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Biofuels, True North, natural gas, and Primus Green Energy
Tweet Primus Green Energy recently completed a landmark technology demonstration — and heads off to scale with a catalytic technology for making $2.00 gasoline. But, in shifting to natural gas as a feedstock for the first commercial, are they still in the renewable fuels space at all? Out there in the land of technologies, there […]
Microbial reality TV, anyone? 21 Videos from the leaders in advanced biofuels
Tweet You know, we probably haven’t featured enough videos via the Digest, over the years. Some of them are pretty good. Some, well, they’re in earnest, but suffer from the “here’s another industrial video” problem. But, for some reason they are not generally popular with the public. Elsewhere in today’s Digest, we highlighted a new […]
Hand Up vs. Hand Out: New government programs target biofuels for support in US, Canada
Tweet When is a government program a hand-up, when is it a hand-out? What kinds of support in financing, knowledge-sharing and R&D do fledgling biobased technologies need. 4 new or improved programs in United States and Canada attempt to fill the gaps between good ideas and good commercial businesses. One of the all-time best Reaganisms […]
Solazyme, LanzaTech, KiOR, Sapphire Energy and Gevo take top slots in The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2013-14
Tweet Renewable oils developer Solazyme took the #1 spot in the 2013-14 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings. It was the third consecutive year at the top for Solazyme, which also topped the Biofuels Digest polls in 2009-10. LanzaTech (#2), KiOR (#3), Sapphire Energy (#4), Gevo (#5), Beta Renewables (#6), POET (#7), INEOS Bio (#8), […]
Genomatica, Solazyme, Myriant, LanzaTech and Elevance take top slots in The 30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals for 2013-14
Tweet Renewable chemicals developer Genomatica took the #1 spot in the 2013-14 “30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals and Materials” rankings. It is Genomatica’s third consecutive year at the top of the rankings. Solazyme (#2), Myriant (#3), LanzaTech (#4), Elevance Renewable Sciences (#5), Amyris (#6), DSM (#7), Gevo (#8), DuPont Industrial Biosciences (#9), and Novozymes […]
Black Swans, White Swans, Shell’s shale, Waste Management and biofuels
Tweet What could be more alluring than a colossal opportunity in the biggest game of all — energy investing? So goes the siren song. But in the real world of chasing black swans, we may be overlooking the wonders of the white ones. In the world of venture capital, black swans are a big deal. […]
Energy as easy as Waffles
Tweet One day, biofuels microbes may be so adept at making fuels, it will be a case of “just add water”. For now, there’s the hard slog of unlocking feedstocks that are affordable, available and aggregated. As we look for recent victories in low-cost feedstock development, What can we learn from natural gas? People from […]
First Carbon, Second Harvest
Tweet How an integrated biorefinery uses carbon can greatly affect its carbon life cycle, and profitability. Here’s why, and how. So, your integrated biorefinery project is coming along great. Then comes the carbon lifecyle analysis — the horde of critics shouting about “indirect land use change” — somehow, your project, which you think reduces carbon […]
Company info and data pages for Hot 50 and Hot 30 nominees
Tweet Abengoa Bioenergy Algenol ALS Bioenergy American Process Amyris ARA Avantium BASF Benefuel, Inc. BioAmber BioBlend Renewable Resources, LLC Bioformix, Inc. Bluefire Renewables Boeing BP Biofuels Braskem Butamax Calysta Energy Carl Marks Advisory Group Catchlight Energy Cathay Industrial Biotechnology Cellana Celtic Renewables Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Brazil Ceres Chemtex / Beta Renewables Coalition for Renewable […]
Voting opens for 2013-14 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy; 30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals & Materials
Tweet Voting begins in the annual rankings competition for the hottest companies in the sector; who will be #1 – who will get your vote? Voting by Twitter expanded this year; Facebook voting added. Hottest Industry Partners, Hottest Bioenergy Places; Hottest R&D Partners in Bioenergy now joined to the main competition. In Florida, Biofuels Digest […]
