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Antibiotics pose concern for ethanol producers

There are a lot of reasons why corn-based ethanol may not be best biofuel available to ween ourselves off of petroleum, most of which have been well covered on this site. Today, we came across one that we were previously unaware of, and, interestingly enough, it has to do with bacteria and antibiotics. Ethanol is created by the fermentation of sugars present in a given feedstock, usually corn here in the United States. Yeast must be kept healthy enough to munch on these sugars if a good batch of alcohol is going to be produced, and ethanol ... Read more →

ENCAP developing soil and agricultural products from biofuel byproducts Jeremy Korzeniewski

A company based in Wisconsin called ENCAP has attracted some attention from investors when they recently found an agricultural product with which they can produce using the byproducts from the ...

Ever wonder how ethanol is made? Watch the videos below. Jeremy Korzeniewski

While was researching the article about DuPont that will be available tomorrow on our site, I ran across these videos on Pioneer's site. Pioneer is a subsidiary of DuPont, and is involved heavily ...

Antibiotics pose concern for ethanol producers 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

There are a lot of reasons why corn-based ethanol may not be best biofuel available to ween ourselves off of petroleum, most of which have been well covered on this site. Today, we came across one that we were previously unaware of, and, interestingly enough, it has to do with bacteria and ...

ENCAP developing soil and agricultural products from biofuel byproducts 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A company based in Wisconsin called ENCAP has attracted some attention from investors when they recently found an agricultural product with which they can produce using the byproducts from the creation of biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel. In fact, they can use "almost any inert material, ...

Ever wonder how ethanol is made? Watch the videos below. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While was researching the article about DuPont that will be available tomorrow on our site, I ran across these videos on Pioneer's site. Pioneer is a subsidiary of DuPont, and is involved heavily with agriculture and ethanol production. I am sure that there are other processes for creating ethanol, ...


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