In Laos, BioJet today announced formation of a strategic business and project relationship with Lao Asia Pacific Agriculture Promotion Import-Export Sole Company Limited (LAP). The Project involves biofuel production for land and air transport as well as bioenergy coproducts. It is planned to include 100,000 hectares of feedstock production as well as refining/conversion facilities appropriate […]
Making good, affordable syngas from municipal solid waste to unlock 9 billion gallons of low-cost fuel? Covanta’s hot new gasification technology makes a big dent in the big challenge. Just after mealtimes, in the hours after mail delivery, and occasionally when the world’s youth resolve certain unhygienic conditions prevalent in the science experiments known as […]
En route to zillions in algae? First, you have to get the water out of the algae or the algae out of the water. Making Algenol’s ethanol-secreting microalgae a technology worth a special accommodation. Which Florida finally granted. Last year, the US Government minted 8.2 billion coins, of which 4.9 billion were pennies. The vast […]
Sapphire Energy, among other hardy survivors, press forward, as others melt away or re-focus on higher-value, smaller-market products. You remember algae biofuels, don’t you? The Summer of Algae 2009 was the ‘summer of algae,” when it seemed that every other day, there was another Mom-and-Pop, or even international behemoth, announcing that it was heading up […]
As Honeywell and Agrisoma collaborate to pioneer aviation biofuels from a new carinata-based feedstock, critics wonder exactly why the military is paying so much for the biofuels it is utilizing for tests. In Illinois, UOP announced that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel will be used for the world’s first comprehensive test program using a new biofeedstock specifically […]
In Washington, Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, addressed the Renewable Fuels Association’s Washington Legislative Forum. “One of those most promising [clean energy] industries has been American biofuels,” she said. “Right now, domestic biofuel production is at the highest level ever. In fact, monthly production has increased more than […]
Four projects, four technologies, four feedstocks, four geographies. Couldn’t be more differentiated, couldn’t be more linked in terms of affirming investor confidence in advanced biofuels. The English sonneteer John Donne would have made an excellent bioenergy trade association head, had not his duties as Dean of St. Paul’s proven so time-consuming, and had thermo-catalytic or […]
Isobutanol – a gateway to bioprocessing fortunes? Well, the lawyers are doing just fine too. Here’s a 2-Minute Guide to all the Gevo and Butamax hollerin’, and how to separate the alcohol from the folderol. In case it has escaped your attention, Butamax is suing Gevo and Gevo is suing Butamax. Enough paper has been […]
Building your value chain, or supply chain? In the bio-based world, that means partners, and plenty of them. But who are the best? Behind the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, and the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals & Materials, there are a lot of partners adding value and driving down costs. For quite some […]
There’s water, water everywhere, hardly a drop to use. The latest on Sustainable, Affordable, Reliable, Available biomass feedstocks that keep down the stress on our water tables. Among the compelling presentations at ABLC this month, Daphne Preuss, CEO of Chromatin, one of the leading seed developers, gave one of the real waker-uppers, this on feedstock […]
