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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in the state of Indiana in the United States.

Events

• 29 August 2006, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States: Richard G. Lugar-Purdue Summit on Energy Security (invitation-only)
  • According to its website, the conference "will cover national security and economic policies, biomass and coal-based fuels, and suggest business and government strategies."[1]

Issues

News

• Biodiesel Terminal Unveiled In Indiana USA 3 January 2008, from Petrolworld.com, fueling station in Hammond, Indiana, just south of Chicago, Illinois, offers biodiesel 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
• Rapid ethanol expansion questioned 27 November 2006 from thestarpress.com. While Indiana has 18 ethanol plants proposed or under construction, a Purdue University agricultural economist has suggested that only 7 to 9 will be built to limits on the amount of corn. If all the plants are constructed they would produce more than 800 million gallons of ethanol a year and consume more than 600 million bushels of corn a year. Indiana only produced a record 929 million bushels of corn in 2004 and is expected to produce 856 million bushels in 2006. Rising corn prices will make ethanol less competitive with gasoline and put pressure on the meat industries. Other studies have suggested that there will be enough corn to supply both fuel and food needs.

Organizations

Governmental organizations

BioTown, USA

• BioTown, USA - "BioTown, USA" is a project to make the town of Reynolds, Indiana self-sufficient in energy by using biomass resources.
  • The town is currently installing a "Technology Suite" as part of phase II of the project that will consist of anaerobic digestion, gasification, and fast pyrolysis technologies converting municipal and agricultural waste into electricity, biofertilizer, thermal energy and biodiesel.
  • The BioTown, USA Sourcebook of Biomass Energy (pdf) by Mark Jenner, PhD; Indiana State Department of Agriculture and Reynolds, Indiana, 3 April 2006. The sourcebook outlines the biomass resources and technologies potentially available to the town.

Nongovernmental organizations

Publications

See books, reports, scientific papers, position papers and websites for additional useful resources.

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