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Looking back at ABLC 2013
Tweet As ABLC 2013 closes, we look back at 10 slides that caught our eye. ABLC 2013 has closed, and the delegates are now departing until May 18-20, 2014 when the latest in advanced biofuels goes again on display and under the microscope at ABLC 2014. After three intense days of activity, with two cabinet [...]
IEA says cellulosic biofuels capacity has tripled since 2010: new Task 39 global report
Tweet The IEA Task 39 group publishes its latest report on advanced biofuels — how is the global industry progressing? The International Energy Agency, through its Task 39 group, has published its 207-page report on the “Status of Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in 2012″. The report, in its pages, contains detailed project summaries as well [...]
7 Steps to meeting US renewable fuels targets
Tweet We go through the renewable fuels math — and find that the nattering nabobs of negativism might have crowed too soon. Sometimes you wonder what former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew would make of the current political landscape, and the hoo-haw over the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Back in 1970, he decried the “nattering nabobs [...]
Biofuels from a raging fireball? No fossil energy, no light, no biomass, no sugars. No kidding.
Tweet Researchers unleash the prospect of fuels from the raging fireball known as Pyrococcus furiosus. Imaging a world where instead of creating CO2 as an emission from burning fuels, you could make fuels from the emissions, the CO2. And could do so in a way that bypasses the production of biomass and the extraction of [...]
Siluria taps new CEO in the race to replace oil with natural gas, via biotech
Tweet LS9′s former CEO joins Siluria — “the first company to come up with an economical, practical way to turn natgas into liquid fuels and chemicals”. In and around the world of money, there is the concept of an “investment thesis” — and to the extent that a news service guide by a thesis, our [...]
Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?
Tweet As cellulosic biofuels technologies start to deploy — critics and friends ask, 36 billion gallons by 2022, can it still be done? Yep, there’s a pathway. In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that [...]
Who’s Your Valentine? Biofuels Digest’s Ardent 50
Tweet Gevo, KiOR top the Ardent 50 rankings at biofuelsdigest.com — the most-intensively researched companies— analyzing page views from more than 800,000 site visits. In Florida, Gevo and KiOR took Valentines Day honors by topping the Ardent 50 rankings, as Biofuels Digest published the 50 Most searched companies at biofuelsdigest.com for 2012-13. In topping this [...]
Genomatica and The Art of Big Wave Surfing
Tweet There’s a big, new wave of synthetic biology companies heading for scale — making chemicals and fuels from renewable resources using advanced fermentation Now, there’s a new leader as Genomatica vaults to world-scale with a 5 million pound, five-week fermentation run. If you ever followed the sport of big-wave surfing, you’ll recognize Mavericks — [...]
Battle for the Barrel: Ethanol strikes back as industry is “under siege but fighting back.”
Tweet In a fiery address at the National Ethanol Conference, RFA chief Bob Dinneen rallies his troops. Patton would have been proud. It might have been Patton, or it might have been The Godfather — but Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen appears to have definitely been channeling Francis Ford Coppola in a fiery keynote [...]
The 2013 Renewable Fuel Standard: Biofuels Digest’s 10-Minute Guide
Tweet The 2013 RFS2 proposed standards are out – what do they mean? Who’s in clover, who’s in trouble? Our 10-Minute Guide details the Volumes, the Issues and the Opportunities. In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its proposed 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2). The proposal will be open for a 45-day public comment period [...]
