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World Biofuels
Symposium
November 13-15, 2005
Beijing, China
2nd Annual Canadian Renewable Fuels Summit
December 13-15, 2005
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by:
Candadian Renewable Fuels
Association
National Biodiesel
Conference & Expo 2006
February 5-8, 2006
San Diego, California
Organizer:
National Biodiesel Board
11th Annual
National Ethanol Conference: "Policy & Marketing"
February 20-22, 2006
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Sponsored by:
Renewable Fuels Association
22nd
Annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo
June 20-23, 2006
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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November 8, 2000Florida Count Puts Race in Limbo  Florida election workers were rousted out of bed and summoned back to work early on Wednesday to begin recounting nearly 6 million votes as the nation awaited the state's mandatory recount to determine who was elected president.
The nationwide vote was so close that all hinged on Florida's prized 25 electoral votes, enough to put either Republican George W. Bush or Democrat Al Gore over the 270 total needed for victory.
Preliminary tallies from the Florida Division of Elections indicate Bush carried the state by a mere 1,784 votes. With 100 percent of the votes counted, Bush had 2,909,135 votes in Florida and Gore had 2,907,351.
Florida law requires a recount if the voting margin is within 0.5 percent, and with Gore and Bush both pulling 48.9 percent a recount was mandatory and automatic.
Cuba seeks foreign investors for biomass power ventures
Cuba is seeking foreign partners to invest in biomass electricity generation projects that would use sugar cane residue left over from the island's sugar industry, Sugar Minister Ulises Rosales del Toro said on Tuesday,
"These energy projects certainly require the participation of companies which could contribute capital," Rosales told reporters in Havana during a conference on electricity generation and the sugar industry.
Rosales said the Norwegian government was interested in cooperating with Cuba in a possible co-generation venture in the sugar industry that would mostly involve private companies.
Cuba's Sugar Ministry has held negotiations with companies from a number of countries, including Spain and Brazil, about possible ventures in power generation and the manufacture of other sugar industry by-products.
Two Spanish companies, sugar company Azucarera Ebro Agricolas and energy firm Union Fenosa, announced last year they would join forces to undertake power projects in Cuba.
Gilberto Font, who heads the ministry's newly created electricity company, Bioenerco, said the Cuban government had made it a priority to increase power generation using biomass fuel, principally the bagasse sugar cane residue left over from the sugar manufacturing process.
Cuba's sugar mills burn the dried bagasse in furnaces to generate electricity and Font said the island's 155 mills had a total installed generating capacity of 800 megawatts.
A seven million tonne sugar harvest could produce 18 million tonnes of bagasse residue, plus other surplus waste, which could be used for power generation, Font added.
Cuba's 1999-2000 sugar crop was just over four million tonnes, seven percent up from the last harvest, but below pre- 1989 ouput levels of between seven and eight million tonnes.
Font said that by boosting its own electricity generating capacity through new projects, Cuba's sugar industry would help to substitute costly oil imports and contribute to national efforts to achieve greater energy self-sufficiency.
The Sugar Ministry had identified a number of promising generation projects around the island, including one at the Hector Molina mill in Havana province.
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