Jobs, global expansion, proteins vs fuels, new R&D funding – all the big issues are under debate both on and off the floor at the Algae Biomass Summit. In Colorado, the Algae Biomass Summit, which attracted 800 people this year, four days of presentations, including multi-tracked sessions, provides a huge data stream for attendees. Plus, […]
In Delaware, the USPTO has granted Butamax Patent Number 8,273,558 (‘558 patent). The innovative ‘558 patent technology provides a path to commercial production volumes of biobutanol for the global biofuel and other markets. Butamax has specifically designed its microorganism to be cost-effective for all markets, but particularly for biofuel blending. While unmodified yeast may produce […]
In Brazil, French company Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients has started a project for a manufacturing facility to produce their Biolice bioplastic. The facility is expected to be about 2,000 m3, and a production capacity of 8,000 metric tonnes, with production expected to start in Q3 2013. Biolice is sourced from maize cereal flour, and is both […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 1.40 percent to close at 65.53 as advanced biofuels tumbled again. For the day, Biofuel Energy (BIOF) dumped 9.61 percent to $5.83, while Gevo (GEVO) shed another 14.02 percent to $1.85 on news that it had missed 2012 operating targets. Among other equities, […]
In Shenandoah, white biotechnology meets black carbon remediation, and algae production comes to the Corn Belt, as BioProcess Algae and Green Plains Renewable Energy aim for a “lowest-cost winner” in algae biofuels. In Europe they call “white biotechnology” what is elsewhere known as “industrial biotechnology”, or around the Corn belt as “the technology behind corn […]
In New York, Mango Materials announced that their CEO Molly Morse is the 2012 winner of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, the world’s largest annual award for sustainable entrepreneurship. Morse received $630,000 (€500,000) to develop her promising green business. Her company, Mango Materials, uses bacteria to turn methane gas into biodegradable plastic. The Postcode Lottery Green […]
iowafuel: Obama and Romney on #farm issues and #biofuels h/t @FarmBureau recycling_Facts: New data on the biofuel ecobalance: Most biofuels are not ‘green’: First tops, then flops. … renewable_nergy: Enerjetik plans Denver facility to produce biofuels: Denver Business Journal by Cathy Proctor, Reporter Date: Tu… CanGreenfuels: Ethanol plant makes 1 million tons of CO2 disappear! […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 1.34 percent to close at 66.46 as advanced biofuels tumbled. For the day, Biofuel Energy (BIOF) recovered 8.40 percent to $6.45, while Gevo (GEVO) plunged 35.35 percent to $2.14 on news that it had missed 2012 operating targets. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) […]
Algenol hits 7000 gallon per acre mark in field operations. What’s the impact for Algenol, for energy independence, for the cost of transport fuel? Today in the Digest, we put you on the highway, and show you the signs – as producers take it to the limit, one more time. Yesterday, in the opening plenary […]
Reoptimizing its technology, now expects return to reach target isobutanol production rates in 2013. In Colorado, Gevo announced that, while making significant progress towards economic production levels, the company does not now expect to achieve its desired year-end run rate – instead it has delayed hitting that target into 2013. “While we have made significant […]
