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Ethanol in the News
Ethanol byproduct aids farmers, ranchers
Forbes
August 29, 2007
Nebraska ethanol industry creates thousands of jobs
Farm & Ranch Guide
August 27, 2007
Investigating the Debate: Food and Fuel in the Ethanol Expansion
Ethanol Today
March 2007
E3 in the News
E3 BioFuels Begins Production Thursday as a model for improving the environment and fighting global warming.
Iowa Public Television's Market to Market
"E3 BioFuels Begins Production"
July 27, 2007
AFTER 10 YEARS OF RESEARCH THE FIRST CLOSED-LOOP ETHANOL PLANT BEGINS PRODUCTION. For the first time, distillers grains from an ethanol plant provide feed for a cattle feedlot and the manure from the cattle feedlot is used to make biogas to power the boilers in the ethanol plant.
Omaha World-Herald
"Technology Opens New Path to Fuel"
June 29, 2007
E3 BIOFUELS OF NEBRASKA IS NOW IN PRODUCTION at what it describes as the world's first "closed-loop" ethanol plant.
Inside Greentech
"Cow Powered Ethanol Plant Enters Production"
June 29, 2007
FOR NOW, THIS SMALL COMMUNITY IS THE CENTER OF THE ETHANOL WORLD with the opening of a plant that harnesses the newest process for making the corn-based fuel that promises to cut Americans' dependency on fossil fuels.
Freemont Tribune
"Mead Ethanol Plant is One of a Kind"
June 29, 2007
CONGRESSMAN LEE TERRY OFFERED HIS CONGRATULATIONS to the town of Mead, Neb., which today will hold a dedication for E3BioFuels’ closed-loop ethanol plant.
Southwest Nebraska News
"Homegrown Ethanol Praised"
June 28, 2007
SEN. BEN NELSON MAY HAVE FOUND the right moment for a legislative proposal that could put manure to good use.
Lincoln Journal Star
"Biogas May Be Idea Whose Time Has Come"
May 14, 2007
A NEW FACILITY IN NEBRASKA is making ethanol cheaper to produce than ever before.
CBS News
"Cows Help Make Ethanol Greener" By Manuel Gallegus
May 4, 2007
DENNIS LANGLEY IS THE CEO of E3 BioFuels, a small firm in Shawnee, Kan., with a big plan for improving the way ethanol is produced.
Houston Chronicle
"Dennis Langley Pushes the 'Closed-Loop' Process for Ethanol" By Brett Clanton
April 13, 2007
CRITICS OF ETHANOL PRODUCTION produced from grain, such as corn, often question the large quantities of fossil fuels required by the process relative to the amount of transportation fuel produced.
BioCycle
"Changing the Equation: Biomass Energy Fuels Corn Ethanol Production" (PDF)
April 2007
THE FROSTY-BREATHED CATTLED JOSTLING for position at a feeding trough in rural Nebraska are not quite as typical as they appear: their manure is being captured in a new bid to quench America's thirst for ethanol.
Reuters
"Cow Power at U.S. Ethanol Plant" By Carey Gillam
February 26, 2007
SOME ETHANOL PLANTS ARE TURNING to a more eco-friendly source of power. They're using methane gas to power their boilers, and the methane is from cow manure.
Nebraska TV
"Ethanol: Other Sources of Power" By Crystal Calloway
February 15, 2007
OWNERS OF A METHANE-POWERED ETHANOL PLANT nearing completion at Mead, Neb., see a bright future for corn in the biofuels industry.
Omaha World-Herald
"E3 Biofuels boss sees a growth opportunity" (PDF) By Bill Hord
February 7, 2007
PRESIDENT BUSH HAS LAID OUT A BLUEPRINT he said will help the U.S. cut gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next decade and one approach is relying more on alternative fuels such as ethanol.
A Shawnee company is working to make that a reality. The company E3 Biofuels is using cows and corn to fuel cars. Methane from cow manure powers the ethanol plant.
Fox-4, Kansas City
"President's Gas Consumption Plan Has Shawnee Ties" By Rob Low
January 24, 2007
RANCHERS HAVE LONG BEEN fond of saying cattle manure smells like money. Now, folks in the business of making ethanol are smelling dollars too—in the methane gas emitted by manure at large cattle feedlots and dairies.
Across the country, ethanol plants powered by methane instead of costly natural gas or coal are on the drawing board -- a movement that could be a win-win situation for the environment and the industry.
The Associated Press
"Cow manure helps power ethanol plants" By Nate Jenkins
January 22, 2007
NOT YOUR GRANDPA'S FARM: Folks like Dennis Langley are also feeling optimistic these days. Langley is CEO of E3 BioFuels, a Kansas company dedicated to stitching ethanol, methane, and cattle or dairy operations together into closed-loop systems. Interest is at an all-time high.
"Right now we have joint venturers lining up," he says. "A lot of concentrated feeding operations come to us and ask us to retrofit their facilities at E3 BioFuels' cost, and site our facilities by existing feedlots and dairies, in order to bring them into compliance with EPA [CAFO] regulations."
Farm Futures magazine
"Welcome to the Closed-Loop Revolution" (PDF)
December 2006
"IT MAY SURPRISE YOU TO learn that the most promising solution to our nation's energy crisis begins in the bowels of a waste trough, under the slotted concrete floor of a giant pen that holds 28,000 Angus, Hereford, and Charolais beef cattle. But for some time now, I've been searching for a renewable fuel that could realistically replace the 140 billion gallons of gasoline consumed in the US each year. And now I believe the key to producing this fuel starts with cow manure—because this waste powers a facility that turns corn into ethanol."
Wired magazine
"My Big BioFuels Bet," by Vinod Khosla
October 2006
News Releases
Mead Ethanol Plant Announces Temporary Shutdown (11/30/07)
E3 BioFuels Genesis Plant to Launch on June 28 (6/19/07)
Statement from Dennis Langley on New Closed-Loop System that Will Help Meet Ethanol Goals (1/22/07)
E3 BioFuels Clarifies Management Structure as its Closed-loop Ethanol Plant Nears Production (11/1/06)
E3 BioFuels to Launch First Closed-Loop Ethanol Plant in Mead, Nebraska (10/30/06)
External Links
American Coalition for Ethanol
Governors' Ethanol Coalition
Clean Fuels Development Coalition
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition