At our next industry get-together, we look at biofuels and bio-based products in their hour of maximum peril and opportunity – are you prepared? At no time in its short, turbulent history have the biofuels and biomaterials industries gone through a period of threat and opportunity like 2012, with the possible exception of the 2013 […]
A two-part series in which Digest contributor Tim Sklar looks back on the development of a biocoal technology. All the promise in the world, and every adversity, too. By Tim Sklar The South Carolina project So we concentrated all of our efforts in developing the South Carolina plant and named this undertaking as The Georgetown […]
In Washington, the industry is gathering this week at the DOE’s fifth annual BIOMASS meeting at the Washington Convention Center. The DOE team will be live tweeting the conference from the Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework (KDF) Twitter handle (@BioenergyKDF), as well as posting live updates to the KDF Facebook wall, http://www.facebook.com/BioenergyKDF. Attendees and followers are encouraged […]
In California, Codexis announced that a pilot-scale demonstration of the company’s carbon capture technology conducted at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Alabama, on flue gas emitted from a Southern Company power plant, shows that enzymes have promise to facilitate CO2 capture at coal-fired power plants. This is the largest scale that enzyme-based […]
Today on Twitter. benlubbon: US Navy Presses Forward with Biofuels via @VOA_News > All for show if … biofuelCenterNC: Biofuels can continue to lower consumer gas prices, says Ag Sec. Vilsack IERenergy: Cellulosic biofuels: the perfect example of federal policy gone wrong drbiomass: U.S. Corn Growers Farming in Hell as Midwest Heat Spreads Yields falling 5 […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 1.86 percent to 61.71 as advanced biofuels and ethanol took a beating. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) lost 5.86 percent to $4.18, while Amyris (AMRS) plunged 11.99 percent to $3.23. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) dumped 6.19 percent to $11.98. Overall, declines led […]
Can industrial biotech merge mass production and haute couture into a new, tailored yet industrial system for products and materials? Companies like Joule may have the answers. A long time ago there was a children’s television show called Romper Room, with two recurring characters called Mr. Doo-Bee and Mr. Don’t-Bee – oversized bees that helpfully […]
A two-part series in which Digest contributor Tim Sklar looks back on the development of a biocoal technology. All the promise in the world, and every adversity, too. By Tim Sklar Getting Back In The Game Sklar & Associates, a Washington, DC corporation was incorporated in 1986. For over a 30 years period S&A had […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 1.19 percent to 62.88 as advanced biofuels stocks tumbled. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) lost 1.77 percent to $4.44, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 6.52 percent to $8.74. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) recovered 0.55 percent to $12.77. Overall, declines led advances 5 to […]
Dire US media headlines abound: “Drought!” What’s real, what’s hype, and what are the impacts? More importantly, what alternatives does science give us now, and in the future, with more drought-tolerant energy and food crops? The Reuters report could not have been more stark this week from a field in Illinois. “We’re in a critical […]
