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World Biofuels
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November 13-15, 2005
Beijing, China
2nd Annual Canadian Renewable Fuels Summit
December 13-15, 2005
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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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December 27, 2001China turns corn into ethanol as fuel supply wanes By Kathleen Kearney
HONG KONG, (Reuters) - China is launching its first fuel ethanol plant in an innovative plan aimed at simultaneously bolstering security of energy supplies and improving farm incomes.
"We have to consider energy security...because China is short of petroleum," said Lu Tianxiong, director and senior engineer at Beijing Memsep Technologies Co Ltd.
Officials are acutely aware that China's known oil and gas reserves are running out.
Domestic coal and hydropower are widely used for electricity generation. China produces about 163 million tonnes of crude oil a year, or 70 percent of its national needs, importing another 70 million tonnes, mainly from the Middle East.
Alternative sources are costly, sometimes cumbersome to transport and distribute and generally less efficient than oil.
But replacements must be found since China's oil and gas reserves could be exhausted in the next 30 years, Lu said.
Memsep is technical adviser to China's first plant dedicated to the production of fuel ethanol, a 2.89 billion yuan (US$349 million) project called Fuel Ethanol Company Ltd.
Construction began last month on the 600,000 tonnes a year plant in Jilin in the northeast.
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