Today on Twitter: AgNews: Soybeans could be next chapter of biofuels boom CAProgress: Doing More with Less: Biofuels and Rural Economic Development BreenSkoopr: BioFuels Development International Plans To Begin Bioiesel Production In Q3 Of 2013 sandervBennekom: #devco study on biofuels reveals that Italian companies completely dominate biofuel industry inm Senegal. Why?
Could a switch to biofuels make super-dense JP-10 military aviation fuels affordable? Could F18A Super Hornets add payload or extend range? Currently reserved for tactical missiles because of cost, biofuels could provide a path to affordable JP-10 superfuels, if new research pans out. There has been an awful lot of blow-back in the past year over […]
“Up with octane, down with aromatics, and embrace the needs of people and nature,” says ACORE’s legendary biomass guru. But less freak-out, more reach-out is needed, he cautions. By Col. Bill Holmberg (ret.) Biomass Coordinator, American Council On Renewable Energy Advances taking place in the biofuels industry have an impact on many different aspects of […]
The military would like, affordable, domestically-produced, drop-in, renewable fuels. Drop-in fuel producers would like long-term, stable fuel sale and feedstock purchase contracts. Why not put those needs together? According to a Defense Department report, the US Navy will need 336 million gallons of renewable fuel by 2018 to meet its Green Fleet goals. Let’s take […]
Chu, in Review by Robert Kozak, Advanced Biofuels USA Secretary of the Department of Energy Steven Chu announced his resignation Friday in a 3,700 word “Dear Colleague” address. While this is the time usually reserved for valedictory addresses or sentimental remembrances, I for one cannot do that. For me, and I’d guess other supporters of […]
In Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced his decision to not serve a second term as Secretary. Text of the letter follows: Serving the country as Secretary of Energy, and working alongside such an extraordinary team of people at the Department, has been the greatest privilege of my life. While the job has had many […]
In Canada, Iogen Corporation announced today that Danish enzyme manufacturer Novozymes will acquire its wholly owned industrial enzyme business, Iogen Bio-Products, for a purchase price of $67.45 million and potential earn-out payments up to $12.5 million. The deal provides Novozymes with all commercial rights to Iogen Bio-Products’ existing product portfolio, pipeline, facilities and know-how. Iogen […]
The 2013 RFS2 proposed standards are out – what do they mean? Who’s in clover, who’s in trouble? Our 10-Minute Guide details the Volumes, the Issues and the Opportunities. In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2). The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period and […]
Three dissident voices offer challenges to cherished orthodoxies. “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana There is an old manuscript, Of Plymouth Plantation, written by an ancestor of mine named William Bradford, that deals with the terrors of […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” The dictionary defines a Pyrrhic Victory as a victory achieved at too great a cost. Well, the ancient Greeks would indeed quickly identify the Pyrrhic implications of the recent midnight resolution of the fiscal cliff. That is, the cost of renewed tax breaks for the biofuels industry came […]
