“To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning”
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Recently, among the list of countries in which Biofuels Digest readers reside, appeared a new addition: the Vatican City. I cannot shake the improbable hope that the Pope has taken an interest in bioenergy. He certainly has taken a deep interest in climate change.
“Perhaps [...]
Here are some notes on the selections for the Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy.
The qualifying criteria was making at least one appearance in the Digest over the past 12 months, or a nomination from the readership. About 500 companies qualified via the first route, from the 3,000 stories published this year, and about 20 additional [...]
There has been a lot of discussion of the viability of cellulosic ethanol production models in the scientific literature, but just a few in popular media. Herewith are some notes on how cellulosic yields work out in real-world situations.
The Coskata model presupposes a yield of around 100 gallons per ton of biomass. ZeaChem is seeing [...]
There are vast, right wing conspiracies and vast, left wing conspiracies, but what is facing the biofuels industry is a vast, chicken wing conspiracy.
The conspirators are drawn from groups that Daniel Gross, writing in Slate, described as “poverty activists, inflation hawks, efficiency freaks and environmentalists”, and are led by a coalition of processed food, meat [...]
In South Dakota, POET Energy said that it was accelerating the schedule for its $4 Million pilot cellulosic ethanol plant in Scotland, and would open the facility by December. “Our expanded research effort has led to several significant strides in the development of cellulosic ethanol technology at the lab scale in recent months,” said Jeff [...]
When the Biofuels Digest launched in July 2007, the industry was rocking along at high speed. Sure, the Energy Bill was stalled, but everyone thought it would get moving before the end of the year, and biofuels continued to inspire widespread admiration for the potential to improve farm incomes, achieve energy security and reduce greenhouse [...]
