By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” The dictionary defines a Pyrrhic Victory as a victory achieved at too great a cost. Well, the ancient Greeks would indeed quickly identify the Pyrrhic implications of the recent midnight resolution of the fiscal cliff. That is, the cost of renewed tax breaks for the biofuels industry came […]
Is the government’s commitment to alternative fuels being stymied by the American Petroleum Institute, or is the Department of Energy stymying the commitment all by itself? Commentary from the National Algae Association The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently canceled a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency that required refiners to […]
By Pamela Serino Director, Quality Tech Support Office Defense Logistics Agency Energy In this note, Ms,. Serino is responding to DNV: biofuels are key to meeting marine emissions targets. I agree that biofuels are the key and the easiest way forward at this time. A mandate in all countries to go to ULSD marine fuel would […]
In Minnesota, Cargill reports that demonstrated enhanced thermal capabilities of its Envirotemp FR3 renewable dielectric fluid, which is made from vegetable oil, have been published within a new design standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Industry-standard temperature limits for electrical transformers are traditionally capped at 110-degrees Celsius. IEEE’s new standard (C57.154) sets […]
Today on Twitter: Sudeshnairs: Biofuels boom waits on paperwork: Seven years after a government feasibility study has showed a biofuels industr… NewburgEquip: Rulin on RFS Likely 2 Have Minimal Long-Term Impact on Biofuels GorillaMentor: The world market for biofuels and alternative energy showing signs of rapid expansion. Maybe it is time you advertise.. KimberlyRowlett: SE […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.71 percent percent to 68.48 as enzymes retreated. Cosan (CZZ) advanced 1.44 percent to $19.73, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 4.81 percent to $5.54. Among other equities, Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) sagged 4.65 percent to $2.33. Overall, declines led advances 2 to 1 […]
Who’s right, in the fight of their lives over E15 ethanol blending? Whose data’s from Toontown, whose from the real-world? Yesterday the American Petroleum Institute held a press conference in DC to highlight a new report from the Coordinating Research Council on E15 ethanol blends. The report is here. The API: Blast your scuppers, now […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, top milestones for 2010-12 and projected milestone for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Company description: Production of specialty chemicals using proprietary biomass gasification to produce anhydrous ammonia/urea (nitrogen fertilizer), methanol, dimethyl ether, polypropylene. Address: 310 Green Street, San Francisco, CA 94133 Year founded: 2008 Major Investors: Founder financed. Type of Processing Technology(ies) : The heart of the SynGest process involves a pressurized oxygen-blown biomass gasifier designed for operation in an […]
Based in: 3700 Koppers Street, Suite 405, Baltimore, MD, 21227 Year founded: 1996 Technology: Steam reforming gasification Fuel type: TRI’s high-quality, medium-BTU syngas can be converted into a wide range of downstream biofuel and biochemical products. Since 2003, a TRI gasifier has been in commercial-scale operation at Norampac’s Trenton (Ontario) containerboard mill, gasifying black liquor […]
