In Colorado, SynTech Bioenergy completed the installation of its newest facility which will convert pecan shells into electricity in Texas. Five similar plants are currently operating on walnut shells in California; the first plant dates back to 2008. BioMax output is scalable from 165kWe to 1MWe and is modular, containerized, easily transportable, remotely operable and powered by a variety of abundant biomass […]
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance released a new 10-year chart showing opposite trends in the UN FAO’s Food Price Index and world fuel ethanol production since 2008, “demonstrating clearly that ethanol production is not a main driver of global food prices”. The chart uses the latest world fuel ethanol production data from F.O. […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that “ample global soybean supply and an increase in soybean acreage in the US for the upcoming 2017 crop put downward pressure on Chicago soybean prices. Rapeseed in Paris also flagged, but remained at the previous year’s level thanks to shaky harvest outlooks.” The nearby for soybean in Chicago dropped to […]
In China, Mission Innovation and Biofuture Platform will host a side event “Scaling Up the Low Carbon Bioeconomy”. June 8, at the China National Convention Center, Beijing, as part of the CEM8 and Mission Innovation 2 Ministerial in Beijing. The event will highlight the recent contributions of Mission Innovation Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge (SBIC) and the Biofuture Platform […]
Last November, Donald J. Trump was elected president by the voters of Paris. Paris, PA, that is. It’s a suburb of Pittsburgh, as it happens. Of “I was elected by voters of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” fame. Where Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto joined the mayors of more than 175 cities in a rebel yell that has […]
In Washington, President Trump said that he would withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Treaty signed by President Obama last year. The move leaves the US as one of three countries that are opposing the Paris Agreement — the others are Syria and Nicaragua. The President denounced the Climate Treaty for its “draconian terms” […]
In Wisconsin, James Dumesic and his cohort of biomagicians revealed that they have trained up gamma valerolactone (GVL) into a solvent that converts biomass into three viable products, in one step — the platform chemical furfural, a dissolving pulp that can be spun into textile fibers and a highly pure lignin that makes battery anodes […]
Alcohol-to-jet. Several are working on it – Byogy, for example, and Vertimass, Virent and LanzaTech. But Gevo has been working through the rigorous ASTM process for six years, which includes extensive engine testing and data analysis by all of the major original equipment manufacturers to establish the specification for this drop in fuel. Once approved, this […]
DuPont has developed a multi-part strategy to deliver new technologies to the growing biofuels and chemicals markets market. The strategy includes: (1) improving existing ethanol production through differentiated agriculture seed products and crop protection solutions as well as through improved bioprocessing aids and enzymes that allow animals to get the most out of valuable ethanol co-products; […]
By 2050, Africa will need 2.9 billion tons of wood per year to provide cooking fuel for its population, and according to the FAO it will require 771 million hectares of woody biomass cultivation to support that demand, and Africa only has 649 million hectares of forest if no one cuts any down in the […]
