1 Biofuels not dead yet, leaders say
A few years ago, farmers, business people and community leaders thought biodiesel would be the savior of the Arkansas Delta. It hasn’t turned out that way, but the biodiesel industry is not dead either. Source: DeWitt Era-Enterprise
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2 System burns biofuels to keep wind turbines spinning
Hybrid Turbines has developed a wind-turbine system that burns biofuels or natural gas to spin wind-turbine generators even if the wind is not blowing. Source: the Engineer
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3 Vilsack touts biofuels at State Fair
DES MOINES -- USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack offered his support for biofuels during a forum at the Iowa State Fair Tuesday. He said he expected the Environmental Protection Agency to eventually approve E15 fuel. Source: Iowa Farmer
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4 Old gas Station may be Converted to Biofuels
A Braddock, Pa., business that collects used cooking oil to make biodiesel announced plans to convert an old gas station into an unmanned biofuels filling station next year, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said. Source: DTN / The Progressive Farmer
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5 Old Braddock gas station may be converted to pump 'biofuels'
A business that collects used cooking oil and processes it into fuel for diesel-powered vehicles plans to convert a dilapidated gas station in Braddock into a biofuels filling station next year. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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6 Minnesota Awards $100,000 for Biofuels Technicians Training
Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minnesota will receive a $100,000 grant from the state Workforce Development Council to provide workforce training in biofuels production. Source: DTN / The Progressive Farmer
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7 Microbial Breakthrough Impacts Health, Agriculture, Biofuels
For the first time ever, University of Illinois researchers have discovered how microbes break down hemicellulose plant matter into simple sugars using a cow rumen bacterium as a model."This is ground-breaking research," said Isaac Cann, associate professor in the U of I Department of Animal Sciences and member of the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in the Institute for Genomic ... Source: redOrbit
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8 Press release
On the launch of a new World Bank report today (8 September 2010) in which the Bank explicitly identifies biofuels as one of the driving forces of land grabs in Africa and acknowledges its detrimental impact on local livelihoods, Friends of the Earth renews its call on rich countries to drop their biofuels targets and invest in planet-friendly farming. Source: Friends of the Earth
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9 Biofuels fraud: Speight sentenced to 26 months
ABERDEEN – H. Max Speight, who admitted he defrauded a federal biofuels program, was sentenced to 26 months in prison today in U.S. District Court. Source: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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10 Microbial breakthrough impacts health, agriculture, biofuels
For the first time ever, University of Illinois researchers have discovered how microbes break down hemicellulose plant matter into simple sugars using a cow rumen bacterium as a model. Source: PhysOrg
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