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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 [...]
Anaergia Services to build renewable fuel facility for Maui
Tweet In Hawaii, Maui has selected Anaergia Services for their Integrated Waste Conversion and Energy Project (IWCEP) , a consolidated effort to divert waste from landfills to renewable fuel production. Anaergia, based in Carlsbad, California, will design, build, privately finance, and operate the renewable fuel facility, which will divert 85% of Maui’s waste. More on [...]
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 [...]
UW-M research makes process breakthrough converting lignin to chemicals
Tweet In Wisconsin, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method of using oxygen to convert lignin into renewable chemicals. Previous methods have used oxidation but the new method very selectively oxidises the lignin under very mild pressure and temperature with a catalyst that is specific for a single structure on the lignin [...]
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 [...]
Biorefinery 2015 – The Shape of advanced biofuels to come – Part II
Tweet In Part I of our special two-part series, we looked at changing financial structures. Today in part II, we look at a new set of technologies coming along that are redefining our ideas about scale and cost. As seen in part I of Biorefinery 2015: the first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now [...]
Biorefinery 2015 – transformations in biofuels costs, financing
Tweet The first wave of cellulosic biofuels projects are now reaching completion. But what does the next wave look like – from technology to financing? We explore the trends in our two-part Biorefinery 2015 series. It’s a remarkable story of expansion. According to a report from Tristan R. Brown and Robert C. Brown at the [...]
Biofuels Digest’s 10-Minute Guide to Obama’s New Energy Policy
Tweet Major push from Obama on energy. From DOE: “Liquid fuels demand can be sufficiently reduced so that biomass can meet all liquid fuel needs.” What’s up? What is an Energy Security Trust, anyway? The Digest’s 10-Minute Guide tells all. In an address at the Argonne National Laboratories on Friday, President Obama said: “You see, after [...]
Licella’s Fibre Fuels – drop-in biofuels, in pictures
Tweet What is fibre fuel, how does it displace petroleum via supercritical technology, and what does the plant look like? A cryptic note appeared less than two weeks ago in the Bay of Plenty Times, a newspaper servicing the northern tip of New Zealand and its largest commercial port, in Tauranga. “Z Energy and Norske [...]
