Fixated on the Big Rise, the Big Fall, and the gut-wrenching twists of the Energy Market — might we focus also on the Big Energy-Empty at the end of the ride? There seems to be an awful lot of conversation around RINsanity these days — that is, the world of US renewable fuel credits, called […]
Answers to your questions about butanol, the players, and the four-carbon market. It’s been quite a year on the four-carbon platform — also known as C4, 4C, buta-something, Fantastic Four, or what have you. Though two-carbon fuels such as ethanol have long dominated the biofuels market — and complex, multi-carbon drop-in renewable diesel, jet fuels […]
Upstream, downstream, processing, policy, finance – opportunities and challenges abound in the bioeconomy – but which challenges are the most intractable and daunting of them all? In today’s part 1, #5 through #1. They go via various aliases — naysayers, pessimists, The Party of No, doom-and-gloom’ers, realists, skeptics, and so on. For almost every aspect […]
Upstream, downstream, processing, policy, finance – opportunities and challenges abound in the bioeconomy – but which challenges are the most intractable and daunting of them all? In today’s part 1, #10 through #6. Part 2, #5 through #1, is here. They use various aliases — naysayers, pessimists, The Party of No, doom-and-gloom’ers, realists, skeptics, and […]
In Massachusetts, Joule announced that CEO Bill Sims will step out of his management role but will remain a member of the company’s board. Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and Chairman, is assuming the role of interim-CEO while Paul Snaith, who joined the company in 2012, will be promoted to President and COO of Joule. “Bill joined […]
A technology developed for Europe finds it is in demand again, as technologists address the growing mountains of palm waste and its special opportunities and challenges. Too often, the first time most people heard something EnegraTech, they mistook it for ViagraTech — and were inclined to form the wrong impression of its claims to vastly […]
As a Perfect Storm of price problems ends, will E85 finally find its market and help end a divisive debate over ethanol distribution? 2014 is the year of E85, if there ever was one. Or will be one. Why? There’s more pressure on the Renewable Fuel Standard than ever — most of it focused on […]
Using just CO2, sunlight and water – and some math right off Einsteins’ blackboard — researchers come up with a potential game-changing technology for making renewable fuels. In yesterday’s Digest, we wrote that the hunt is on for technologies that use “carbon dioxide and non-potable water — since they are available in such tantalizing abundance. […]
At the leading edge of lipid technology, scientists turn to the french fry of biofuels, acetates, to grow more renewable oils faster, cheaper. Unsurprisingly, we find LanzaTech’s cohort of carbonpreneurs in Malaysia and especially India right in the thick of it. Today’s hottest news comes from LanzaTech, and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, which have […]
Record renewable products sales, but slow ramp up, for farnesene: how does the future shape up for Amyris? In California, Amyris last week announced $10.8M in Q2 2013 revenue, compared to $19.3M in Q2 2012 (before the company transitioned out of the ethanol business). $4.2M was related to renewable product sales and $6.7M in collaboration […]
