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Can electrofuels and electrosugars save the day?
Tweet Is the ultimate industrial fuel system going to be based on electricity, waste CO2 and brackish water – to return society to the days of energy abundance? It will take a mighty production microorganism, but R&D is well underway and a path is becoming clearer. In yesterday’s Digest, we explored new research at UCD [...]
NLACM leads to changing times at Bio Architecture Lab
Tweet We noted earlier this week the changes at Bio Architecture Lab, including a change in CEO and strategy. The story attracted a report in Bloomberg, citing that “Bio Architecture Lab has given up on the technology [and] is seeking to sell Chilean operations including a 20-hectare (49-acre) seaweed farm in a bay near the [...]
Enerkem starts “drop-in” fuels R&D
Tweet Also, next-gen waste-to-biofuels biofuels pioneer expects to reach commissioning stage by summer at first commercial plant In Canada, Enerkem announced that the Canadian government will contribute $1.1 million to a project developing new catalytic processes for the conversion of waste into “drop-in” biofuels. These “drop-in” biofuels are fully interchangeable with hydrocarbon fuels, such as [...]
Out of the Shell: oil giant’s big biofuels ambitions
Tweet One thing to remember about Shell – it’s not your Dad’s oil company. In an exclusive Digest interview, Shell’s VP for Alternative Energy, Matthew Tipper, reveals the company’s thinking about RFS2, their increasing re-focus on North America and the EU. Plus, Shell’s ambition to “build, own and operate” a global biofuels business “to complement [...]
RINs may lower biojet costs but may not be more competitive
Tweet In Washington, Airlines for America told Platts that it expects the EPA’s recent decision to allow aviation biofuels to qualify for RIN production will go a long way towards helping the fuel reach price parity with traditional jet fuel. Even though renewable jet fuel can produce RINs, jet fuel itself is still exempt from [...]
The Promiscuous, the Selective, and Biofuels
Tweet A new, potentially game-changing path to biofuels? And what exactly does promiscuity have to do with it? There’s been some potentially world-changing work going on of late at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Guelph and Los Alamos National Laboratory that it’s time for you to know about. And if phrases like “enantioselectivity” [...]
Virent Delivers Plant-Based Jet Fuel to U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for Testing
Tweet Produces Drop-In Jet Fuel from 100% Renewable Plant Sugars In Wisconsin, Virent announced the delivery of 100 gallons of its bio-based jet fuel to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for testing purposes. Product testing will begin at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to validate Virent’s jet fuel against the standards required for [...]
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 [...]
Toray Succeeds in Production of Bio-Based PBT
Tweet Toray demonstrates products made from renewable PBT — another landmark step in “replacing the whole barrel of oil”. In California, Toray Industries announced that it has successfully made a partially bio-based PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) using 1,4-butanediol (BDO) made with Genomatica’s bio-based process technology. Toray is the first company to publicly confirm successful PBT polymerization [...]
Cobalt, Mercurius, BioProcess Algae, Frontline land $17.7M in military biofuels grants
Tweet Pilot-scale biorefineries for drop-in military diesel, jet fuel the focus of the DOE’s latest grant round. In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced up to $17.7 million in grants to four pilot-scale biorefinery projects aimed at military-spec hydrocarbon fuels. Cobalt Technologies, Mercurius Biofuels, BioProcess Algae and Frontline BioEnergy were selected for negotiation. Recipients [...]
