You’ve heard perhaps from many quarters that Coal is Dead. The exception is the occasional Pro-Coal Dude, who says that Coal isn’t dead, it’s just resting. Maybe what we need is not a debate over coal power, but a better use case. Pro-Coal Dude: Coal lives! Emissions don’t matter as much as jobs and affordable energy. […]
In California, Intrexon Energy Partners and Dominion Energy said they are exploring the potential for commercial-scale biological conversion of natural gas to isobutanol, using Intrexon’s proprietary methanotroph bioconversion platform, which can convert natural gas into higher carbon compounds such as isobutanol and farnesene under ambient temperatures and pressures. Background on the announcement: The shale basins […]
Are these 7 companies the big winners from the EPA’s proposed rules for oil & gas well methane emissions? In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a set of new regulations for the oil & gas industry that the Obama Administration said would cut ultimately methane emissions by 40-45 percent from current levels. The proposal […]
What are the infrastructure hold-ups with renewable fuels? What are 7 Blend Wall Busters that can get renewable fuels back into high gear? 3 factors stand currently retard the expansion of renewable fuels volume in the United States and elsewhere around the world. 1. Sustainable, affordable, reliable, available feedstock. When the feedstock costs too much […]
West Coast renewable fuel retailer says the launch of 100% drop-in renewable diesel has spiked sales on a per-outlet basis — 5X jump in renewable content, and 3X jump in gallons sold. In California, Propel Fuels is reporting a 15X jump in per-outlet sales of renewable fuel for diesel engines, based on a 3X increase in […]
By Sam Nejame & James Evangelow, Special to The Digest Two weeks ago the International Olympic Committee pulled Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. If you lived here, you couldn’t avoid the controversy over how much it might cost and the nagging questions about how the gargantuan facilities would be used afterward. The lost […]
Future Farm, Future Crop: Part 5 of 5. What happens when the rain moves, as it already is moving? Are farms in the right places? Are cities? Are the rivers and lakes? If you haven’t noticed lately, the rain is moving. It’s not raining exactly where it used to, the way it used to. So […]
A proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change ethanol blending rules would significantly increase carbon emissions to the equivalent of adding nearly one million more passenger vehicles on the road, according to an analysis conducted by the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The findings come in the wake […]
By Tim Sklar, special to The Digest A series of articles that recently appeared in last month in Biofuels Digest addressing the continued struggle to increase renewable fuels plant capacity to support anticipated advanced renewable fuels requirements. Also appearing in The Digest in late July were excerpts from a speech given by a CEO of […]
As AgTech software-as-a-service deploys, and Farm Belt job counts related directly to farming prepare to fall — how will agriculture and industrial biotech command the attention they need? Over at Monsanto, they speak in terms of reaching 300 bushels per acre in corn yields, and all this week we have been looking at an explosion of agricultural […]
