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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 [...]
DuPont, Coca-Cola, BP, US Navy surge in Biofuels Digest’s Hot Partners poll
Tweet In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. In voting yesterday, DuPont, Coke, BP and the US Navy picked up enough votes to take the lead among “strategic customers” and “lab services”. In the bio-based world, that means partners, and plenty [...]
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 [...]
POET, DSM surge in Biofuels Hot Partners voting
Tweet In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. In voting yesterday, POET and DSM made a strong move to take the lead in four categories altogether — Feedstocks (gases and residues), pretreatment, processing systems and strategic customers (biobased products). In the [...]
Biofuels Digest Index drops to 74.85 as advanced biofuels fall
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dropped 1.60 percent to 74.85 as advanced biofuels fell. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) dumped 6.24 percent to $10.81, while Amyris (AMRS) declined 5.56 percent to $2.89. Among other equities, Aemetis (AMTX) rocketed up 23.68 percent to $0.47. Overall, declines led advances 3 [...]
Hot Partners voting underway: Harris Group, Coca-Cola, Chemtex, Novozymes, Waste Management, Propel, NREL among the leaders
Tweet In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. In the bio-based world, that means partners, and plenty of them. Who are the best? Who’s the hottest? That’s what the Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-based Products rankings are all about. Voting is open to [...]
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 [...]
Biofuels Digest Index jumps to 75.63 as advanced biofuels gain
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 1.65 percent to 75.63 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) soared 10.18 percent to $1.84, while Solazyme (SZYM) escalated 4.93 percent to $11.49. Among other equities, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) rocketed up 8.98 percent to $14.44. Overall, advances led [...]
Ciao, Western Biomass Energy, formerly Blue Sugars, formerly KL Energy.
Tweet You can sum it up in 10 words: Studebaker, Maxwell, Hudson, Checker, DeSoto, Duesenberg, LaSalle, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Tucker. The names of beloved auto brands that went by the wayside — great in their day, but unable to adapt to modern times. The passing of a great brand is a sad thing, but it doesn’t [...]
Biofuels Digest Index edges up to 73.21 as advanced biofuels gain
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rose for the fifth consecutive session, edging up 0.10 percent to 73.21 as advanced biofuels gained again. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) escalated to $10.82, while Ceres slipped to $2.28. Among other equities, Verenium (VRNM) fell to $2.14. Overall, declines led advances 2 [...]
