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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

In addition to providing the heat for system processes, the CHP generator will provide 7.5MW of green electricity. MW of green power to the grid and enough thermal energy to all of their thermal requirements to distill the ethanol. The ethanol plant will be capable of producing 23 million gallons/year. Earlier post.). Efficiency.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and San Diego, a combination of green consciousness and enthusiasm for new technology seems to be stirring public interest in the cars. Despite such skepticism, Washington is putting considerable money into the effort, including billions of dollars in loans to Ford, Nissan and Tesla Motors.