Wednesday, March 22, 2006

[WMRC Publications] Biodiesel Research: A Bibliography and Finding Aid Now available on the WMRC Library web site: TN06- 085 Biodiesel Research: A Bibliography and Finding Aid -- Champaign, IL : Waste Management and Research Center, 2006. 4:06:43 PM Google It!    [Biodiesel] Taft highlights soy-based biodiesel Gov. Bob Taft, Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Fred Dailey and local leaders today celebrated the promise of biofuels to commemorate Ohio Agriculture Day in Cincinnati. The day included a tour of a biodiesel processing plant, which produced the most biodiesel in the United States in 2005. [Source: Ohio Farm Bureau Press Release] 3:47:43 PM Google It!    [Ethanol] Wall Street acquiring a taste for ethanol The surest signs of corporate interest in Minnesota ethanol are in the southern part of the state where three ethanol plants are in the planning stage. Each would be two to three times larger than the average ethanol plant currently operating in Minnesota. [Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press, 3/12/06] 1:03:35 PM Google It!    [Biofuels] Grow Your Own Oil, U.S. Researchers hoping to ease America's oil addiction are turning sawdust and wood chips into bio-oil, a thick black liquid that could become a green substitute for many petroleum products. [Source: Wired, 3/20/06] 1:00:17 PM Google It!    [Biodiesel] National Biodiesel Day Commemorated Biodiesel and soybean leaders commemorate National Biodiesel Day, March 18, by calling for the passage of bills extending the biodiesel tax incentive, creating a more rigorous Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and instituting a small producer tax credit. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/17/06] 12:56:54 PM Google It!    [Biofuels] Scientists Study Feasibility of Switchgrass for Bioenergy Results to be issued in May conclude that the economics of growing switchgrass for bioenergy are promising. The study producing these results is a cooperative effort between the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of Nebraska economist Richard Perrin. The threshold level for success as established by the ARS and cooperators on 10 northern Plains farms in Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota found that two switchgrass plants per square foot the first year ensures a successful bioenergy crop harvest in subsequent years. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/17/06] Full citation for study M. R. Schmer, K. P. Vogel, R. B. Mitchell, L. E. Moser, K. M. Eskridge and R. K. Perrin (2006). "Establishment Stand Thresholds for Switchgrass Grown as a Bioenergy Crop." Crop Science 46(1), 157-161. [Online at http://crop.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/1/157 -- subscriber only access to full text] 12:42:16 PM Google It!    [Renewable energy] Research Center Forms for Energy in Nebraska The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research received the funding necessary to conduct research projects aimed at developing domestic energy resources and improving energy efficiency. Formed from the partnership of the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the $5 million approved by the NPPD Board of Directors will support the various research initiatives during the next five years. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/20/06] 12:39:54 PM Google It!    [Renewable energy] Senators Introduce Renewable Fuels Legislation U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) recently introduced comprehensive legislation in Congress that will use alternative and renewable fuel technologies to greatly decrease America's dependence on foreign oil.. [Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com, 3/21/06] 12:34:14 PM Google It!

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