In California, Bloom Energy and Exelon’s competitive energy business Constellation announced the development of 40 megawatts of fuel cell projects for commercial customers, including Walmart, AT&T and the City of Harford, Conn. The agreement builds on Exelon’s 2014 investment in 21 megawatts of Bloom projects and supports the growth of Constellation’s distributed energy business, which […]
In Florida, Alliance BioEnergy Plus has completed its FEL 1, the first of four engineering stages that are required to complete construction of the first commercial CTS plant to be located in central Georgia and expected to break ground this fall. The CTS technology is able to produce Sugars, Various Fine Chemicals, Plastics, Carbon Fibers […]
Scientists from the University of Maryland will report in the Journal of Theoretical Biology that they have isolated several different strains of bacteria that make high concentrations of biofuels from cellulosic biomass or from carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. The authors isolated bacteria that make high concentrations of alcohols including ethanol and 1-butanol, and other […]
In Washington, the National Corn Growers Association has caled on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule on “Waters of the U.S.” The NCGA’s concerns were exacerbated when it became known that the Corps of Engineers, which had been partnering with EPA in the process, expressed significant reservations on the science and legality of the […]
Future Farm, Future Crop: Part 5 of 5. What happens when the rain moves, as it already is moving? Are farms in the right places? Are cities? Are the rivers and lakes? If you haven’t noticed lately, the rain is moving. It’s not raining exactly where it used to, the way it used to. So […]
A proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change ethanol blending rules would significantly increase carbon emissions to the equivalent of adding nearly one million more passenger vehicles on the road, according to an analysis conducted by the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings come in the wake […]
By Tim Sklar, special to The Digest A series of articles that recently appeared in last month in Biofuels Digest addressing the continued struggle to increase renewable fuels plant capacity to support anticipated advanced renewable fuels requirements. Also appearing in The Digest in late July were excerpts from a speech given by a CEO of […]
As AgTech software-as-a-service deploys, and Farm Belt job counts related directly to farming prepare to fall — how will agriculture and industrial biotech command the attention they need? Over at Monsanto, they speak in terms of reaching 300 bushels per acre in corn yields, and all this week we have been looking at an explosion of agricultural […]
DYSTOPIA. As automation arrives in force (and we mean, in force) — who votes for farmers when there are no farmers to vote? Are there downsides for feedstocks and supply chain if a technology wave goes wrong? “Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled […]
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