Podesta, Putin, Trump, Gingrich, and Joule: WikiLeaks and the inside true story
If you’ve been following the Sunday news programs in the past week, or breathless reporting in the Wall Street Journal (“John Podesta and the...
Ground Delay: Where are the Sustainable Aviation Fuels?
When it comes to sustainable aviation fuels, the public is yelling impatiently for take-off, and the airlines are pleading impatiently for off-take. So, where are...
Avantium completes “oversubscribed” €103M IPO: heads for first commercial
In France, Avantium completed its highly-anticipated initial public offering, raising $109.5M (€103M) via the sale of 9,401,793 shares at $11.70 (€11) per share, giving...
Suds-be-gone: Novozymes launches world-first biological foam control for sugarcane ethanol
In Denmark, Novozymes launched Fermax, an enzyme protease that prevents foam development during the sugarcane ethanol fermentation process, while delivering improved control and replacing...
Heard on the Floor at the Algae Biomass Summit
On October 23-26 the algae industry gathered in Phoenix, AZ for the Algae Biomass Summit , its annual get together. Gone are the glory...
Reverse Combustion and its prospects
Because burning fuels in an internal combustion engine produces CO2 and water as its byproducts, the idea of reverse combustion has been hanging around...
Let’s Get it On: Avantium acquires Liquid Light
In the Netherlands, Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light Inc, developer of a process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant...
Consortiapalooza: TWB points a way towards the new industrial biotech consortium
In the past month, the Digest pointed towards a tipping point in the underlying technology that powers the industry — and a convergence in...
Amyris Joins the Sweet Fleet, and DARPA lends a hand
Back in September 2015, we reported that Amyris inked a multi-year agreement with the US Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, the famed DARPA that...
Industrial Biotech’s Billion Dollar Quarter: ventures raise $1.1B in Q1 from seed to commercial-scale
In Florida, Biofuels Digest reports that the industrial biotechnology sector raised $1.103B in new capital in the first quarter of 2017, excluding debt and...
