Today on Twitter: nileroots: Food or biofuels/ Colonialism and the Green Economy: Villagers Defy Pressure to Forfeit Farms for Carbon-Offset realassetjunkie: Are You Ready To Eat #Algae? Solazyme Knows You Are – bioenergycenter: Yet another problem with corn ethanol production: unsustainable water use. usbiofuels: We tested every kind #biodiesel kit available. The bottom line, nothing worked […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dipped 0.56 percent to 67.96 as advanced biofuels dropped. For the day, Syntroleum (SYNM) settled 2.00 percent to $0.49, while Amyris (AMRS) retreated 4.43 percent to $3.02. Among other equities, Biox (BIOX) plunged 13.85 percent to $0.56. Overall, declines led advances 2 to 1 […]
“Biofuels stands out as the best option, considering the overall environmental, safety and security impacts.” Volatile costs for fossil fuels and rising concerns over emissions. “A doubling of present CO2 emissions by 2050 if we do nothing.” A share of “for at least 10% of global emissions in 2050, as compared to 3% today, if […]
In Qatar last month, we reported that Norwegian company Yara had teamed with the Qatari government on the Sahara Forest project that will use solar power and sea water to produce food crops such as tomatoes, cucumber, melon, fodder crops, freshwater, clean energy, salt, algae and for biofuel. Let’s look at this project in more […]
In Missouri, POET announced that its Macon plant will temporarily suspend plant operations effective Feb. 1 due primarily to a lack of available local corn. All of the plant’s 44 team members will remain employed at their current hours. Many will assist in installation of the approximately $14.5 million in upgrades to the plant that […]
In California, Lawrence Berkeley Lab has developed a new technology that enables the engineering of host microorganisms suitable for biofuel processing using ionic liquid pretreatment. It may also enable fermentation under septic conditions, since invasive organisms are unlikely to tolerate ionic liquid residuals at the concentrations tolerated by the JBEI host. Since ionic liquid can […]
In Washington, GIC Group said that it has reached 60% completion in Stage 2 Proof of Concept with its CPC (Commodity Plus Carbon) futures contract and said that it expects to launch the project in Q3 2013. A CPC derivative contract is based on the underlying value of commodities that feature GHG reducing traits or […]
In Ireland, former Ryanair CEO Declan Ryan has joined investors in backing Aer Sustainable Energy Ltd, better known as Aer Bio. He was a director of Ryanair Holdings from August 1986 until 2004, holding several senior management positions including CEO. The Ireland-based group, AER Sustainable Energy was set up in 2006, applied for license to […]
In the UK, a research team at Imperial College has released a report identifying varietals of willows that contain up to five times as much sugar as standard willow trees, opening up new opportunities for willow-based biofuels, “It would drastically reduce [the environmental impact of biofuels] because you would not need such a severe pre-treatment […]
In New Zealand, the state forest research arm, Scion, is expecting to release a landmark report next month on the feasibility of producing biofuels using forest products. The Woodscape report, supported by Woodco, the Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Scion, is expected to tackle the question of expanding and scaling […]
