By Mary Rosenthal, Executive Director, Algal Biomass Organization Biofuels Digest columnist I’m sure many of you remember that algae became a bit of a political football during the Republican primary campaign. It certainly was hard for me and others in the industry to see algae technology belittled. And based on that experience one might be inclined […]
As advanced biofuels companies hit their milestones and watch their stocks get crushed, we look at investor uncertainty, yellow cranes, black swans, and striking announcements from Codexis and Aemetis. A best-seller we have been working through this summer here in Digestville is Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, “Known and Unknown”. His known-unknown paradigm makes for a good […]
Can the harnessing of the powers of magnetism overcome cost challenges in algal biofuels? Researchers across the globe pursue the answers. Of all the many contributions that the English have made to the study and advancement of biofuels, it may be that one day that the appearance of an unusual bacterium back in the last […]
Industry mood darkens on government programs, IPO window; optimism on biobutanol rising. In Florida, Biofuels Digest reports that 68 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic both about their organization’s prospects for growth and industry growth, than 12 months ago, and that 61 percent are more optimistic about the industry’s prospects than at this time […]
$104 million Elevance private financing round larger than last two IPOs; puts IPOs in focus; do the benefits outweigh the costs? Do advanced biofuels companies really need to be “thinking IPO”, industry leaders were asking this week after Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has raised $104 million in its Series E financing round. Lacustrine […]
By Digest associate editor Joelle Brink A Washington Beltway newspaper summed it up this way: “Navy 2, Congress 0.” But in what’s fast shaping up as the election year Navy-Congress “playoff game”, the real story is about national security as renewable energy security, and about the drop-in renewable biofuels right now powering a US naval […]
Answers to your questions about national security, energy independence, and military biofuels. Dan Nolan is a retired US Army Colonel and he is also the CEO of Sabot 6, a company that brings Strategic Management Skills to Energy Security. His introduction to the global energy challenge came back in 2002 when on an assignment relating […]
What makes a winner in advanced biofuels? Five companies – Abengoa, INEOS Bio, Mascoma, Gevo, and American Process reflect on the essential ingredients for success. “We are industrial technology businesses, making a commodity, we have to control costs everywhere and learn, learn, learn.” – American Process CEO Theodora Retsina You could call it VODville, VOD […]
At our next industry get-together, we look at biofuels and bio-based products in their hour of maximum peril and opportunity – are you prepared? At no time in its short, turbulent history have the biofuels and biomaterials industries gone through a period of threat and opportunity like 2012, with the possible exception of the 2013 […]
A two-part series in which Digest contributor Tim Sklar looks back on the development of a biocoal technology. All the promise in the world, and every adversity, too. By Tim Sklar The South Carolina project So we concentrated all of our efforts in developing the South Carolina plant and named this undertaking as The Georgetown […]
