Gevo a winner? Not the issue, says Butamax, as the Capulets and Montagues get it on again. It’s a tennis match in which the score is never love. Scene: Verona. A public place. The Prince: Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Butamax, and Gevo, Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our […]
Renewable chemicals’ #1 hottie lands a signature JV, and a tidy investment from the Italian chemical giant. In Italy, Versalis and Genomatica announced the establishment of a technology joint venture for bio-based butadiene from non-food biomass. The resulting process will be licensed across Europe, Asia and Africa by the newly-created joint venture. Versalis — the […]
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In our investor-focused publication – which you can access free here, or subscribe for free here – we’ll look today (available at 2pm ET) at the impact of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s April Short-Term Energy Outlook (which has the summer gasoline and diesel fuel price forecast) — the outlook also includes EIA’s updated forecast […]
In California, Propel Fuels has opened another in its chain of transformative Clean Mobility Centers — and the first station in Fresno to offer E85 Flex Fuel and biodiesel, sourced from Central Valley producers including Community Fuels in Stockton and Calgren Renewable Fuels in Pixley. Fresno’s Clean Mobility Center offers renewable fuels alongside conventional fuels […]
What knowledge can we port from the shadowy world of bioterrorism and its countermeasures into the commercialization of algae biofuels? Turns out, quite a bit — as a Sandia research team is demonstrating. There’s a den of wolves, a troop of apes, a clutch of hens, a clowder of cats, a swarm of bees — […]
Neste Oil, which had been criticized for its sourcing of deforestation-based palm oil, has pledged to shift away from palm oil sourced from primary forests, high conservation value and natural forests, and high carbon stock forests. Neste’s decision comes after close work with The Forest Trust, a non-profit organization that has also played a critical […]
Despite the sluggish economic recovery and questions over policy stability — biofuels ventures have been busy raising lots of capital. In the past 6 months, $434 million. Who got what, where, when and why? As any mountaineer knows — above 25,000 feet you hit the “death zone” – where oxygen is a must, now or […]
The IEA Task 39 group publishes its latest report on advanced biofuels — how is the global industry progressing? The International Energy Agency, through its Task 39 group, has published its 207-page report on the “Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012”. The report, in its pages, contains detailed project summaries as well as […]
We go through the renewable fuels math — and find that the nattering nabobs of negativism might have crowed too soon. Sometimes you wonder what former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew would make of the current political landscape, and the hoo-haw over the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Back in 1970, he decried the “nattering nabobs of […]
