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The Valley of Disbelief
Tweet Are you missing out on great investment returns – is the Dow really headed for 20,000? Is the advanced biofuels rally for real? Why are investors sitting on the sidelines in the Valley of Disbelief? This year in the United States, despite awesome returns in the stock market and miserable bond yields, the Investment [...]
ExxonMobil, Synthetic Genomics ink new pact for algae biofuels
Tweet Oil’s #1 and Craig Venter re-up on algae fuels R&D effort In California, Synthetic Genomics announced a new co-funded research agreement with ExxonMobil to develop algae biofuels. The new agreement is a basic science research program that focuses on developing algal strains with significantly improved production characteristics by employing synthetic genomic science and technology. [...]
Biofuels and the Problem of Tropical Islands, part I of II
Tweet Peril and Promise from Haiti to Hawaii: a two-part series Few places are as long on beauty yet short on energy as a tropical island. Geology denies them fossil fuels for cheap fuel, powerful export incomes, or fertilizers. Heavy rainfall brings them thin soils better suited to growing wood than staple crops. Deforestation is [...]
Neste Oil posts profit for Q1 of 2013
Tweet In Finland, Neste Oil reported its first quarter results, showing a net profit or the first time in several years. The company has recorded an operating profit of US$34m. “We were able to expand our customer base further and sales allocations were also successful. Price differentials between different vegetable oils remained favourable during the [...]
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 [...]
Dinneen blasts RFS Reform Bill: “Nothing undermines next generation innovation like uncertainty.”
Tweet In Washington, in response to the introduction of the RFS Reform Act, newly introduced legislation sponsored by Representatives Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Steve Womack (R-AR), and Peter Welch (D-VT), US biofuels leaders offered a widely disparate set of responses. ABFA president Michael McAdams said, “Rep. Goodlatte today introduced two bills, the first [...]
“USDA asks White House to approve sugar-for-ethanol program.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: USDA asks White House to approve sugar-for-ethanol program: WASHINGTON… howserob S. African govt plans to support creation of local biofuels industry. http://t.co/JuZTLkI9T8 opean USP and Embrapa researchers ID ways to reduce biofuels nitrogen emissions: Filed under: Biofuel News InterdasGlobal: #Global #Biofuels Production Will Reach Nearly 62 Billion Gallons by 2023,
SG Biofuels aims to expand jatropha footprint into Asia, Africa in 2013
Tweet In New York, Bloomberg is reporting that jatropha 2.0 developer SG Biofuels is “seeking a partner in Southeast Asia or Africa and expects to complete a cooperation deal within 180 days” to expand its growth in the hot, “growing zone” for jatropha. SGB has signed up [artners with more than 250,000 acres signed up [...]
The Carbon Fix? Think Carbon Suit. ZeaKal raises $3.8M in Series A financing
Tweet Crop yield and oil content increases of up to 50% and 34% seen from ZeaKal’s HME technology. Though in early days — what’s going on? Last week, ZeaKal announced that it had raised $3.8 million in its Series A financing. A successful Series A is always a good indication that, while it is early [...]
Algae biofuels and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Tweet Could new advances based around the old Prisoner’s Dilemma make algae biofuels cost-competitive, sooner? Appears so, according to new research. In the days before the internet, librarians knew that no two books were more dog-eared and caused more disappointment to callow youth that John von Neumann’s The Theory of Games and John Maynard Smith’s [...]
