In North Dakota, the Grand Forks Herald has reported that the former Alchem ethanol plant in Grafton has been sold to Jim Borchart, owner of Borchart Steel, for $525,000. Borchart, who has previously bought and sold four ethanol plants, said that he would make a decision early in the new year about restarting the plant, […]
In Texas, the National Algae Association is starting a new algae production incubator to help lower the costs and risks as scale-up build-outs begin in the algae production industry. Algaepreneurs, colleges and universities interested in scaling-up commercial-scale technologies (i.e., growing, harvesting and extraction methods and processes) will have the opportunity to join the new algae […]
In Brazil, Brazil’s outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that “The rich world – Europe, Japan, the US – have an obligation to stop using pollutant fuel, so they will have to seek other alternatives, such as our sugar cane ethanol.” The remarks were part of a speech Lula gave to mark the […]
In France, PSA Peugeot Citroën and the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA), have commenced partnership discussions aimed at the production of biofuels. PSA officials urged the EU to make B10 biodiesel a centerpiece of the overall strategy to reach its renewables targets. “Internal combustion engines will still represent 85 per cent of the […]
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In California, USDA Agricultural Research Service Western Regional Research Center chemist Dominic Wong and partners at Cargill have isolated, sequenced and cloned twelve genes that they believe can be inserted into e.coli bacteria that will produce FAE enzymes. These enzymes are known for their ability to break down plant cell walls, which would make it […]
In California, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA Farm Service Agency and USDA Rural Development and the California Association of Resource Conservation & Development Councils are announcing twelve public meetings, throughout the state, to solicit public comments on the subject of biofuels. “USDA is working to expand energy opportunities by producing alternative forms of […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, declined 0.15 percent to 68.63 on large cap declines offset by small cap surges. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 2.00 percent to $31.92, while BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB) gained 42.86 percent to $0.50 on the third day of a big rally following […]
In Part VII of our series today, we look at the addition of clean, renewable diesel fuels, as produced by the magic bugs of the type developed by Amyris or LS9 – or utilizing the catalytic bio-forming process under development at Virent. Our goal: the production of even more diesel fuel to replace the fossil-fuels […]
In Arizona, numerous algal biofuels and biomaterial announcements highlighted the first two days of activity at the 4th annual Algal Biomass Summit, held this year in Phoenix. Speaking before several hundred attendees, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona committed a total of $4 million towards establishment of an algae research center, which will be known as […]
