Ceres develops & markets low-carbon, non-food grasses for advanced biofuels and biopower. Our energy crops can provide more fuel or electricity, new opportunities for growers and a cleaner environment for us all. Using advanced plant breeding and biotechnology, Ceres is developing dedicated energy crops as raw materials for renewable transportation fuels, electricity and bio-based products. […]
Using a proprietary consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, technology platform, Mascoma has developed genetically-modified yeasts and other microorganisms to reduce costs and improve yields in the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. The CBP platform utilizes genetically modified yeast and bacteria to convert cellulosic biomass into high-value end-products in a single step that combines hydrolysis and […]
Have a wonderful strain of algae, but struggle to find a project location that optimizes climate, inputs and infrastructure? With Zillow not yet providing real estate services for choosy microbes, PNNL and Sapphire Energy come to the rescue. The Digest has often criticized synthetic biologists, in genetically enhancing microbes, for failing to endow them with […]
DuPont leading in two categories (and its JV Butamax also in the lead); Sapphire Energy, Ceres, Genomatica, Heliae, MBI, OriginOil, KiOR Evogene, DuPont, Cool Planet, Edeniq and Sierra Energy among the early leaders as voting gets underway. In Florida, The Digest announced nominations for Transformative Technologies 2014, in which organizations are recognized for their impact […]
Cobalt Technologies is commercializing cellulosic biobutanol, a versatile platform molecule for the renewable chemicals and fuels. The Company’s technology efficiently converts diverse non-food feedstocks – initially, lignocellulosic extracts from woody biomass and sugar cane bagasse – into biobutanol. Cobalt will offer complete systems for sugar mill, pulp and paper, and biomass power facility retrofits with […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, fell 1.73 percent to 80.06 as ethanol dropped sharply. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) surged 6.82 percent to $14.41 while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) plummeted 8.74 percent to $13.36. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) descended 9.03 percent to $1.31. Overall, declines led advances 3 to […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dropped 0.43 percent to 81.47 as advanced biofuels slipped. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) lost 2.43 percent to $4.41, while Renewable Energy Group (REGI) lost 1.22 percent to $11.34. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) fell 2.04 percent to $1.44. Overall, declines led advances 3 […]
Brazil, Russia, India and China — and throw in South Africa for a complete BRICSA set. The vaunted new economic engines for the 21st century — and, lately, home to a beehive of activity around drop-in, sustainable, aviation biofuels. What’s up, with whom, where, when and why? In the motion picture Casablanca, most of the […]
Applied Biorefinery Sciences was created in 2008 to commercialize biorefinery technology that is distinctly different from enzymatic (bio-chemical) and gasification (thermo-chemical) processes that destroy or discard chemical intermediaries generally in favor of a single target product. The ABS process offers potential to overcome biorefinery economic viability impediments through process simplicity, high energy efficiency, and co-production […]
Myriant is building a global renewable chemicals company. Our innovative technology platform produces “green” chemicals from renewable feedstocks that are cost competitive without requiring a green premium. These green chemicals “drop-in” to chemical manufacturing processes to displace chemicals derived from petroleum. We are developing and selling bio-chemical intermediates that provide us with access to established […]
