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White House releases “Federal Alternative Jet Fuel Research and Development Strategy”

White House releases “Federal Alternative Jet Fuel Research and Development Strategy”

July 31, 2016 |

In Washington, a new White House report, titled “Federal Alternative Jet Fuel Research and Development Strategy,” sets out prioritized federal research and development goals and objectives to address key scientific and technical challenges that inhibit the development, production, and use of economically viable alternative jet fuels at commercial scale. The Alternative Jet Fuel Interagency Working […]

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Indaba Renewable Fuels to produce 6,500 barrels per day SAF in 2 locations using Haldor Topsoe tech

Indaba Renewable Fuels to produce 6,500 barrels per day SAF in 2 locations using Haldor Topsoe tech

January 16, 2022 |

News just in that Indaba Renewable Fuels will build two greenfield refineries in California and Missouri to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel utilizing Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology. The facilities are expected to begin production of SAF in 2024 with the capacity of the plants expected to be 6500 barrels per day at each location. Topsoe will also […]

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Pell-Mell at NREL : Two Bio Breakthroughs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Pell-Mell at NREL : Two Bio Breakthroughs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

October 25, 2021 |

Found in the Bargain Bin of Overlooked Breakthroughs at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a team of researchers have programmed a microbe to make acetate or ethylene from CO2 and, wait for it, use not only photosynthesis, but electricity supplied from the plug point on your wall. There are lots of reasons to get jazzed […]

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We Can Love Electric Cars, But Let’s Not Spurn Biofuels

We Can Love Electric Cars, But Let’s Not Spurn Biofuels

July 22, 2021 |

Right now, electric cars have the momentum and the “inevitability” narrative on their side. Is the idea of pursuing two paths forward a waste of money? By Dan Morgan Note: This article originally appeared in the Globalist and is re-published with permission. More about the Globalist here. https:theglobalist.com The Biden administration, the European Union, China […]

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Argus launches price assessments for EU renewable diesel and 30 US renewable feedstocks

Argus launches price assessments for EU renewable diesel and 30 US renewable feedstocks

September 8, 2020 |

In the UK, Argus has launched new price assessments for renewable diesel in Europe along with 30 new daily renewable feedstock price assessments in the US, reflecting the growing importance of environmentally friendly fuels for the transportation sector. The new feedstock prices, published daily in the Argus America Biofuels report, are based on waste products […]

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Protein, Protein: The bioeconomy’s latest technology fad is, actually, a pivot back to an ancient and enduring concern

Protein, Protein: The bioeconomy’s latest technology fad is, actually, a pivot back to an ancient and enduring concern

July 5, 2018 |

In the bioeconomy, the grass is always greener on the other side of a corporate repositioning, and we’ve seen the product and feedstocks fads roll onto the shoreline with numbing regularity. We had ethanol until there was biodiesel, and algae until there was jet fuel. Then, chemicals until there was Brazil, and drop-in fuels until […]

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Aviation biofuels: 10 years, 100,000 flights and we’re still arguing about feedstock – why?

Aviation biofuels: 10 years, 100,000 flights and we’re still arguing about feedstock – why?

February 26, 2018 |

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the first demo flight on biofuel  which was done by Virgin Atlantic. LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren shared the factoid that, since that day, more than 100,000 commercial flights have used low carbon fuels. “This is especially amazing since in 2006 I was told over and over that biofuel flight […]

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US biodiesel production up in February at 94 million gallons

US biodiesel production up in February at 94 million gallons

May 2, 2017 |

In February, biodiesel production rose to 94 million gallons in February, up 1 million gallons from January, but 11 million gallons less than in 2016, using 736 million lb of feedstocks. Of the total, 71% of the biodiesel was produced in the Midwest with more than 50% of the feedstocks coming from soy oil, followed […]

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As OPEC falls, what is the liberated market signaling to producers?

As OPEC falls, what is the liberated market signaling to producers?

March 21, 2017 |

The biggest two pieces of news in renewable fuels in the past 12 months have been the collapse in RIN prices, and the complete offsetting of reduced Middle Eastern oil production with increases in US rig counts for fracking operations. In other words, OPEC has collapsed in terms of its goal of setting a global oil […]

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REG’s Rolling Thunder: What did not kill them (falling oil prices), made them stronger

REG’s Rolling Thunder: What did not kill them (falling oil prices), made them stronger

April 4, 2016 |

At 8:30am, there’s a standing daily meeting of the key traders in Gary Haer’s sales group at REG headquarters in Ames, Iowa. And they’re not kidding. Everyone stands. For 15 minutes there’s the rat-a-tat-tat of rumor, fact, competitors, pricing, spreads, the who’s selling what and where, the buying and selling of diesel, renewable diesel and biodiesel across North […]

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