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.

Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...

ATWATER, Minn. -- Bushmills Ethanol of Atwater, Minn., has joined the growing number of ethanol producers in the country reducing the water they use, thereby shrinking their environmental footprint.

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 ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — The growing thirst for ethanol takes a lot of water to quench, but less than many people believe and not enough to cause serious problems, experts told farmers. Last year in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Dec. 16, 2015, to correct the description of distillation and to clarify the separation difficulty posed by azeotropes. A new method for heating liquid mixtures ...

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 ...