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Biofuels Digest extends “50 Hottest Companies” subscriber voting as web traffic surges

In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that subscriber voting in the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” competition will be extended two days, and will now close at 5pm EST on Wednesday, November 25.
Reader traffic for voting has been building substantially over the past few days, and the last-minute voting will now be spread over the next [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Subscriber voting opens in 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy; UOP, Amyris, Coskata lead in early-stage balloting

Today, 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.
All subscribers to Biofuels Digest, Biomass Digest and Geothernmal Digest e-newsletters are eligible to vote. (Subscriptions are [...]

Taurus Energy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Taurus Energy
Based in: Sweden
2008-09 rank: 30
Business: Fermentation of pentoses for ethanol production
Previous Milestones
1. Agreement with the Technical University of Lund, the Technical University Chalmers and SEKAB to run a project supported by the Swedish state Energimyndigheten. The project has the title Industrial verification of fermentation of pentoses.
2. MoU with an Indian company and [...]

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 [...]

BioMCN: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

BioMCN

Based in: Netherlands
2008-09 rank: Unranked
Business: Purification, evaporation and cracking (of crude glycerine) to obtain syngas which is used to synthesise bio-methanol
3 Top Milestones for 2008?09
March 2008: proof of principle in our 20.000 t pilot plant,
October 2008: winner European Responsible Care Award,
July 2009: successful start-up commercial 200.000 t plant
3 Major Milestone Goals for 2010?11 [...]

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 [...]

BIomass Digest launches today with 4,500 registered subscribers – focus on power, feed and food from biomass

In Florida, Biomass Digest — a new newsletter and website dedicated to condensing and covering news about power, feed and food from biomass — launches today at BiomassDigest.net.
Today’s lead article: Biomass at the Crossroads: as Copenhagen looms – can biomass keep up with demand?”.
Unique and new features in the Biomass Digest newsletter — which debuts [...]