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Edeniq crosses the 1,000 hour mark at CellEth demo
Tweet In California, Edeniq announced the company’s first demonstration plant, located at its Visalia, CA headquarters, has completed a successful “performance test” that exceeded the benchmark of 1,000 hours of continuous operation. The Corn-to-Cellulosic Migration plant utilizes Edeniq’s proprietary technology to process over one metric ton of cellulosic feedstock per day to cellulosic ethanol, exceeding the [...]
Save $270M! (and Make Biofuels Feedstocks, er, Feasible, er, Now)
Tweet Is there bio-based relief for the harried taxpayer in sight? Could conservationists, growers and biofuels producers find common ground in adapting the Conservation Reserve Program for bioenergy? Could the US save $270M/year, and strengthen two carbon-reducing laws on the books? The eminent Iowa State economist Bruce Babcock recently opined: “The future of cellulosic biofuels [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
USDA analyses switchgrass replacing Northeast fuel oil
Tweet In Pennsylvania, studies by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist have provided a complete cost-benefit breakdown of using switchgrass pellets, which are potentially a cheaper source of energy, instead of fuel oil to heat homes and businesses in the Northeast. The researchers calculated the economic outlays associated with switchgrass production throughout the supply [...]
Anellotech and the advent of the Green ‘Enes
Tweet Fast pyrolysis developer plans to rapidly expand green benzene and toluene production in 2013 for downstream product development purposes. Opens new pilot plant, R&D facility in New York; green BTX platform ready to emerge. To the outsider, a green BTX probably sounds like a really cool bike for a 13-year old. In the world [...]
Hot sauce! 5 Lessons Louisiana can teach us about advanced bayoufuels
Tweet Louisiana — it’s as hot as cayenne pepper in biofuels capacity development, but there are cautionary tales hidden in the sauce. When it comes to the first generation of ethanol and biodiesel-based biofuels, Louisiana didn’t figure much into the calculations — to date, there’s just the 5 million gallon (per year) Oswalt Bioenergy biodiesel [...]
“High energy ROI on second generation biofuels.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: EliseGarvey: Jeremy Martin from @UCSUSA: better #biofuels means looking at food price, ag production, and land use impacts of producing fuel EliseGarvey: Richard Sayre: high energy ROI on second generation biofuels, also very interested in 3rd gen biofuels- algae. ISA_Interchange: Biofuels: Good, But How Good? [free ISA book chapter] Floragenex: The greatest [...]
The capex-opex fallacy, electric cars, and biofuels
Tweet “Electric power is cheap”, and “cellulosic biofuel costs less than $1.00 per gallon”. So why isn’t everyone buying a Chevy Volt? And why can you get lower interest rates on your Visa Card than next-gen biofuel developers face? It’s the old capex-opex fallacy. Earlier this week, a new study from researchers at UC Santa [...]
