Phase 1 will produce 17M gallons/year of gasoline blendstock and ethanol; in Phase 2, a 34M gallon facility. In Taiwan, China Steel Corporation announced formal Board approval of a $46M capital investment in a LanzaTech commercial ethanol facility. This follows the successful demonstration of the revolutionary carbon recycling platform at the White Biotech Demonstration Plant in […]
For most investors, building a demonstration-scale facility in order to get, and validate, data for the last pre-commercial stages, is a necessary evil somewhere between diaper-changing and a colonoscopy on the “revolting, yet inevitable” meter. Those who haven’t done rigorous demonstration-scale activities have, in many cases, gone down in flames or certainly gone into what […]
Want to help Mother Earth? Get on your backside and master these key reports. If you’ve not put it in your calendar, Earth Day is this week, April 22nd to be exact. On the original Earth Day, in 1970, hundreds of thousands of people gathered around the world, to demonstrate support for greener policies with respect […]
Sweetwater Energy announced it has closed on a $10 million bridge loan. The loan closed as Sweetwater said that it is now opening its Series B investor round to begin construction of a first commercial facility. Sweetwater make quite a splash with a series of high-profile deals in 2012-13 based around the production of cellulosic […]
Jettisons indirect land use change for now, citing poor data visibility; caps food-crop biofuels to 7%; limits proposed Directives to 2020. In Brussels, the European Parliament’s Environmental Committee has voted this week to endorse the Council’s proposed compromise on reform of the EU biofuels policy, and indirect land use change. The final vote was 51 votes in […]
What’s up with carinata? 2015 looks like an inflection year for the non-irrigated, heat-tolerant, sandy-soil loving canola cousin that is ready-to-wear for aviation biofuels and biodiesel. Meanwhile, the management team doubles down as the marketing year is underway. In Quebec, Agrisoma Biosciences announced that a group led by its management team has made an equity […]
Next-gen feedstock developer records 1000% year-on-year growth for its Palo Alto Biomass Sorghum hybrids in Brazil. Sustainable, available, reliable and affordable? Yes, as the Digest discovers. In California, NexSteppe announced that it sold more than 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) of its Palo Alto biomass sorghums in Brazil this past growing season, compared to just over […]
In California, Flotek Industries and Solazyme announced agreements to globally commercialize Flocapso, an innovative, advanced drilling fluid additive. In addition, Flotek will market Solazyme’s Encapso lubricant – the first commercially available, biodegradable encapsulated lubricant for drilling fluids – in certain Middle Eastern markets. Under the Joint Product Development and Marketing Agreement, Flotek and Solazyme will […]
California is in the fourth year of severe drought, a condition which visited the US Midwest just two summers ago. With water scarcity increasing around the globe, how can agriculture cope, and what can the technologies of the advanced bioeconomy do to help? This week, we’ve been photographing a surge in roadrunners roaming our small […]
Targeting the extraction of hemicellulose from wood chips, replacing chemical process. In Quebec, Cascades Inc. announced the company’s investment in a new technology at its Norampac – Cabano facility. This innovative new process – a Canadian first – is used to extract hemicellulose, a cellulosic sugar with high value-added potential, from wood chips. This $26M […]
