Iowa company turns to ammonia for fuel
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An Iowa alternative fuel engine manufacturer has reached an agreement with an irrigation pump maker in California to make the world's first ammonia-powered irrigation pump system.
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By Michael G. Mooney, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 6--They're not opposed to ethanol, just the way Stanislaus County has "fast-tracked" a proposal to build an ethanol plant in Keyes.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Sep. 15--Lockport chemical maker Isochem Inc. has won a $500,000 state  grant to help it pay for a $1.85 million project to install pollution-control  equipment.
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With oil near $50 a barrel, alternatives to gasoline are attracting more attention - including fuel cells, devices that convert hydrogen into electric current with no waste products except heat and pure water.
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BERLIN, Dec 29  (IPS/IFEJ) - Until a few months ago, the production of  crop-based fuels was the best energy business imaginable in  Germany, thanks to growing demand supported by the government.  That's no longer the case.
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By R. SCOTT RAPPOLD THE GAZETTE  Pueblo Chemical Depot officials are going ahead with building a plant to treat a hazardous mustard waste on-site instead of shipping some of it elsewhere.   The equipment, costing tens of millions of dollars, might never be used, however.
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New Oriental Energy &amp; Chemical Corp. (NASDAQ: NOEC), a specialty chemical and emerging alternative fuel manufacturer in The People's Republic of China ("New Oriental"), announced today that Sinofert, a large distributor, has made a $2.2 million purchase order for Urea.
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Another small, eco-friendly business is scooped up by a corporation.
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The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.
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According to Al-Raya newspaper (September 20, 2006), the Qatari Minister of Energy and Industry, Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, said that the petrochemicals (including ammonia and urea) exports of the State of Qatar hit QR 4.5 billion ($1.2 billion) last year.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec. 16--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered FMC Idaho  LLC, a former elemental phosphorous manufacturer in Pocatello, to install a  gas treatment system to reduce phosphine and other gases to safe levels in one  of the company's ponds.
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QUINCY -- For years, Twin Rivers Technologies sold the by products from soybean and other natural oils it processes to pet food makers. But as energy prices began to rise, the company found a better use for leftover oils: fuel.
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It all came down to a small, Utah-made device sitting inside an Idaho pottery kiln. This recent experiment at a national research laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, may pave the way for an efficient means of extracting hydrogen from water.
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By DIRK LAMMERS  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops.  Sen.
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By AMY LORENTZEN  DES MOINES, Iowa - The state's Environmental Protection Commission is closer to implementing a ban on the spreading of manure on land planted with soybeans.
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By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 22--Ethanol critics who contend the industry burns up more energy than it produces might have to think twice before pointing a finger at the Aberdeen Energy ethanol plant to be built near Mina.
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As car companies promote ethanol as a gasoline alternative, they benefit from a loophole that allows them to receive credits when selling flexible-fuel vehicles.