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Special Digest Update on biofuels made from municipal solid waste

In a recent poll, Digest readers identified “waste biomass” as the hottest feedstock – and companies using agricultural, forest, animal and municipal residues have been receiving much support in the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” voting, underway this week. Before voting closes, it’s well worth a special look at companies that are utilizing municipal solid [...]

GEM Biofuels: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

GEM Biofuels
Based in: Madagascar
2008-09 ranking: 47

Business: GEM BioFuels is initially focusing on the establishment of ‘company managed’ plantations of Jatropha trees in Madagascar and the extraction of the vegetable oil that is produced from its seeds as this oil is well suited to use in the production of biodiesel.
GEM BioFuels has been established to supply jatropha-based [...]

Challenges Associated with Recovering CO2 from Flue Gas, vs. Concentrated Sources Such as Ethanol: a Biofuels Digest special report

By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Sam Rushing

BACKGROUND

Flue gas is the most prevalent source of CO2 off-gas from all processes globally; among the lion’s share of this flue gas is the ever – present electric power plant, primarily fueled by coal, and then secondly, natural gas. The CO2 found in coal fired power [...]

Sapphire Energy: the making of algae that reproduce strong, last long

Thanksgiving approaches and holiday baking looms – a week when family recipes are swapped and downloaded in huge volumes. In the business of biofuels, one of the more elusive recipes is the one for making commercial-scale, affordable algae as a platform for conversion to biofuels.
But there’s not too much mystery to it. By now, practically [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Special Voter’s Report on Algae

Algae, algae, algae.
Open up an industry magazine or a website, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to the hope, the hype, and the coverage.
What’s the big deal?
The background
Microalgae is a fast-growing organism that is highly efficient in converting sunlight, CO2 and micronutrients found in water into simple sugars. So efficient, that it stores [...]

Solazyme: “By focusing on the diesel and jet side, we’re focusing on the things that have to be around.”

In California, the Digest visited with 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate company Solazyme (ranked #6 in last year’s poll), and CEO Jonathan Wolfson offered an update on the algae-based renewable oils company’s most recent activities.
“By this stage, we worked with almost everything in terms of feedstocks – bagasse, miscanthus, green waste, soft woods. One [...]

US Secretary of Energy appoints loan guarantee czar

In Washington, Secretary Steven Chu today named Jonathan Silver Executive Director of the Department’s loan program office to oversee the Department’s Loan Guarantee Program as well as the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program.  Silver will report directly to Secretary Chu, helping accelerate the application review process for both programs. As Executive Director, Silver will [...]

EPA wavers on E15 waiver deadline, as ethanol awakens: overcapacity looming anew?

The Long and short of ethanol production: first-gen ethanol may be long again, while cellulsoic ethanol continues to look short on 2010 production targets.
According to a report in Reuters, the EPA is reportedly warning that it may not meet an expected December 1st deadline for a decision on allowing E15 ethanol to be blended with [...]

Genome Research article identifies opportunities for more robust ethanol yeast strains, higher yields

In the online journal Genome Research, two studies have identified genomic properties of industrial fuel yeasts that likely gave rise to more robust strains. The group’s work revealed that portions of the genome are plastic compared to other yeast strains, specifically the peripheral regions of chromosomes, where they observed a number of sequence rearrangements.
According to [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “I thought you might be interested in a more current aerial of our Soperton Plant.”

Patrick Wright of Range Fuels: “I thought you might be interested in a more current aerial of our Soperton Plant to give you a better visual sense of where we stand on construction efforts on the first phase.  I also wanted to pass on that we’re on schedule to begin production of cellulosic biofuels from [...]