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Joule demonstrates conversion of waste CO2 into precursors for gasoline, jet fuel
Tweet In Washington DC, at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference (ABLC 2013), Joule President and CEO Bill Sims announced that the company had achieved direct conversion of waste CO2 into the essential components of gasoline and jet fuel. The breakthrough gives Joule the opportunity to expand its Sunflow product line and help address global demand […]
Vilsack, LaHood to lead parade of biofuels, finance, policy leaders as ABLC 2013 gets underway
Tweet In Washington, the 2013 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference will kick off at 8am ET this morning. Among the highlights for today (April 15): US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take the stage at 2pm for separate addresses, and jointly sign a renewal of the “Farm to Fly” agreement […]
7 Steps to meeting US renewable fuels targets
Tweet We go through the renewable fuels math — and find that the nattering nabobs of negativism might have crowed too soon. Sometimes you wonder what former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew would make of the current political landscape, and the hoo-haw over the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Back in 1970, he decried the “nattering nabobs […]
The Hydrogen Problem
Tweet HydroMan may do his hydrogen-shift thing via water, at will – but outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have some hydrogen issues. Psst! Like cutting out a fossil hydrogen dependency for many biofuels. But, new pathways ensure that the status hydroquo may not last for long. A numbers of readers responding to “Biofuels […]
Biofuels from a raging fireball? No fossil energy, no light, no biomass, no sugars. No kidding.
Tweet Researchers unleash the prospect of fuels from the raging fireball known as Pyrococcus furiosus. Imagine a world where instead of creating CO2 as an emission from burning fuels, you could make fuels from the emissions, the CO2. And could do so in a way that bypasses the production of biomass and the extraction of […]
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 […]
Can the US still meet its 2022 biofuels targets?
Tweet As cellulosic biofuels technologies start to deploy — critics and friends ask, 36 billion gallons by 2022, can it still be done? Yep, there’s a pathway. In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that […]
Who’s Your Valentine? Biofuels Digest’s Ardent 50
Tweet Gevo, KiOR top the Ardent 50 rankings at biofuelsdigest.com — the most-intensively researched companies— analyzing page views from more than 800,000 site visits. In Florida, Gevo and KiOR took Valentines Day honors by topping the Ardent 50 rankings, as Biofuels Digest published the 50 Most searched companies at biofuelsdigest.com for 2012-13. In topping this […]
LS9: Change in command
Tweet One of biofuels’ most-celebrated technologies makes a change at the top; the struggle to raise capital dogs a high-profile biofuels star. A new chapter is underway at LS9 with the appointment of Tjerk de Ruiter — the former CEO of Genencor — as president and CEO. It’s not wholly unexpected. Four weeks ago in Top […]
In Case You Missed. Biofuels Digest’s 16 Most-Viewed Stories.
Tweet 12 months, 4400 stories. From 2012, here are the 16 most viewed stories in Biofuels Digest. Biofuels Digest Jobs - Job seeking is always a priority The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2012-13 are announced - The always popular Hot 50 and Hot 30 lists How Joule may turn biofuels upside down - Joule’s low-cost, drop-in […]
