Strong biofuels flight results, advances in algae, new commitments in venture capital and revived interest from the Canadian Navy. Biofuels are off to a fast start in 2013 in Canada. Canada’s been known for years as the home of several important technology players – Iogen, for one; but more recently, Greenfield Ethanol has been aiming […]
Bio-Refinery Begins Operations Turning Co-Cropping into Fuels, Chemicals Deep in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam a small bio-refinery is converting seaweed into protein, fuel-blendable alcohol, and a bacterial soil product. It is part of a bio-economy demonstration that is also enhancing shrimp quality and yield by co-cropping naturally-occurring aquatic plants as a bio-chemical feedstock. […]
In Michigan, MBI reports that the DOE has awarded Novozymes and MBI up to $2.5 million to develop new enzyme-based technologies to convert corn stover into sugars. Novozymes, a world-leading enzyme company, brings its depth of expertise in enzyme screening and development to the partnership, while MBI brings its innovative AFEX biomass processing technology. AFEX […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dipped 0.19 percent to 67.18 as advanced biofuels tumbled. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) rallied 3.23 percent to $4.15, while Gevo (GEVO) fell 5.42 percent to $1.92. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) lost 5.71 percent to $0.33 (VRNM) ascended 2.05 percent to $2.49. […]
It’s showtime for drop-in fuels, oils in a wave of USDA co-investments — and a shift in philosophy to from “Make New” to “Make Do”. On Friday, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $25 million in R&D grants via the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and its Biomass Research and Development Initiative, established […]
In Denmark, CLC bio announced that the J. Craig Venter Institute has extended their site license agreement with CLC bio through 2017. JCVI has been utilizing CLC bio’s enterprise platform since 2009 and currently uses it on more than 30 research grants, including their work as part of the Human Microbiome Project. ”The complexity and […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.39 percent to 67.31 as advanced biofuels rocked. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) rebounded 8.36 percent to $4.02, while OriginOil (OOIL) tumbled 9.21 percent to $0.69. Among other equities, Verenium (VRNM) ascended 2.05 percent to $2.49. Overall, advances and declines were even for […]
The US Ethanol Fleet reinvents as super-advanced technologies target the old fleet for new purposes. For some time, perhaps one of the toughest assets to manage in the Western World — possibly the Milky Way Galaxy or even the local galaxy group — has been a starch ethanol plant. They’ve been through it all, just […]
In California, Edeniq announced that California ethanol producer, Pacific Ethanol, Stockton LLC (“Pacific Ethanol”), has entered into an agreement to install Edeniq technology at the company’s Stockton, California ethanol plant. Pacific Ethanol will install Edeniq’s proprietary Cellunators™ to boost ethanol yields, and will also deploy Edeniq’s patented OilPlus™ corn oil extraction process to increase corn […]
By Janet McGurty, special to the Digest U.S. biodiesel makers were big winners in the last minute tax bill passed in Washington at year end, regaining the $1 per gallon tax credit which expired December 2011 and extending it to the end of 2013, helping an industry where many small producers closed or cut back sharply on production […]
