By Gregory T. Benz, President, Benz Technology International, Inc. Conventional biofuels, whether from starch, sugar or lignocellulosic materials, tend to be low energy density products such as ethanol or butanol. These are made using catabolic (anaerobic), thermodynamically “downhill” processes. Such processes have been proven feasible in rather large fermenter volumes, in excess of 1 million […]
The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, edged up 0.28 percent to 64.81 as advanced biofuels gained. For the day,OriginOIl (OOIL) soared 19.24 percent to $.16, while Amyris (AMRS) was up 3.59 to $2.60. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) soared 9.87 percent to $2.56. Overall, declines led advances 9 to 7 […]
By Sam A. Rushing – Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest Perhaps the newfound trend with respect to carbon dioxide (CO2) will be various forms of recycling of this greenhouse gas and gas commodity. There has been a great deal of press associated with new start up companies which propose using CO2 from virtually […]
Take CO2, add water and an energy source: voila, Fuels & Chemicals from Microbial Dairies. We revisit 3 top practitioners of the art and one outlier, and their progress. Elsewhere in the Digest today we have a Sam Rushing’s “CO2 recycling from biofuels and allied chemical and energy projects” — looking at CO2 sources ranging from […]
In Washington, the Congress has reconvened for its “lame-duck” post-election session, and high on the agenda has been the “tax extenders” — a series of 55 or so popular corporate tax breaks, some nearly universal such as corporate research deductions. Some that impact individual industries, and advanced biofuels amongst them. Primarily we hear this about […]
“On the way” forever, talked up by all, deployed by some – technologies that handle high free fatty acid feedstocks like used cooking oil are coming into their hey-day, via players like REG, Novozymes, Pacific Biodiesel, Blue Sun, Piedmont, COMAC and more. Christmas come early for advanced biofuels? The Digest investigates. One of the most […]
The Virtuosos of Visalia land a major contract with China giant Global Bio-chem — a 50KT cellulosic sugars plant is underway in Jilin province. In California, Edeniq announced a Joint Development Agreement with Global Bio-chem Technology Group Limited, to integrate their technologies in a commercial demonstration plant at Global Bio-chem’s facility in the Jilin Province of China. […]
There are times for TED Talks about wondrous advances in technology and the future that awaits us. Then, there are times for Teddy Talks: of practical progress, problem solving, and turning wondrous advances into actual, scaled-up, sustainable, job-creating engines of the economy. While the United States political establishment rocks and roils on the topic of immigration, […]
14 perspectives on policy, technologies and geographies of compelling interest in the new year At ABLC Next this year in San Francisco — naturally, the focus is on “what’s next” in technology, finance, deployment and policy, and these 14 voices provided significant new options in 2015 ranging from new policy focal points, the right way […]
