In California, news arrived that Aemetis has acquired 12 years of exclusive rights in California (based upon achieving certain milestones) to LanzaTech’s technology for the conversion of agricultural waste, forest waste, dairy waste and construction and demolition waste to ethanol in California. The LanzaTech gas-to-ethanol technology enables Aemetis to convert these local California biomass wastes […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, fell back 1.38 percent to 52.09 as advanced bio equities sank. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) fell 8.48 percent to $4.64, while Gevo (GEVO) gave back 15.69 percent to $0.43. Among other equities, TerraVia (SZYM) shed 8.75 percent to $2.19. Overall, declines […]
One of these days your personal transportation system might look like this. A solar or wind energy facility generates renewable electricity, which is converted into a solar fuel using electrofuel technology that converts CO2 and water to a fuel using electricity (rather than photosynthesis) to power the operation. That fuel is then used in a […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, fell back 1.46 percent to 52.82 despite an advanced bio rally. For the day, TerraVia (SZYM) dumped 12.09 percent to $2.40 on profit taking, while Gevo (GEVO) soared 37.84 percent to $0.51. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) shed 7.95 percent to $3.01. Overall, […]
There are 17,576 possible 3-letter acronyms in the Roman alphabet and sometimes it feels as it the chemical industry and the military have used them all up. Three letter acronyms are so prevalent they have spawned their own acronym, TLA. Once, the Navy’s Director for Operational Energy, Chris Tindal, opened up a session at which […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, jumped 1.25 percent to 53.60 as advanced bio rallied on TerraVia’s progress up the charts. For the day, TerraVia (SZYM) soared 20.80 percent to $2.73, while Amyris (AMRS) fell back 5.00 percent to $1.14. Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) gained 2.83 percent to […]
This past week, we conducted a popular webinar on the Hot 50 as part of the March Madness 2016 series. Many participants asked for the underlying slides, for download and offline review. So, here they are. Meanwhile, the complete recorded version including comments on companies and the no-holds-barred, interactive Q&A with readers is here.
In New York, Anellotech has received an additional $3 million equity investment from an unnamed and confidential multinational strategic investor and corporate partner. As previously announced on November 18, 2015, Anellotech received the first $7 million tranche of this now total $10 million investment from this investor. The capital will be used to fund the […]
In the EU, a consortium of European companies and research institutions, with Borregaard as lead member, has applied for financial support for the development and commercialization of Borregaard’s Exilva microfibrillar cellulose under the Horizon 2020 Flagship program, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation. The application has been positively evaluated, and it is now […]
In Michigan, PHYCO2 is reporting “a technology breakthrough” in Phase I of the multi-year trial with Michigan State University (MSU). The technology partnership set out to capture manmade carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas emission (GHG)) and create renewable alternative energy feedstock. Phase I proved the technology can capture significant amounts of CO2 for high-density algae cultivation […]
