Classy whiskey drinkers like to add a few drops of water to their glass. Now chemists have explained why that makes it taste better. Whiskeys and other liquors start out as sugary slurries. Yeast eat ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2016 - People who own boats, lawnmowers and other seasonal equipment have debated for years, sometimes heatedly, about the engine-impacts of ethanol-blended gasoline.

A proposed ethanol plant could use up to 1.5 million gallons of water each day – about the same amount used by 20,000 city residents. Alongside questions of potential odor and air emissions, city ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A new government report examining whether increased biofuels use could pinch the nation’s water resources says farmers in the Northern Plains use considerably more water to ...

City officials in Champaign and Urbana took notice when they heard that an ethanol plant proposed nearby would use about 2 million gallons of water per day, most likely from the aquifer that also ...

Mike Adamson remembers when water wasn't such a problem. As a kid growing up on his family's cattle feedlot along the Colorado-Kansas border, "you could dig a post hole and see water runnin' in the ...

Water and alcohol (ethanol) are the two main ingredients in alcoholic beverages and the alcohol content must be displayed on the label. Alcohol content can be easily measured using ATR-FTIR ...

Researchers at the US Dept of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, working with Northern Illinois University, have discovered a new catalyst that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol ...

The Ord ethanol plant has been shipping "out-of-condition" water to the Grand Island wastewater treatment plant for the past few days as part of starting up ethanol production under the new ownership ...

Ethanol is proving terrible for the environment. Spurred by the absurd biofuel volumes mandated by the Federal Renewable Fuels Standard, farmers in recent years have plowed over 5 millions of acres of ...