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Biofuels and the Problem of Tropical Islands, Part II of II
Tweet Peril and Promise from Haiti to Hawaii: a two-part series Geology denies them fossil fuels for cheap fuel, powerful export incomes, or fertilizers. Isolation brings them thin soils better suited to growing wood than staple crops. Deforestation is often rampant. Energy dependency leads to trade imbalances and weak currencies that make importing foreign technology [...]
Oxygen for High Altitudes: 17 Biofuels ventures raise $434M in equity
Tweet Despite the sluggish economic recovery and questions over policy stability — biofuels ventures have been busy raising lots of capital. In the past 6 months, $434 million. Who got what, where, when and why? As any mountaineer knows — above 25,000 feet you hit the “death zone” – where oxygen is a must, now [...]
4 Reasons Why Canada is becoming a biofuels hotspot
Tweet Strong biofuels flight results, advances in algae, new commitments in venture capital and revived interest from the Canadian Navy. Biofuels are off to a fast start in 2013 in Canada. Canada’s been known for years as the home of several important technology players – Iogen, for one; but more recently, Greenfield Ethanol has been [...]
Biofuels Digest’s 2012 Best Technology Extension Award: Envergent—Kapolei, HI
Tweet Modular units, using standard industry systems where possible, there’s lots to like about the Envergent system for drop-in renewable fuels being developed as a joint venture by Ensyn and Honeywell’s UOP. Even more impressive are the economics of the system, its ability (as a thermochemical system) to use a wide variety of feedstocks, and [...]
The Top 10 financing paths for biofuels, 2012-13
Tweet Dozens of deals – what are the hottest paths to $$$? Who’s forming capital in bioenergy this year, and when, where, why and how? In the old days, the process seemed simple: seed round to fund some lab work at the bench level, series A for proof of concept, series B for the pilot, [...]
Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?
Tweet While companies pursue alternatives to Fischer-Tropsch technologies, Velocys is seeking to make F-T work economically with micro-reactors. In last week’s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies – companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL): “The two major problems with any of the XTL [...]
Ensyn: Biofuels’ Big, Fast Cracker, in pictures
Tweet Ensyn – moving rapidly towards scale as a transport fuel technology after decades in smaller, high-value markets. What does Ensyn’s signature RTP technology, that’s making such a splash, look like? There’s a jeu d’esprit that Canadians repeat amongst themselves about how much better Canada is at basic research than applications development. At some point, [...]
$500 million and no one to dance with? Canada and advanced biofuels
Tweet Canada’s $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund, five years after formation, gets close to making its first investments just as Canada’s leaders consider pulling the plug It was the most amazing sovereign commitment to biofuels of its time, the $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund that Canada established in 2007. As a percentage of GDP, it [...]
Everyday low (fuel) prices: Drop-in advanced biofuels for under $100 per barrel
Tweet Brent Crude trades this past week at a transorbital $109 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate at a suborbital, if high, $85). It puts the conventional wisdom that biofuels are too infrastructure incompatible and too costly to the test. Are they? Let’s look today at progress in developing infrastructure-compatible, drop-in advanced biofuels that cost less [...]
The top 100 companies in renewable chemicals: the complete Digest poll
Tweet In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the top 100 rankings in its 2012-13 “30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Materials” poll. 1 Genomatica 2 Solazyme 3 Myriant 4 Elevance Renewable Sciences 5 LS9 6 DuPont Industrial Biosciences (Genencor) 7 LanzaTech 8 Amyris 9 ZeaChem 10 Gevo 11 Virent 12 OPX Biotechnologies 13 [...]
