The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, remained flat at 75.96 as large cap ethanol stocks fell back while oil advanced. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.45 percent to $31.05 , while BP gained 2.29 percent to $42.37. Among other equities, SunOpta (STKL) jumped 3.63 percent to $6.85. […]
In Washington, US voters gave control of the House of Representatives to the Republican Party, when Democrats lost at least 57 seats in the House and six Senate seats in the 2012 mid-term elections. It was the worst drubbing for a first-term President since voters took 77 House seats away from Warren G. Harding’s Republicans […]
In California, Cobalt Technologies announced a partnership with the U.S. Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels. Under the agreement, n-biobutanol produced by Cobalt will be converted to bio-jet and biodiesel fuels using technology developed at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in […]
In Texas, Photon8 has announced that it has discovered how to produce hydrocarbons straight from algae to be used as drop-in fuels. According to the company’s CEO, around the time the company was looking into how to make jet fuel, came the realization that the firm’s algae cell growth rate was high enough that it […]
In Montana, Algae Aquaculture Technologies has received a $350,000 grant from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. The grant will be used to build a commercial algae greenhouse that converts waste wood chips into organic fertilizer. The company will grow algae in the greenhouse and use an anaerobic digester to produce methane gas to burn […]
In the UK, while much of the country is reeling under massive federal budget cuts, a new program is being developed that is likely to encourage the development of biofuel projects as well as other businesses that fall under the ‘green’ category. As part of the “Local Growth White Paper”, a “Renewable Energy Bonus” may […]
by Dawson Williams and Rick Gilmore, GIC Group Despite a dim future for climate legislation at the national level, efforts at the regional level and among leading voluntary carbon schemes are opening new GHG reduction avenues for agriculture. The Climate Action Reserve (CAR), which was chartered by state legislation in California in 2001, has just […]
In Romania, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has awarded biodiesel producer Expur with a $112 million syndicated financing package to help the company expand its operations by upgrading its crushing plant and adding additional working capital. Currently it produces and crushes rapeseed and sunflower to producer crude oil, edible oil and biodiesel. The […]
Alltop_green: EBI study concludes potential contribution of microalgae biofuels in US will be modest due to resource constraints. ToddBBatesAPP: “#Algae for #biofuels: Moving from promise to reality, but how fast?” mdmerritt: Good summary of new developments creating a sound case for #ethanol #biofuels RT @sdcorn: ethreporter: New #European #ethanol #lobby launched. MulchTMC: The only thing […]
In California, at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) based in San Francisco, researchers have developed a wiki for the biofuels research community to help streamline cost-efficient biorefinery operations by simulating such critical factors as production costs and energy balances under different processing scenarios. The wiki runs a technoeconomic model to help with the simulation. In […]
