Are sales good news or bad news?
October 04, 2010
North Dakota's legacy ethanol plant, Alchem at Grafton was bought in auction this week for just under $600,000. The new owner is a Minnesota steel company that has bought other old ethanol plants and either sold or repurposed them. It won't be the first repurposing for the Grafton plant. At the very beginning, the plant was converted from a potato flaking plant into producing 3.5 MMgy of the ethanol in 1983. By the time it closed a couple of years ago its capacity was around 10 MMgy.
On positive and negative messages
September 27, 2010
We got to talking in the office about reporters' biases. You see, in journalism school we were taught to report the facts and not introduce our own opinions unless it is clearly marked as an opinion piece. I would assume most reporters were trained that way as well. My guess is that there has been such an abundance of anti-ethanol reports that the mainstream, not-that-well-informed reporter just assumes it is bad. Turning that around will take a concerted effort.
Engineers on the Ground
September 23, 2010
The expertise of on-staff engineers pays off in troubleshooting, systems optimization and evaluation of new technology.
Keeping an Eye On Yeast
September 23, 2010
Microscopes have long been the tool for counting yeast cells in fermentation tank samples. Automated yeast monitoring may soon change that.
IRS Denies Patronage Dividend Deduction
By Hamang Patel and Craig Johnson
September 23, 2010
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