Early voting is underway in the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-Based Products rankings. Among the category leaders in the early going: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Harris Group, Novozymes, Solazyme, Waste Management, Khosla Ventures, the USDA, POET-DSM, Mintz Levin, Stoel Rives and Wilson Sonsini, Albemarle, BASF and Koch, Gevo and UOP, Ford, MBI, the […]
Mad as heck about $5 gasoline? According to new research from Iowa State, the price could have hit $6 per gallon, if the US had not had its ethanol supply. A landmark 2009 study, conducted by researchers at Iowa State’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, and updated this week for impacts through 2011, found […]
Free tire air for improved fuel economy; bicycle tuning; renewable fuels; on-demand carbon offsets; at-pump recycling; community transit info; Propel’s got it all going in the Golden State. In California, Propel Fuels is launching the company’s first Clean Mobility Center, in Fullerton. The Center offers a distinctly different customer experience, featuring high performance renewable fuels […]
US lawmakers tussle over funding for advanced biofuels demonstrations and early-commercialization. Who should pay premium rates for small-scale fuel production? The US Navy and other customer groups? Fuel makers and their investors? In Washington, the path for the Obama Administration to complete its proposed $510 million Defense Production Act investment in commercializing advanced biofuels for […]
High tech and high practicality converge at EdeniQ – cellulosic ethanol via retrofits or bolt-ons to existing corn and sugarcane ethanol plants. Next month in Visalia, California, in the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley, EdeniQ and Logos Technologies will officially debut a cellulosic ethanol pilot plant, funded jointly by the DoE and EdeniQ with […]
Cities where buildings are covered with green photosynthetic membranes? Where vertical gardens collect the sun’s energy and produce food for urban citizens. The International Algae Competition’s winners spark visions of algae landscape and architecture design, novel algae production systems and new foods. In Arizona, the organizers of the The International Algae Competition, Robert Henrikson and […]
If you have been reading newspapers and online sites over the past four years, you may have formed the impression that the use of corn for ethanol production has triggered food riots in Mexico, caused untold suffering for US meat producers, and in general caused global mayhem by turning food into fuel. And you may […]
Why is China accelerating on industrial biotechnology, just as US pols preach unilateral disarmament on government efforts to foster commercialization? Does the sun rise in the east as it sets in the West? Yes, Digesterati, 2012 is supposed to bring, according to someone’s reading of a Mayan calendar, the end of the world some time […]
Emerald Biofuels announces new 85 million gallon, drop-in renewable diesel project in Louisiana. Why is renewable diesel scaling up so effortlessly? Today, the Digest’s round-up on new capacity, R&D, testing, distribution and new feedstocks for renewable diesel. In Louisiana, Emerald Biofuels announced that it will build an 85 million gallon renewable-diesel refineries at a Dow […]
Yesterday, following the Solazyme earnings call, highly differentiated viewpoints were released by key analysts covering the stock. The view from Raymond James Raymond James’ Pavel Molchanov wrote, “The adjusted earnings per share of $(0.21) topped our $(0.29) estimate and the Street’s $(0.30). Revenue of $13.6 million, while down sequentially, topped our estimate by 5%. What […]
