Category: Top Stories
Sundrop Fuels, ThyssenKrupp partner for 50 million gallon Louisiana drop-in biofuels project
Share Biomass and natural gas XTL project gets more traction in Louisiana – what is XTL and why might that TLA become SOP? In Colorado, Sundrop Fuels announced a partnership with technology and engineering supplier ThyssenKrupp Uhde for what will be the nation’s first bona fide commercial “green gasoline” production facility. The company’s inaugural plant [...]
Biofuels Digest’s new, improved job service
Share Today, at jobs.biofuelsdigest.com – you’ll see our greatly enhanced and improved job service.. We’ve been astonished by the growth of activity among jobseekers. Since the job board opened, Digest subscribers have clicked 184,602 times to see job listings – enough to fill a small city. It’s grown from a handful of clicks, to days [...]
GraalBio Investimentos plans to invest $724.5 million in five cellulosic ethanol projects in Brazil
Share In Brazil, GraalBio Investimentos plans to invest $724.5 million in five cellulosic ethanol plants during the next few years. The first 21.6 million gallon facility in Alagoas that will use sugarcane bagasse as feedstock is expected to come online in December 2013. At the Alagoas plant, the suppliers of the enzymes and industrial yeasts [...]
The Wilmington Express: The 10-minute guide to Dupont and advanced biofuels
Share Dupont is accelerating, after acquiring Danisco in a $6B 2011 takeover. Next stop – expansion in cellulosic biofuels and biobutanol. They’re bullish on biofuels and getting more so as their technology and vertically integrated strategy comes together. More than a year ago now, Dupont took a giant additional leap into industrial biotechnology with the [...]
Waste Lines: The hottest trends with bio’s coolest feedstock
Share There’s nothing growing faster in the bio-based world than waste-based projects. Or, rather, is there any disappearing faster than the concept of waste, as bioenergy projects show us how to re-use and re-use and re-use? There are some names that have gone wrong – badly wrong – in bioenergy feedstocks. For example, vomit nut [...]
US warplanes can fly faster, carry additional weapons load using advanced fuels and biofuels: new data
Share Storm breaks out between US military leaders and House Republicans. Can the US afford to deploy fuels with advanced war fighting capabilities? Republicans say, for now, “no”. WASHINGTON, DC — May 21 — New tests conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base have revealed that US warplanes are capable of flying faster and carry more [...]
What’s Up in Brazilian Biofuels? The 10-Minute Guide
Share The top 20 trends and stories from biofuels’ most advanced commercial market, and its most intriguing focal point for expansion. It was just around the end of 2009′s Summer of Algae, when attention in advanced biofuels shifted decisively to Brazil, and it seemed that the best place to carry on an industry dialogue was [...]
CleanStar launches first cooking fuel facility in Mozambique; alternative to charcoal cooking, heath risks, at hand in Africa
Share In Mozambique, the first sustainable cooking fuel facility was inaugurated by Federal Minister of Agriculture José Pacheco. The CleanStar project will produce ethanol-based cooking fuel for sale with the company’s cookstoves, an affordable new form of cooking that is cleaner, faster and safer than using charcoal. The plant in Dondo, in Mozambique’s Sofala Province, [...]
Military leaders call on Congress to secure America, support alternative fuels
Share In “Operation Free”, a coalition of retired Admirals and Air Force and Army Generals say “We cannot drill our way out of the problem of energy security,” in letter to Senate Energy Committee heads. In Washington, a group of retired military leaders, organized as “Operation Free” within the Truman National Security Project, called on [...]
Dow, Novozymes, Ford, Albemarle, Waste Management among early leaders in 40 Hottest Bio Partners voting
Share Early voting is underway in the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-Based Products rankings. Among the category leaders in the early going: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Harris Group, Novozymes, Solazyme, Waste Management, Khosla Ventures, the USDA, POET-DSM, Mintz Levin, Stoel Rives and Wilson Sonsini, Albemarle, BASF and Koch, Gevo and UOP, Ford, MBI, [...]
