Chicken Little, Corn Little, Jatropha Little: Is the sky really falling (or is that jatropha floating in space?)
In the children’s fable Chicken Little, a farmyard is brought to a state of mass hysteria based on a bad extrapolation from insufficient data. In short, an acorn fell on Chicken Little’s head and the poor thing concluded that the sky was falling in. A wily predator named Foxy Loxy offers a series of consulting [...]
Advanced biofuels planned capacity to reach 1.38 billion gallons by 2013
In Florida, based on new commercial-scale, demonstration and pilot project announcements, global advanced biofuels planned capacity will increase to 1.38 billion gallons in 2013, up from 6.71 million in 2009 capacity, according to the Biofuels Digest advanced biofuels tracking database.
The Digest’s free, downloadable Advanced Biofuels project list includes annual capacity by company for 2009-13, and [...]
What next? Biofuels Industry leaders contemplate future moves, after Obama shift in biofuels policy
In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization followed up on a shift in US biofuels policy with a call for four new steps it said would increase the pace of biofuels commercialization.
BIO called for:
• Revising the risk assessment process for advanced biofuels projects in the current Department of Energy loan guarantee program;
• Double funding for U.S. [...]
Obama Administration reorganizes US biofuels policy, leadership, rules in sweeping change
In Washington, the Obama Administration issued a sweeping new set of rules and directives regarding US biofuels policy, including the release of the revised Renewable Fuel Standard from EPA, and a new set of “Lead Agency” assignments to support first-generation biofuels while driving the development and commercialization of advanced fuels, with a forces on drop-in [...]
