You Gotta Be In It to Win It. It’s your call. Your 50 big issues for 2013. Your issues can matter at ABLC 2013. One click, one vote from you, ensures that these — or other — issues are on the agenda. One thing is for sure. Since the world’s bioenergy leadership will be in […]
In Korea, a research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology applied systems metabolic engineering approach to develop recombinant Escherichia coli for the production of 5-aminovaleric acid and glutaric acid, the promising C5 platform chemicals, by fermentation. A recombinant E. coli expressing DavB and DavA […]
There’s only one complete region for biofuels where abundant feedstock, lack of oil & gas production, rising energy demand and supportive government policy come together — and that is Asia. We’re never quite sure which factor is the most important in Asia’s rising focus on biofuels: Interventionist governments, concentration of capital, strong traditional focus on […]
In California, analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the Biofertilizers Market in North America, finds that the market earned revenues of over $132.9 million in 2011 which is projected to equal $205.6 million by 2018. “Biofertilizers are available in nitrogen-fixing and phosphate-solubilizing forms, and can be combined into multi-functional formulations that increase yields […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.97 percent to 63.27 as the Santa Claus rally fizzled. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) shed 6.38 percent to $2.79, while Syntroleum (SYNM) fell 5.56 percent to $0.34. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) shed 3.62 percent to $2.13. Overall, declines led advances 4 […]
Trains to Glory, algae skyscrapers, the Grease Thief manhunt, Camel-tummy microbes, Briquettes against the Taliban, Kudzu’s comeback and more. OK, we’re lucky to be here in so many ways. December 19th came and went, the Mayan calendar ended, and Planet Earth is still here. But lucky we are to have been here throughout 2012, to […]
In Canada, CO2 Solutions, an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, today announced that Procede Group B.V., its process testing and development partner based in the Netherlands, was selected to receive up to the equivalent of C$975,000 in grant funding over three years. The funding is made available under the Dutch Ministry […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 1.16 percent to 63.89 as ethanol equities dimmed. For the day, Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) fell 5.41 percent to $7.87, while KiOR (KIOR) reversed 3.42 percent to $6.21. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) shed 4.33 percent to $2.21. Overall, advances led declines […]
In Hawaii, the contract for Maui-based Pacific Biodiesel Technologies to supply biodiesel to Hawaiian Electric Company for the Honolulu International Airport Emergency Power Facility has been approved by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. Under the three-year agreement, Pacific Biodiesel will annually supply between 250,000 gallons and one million gallons of biodiesel produced locally from Hawaii-sourced feedstock. As production ramps up […]
In the annual poll, voters reward milestones met, steel in the ground and Capital Clout. In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 100 People in Bioenergy” as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the Digest’s editorial board. Vilsack was followed in the top 10 by POET’s Jeff Broin and […]
