Last month, Propel Fuels and Solazyme partnered to offer Solazyme’s algae-based SoladieselBD to drivers through Propel’s Bay Area network of retail renewable fuel locations. In a one-month pilot, The fuel was sold at the same price as conventional diesel fuels at Propel’s Clean Fuel Points in Redwood City, San Jose (N. First St.), Berkeley, and […]
Earlier this year, LanzaTech and Baosteel reported their jointly-owned 100,000 gallon per year (300 tons) demonstration plant, located at a Baosteel steel mills outside Shanghai, China has met and exceeded milestones – the companies are reporting that the plant achieved higher productivity than design. A full scale commercial facility with Baosteel is planned for 2013 […]
It’s been a tough year in the headlines for Amyris. As we wrote last week, “by now, most of the “smart set” that found itself excited about Amyris, and about advanced synthetic biofuels during the IPO fever, have moved on. They read Dan Grushkin’s “The Rise And Fall Of The Company That Was Going To […]
CleanStar Mozambique doesn’t fit easily into any of the typical award categories. But it deserves an award all its own. As we have pointed out in the past, the fumes from traditional three-stone cooking or from diesel-operated cookstoves are dangerous to the health of young people in developing countries. Bad air doesn’t get nearly the […]
Book of the Year (shared) – “Why Are We Producing Biofuels?”, Robert C. Brown, Tristan R. Brown; “The Carbon Rush”, Graham Noyes Here in Digestville, as with other news media, we tend to cover the who, what, where, when and how of biofuels, And, always, how much. We don’t spend nearly as much time on […]
In Maryland, OpGen announced its ARGUS Whole Genome Mapping System technology was used in combination with next-generation sequencing to produce the first, high-quality reference genome of the domestic goat. The study, which was led by BGI-Shenzhen and Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was published online today in Nature Biotechnology. In the study, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 1.20 percent to 62.73 as advanced biofuels plunged. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) sunk 7.20 percent to $2.45, while Solazyme (SZYM) lost 4.08 percent to $7.75. Among other equities, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) recovered 5.37 percent to $5.89. Overall, declines led advances 7 […]
Biofene production starts up in Paraiso, Brazil – sales expected to commence in Q1 2013 – Total, Temasek, Biolding inject fresh capital. What’s next for biofuels’ “Comeback Kid”? By now, most of the “smart set” that found itself excited about Amyris, and about advanced synthetic biofuels during the IPO fever, have moved on. They read […]
In Hawaii, Hawaii Petroleum loaded the first tanker of fuel produced at the Big Island Biodiesel facility in Kea ’au. The fuel is bound for its nearby Hawaii Fueling Network station in Shipman Business Park, which offers 100% biodiesel and a 20% blend. HFN has been selling biodiesel produced at Pacific Biodiesel’s facilities on Maui […]
In Florida, Popular Science magazine named the 100 percent biofuels-fueled test flight this year as one of its 25 “Big Science Stories Of 2012”. The flight involved a partnership including Applied Research Associates, Chevron Lummus Global, the National Research Council of Canada, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Agrisoma Biosciences. The ReadiJeft fuel flight […]
