Next-gen biofuels technologies may be key to making the International Space Station cost effective — not to mention, other destinations in the NASA agenda. Which may explain why a high-tech algae outfit, Evodos, is advertising on a Star Trek wallpaper site. Whether your attention is drawn to hot algae techs like Evodos, or elsewhere in […]
In Colorado, Cool Planet announced the launch of their biochar soil amendment product “Cool Terra” for commercial agricultural trials. Rick Wilson, Vice President of the Cool Planet Biochar Group, made the announcement at the 2013 US Biochar conference. It plans to continue expanding application opportunities with selected partners in the agricultural community leading to commercial […]
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When is a government program a hand-up, when is it a hand-out? What kinds of support in financing, knowledge-sharing and R&D do fledgling biobased technologies need. 4 new or improved programs in United States and Canada attempt to fill the gaps between good ideas and good commercial businesses. One of the all-time best Reaganisms was: […]
In Georgia, Meredian Inc. announced it expects to be operating at full capacity by the second quarter of 2014. The company’s PHA polymer is derived naturally through fermentation of sustainably produced, fully renewable plant derived oils which creates completely biodegradable bioplastics. “Our team has worked tirelessly to design, install and deliver developmental quantities of PHA […]
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The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, was flat at 68.41 despite an advanced biofuels gain. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) jumped 4.75 percent to $11.91, while kiOR (KIOR) soared 13.04 percent to $2.60. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) dropped 3.57 percent to $1.89. Overall, advances and declines were even for […]
In California, ABLC-Next has concluded for this year — and the convergence of advanced biofuels leaders in R&D, commercialization, policy and finance will reconvene in Washington DC on April 21-23 of next year. This week, we’ll be providing highlights from this years presentations. Today, part II of our look at the hottest slides from ABLC-Next. […]
In California, a research team at the University of Santa Cruz have developed a solar-microbial device and reported their results in a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. The hybrid device combines a microbial fuel cell and a type of solar cell called a photoelectrochemical cell that can use sunlight and […]
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