HydroMan may do his hydrogen-shift thing via water, at will – but outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have some hydrogen issues. Psst! Like cutting out a fossil hydrogen dependency for many biofuels. But, new pathways ensure that the status hydroquo may not last for long. A numbers of readers responding to “Biofuels from […]
Gevo, KiOR top the Ardent 50 rankings at biofuelsdigest.com — the most-intensively researched companies— analyzing page views from more than 800,000 site visits. In Florida, Gevo and KiOR took Valentines Day honors by topping the Ardent 50 rankings, as Biofuels Digest published the 50 Most searched companies at biofuelsdigest.com for 2012-13. In topping this year’s […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rose 0.43 percent to a 9-month high of 70.55 as an ethanol continued to rally. For the day, Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) soared 9.11 percent to $8.98 on strong earnings, while Rentech (RTK) fell 2.22 percent to $3.08. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) […]
By: Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider Last month KiOR announced the start of production of biocrude from their Columbus, Mississippi plant. KiOR CEO Fred Cannon stated in an earnings call that when the product shipped it would be “the world’s first cellulosic gasoline and diesel fuel products.” While I can immediately think of at least […]
Where other companies are growing sugars via crop improvements, or extracting them, Proterro is making them via synthetic biology. Specifically, they have engineered a cyanobacteria to make sucrose (via a series of steps you can read all about here), ultimately from CO2, water, sunlight and nutrients – and secrete it into a sugarwater stream that […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.19 percent to an eight-week high of 63.46 as large caps rallied. For the day, DuPont (DD) gained 1.22 percent to $44.63, while Gevo (GEVO) rallied another 3.95 percent to $1.58. Among other equities, Rentech (RTK) dove 2.72 percent to $2.84. Overall, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, shed 0.24 percent to 61.28 as advanced biofuels dipped. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) retreated 2.15 percent to $2.73, while Gevo (GEVO) gave up 3.25 percent to $1.49. Among other equities, Rentech (RTK) advanced 1.77 percent to $2.87. Overall, declines led advances 6 to […]
Primus Green Energy looks to an improved syngas-to-gasoline process as a renewable fuel game-changer. Back in the 1970s energy crisis, the Brazilian government now (famously) marched down their path towards energy independence via ethanol produced from sugarcane – but it is less well known that the New Zealand government embarked on a unique program of […]
While companies pursue alternatives to Fischer-Tropsch technologies, Velocys is seeking to make F-T work economically with micro-reactors. In last week’s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies – companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL): “The two major problems with any of the XTL technologies […]
Canada’s $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund, five years after formation, gets close to making its first investments just as Canada’s leaders consider pulling the plug It was the most amazing sovereign commitment to biofuels of its time, the $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund that Canada established in 2007. As a percentage of GDP, it was […]
