Envirofuel - Promoting sustainable mobility

Shell and Virent have been collaborating for a year on technology that can convert plant sugars directly into petrol and petrol blend components, rather than ethanol. This biogasoline matches petroleum gasoline in functionality and performance.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biofuel, Synthetic diesel, Synthetic jet fuel | Tagged: Shell, Virent, biogasoline, BioForming | 1 Comment »

A decision-support tool developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been designed to help ensure that countries can enter the rapidly growing field of bioenergy industry to produce benefits for the poor without jeopardizing their food security.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biofuel | Tagged: United Nations, UN, Food and Agriculture Organization, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute, Oeko-Institut | No Comments »

Jatoil’s first shareholder newsletter indicates they are making progress with their plans to become a major jatropha oil producer. They’ve bought a controlling interest in an Indonesian company who is already planting jatropha, are setting up a joint venture in Vietnam and the price of crude jatropha oil is looking positive.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biodiesel, Biofuel, Projects | Tagged: crude jatropha oil, Green Energy Vietnam, Indonesia, Jatoil, jatropa, PT Biodiesel Austindo, Vietnam | 4 Comments »

Enffue is a brand owned by Carotino Sdn Bhd, a vertically integrated Malaysian palm oil company that produces biodiesel. On the surface that doesn’t mean much to Australians but when you dig a little deeper you realise SAFF is most likely going to be rebranded to Enffue.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biodiesel, Biofuel, Ethanol, Projects | Tagged: Australian Farmers Fuel, Carotino, Enffue, SAFF | No Comments »

Bloomberg are reporting that Indonesian palm oil growers including PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology and China National Offshore Oil Corp. are halting or amending a USD5.5 billion biodiesel plan after the recent increases in palm oil prices made the rendered the projects no longer viable.

Filed under: Biodiesel, Biofuel, Projects | Tagged: palm oil, China National Offshore Oil Corp, PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology | No Comments »

HSR Seeds have developed a breed of sorghum specifically for ethanol production that contains a high grains starch percentage. The breed is called Tiger and HSR Seeds are talking up it potential despite the fact that limited stocks of the seed are available this year.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biofuel, Ethanol | Tagged: HSR Seeds, Tiger, sorghum | No Comments »

The results from a study by an international collaboration between New Zealand’s Scion and AgResearch research instituets, Carter Holt Harvey and Verenium Corporation have found that there are no significant technical or supply barriers to producing ethanol from New Zealand’s softwood feedstocks, despite previous concerns that it was technically too difficult and too expensive.

Filed under: Agriculture, Biofuel, Ethanol, Greenhouse gas | Tagged: AgResearch, Carter Holt Harvey, Scion, Verenium | No Comments »

A reader has just informed me that E85 is available in the Shoalhaven and Illawarra regions of NSW. This is not really surprising since the Manildra ethanol plant is nearby. What is surprising is that E85 is selling for just under $1 per litre.

Filed under: Biofuel, Ethanol | Tagged: Ethanol Fuel, Shoalhaven Ethanol Fuel | 3 Comments »

Australia V8 Supercars chairman Tony Cochrane has indicated that a sub-committee headed by Larry Perkins and Ross Stone will look into the use of E85 in the 2009 V8 Supercars series. He said the move to E85 was an extension of the V8 Racing Green program in which 15,000 trees are planted each year to offset carbon emissions from the sport’s 15 events.

Filed under: Biofuel, Cars, Greenhouse gas, Rants | Tagged: E85, Larry Perkins, Ross Stone, Tony Cochrane, V8 Supercars | No Comments »

The Australian is calling the Virgin Atlantic biofuel flight a “stunt”. The fact that a Virgin publicity exercise involving Richard Branson is being called a stunt shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone.

Filed under: Aviation, Biofuel, Rants | Tagged: Babassu, Boeing, Coconut, GE Aviation, Imperium Renewables, Virgin Atlantic | 5 Comments »