This morning, ABLC Next 2014 opens in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel — where 70 years ago the world’s leaders gathered to form the United Nations — and we’ll be looking at “What’s next” in technology, finance, policy This week in the Digest: All this week. The Strategics speak. We’ll have coverage, beginning today […]
Leading a series this week, “The Strategics Speak:, in which we’ll look at what a number of major strategic investors see in the landscape relating to industrial, energy and agricultural investment, we visited with Dan Oh, CEO of Renewable Energy Group, which has long been the US’s leading independent biodiesel producer but in recent years […]
Revenue and customer numbers are up at Solazyme, 60% YOY growth from Q3 2013 to Q3 2014. But a slowdown in the rollout at Moema capacity leads to a spectacular 58% one-day drop in the stock price. What happened? If you’ve been following the Biofuels Digest Index, you’ll have noticed in recent months that Solazyme has […]
In Washington, what has been described within the industry as “The growing movement to call out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its ethanol emissions testing procedures” picked up support today as a new study from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) called the agency’s approach flawed. In the paper “Issues with T50 and T90 […]
The industry speaks – but what about your POV, too. We look for both. Here are the highlights of industry association reaction to the US Midterms, in which US voters turned sharply right and handed control of the Senate and House to the Republican Party. What’s your take on the election? Click here – we’re […]
Republicans take the Senate as voters swing to the right after Obama’s sixth year as President. At 11:30pm, NBC News called the Senate race in Iowa for Republican Joni Ernst, handing control of the US Senate to the Republican Party, as voters handed a stinging defeat to President Barack Obama in mid-term elections held tonight across the United States. […]
Mascoma’s “slow rabbit, the first commercial app from its CBP technology, gets snapped up by Lallemand. In Massachusetts, Mascoma Corporation announced that it has completed the sale of its yeast business to Lallemand Inc., a privately owned company that researches, develops, produces and markets yeasts, bacteria, and related products. As part of the transaction, Lallemand […]
Mary Gibson Rosenthal, who served as the Algae Biomass Organization’s first executive director and led its initial battles for algae parity on Capitol Hill, died of cancer on Saturday in Minneapolis, MN. She was 56. Her death was announced last night by the ABO, which she joined in June 2009 and led until January 2014, when […]
A bolt-on technology for ethanol plants, costing less than $2 per installed gallon, producing a cellulosic biofuel additive that oxygenates diesel fuel at competitive prices? It’s early stage, but what’s not to like? The Digest looks at xF Technologies. Before we look today at an exciting new market for biomass and ethanol, let’s go back […]
In Illinois, LanzaTech and a research team from the IOC-DBT Center for Advanced Bio-Energy Research (an entity co-funded by India’s Department of Biotechnology and Indian Oil Corporation Limited) announced the development of a new process to recycle CO2 emissions into omega-3 rich fatty acids. Recycling carbon dioxide (CO2) gases as the sole carbon source for […]
