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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 [...]

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 [...]

USDA, DOE announce $24 million in bioenergy, bio-based products R&D grants: Gevo, Velocys, GE, Agrivida among awardees for ethanol, biobutanol, drop-in fuels

In Washington, the US Departments of Agriculture and Energy today announced $24 million in R&D grants for biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products.  Of the $24.4 million announced today, DOE plans to invest up to $4.9 million with USDA contributing up to $19.5 million.
Projects announced today will contribute a minimum of 20 percent of matching [...]

Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?

Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Position Only For Growth, and Codexis

POSITION ONLY FOR GROWTH
So What’s New?  Marketing Your Strategic Direction
Position Only For Growth is the first PROFITS principle.  For our purposes, growth is profitability, expansion, or other ways you may define success in your industry – in this case, bioenergy.  When you Position Only For Growth, any change you make keeps you focused on sustainable [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and Codexis

What Do You Have To Know?
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Obtaining Vital Information
As your company’s CEO or a member of the senior management team, of course you know what your company’s technology is.  But…do your employees understand the processes well enough to explain them to anyone who asks about these processes?
Every person in your company [...]

Hearings begin on the US Climate bill; remarks by EPA Administrator Jackson, Energy Sectretary Chu

In Washington, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee commenced three days of hearings on the climate bill, in a late bid to pass climate legislation before the end of the year.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary or Energy Steven Chu were among those testifying on the first day.
Administrator Jackson said, in part: “Even as [...]

ARPE-E awards $151 million in advanced energy R&D – pyrolysis, algae, butanol, CO2 capture among hot technologies funded

In California, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that ARPA-E — the Department’s recently-formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy — has awarded $151 million in funding for 37 research projects. Among awardees:
University of Minnesota. Direct Solar Fuels Production of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels directly from sunlight, water and CO2 using an artificial symbiotic colony of photosynthetic [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “You Cannot Be Everything For Everyone”

YOU CANNOT BE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE….

What is growth in your industry?  For most, it is expansion, profitability or some other measures indicating success.  There is usually risk taking involved and the expectation is that this risk will reap rewards in the near future.
Position Only For Growth is essential to growing any business, and [...]

“Value, or Values?” Occasional remarks at the Platts’ Cellulosic Ethanol Conference

By Jim Lane, editor & publisher, Biofuels Digest
In advanced biofuels, discussion these days revolves around the value proposition: yields, scale, ROI.
It seems to me that, if the debate was about long-term or short-term value, the cellulosic ethanol industry would be a lot farther along than it is, because ethanol has a compelling value proposition on [...]