/ Watermelon Juice — Next Source of Renewable Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/27/watermelon-juice-next-source-of-renewable-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/27/watermelon-juice-next-source-of-renewable-energy/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:49:28 +0000 Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/27/watermelon-juice-next-source-of-renewable-energy/
Hundreds of thousands of tons of watermelons are tossed every year because they aren’t good enough for market. A new study finds that the juice from these watermelons could easily be used to create the biofuel ethanol and other helpful products.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/27/watermelon-juice-next-source-of-renewable-energy/feed/ Ethanol STi Means Big Power and Big Savings http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/ http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:52:10 +0000 Jo Borras http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/ STi on the Dynamometer

We’ve covered the numerous benefits of ethanol-based fuels over and over on this blog, but rarely through the eyes of the gearhead speed-junkies that make up the core of America’s automotive enthusiasts and enthusiast press.   If you’ve spoken to this bunch, you already that most talk of climate change and Peak Oil concerns fall on deaf ears.  What matters is power, everything else is irrelevant.

Of course, it’s easier to simply ignore this group, but the (sad?) truth of the matter is that many consumer still make their purchasing decisions based on what their “car friends” tell them.  In short:  this group, more than any other, is a group that must be reached for the “green car” movement to really take hold.

Enter:  Dyno-Comp.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/08/20/ethanol-sti-means-big-power-and-big-savings/feed/ Mixed Signals on Sustainable Development in Brazil? http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/07/mixed-signals-sustainable-development-in-brazil/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/07/mixed-signals-sustainable-development-in-brazil/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:00:33 +0000 David Hone http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/07/mixed-signals-sustainable-development-in-brazil/ Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from David Hone, Climate Change Adviser for Shell.

I have been in Sao Paulo this week at Sustentavel 2009, perhaps the premiere Sustainable Development event in Brazil, if not all of South America. At the opening I represented the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and then on the first day of presentations I participated in the main climate change panel session.

What is clear is that there is a passion in Brazil for sustainability – from the huge issues they face in the Amazon region to the road congestion in Sao Paulo. Talking with delegates at Sustentavel, it is also clear that the country faces an interesting future in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/07/mixed-signals-sustainable-development-in-brazil/feed/ The Petri Dish Overfloweth with Algae Advancements http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/the-petri-dish-overfloweth-with-algae-advancements/ http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/the-petri-dish-overfloweth-with-algae-advancements/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:19:13 +0000 Joanna Schroeder http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/the-petri-dish-overfloweth-with-algae-advancements/

Algae, algae, algae. The research that is occurring on this second generation fuel has overfloweth the petri dish as just this week there have been five major algae announcements.

  1. W2 Energy, based in Canada, announced that it has completed its Sunfilter commercial scale algae bioreactor.
  2. Algaeventure Systems said that it has begun receiving orders for its algae harvesting, dewatering, and drying technology. The company that has placed the order is General Atomics.
  3. Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at University of North Dakota was awarded a subcontract by SAIC to use its proprietary technology to produce jet fuel from algal oils.
  4. Kent BioEnergy, based on California, announced that it is going to establish a division of the company in Charleston South Carolina, partnering with a Grant Know, a local entrepreneur.
  5. Algenol Biofuels, a Florida based company, has threatened to leave the state and now they are working with CEO Paul Woods to entice his company to stay.

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    ]]> http://gas2.org/2009/08/06/the-petri-dish-overfloweth-with-algae-advancements/feed/ ISO Efficient Bioenergy: Ethanol Verses Bioelectricity http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:08:36 +0000 Michael Ricciardi http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/ field of corn

    With the fluctuating price of oil, a finite resource, and concerns over CO2 emissions, many energy companies and developers have turned to utilizing biomass as alternative fuel (biofuel). This trend is actually taking two pathways: using biomass to convert to ethanol to power automobiles (which has been around for awhile now), and, converting biomass to electricity to power electric (or hybrid) vehicles (a more recent alternative). The question of which path is most efficient, sustainable, and less carbon-intensive is a vitally important one in terms of this nation’s “energy future”.

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    ]]>     http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/04/iso-bioenergy-ethanol-verses-bioelectricity/feed/     Shaquille O’Neal Helps to Debut the World’s First E-Fuel MicroFueler http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/shaquille-oneal-helps-to-debut-the-worlds-first-e-fuel-microfueler/ http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/shaquille-oneal-helps-to-debut-the-worlds-first-e-fuel-microfueler/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:00:55 +0000 Joanna Schroeder http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/shaquille-oneal-helps-to-debut-the-worlds-first-e-fuel-microfueler/

    Who needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you. GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation of the E-Fuel MicroFueler was in the home of none other than basketball great Shaquille O’Neal, who lives in Pacific Palisades a subdivision in LA.

    The E-Fuel MicroFueler coverts the organic waste into ethanol for about two-thirds the cost of gasoline. The final product is E100 (100 percent ethanol) which burns cleaner emitting significantly less emissions into the air. The only vehicles designed to run on E100 are the IndyCars which in 2007 became the first motorsports league to sanction a renewable fuel.

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    ]]>     http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/shaquille-oneal-helps-to-debut-the-worlds-first-e-fuel-microfueler/feed/     Clean Fuels Foundation Launches Florida FFV Awareness Project http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/clean-fuels-foundation-launches-florida-ffv-awareness-project/ http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/clean-fuels-foundation-launches-florida-ffv-awareness-project/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:24:52 +0000 Joanna Schroeder http://gas2.org/2009/07/30/clean-fuels-foundation-launches-florida-ffv-awareness-project/

    A national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) was officially launched in Orlando, Florida today at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit. The project is a cooperative effort between key Florida state government interests, gasoline/E85 distributors, the ethanol industry, and several nonprofit environmental and energy advocacy groups.

    Ironically, Florida has one of the largest contingencies of FFVs in the country. Out of the current 8 million FFVs on the road, 500,000 are Florida residents. I know most of you assume they are in the Midwest but can you say snowbirds? Like many other states announcing initiatives to spur the development of alternative fuels such as ethanol, Florida is no different. At the helm of this initiative is Charles Bronson, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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