FIRST PRIZE. Qteros fermenter at the Company’s facility in Marlborough, MA. Photographer: John Rae, Art Direction: Tony Catlin, Fassino Design Biofuels Digest adds: “A very cool photo, showing advanced fermentation in all its high-tech glory. An image that just says “crazy, advanced goings on here.” More on the “Day in the Life of Biofuels” photo […]
Solazyme edges Amyris, Gevo in Hot 50 for 2011-12, as hot IPOs dominate, gasification advances. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Renewable oils developer Solazyme took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings. Amyris (#2), Gevo (#3), POET (#4), LS9 (#5), Novozymes (#6), Enerkem (#7), LanzaTech (#8), Honeywell’s UOP (#9), […]
ABM 2011 opens for business in San Francisco. On the dais – 30 industry CEOs, policy and trade association leaders. On the docket, 7 issues that will define the Race for Scale. In California, Advanced Biofuels Markets 2011 opens its three-day run this morning, with an update from the USDA, DOE and the US Navy, […]
As the new Hot 50 looms, we look at how much hotter, colder the current Hot 50 have been this year. Who will stay on the island, who is waiting in the wings? Readers: Subscriber and selector voting in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2011-12 winds up shortly, and we will announce the […]
13 companies knocking on the door of greatness – will they make the grade? 13 companies. 5 already public – eight filing for IPOs. In the first category, Codexis, Amyris, Gevo, Solazyme and KiOR. In the second category, PetroAlgae, Myriant, Ceres, Mascoma, Genomatica, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Fulcrum Bioenergy and OriginOil. They’ve shown what it takes […]
Is BP going for vertical integration, just as Shell has opted for a massive JV with Cosan; and Total, Marathon and Chevron continue with strategic investments in advanced technologies. Why vertical, why now? When BP entered into the biofuels sphere in 2008, the strategy under CEO Phil New was to seek out “advantaged” biofuels, in […]
A lesser-known pilot project in Mexico says it can produce biofuels at parity with $33 oil. Can this ultra-low cost project replicate its results at scale. Where is it deploying, and when? Despite all the (laudable) excitement over the race for low-cost cellulosic sugars, industry insiders continue to whisper “syngas” when asked to name a […]
There’s a new way of understanding advanced industrial biotech – how land, capital and labor are organized, where it is going, and why. Are we discovering a new way, or something so ancient it feels new all over again? It has been an exciting week in industrial biotech. Elevance filed for its IPO, as it […]
Background: This is a Tournament final match-up between Central Regional Champion Terrabon and Eastern Regional Champion Joule Unlimited, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes wins the […]
Energy security and defense – biofuels are all over it. Most prominently, the US Navy’s Green Strike Group. Er, the Green Strike What? The US Navy has announced a Green Strike Group. What exactly is that, and what does it mean for energy security, and domestic biofuels production? Tactically, a Green Strike Group, powered by […]
