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Today in Biofuels Opinion: “If you don’t have a big brother with deep pockets, like a BP, Exxon, Shell, or a Chevron, it’s going to be very difficult.”
Verenium executive vice-president William Baum: “We’ve got hundreds of biofuel companies that are trying to get to the next stage. If you don’t have a big brother with deep pockets, like a BP, Exxon, Shell, or a Chevron, it’s going to be very difficult.”
National Research Council: “The report found that, in 2005, the hidden costs [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Algae commercially grown in the ocean on specialized platforms could reduce the high costs.”
Manning Feraci, NBB’s Vice President of Federal Affairs: “The biodiesel tax incentive is working. Since its enactment in 2004, U.S. biodiesel production has reached commercial scale, and the nation has realized the job creation, environmental and energy security benefits that come with the expanded production and use of biodiesel. Biodiesel use is consistent with a [...]
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 [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “financiers explaining why they aren’t touching this stuff with a 10 foot pole.”
From Global Carbon Project: “Scientists report a 29 per cent increase in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel between 2000 and 2008 (the latest year for which figures are available), and that in spite of the global economic downturn emissions increased by 2 per cent during 2008. The use of coal as a fuel has [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Yield growth alone will provide significantly more than the 520 million bushels of additional feedstock required by the ethanol industry.”
From Farm Online (Australia): “Those familiar with the US agriculture sector’s long history of productivity and efficiency have maintained that increased demand for grain can be readily met through increases in the amount of feedstock produced per unit of land, not through expansion of the area devoted to cropland…yield growth alone will provide significantly more [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than previously expected.”
Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis: “A recently-published study by the U.S. Geological Services found steady or declining levels of pesticide in Corn Belt waterways from 1996 to 2006, despite record increases in per-acre yields. With increasing frequency, farmers are using advanced practices to reduce runoff and protect water supplies. This report shows that each year [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “[DOE] intends to develop drop in replacements for diesel and gasoline in a more accelerated fashion than cellulosic ethanol.”
Valerie Reed, DOE-EERE: “The agency intends to develop advanced biofuels—hydrocarbons and other high-density fuels that can be drop in replacements for diesel and gasoline—in a more accelerated fashion than cellulosic ethanol. We learned a lot over the past 20 years, and we believe we can apply that to a faster deployment phase. Biomass-based liquid transportation [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “From the point of view of the EPA, this should be like heaven.”
Val Smith, a KU professor of ecology and evolutionary biology: “From the point of view of the EPA, this should be like heaven. We’re harnessing a waste, making it do work for America, and purifying it all at the same time. It’s like a win-win-win-win-win.” [Smith said KU’s project was among only a few in [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The pathway that I think is likely to be the winner is enzymatic hydrolysis.”
Former Vice President Al Gore: “The pathway that I think is likely to be the winner is enzymatic hydrolysis, which essentially uses engineered enzymes to break down the cellulose, the lignin, into fermentable compounds that would then yield many more liters per hectare than any of the first-generation ethanol options,” Gore tells me. “I think [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “E15 ethanol: Yes or No”
E15 NO: Andrew P. Morriss, University of Illinois: “Corn-based ethanol, the type used in the United States, is a terrible transportation fuel whose production has serious environmental consequences and raises food prices for the world’s poor while delivering few net environmental benefits.Requiring higher blends of it to be put into engines not designed to handle [...]
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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 -
