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Doing it in the Dark: Fuel from thin air, and beyond light
Tweet Beyond fossil fuels, beyond light itself. And now, the direct production of drop-in biofuel blendstocks. All available from a microbial “cow”. This week in California, a research team from Shota Atsumi’s lab at the University of California, Davis have reported that they engineered Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, a strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, to grow without [...]
LanzaTech on the road for up to $80 million in new investment
Tweet In New Zealand, LanzaTech is on the hunt for new investors to put in between $60 million and $80 million this year while holding off on an IPO until a first plant is up and running, probably around 2015. The two plants under construction are for 10 million and 25 gallons each, both based [...]
BIO welcomes new member companies to Industrial & Environmental Section
Tweet In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization welcomed new members Calysta Energy, American Science and Technology Corporation, LanzaTech, The Coca-Cola Company, Lignol Energy Corporation, Neol Biosolutions, and Plum Creek. Calysta Energy uses a biotechnology solution to convert natural gas to fuels and chemicals. AS&TC has developed an integrated process for converting biomass to sugars and [...]
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 [...]
LanzaTech taps Shell vet as Asia head
Tweet In Washington DC, at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference (ABLC 2013), LanzaTech announced the appointment of Ken C. Lai as Vice President of its Asia Pacific operations, based in Shanghai. Lai joins LanzaTech from Shell Global Solutions International B.V., where he was General Manager of Licensing and Sales for the Asia Pacific region. In [...]
C4 explosion: Cobalt Technologies is the latest four-carbon biobased player to expand capacity
Tweet Cobalt expands into Asia and butadiene with two new strategic investors. What’s up with the C4 molecules? Why is everyone building capacity? In California, the Digest has learned that Cobalt Technologies is announcing this morning a strategic relationship with two prominent, but undisclosed, Asian chemical companies for the development of butadiene from a range [...]
Vilsack, LaHood to lead parade of biofuels, finance, policy leaders as ABLC 2013 gets underway
Tweet In Washington, the 2013 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference will kick off at 8am ET this morning. Among the highlights for today (April 15): US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take the stage at 2pm for separate addresses, and jointly sign a renewal of the “Farm to Fly” agreement [...]
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 [...]
The Hydrogen Problem
Tweet HydroMan may do his hydrogen-shift thing via water, at will – but outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have some hydrogen issues. Psst! Like cutting out a fossil hydrogen dependency for many biofuels. But, new pathways ensure that the status hydroquo may not last for long. A numbers of readers responding to “Biofuels [...]
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 [...]
