Author Archive: Jim Lane
Verdezyne, Ave Atque Vale
From Southern California the report has arrived that Verdezyne is winding down as a company, and today is the last day of operations. The low oil price environment has claimed another victim among the renewable chemical pure-plays. Why oil prices have doomed more chemical players than fuels In a nutshell, there’s no Renewable Chemicals Standard […]
Why Not Now? The Digest’s 2018 Multi Slide Guide to Biofuels’ Barriers and Drivers
“The fuels market is about the largest in the world,” says Terry Mazanec. “Each succeeding generation of inspired inventors and entrepreneurs, with visions of immense profits dancing in their heads, have taken on the challenge of energy. Now the world turns its lonely eyes to biofuels. The attraction of developing an alternative fuel source that […]
ICYMI: $227M available from US in push for vehicle, feedstock and bioconversion advances
We usually say, ICYMIs for those In Case You Missed Its that show up in someone’s inbox. This week, we might re-purpose that useful acronym to: In Case Your Money Isn’t Sufficient — because there are three funding opportunities that have been flying slightly under the radar this week amongst a flurry of announces from the […]
Drop-in fuels and biomaterials: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies
Global Bioenergies is a pioneer in the development of one-step fermentation processes for the direct and cost-efficient transformation of renewable resources into light olefin hydrocarbons, the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Since inception, the company focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can […]
The Building Blocks of a Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium
The company is now safely emerged from its celebrated IPO, and is embarked on the development of the first commercial plant project with its JV partner BASF — so, its been a big period and even more critical thresholds lie ahead for Avantium. Avantium’s YXY technology converts plant-based sugar into chemicals and plastics, including 2,5-furandicarboxylic […]
Deal or No Deal– Either way we Need to Keep Moving
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest While the expression that the devil is in the details is trite and overused, it certainly fits when assessing the “Deal” supposedly reached this week on ethanol. First of all the export RIN issue does raise trade questions but if RINS go […]
I’ll Never Find Another You: Provivi’s protecting crops by confusing pests in their search for romance
The single most refreshing event on the bioeconomy calendar — the MLS Capital Fund’s annual Thought Leadership meeting — has come and gone for another year and the participants have emerged from Berkeley holding their heads, sifting through the annual firehose-style high-pressure bath of bioeconomy innovation and perspective. If you see someone wandering the streets […]
From Gen1 to High-value: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis
Aemetis owns and operates 110 million gallons per year of ethanol and biodiesel facilities in the US and India, and is upgrading the plants using patented technology to produce lower carbon, higher value advanced biofuels and chemicals using lower cost, non-food energy sources and feedstocks. Of special interest is the Aemetis cellulosic refinery using agricultural […]
The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Biorefinery of the Future
What will biorefineries look like, accomplish and cost in the future? Daniel Lane of Saille Consulting and Lee Enterprises Consulting looked at that topic in this illuminating overview of the promise and prospects for the technological future at ABLC 2018 in Washington 2018.
