In California, Solazyme joined the wave of companies reporting Q2 results, announcing that revenues were up 68 percent, while losses jumped from $6.8 million to $17.0 million as the company used proceeds from its IPO to begin investment in scale-up. With its heavy load of cash, the company is acquiring additional production capacity and shifting […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration reported that ethanol production averaged 878,000 barrels per day (36.9 million gallons). The RFA comments that production is up 4,000 barrels per day from last week, and that the 4-week average for ethanol production stands at 874,000 b/d, for an annualized rate of 13.4 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol […]
In Florida, enzyme maker Dyadic International reported a 35% gain in revenues and an 81% gain in earnings for Q2 2011, compared to Q2 2010. Among company highlights for the quarter, an R&D collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur and EnGen Bio, an R&D and licensing deal with an undisclosed animal feed “major player”, and three new […]
In Michigan, EnverVation Advisors are working to reopen the former NextDiesel biodiesel plant in Adrian in the next six to ten weeks. Currently, EnverVation is planning on using waste oil from cooking and soy oil. Glycerin byproducts will be sent to EnerVations Keokuk, Iowa plant for further processing.
In Michigan, Algal Scientific is reportedly seeking $3 million to complete demonstration plants to make algae for the removal of pollutants from industrial sewage, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus. Geoff Horst, Algals Chief Science Officer, stated, “We are focused primarily on cleaning up a customer’s wastewater… The revenue generated from the biomass is really just gravy […]
In India, Lablands Biodiesel has been notified that the project to start a jatropha to biodiesel industry has been postponed due to security concerns arising from U.S. troops being withdrawn from Afghanistan. Lablands was to be awarded a subcontract to train either Afghani nationals or representatives of the US firm Lablands in India in planting […]
In India, startup Sea6 Energy is working on developing seaweed as a feedstock for biofuels. Sea6 has a provisional patent filed for a marine polymer mesh structure to anchor seaweed for aquafarming, and is now working to find a microbe that can work in seawater to convert the sugars to ethanol or other petroleum products. […]
Today on Twitter. EthanolMagazine: Researchers in Miami identify and measure distinct isotopes in atmosphere resulting from corn #ethanol SugarcaneBlog: Ethanol reaches out to Straw Poll media – DesMoinesRegister.com GrowthEnergy: #Ethanol Across America issues White Paper laying out path forward for #cellulosic ethanol #learnthefacts cleantechczar: Kior Lowers IPO Price, but Stock Still Flat via @greentechmedia #biofuels […]
In New York, researchers at New York University, the University of Virginia, Harvard, UCSD and other institutions have completed the first genome-scale reconstruction of a microalgal metabolic network. Their paper was published this week in Molecular Systems Biology. Integrating biological and optical data, and the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the researchers reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic […]
In Washington, members of the aviation industry testified at a Senate Aviation operations, safety and security subcommittee hearing. Among those testifying, John Plaza, Imperium CEO, asked that the Pentagon be allowed to sign long-term contracts for as long as fifteen years as opposed to the current five-year limit. Billy Glover, Boeing managing director for environmental […]
