You may not know it, but you are short on hydrogen. Right now. We live in a hydrogen-starved world, and it’s expensive to make. And most of what we make is unsustainable, produced from fossil sources. All that might be ready to change. The Digest investigates. Making syngas for efficient production of fuels? Need hydrogen. Fuel-cell […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, fell 1.59 percent to 50.78 as advanced bio slumped. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) dropped 10.90 percent to $2.37, while Gevo (GEVO) shed 10.73 percent to $0.60. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) lost 7.17 percent to $2.20. Overall, declines led advances 7 to 1 […]
$2.25 per gallon hydrocarbon fuels from biomass, unsubsidized? CRI moves to second-stage towards a commercial-scale deployment of its high-yield, low-cost drop-in fuel technology. And residence time may be the key. This week, a cryptic but tasty news kernel has emerged from CRI, that they have entered into a Front End Loading (FEL-2) evaluation package license […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, gained 0.53 percent to 51.60 as advanced bio rallied. For the day, Global Bioenergies (ALGBE.PA) jumped 11.67 percent to $28.70, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dropped 6.80 percent to $4.52. Among other equities, Abengoa (ABGB) dumped 10.16 percent to $1.15. Overall, declines and advances […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, opened the year with a 1.21 percent loss to 51.33 as ethanol equities fell. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) lost 4.36 percent to $2.60, while Solzsyme (SZYM) shed 4.02 percent to $2.39. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) dumped 23.75 percent to $0.61. Overall, […]
Last week, we asked the readers to participate in our 30 Hottest Molecules survey, which you can take here (and the supplementary Survey, which you can see here) if you haven’t yet completed. Thank you to the hundreds of readers who took time to consider the nominees. We were astonished by the range of suggestions […]
Who mandates what in biofuels? 64 countries have targets or mandates — but how much where, and when, and what? In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 64 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for this week in the 2016 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy competition. Amyris (3 winners), REG, GF Biochemicals (2) and Novozymes took home the winning bonus votes this week. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company,” said Digest editor Jim […]
In Florida, Dyadic International announced the closing of the previously announced sale of substantially all of the assets of its Industrial Technology business to DuPont’s Industrial Biosciences business for $75 million in cash. As previously announced, following the closing, Dyadic intends to focus exclusively on its biopharmaceutical business. In connection with the closing of the […]
The IEA Bioenergy Task 39 Group released its end of year newsletter, which included a comprehensive country profile for biofuels activity in Germany, authored by Franziska Müller-Langer (DBFZ and Nicolaus Dahmen (KIT). The overview includes Background and policy, the Current regulatory framework in Germany, Developments and perspectives until 2020 and post-2020 in Germany, and an […]
