Among stories about specific feedstocks and fuels, nothing attracted the Digest readers’ attention this past year like a good algae story. Biggest among them was “Biggie Smalls: Microcrops go mainstream and head for the Big Time” which appeared last August. But “Algae’s Baby Bloomers” from February and “Here I am to Save the Day: Microalgae […]
Fuel from thin Air – or solar liquid fuels, as they have come to be known, proved immensely popular this past year. Profiles on Joule Unlimited (drop in fuels produced directly from CO2 and sunlight) and a report on a collaboration between JBEI and LS9 to re-engineer e.coli to produce renewable diesel directly from cellulosic […]
One of the most widely-circulated policy stories focused on reaction to the announcement by the EPA last December to delay its decision on E15 until summer 2010. Though EPA indicated that it was likely to approve E15 in some form based on early vehicle testing, industry reaction was notable for grumbling over what some believed […]
One of the surprisingly popular shorelines this year has been the rise of pyrolysis as a commercial biofuels technology. An August profile of Anellotech drew the largest readership of all of the pyrolysis and biocrude stories this year, but stories like Pyromaniax would draw big numbers throughout the year.
Though distributed, small-scale biofuels have their fierce proponents, no article on mobile generators or other distributed biofuels technology had ever come close to the top 10 articles until a February profile of GreenNow, which deployed a heating system for B100-baeed mobile generators.
Aviation biofuels were closely followed by the readership all year, and just making its way into the Top 10, was this special report on aviation biofuels, “Jet Stream“, which profiles companies, technologies, deployment and timelines to commercialization.
Growth Energy, the Renewable Fuels Association, the Environmental Working Group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the American Meat Institute, and several members of congress are among the main players in a drama unfolding this week on Capitol Hill, in a battle over the ethanol subsidy. It’s one of several battles over […]
It was a gigantic day yesterday for the biofuels industry, and the biggest news was saved for last, that Syntroleum and Tyson have completed construction, and commenced commissioning, of their 75 Mgy renewable diesel plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The Dynamic Fuels project becomes, by a factor of 18, the largest operating advanced biofuels plant in […]
Does LanzaTech represent a new way to extract value, or a new way to understand it? In recent weeks the Digest reported that Vinod Khosla, in a keynote at BIO, pooh-poohed a wide-assortment of technologies in biofuels with a special focus on critiquing the high cost of enzymes, while focusing his praise on fuels produced […]
In California, Amyris Biotechnologies is in the final stages leading to the pricing of its IPO, and just two questions remain, but they are big ones: 1. How will Amyris price if at all, and begin public trading. 2. Is it a safe buy, or a long shot? Here’s what the Digest’s editors and sources […]
