In Norway, researchers at Caltech, SAFCell and Norway’s Nordic Power Systems have developed a diesel- or biodiesel-powered electric power supply unit, based on a fuel cell that is not dependent on hydrogen filling stations, and that can run on regular, easily available fuel without surrendering the environmental benefits of fuel cells. In trials, a 200-W […]
In the UK, farmers are being encouraged to produce their own biodiesel using waste oil or oil from their own crops with a process that promoters say only takes 20 minutes. Practical Energy Solutions has developed a process called the Biopot that will transform 75 liters of oil into biodiesel in 20 minutes for under […]
In Wisconsin, BusinessNorth is reporting on difficulties Flambeau River advanced biofuels is having securing a DOE loan guarantee. CEO Butch Johnson and president Bob Byrne of Flambeau River said that the DOE is requiring for a loan guarantee that the project bring its equity component up to 40-50 percent, and requested a loan term of […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.16 percent to 73.40 as advanced biofuels stocks dropped. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.91 percent to $32.56, BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB) fell 18.97 percent to $0.47. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) jumped 3.27 percent to $17.69 on an Outperform rating […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 0.60 percent to a new 25-month high of 73.52, the highest point since the 2008 financial crisis. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.40 percent to $32.86, while Gushan (GU) advanced 25.64 percent to $0.98. Among other equities, Monsanto (MON) soared […]
In California, AlwaysOn announced its GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100 companies list based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. Among biofuels companies, Amyris, Chemrec, Cobalt Technologies, CoolPlanetBioFuels, Coskata, EdeniQ, Gevo, LS9, Mendel Biotechnologies, OPX Biotechnologies, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Synthetic Genomics, and ZeaChem were named to the top […]
In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 100 People in Bioenergy” as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the Digest’s editors, just edging out POET CEO Jeff Broin and a trio of Brazilian bioenergy leaders at UNICA, Cosan and Petrobras. In total, industry executives from a dozen countries made […]
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jeff Broin, CEO, POET 3. Bob Dinneen, President, Renewable Fuels Association 4. Miguel Soldateli Rossetto, CEO, Petrobras Biocombustiviles 5. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme / Harrison Dillon, PhD, CTO 6. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy 7. Marcos Lutz, CEO, Cosan 8. Alan Shaw, PhD, CEO, Codexis 9. […]
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture A runaway winner in the voting, Vilsack has been driving hard to implement a strong biofuels policy on behalf of the Obama Administration, and as chair of the Interagency Working Group (comprising the USDA, EPA, and DOE) has clearly been identified by the Digest readership as the key […]
In Florida, Raymond James initiated coverage of Amyris with with an Outperform rating. “In the absence of positive full-year EPS until 2013, we apply a discounted cash flow (DCF) approach to arrive at a target price of $23.00. In view of the risky nature of the stock, we are assigning a Venture Risk suitability rating,” […]
