In South Africa, Boeing, South African Airways and low-cost carrier Mango celebrated Africa’s first passenger flights with sustainable aviation biofuel. The SAA and Mango flights carried 300 passengers from Johannesburg to Cape Town on Boeing 737-800s using a blend of 30 percent aviation biofuel produced from Sunchem’s nicotine-free tobacco plant Solaris, refined by AltAir Fuels […]
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, ethanol production averaged 1.004 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 42.17 million gallons daily. That is up 20,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 988,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 15.15 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood […]
By Ed Dodge Special to The Digest In Washington, a commercialization panel said that “the biofuels industry has been through a tough couple of years, but the survivors are scaling up and bringing product to market. The panel featured some leading players in the biofuels industry including Brooke Coleman from the Advanced Biofuels Business Council, […]
In Michigan, PHYCO2 completed a year of testing an industry-disrupting and patented Algae Photo-Bioreactor (APB), and is now building two advisory boards to focus on the commercialization of technologies for human nutrition and animal feed. PHYCO2’s new technology allows pure microalgae to grow indoors 24 hours a day, and without sunlight, in any geographic location, […]
In New York, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that “The Middle East is back as the world’s dominant oil-producing region, churning out its biggest chunk of global output since the 1970s and giving OPEC an edge in its fight for market share.” Last month alone, US oil output dropped 176 million gallons, while Middle […]
In Iowa, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, the nation’s longest serving Governor, was honored today by renewable fuels industry leaders, the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition and the National Governors Association at a breakfast commemorating his steadfast leadership in renewable fuels. According to a recent IRFA study, Iowa’s renewable fuels industry accounts for more than $4.6 billion of […]
In Washington, as the DOE’s Bioenergy 2016 conference opened its third day, the Energy Department announced up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. It’s one of those moments in the algae narrative that remind you of that scene […]
Global Algae Innovations designs innovative technology to make algae production more efficient and consistent. This week, the DOE made a major award to a group led by GAI, including the University of California-San Diego, TSD Management Associates, Texas A&M University, General Electric, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. They will accelerate the commercialization […]
A few years ago, Michael Pollan wrote a best-seller, In Defense of Food, that leveled an attack on high fructose sweeteners from which the corn industry has not entirely recovered. If you’ve seen an industry effort to relabel “high fructose corn syrup” as something else — anything else — it is because of a consumer […]
In Washington, Ensyn announced ground-breaking on a new 10.5 million gallon biocrude project in Port-Cartier Quebec. The facility, which will be 50% owned by Ensyn and will receive financing support from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. The project was announced live on-stage at Bioenergy 2016 by Ensyn’s new CEO, Jeffrey Jacobs, who described the project as the “largest-ever deployment […]
