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50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Amyris takes leads in selector balloting as 11/23 vote deadline nears

All this week, subscribers are casting their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.
Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST. To cast your vote, click here.
To download your free copy of the Selectors Data Book for [...]

POET, BP, Coskata and Sapphire among early contenders in 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy underway

All this week, subscribers are casting their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.
Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST.  The link to the ballot will be distributed this week in every edition of the Digest [...]

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 – company updates

PetroAlgae is making fuel and proteins out of lemna (duckweed) in Fellsmere, and is nearing completion of a vertically integrated, scaleable, licensable 5-6,000 gallon per acre microcrop production system. A first master licensee has been announced for China, Taiwan and part of Japan. More on petroalgae at biofuelsdigest.com.
Sapphire Energy said the pace of algae commercialization [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: voting underway

This week, subscribers can begin to cast their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.
Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST.
To download your free copy of the Selectors Data Book for Digest subscribers – including 230 [...]

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 [...]

Jet Plains, Part II: Doers, Done, and the DOE in renewable jet fuel

Elsewhere in today’s Digest, comments from Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson and the DOE’s Valerie Reed confirm an increasingly laser-like focus on renewable aviation fuels from the advanced biofuels community. Here are some developments in renewable, drop-in aviation fuels from biomass also highly worth noting.
US Air Force
The Air Force has announced that it will construct a [...]

Synthetic Genomics: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Synthetic Genomics
Based in: California
2008-09 rank: 19

Business: Synthetic biology and algal fuel developer.
Model: R&D partner
Past milestones:
ExxonMobil, the last of the oil majors to commit to a major investment in biofuels, announced that its Research and Engineering unit will invest $300 million into in-house algae research, and up to an additional $300 million in La [...]

San Diego, CARB officials kick off 2009 Algal Biomass Summit

In California, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and CleanTECH San Diego CEO Lisa Bicker participated in the kick-off of the Algae Biomass Summit 2009 yesterday afternoon.
According to CleanTECH, since the 2007 launch of the mayor’s Cleantech Initiative including Sapphire Energy, General Atomics, SAIC, Biolight Harvesting [...]

Kerry, Boxer introduce Senate climate bill with focus on environment, energy security; EPA debuts new rules for emitters

In Washington, Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts presented the Senate’s version of the climate change bill. Senator Boxer is expected to have a marked-up bill ready in October, although observers suggest that the timetable on health care will determine whether a climate bill is passed this year. The House passed [...]