Macedonian government joins as signatory for MOU. 100 million liter cellulosic refinery could start construction in 2016. As much of the advanced biofuels industry heads for Kansas to take part in the opening ceremonies for Abengoa’s cellulosic ethanol refinery in Hugoton, news arrives from Skopje, Macedonia that the Republic of Macedonia today joined a MOU to […]
A blogger levels an explosive set of charges at LanzaTech: “Khosla’s latest gangrene venture”, “thermodynamic junk”, “gangrene fake company”. Alleges that US Secretaries of Energy Moniz, Chu and Bodman were “bought out by special interests”. Why? What’s going on? We lay out the complete story, and look at the data, as LanzaTech responds. In a note regarding LanzaTech circulated […]
The state of R&D so far. 4 NAABB advances brought the cost of algae biocrude oil down to $7.50 per gallon. 3 roadblocks remain between today’s cost and $3.00. This is a two-part series. In Part I here, we look first at the breakthroughs that have radically changed the costs and outlook. In Part II today, we […]
The state of R&D so far. 4 NAABB advances have brought the cost of algae biocrude oil down to $7.50 per gallon. 3 roadblocks remain between today’s cost and $3.00. In our two-part series, we look first at the breakthroughs that have radically changed the costs and outlook. In Part II, we look at where the opportunities […]
“The five years away forever” put to rest — but are there troubling waters still ahead? For whom, and why? Part II of II Part I of our story is here. There’s a gigantic disconnect between two sections in the country as to whether the United States should be celebrating the success or the failure […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company — in the strange and microscopic world of industrial biotechnology — to visualize its creativity, company spirit, and communicate a fun, positive […]
Biofuels 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; […]
Cellulosic ethanol arrives at scale — “The five years away forever” put to rest — but are there troubling waters still ahead? For whom, and why? Part I of II Part II of our story is here. There’s a gigantic disconnect between two sections in the country as to whether the United States should be celebrating […]
“Sneaky E85 pricing strategies…give oil refiners the opportunity to wrongly claim that consumers are ‘rejecting’ E85,” says RFA. In Missouri, the Renewable Fuels Association released a new report highlighting alleged price-gouging in the St. Louis E85 market. In a new case study, the RFA tracked E85 and gasoline (E10) prices at all nine retail stations […]
According to MarketingDegree.net, “Greenwashed” is the way to describe up to 95 percent of “so-called green products”. The organization notes that a 2010 study by Terrachoice revealed that only 265 out of 5296 products were really as a green as they claimed, citing problems such as : 1. No Proof. 2. Hidden Trade-Offs; 3. Smoke […]
