In Illinois, Peoria County Corn/Soy Promoters has launched the county’s first blender pump at Kickapoo, the first station in the state to offer biodiesel. The filling station allows drivers to choose between E10 and E85. The association believes in practice what you preach—the farmer who heads it up spent $400 last year to convert his […]
After taking a leading role in the global first generation wave of ethanol production, here come the Brazilians — with some hot North American technologies in tow — to take on next-generation biofuels and chemicals. Who are the Big Six, and why? It was BP Biofuels chief Phil New who drew the clearest contrast between […]
Why make incentivize a $3 fuel when you can make incentivize a $5 chemical? A number of biobased refiners would like to level the playing field in replacing the, er, entire barrel of oil. It’s a football analogy, of course, the idea that leveling the playing field is important for players to have fair access to success. […]
In the Economist, Saturday’s tech article raised questions regarding the future of the ethanol industry. Besides alluding to concerns with the environmental benefits of biofuels, the article addressed the food-versus-fuel question. The article, however, remained optimistic despite an unfavorable political climate: “The optimism of five years ago may have waned, but efforts to develop second-generation […]
Today on Twitter: antgib @woodboroughpark As with food (cf biofuels), the poorer you are, the greater the % of income you spend on energy. AzliGE “Biofuels: What happened to biofuels? | The Economist ” @Alizoo – Beta Renewables licensed the tech to whom in MY? apeterka As EU weighs cap on #biofuels, study finds finds significantly lower indirect […]
In the Big Get-Together at ABLCNext in San Francisco, the heavyweights bring out the new aviation fuels CAAFI, Boeing, Biofuels Digest and many others have arranged for perhaps the biggest and certainly most comprehensive get-together in the history of aviation biofuels. On the agenda — every existing aviation biofuuels pathway lookd at from the very […]
Miscanthus, sorghum, switchgrass, jatropha, camelina, carinata, and arundo. Who’s doing what to bring these crops to scale — and who are the potential big winners? Hot molecules, big markets, proven technologies, ready finance, supportive policy. Sometimes they feel miles away, sometimes right at hand. But none of them mean anything without sustainable, affordable, reliable, available […]
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Last week, we advised that the FT microchannel reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group and marketed under the brand name Velocys, has been selected for use in the design and possible construction of a commercial Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) plant led by the IR1 Group. The plant convert around 170,000 tons per year of forestry […]
As Gevo recommences the switchover to bio-based isobutanol at its first commercial plant, we look in-depth at 2012’s contamination issues — and the prospects and path forward. In Colorado, Gevo announced that it has resumed commercial production of isobutanol at its Luverne, Minn. plant in single train mode, successfully utilizing its proprietary Gevo Integrated Fermentation […]
