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New report “The promise of Algae Biofuels” debuts from NRDC, as Mother Jones slams algae hype
A new report on algae from the Natural resources Defense Council: Cultivating Clean Energy: The Promise of algae biofuels, said: “A growing number of entrepreneurs, investors, academics and policy makers are working to make algae-derived gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel a reality. The economic, national security, and environmental costs of our dependence on oil become [...]
$70.5 million awarded to Arizona Public Service to upgrade, expand algae biofuels project as Obama expands the war on carbon
In Arizona, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that Arizona Public Service has been awarded $70.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to expand its ongoing algae-based carbon mitigation project.
The project will now be tested with a coal-based gasification system that aims to minimize production of carbon dioxide when gasifying coal.
The host [...]
Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Reality — Does the Emperor have clothes?
By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
New entrepreneurs are exciting and full of energy. Passion, intensity, focus ñ bordering on obsession is what most entrepreneurs include in stories of their road to success.
What distinguishes a successful entrepreneur from a rat running a maze?
The answer is the ability to identify and face reality!
We continue to apply [...]
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2009/10 – rules and procedures
On December 1st, the Digest will publish its annual rankings for the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy”. There have been numerous requests since the 08/09 ranking were released about how to qualify. Here’s background for 2009/2010.
1. The rankings will be published on December 1st, and are based on weighted scores. 50 percent of the score [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Four years ago, there were probably only four algae biodiesel companies. Now there are over 50. Many of them are not much better than copycats of GreenFuel.”
Craig Cox, Midwest VP for the Environmental Working Group: “The tirade that House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota recently delivered accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of sinking the corn-ethanol industry has many of us in the environmental community scratching our heads. Peterson accused federal officials of being “in bed with the oil companies” [...]
Algae pioneer GreenFuel closes doors, according to reports; closed-system approach led to several pilots, no commercial-scale developments before group ran out of money
In Massachusetts, Greentech Media is reporting that Green Fuel Technologies is closing its doors. The company that won “Emissions Energy Project of the Year” at the Platts Awards, and staged pilot tests in Arizona and Louisiana, will be selling off the company’s intellectual property and other assets, after an unsuccessful capital raising effort over the [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Together with production in Canada, using the same type of analysis, North American biofuel production will be able to replace a majority of our oil imports.”
Jason Pyle, CEO of Sapphire Energy: “The passage of the stimulus bill by the United States Congress and signing into law by President Obama proves this nation is on a new course to address our energy security needs, fight climate change and create jobs to improve the economy. It’s the right bill, at the right [...]
Algae-to-energy roundup says economic slowdown buys algae companies time; Solix reporting $32.81 cost per gallon for algal fuel
Mass High Tech has published a roundup of algae-based biofuels development, concluding that the economic crisis has slowed the pace of algae biofuels development, but “buys these companies time” according to Dennis Costello of Braemar Energy as quoted in an excellent roundup article. GreenFuel, Algenol, Codon Devices and Solazyme are among the companies discussed in [...]
Algae progress in Mass., AZ profiled as National Algae Association concludes solutions-oriented conference
The progress of algae as a biofuel is reviewed this week in articles in Massachusetts and Arizona, while the National Algae Association meeting concluded after a series of workshops in which oil extraction and harvesting technologies were among the showcased solutions.
In MassHighTech, layoffs at algae pioneer GreenFuel were an offset to plans for the company’s [...]
The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy
The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy, as ranked by Biofuels Digest for 2008-09 are:
(click on links for a collection of recent profiles and stories on each company)
1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
