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The Hottest Companies: Enerkem Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Enerkem Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Enerkem in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies: Algenol Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Algenol Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Algenol in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here. Above: Photo Vote of the week for 9/8/14

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The Hottest Companies: Global BioEnergies Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Global BioEnergies Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Global BioEnergies in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies: Green Biologics Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Green Biologics Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Green Biologics in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies: Sapphire Energy Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Sapphire Energy Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Sapphire Energy in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies: REG Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: REG Photo Votes for 2014-15

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for REG in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here. Above: Photo Vote of the week for 9/8/14

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Biofuels Digest Index drops to 80.54 as ethanol equities tank

Biofuels Digest Index drops to 80.54 as ethanol equities tank

September 11, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dumped 1.30 percent to 80.54 as ethanol equities tanked. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) plunged 11.39 percent to $0.14, while Aemetis (AMTX) shed 6.08 percent to $9.79. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dropped 7.39 percent to $21.31. Overall, declines led advances 2 to […]

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Jatropha around the world: As SGB raises $11M, here’s a 13-country tour of development activity

Jatropha around the world: As SGB raises $11M, here’s a 13-country tour of development activity

September 11, 2014 |

The 2000s-era wonder crop went quiet as “plant anything, anywhere” gave way to the “develop genetics, boost yield” movement, led by SGB. Today, SGB moves forward again with new financing. In California, SGB announced an $11 million Series C financing to drive commercial rollout, after reducing the time to maturity from 5 years to 1-2 […]

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4 Minutes With…David Dodds, president, Dodds & Associates, tech diligence guru

4 Minutes With…David Dodds, president, Dodds & Associates, tech diligence guru

September 11, 2014 |

If you’ve been to ABLC, you’ve likely seen a hugely-popular session where we turn the tables — instead of having CEOs present their companies and technologies, we have technical diligence experts look at companies and technologies with a critical eye — pointing out the question marks and “still to be proven” aspects as well as […]

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Liquid Light raises $15M and a lot of eyebrows as it advances towards making $$ out of waste CO2.

Liquid Light raises $15M and a lot of eyebrows as it advances towards making $$ out of waste CO2.

September 11, 2014 |

Used to put the “renewable” in Coca-Cola’s wildly successful Plant Bottle? That’s ethylene glycol. But there’s a better, cheaper way to make it , says Liquid Light – which now has a hatful of investors jumping on the bandwagon. Here are some things you could do that will never happen. You could gasify $100 bills […]

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