The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 70.48, up 0.04 percent as ethanol took a dive. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) fell 3.88 percent to $3.22, while Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) tumbled 11.51 percent to $7.92. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) regained 1.90 percent to $11.24. Overall, […]
Finding synergy between biogas, ethanol and power generation – the Maabjerg Energy Concept promises a new approach to energy economics and sustainability, through the capture and re-purpose of industrial byproducts. On a cold, rainy day, 29 months ago, along the windswept shores of Zealand, the Danish central island where Copenhagen makes its home on the […]
In Laos, BioJet today announced formation of a strategic business and project relationship with Lao Asia Pacific Agriculture Promotion Import-Export Sole Company Limited (LAP). The Project involves biofuel production for land and air transport as well as bioenergy coproducts. It is planned to include 100,000 hectares of feedstock production as well as refining/conversion facilities appropriate […]
In Colorado, Zeal Optics is making all their sunglass frames from Z-Resin, a bio-based plastic made from castor bean oil. Zeal touts the fact that the castor plant as an efficient, extremely fast-growing perennial that’s easy to grow, withstands drought and thrives on marginal lands.
In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Advanced BioFuel Association, the Algal Biomass Organization, Airlines for America, and the National Farm Bureau Federation today wrote leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee asking them to include authorization for the U.S. Department of Energy to transfer funds to the Defense Production Act necessary for an interagency project […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 0.47 percent to 70.45 as advanced biofuels reversed direction. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) soared 19.22 percent to $3.35, while Syngenta (SYT) jumped 3.07 percent to $71.30. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) gained 3.37 percent to $11.03. Overall, advances led declines 9 to […]
Making good, affordable syngas from municipal solid waste to unlock 9 billion gallons of low-cost fuel? Covanta’s hot new gasification technology makes a big dent in the big challenge. Just after mealtimes, in the hours after mail delivery, and occasionally when the world’s youth resolve certain unhygienic conditions prevalent in the science experiments known as […]
In California, Luca Technologies informed the SEC that “In light of current market conditions, the Company has determined not to proceed with the initial public offering” for which it filed an S-1 registration statement last June. Luca was one of four companies, including BrightSource and Enerkem, that had been expected to complete its IPO this […]
In Sweden, Chemrec signed with China Tianchen Engineering Corporation, TCC, to provide an integrated offering of Chemrec plants on a global lump-sum turn-key basis and co-market the Chemrec black liquor gasification technology – a route to 2nd generation biofuels or green power. The prime ministers of China, Wen Jiabao, and of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt were […]
In California, OriginOil reports that, in recent independent third-party testing, the company’s algae harvesting process was able to remove 98% of hydrocarbons from a sample of West Texas oil well ‘frac flowback’ water in the first stage alone. Frac flowback describes water used in a drilling process called ‘hydraulic fracturing’, or ‘fracking’. This test sample […]
