News and Notes - Oct. 10, 2008

UTBI-related News

Switchgrass season: Farmers harvest plant that will power Tennessee Biofuels Initiative
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/oct/10/switchgrass-season-Farmers-harvest-plant/

Groundbreaking set for Tennessee cellulosic pilot plant
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=4907

DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC Sets Up Headquarters in Ithica, IL and Names Members of Management Team
http://www.biofuelsjournal.com/articles/DuPont_Danisco_Cellulosic_Ethanol_LLC_Sets_Up_Headquarters_in_Ithica__IL_and_Names_Members_of_Management_Team-64386.html

US News

Continuing Resolution Includes $25 Billion in Automakers Loans (and forest hazardous fuels reduction for use in biomass energy)
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/news/news_detail.html?news_id=12028

U.S. Universities: Fertile Ground for Leading Biofuels and Bioenergy Developments
http://www.biobasednews.com/node/18514

Ethanol could be key to Iowans on the fence (Election 2008)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-09-50states-Iowa_N.htm

WASDE: Corn supply increased
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=4908

IRFA: Iowa E85 Sales in First Half of 2008 Exceed Total 2007 Sales
http://www.biofuelsjournal.com/articles/IRFA__Iowa_E85_Sales_in_First_Half_of_2008_Exceed_Total_2007_Sales-64474.html

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne partner with ExxonMobil
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2099

WASDE: More harvested soybean acres boost supply
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2831

U.S. ethanol profits stay weak on poor fuel demand
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1055086920081010

IDEM Says Air Quality will Benefit from Completed Biofuels Corridor
http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/wire/news/5279988_idemE85_215826.php

Pratt ethanol plant files for bankruptcy
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=9137975&nav=menu605_1

EERC, Great Plains to produce camelina jet fuel
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2101

Ethanol firms cheap, but not cheap enough
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN0748463120081008

Robeson (NC cellulosic) ethanol project advances
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=306976

The Bailout Bill, Biofuels and You: good news for renewables hidden in the pork
http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/10/10/the-bailout-bill-biofuels-and-you-good-news-for-renewables-hidden-in-the-pork/

VBV LLC and Its Subsidiaries Approve Merger With Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Vbv-Llc-NASDAQ-GPRE-907873.html

Unity Biofuels Developing Self-Blending Ethanol Fuel Dispensers
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1532272/unity_biofuels_developing_selfblending_ethanol_fuel_dispensers/

ARS Scientists Produce Oil From Multiple Crops for Potential Biofuel Production at Pilot Plant in Peoria, IL, and Study Rotation Plans to Include Grasses for Cellulosic Ethanol Productio
http://www.biofuelsjournal.com/articles/ARS_Scientists_Produce_Oil_From_Multiple_Crops_for_Potential_Biofuel_Production_at_Pilot_Plant_in_Peoria__IL__and_Study_Rotation_Plans_to_Include_Grasses_for_Cellulosic_Ethanol_Production-64440.html

Bug-Powered Fuel Cells Could Run on Waste
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/fuel-cell-waste.html

Venture capital looks to new sources of biofuels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7847690

International News

Troubled Times for Tata: a Biofuels Digest special report on India
http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/10/10/troubled-times-for-tata-a-biofuels-digest-special-report-on-india/

A new approach to use hydrogen as an alternative fuel source has been discovered
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=532723

India can't use own biodiesel
http://www.cleantech.com/news/3661/india-already-shipping-biodiesel-us-eu

Argentina Biodiesel Sector Seeing Exponential Growth
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/Content.asp?ContentID=259266

Plant officials say they were 'blindsided' (Collingwood Ontario)
http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1241378

Brazil to have 7 mln more hectares of land for sugarcane production
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/09/content_10169744.htm

Govt Partners Chinese Firm for $115m Ethanol Factory (Nigeria)
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=124665