Tag: agrivida
7 Bleeding-Edge Technologies unlocking Mighty Value in the first-gen ethanol fleet
Tweet The US Ethanol Fleet reinvents as super-advanced technologies target the old fleet for new purposes. For some time, perhaps one of the toughest assets to manage in the Western World — possibly the Milky Way Galaxy or even the local galaxy group — has been a starch ethanol plant. They’ve been through it all, [...]
Active and Passive: Competing Voices in Biofuels Design
Tweet Biofuels technologies aim for passive design, active reactions as they aim to compete at world-scale. Where is passive design making a difference – and where are activity rates changing outcomes? Extraction, extraction, extraction – there’s the ultimate competitive foe. Generally, renewables compete in the short term against fossil fuel prices – but in the [...]
South Dakota’s biofuels and economic boom
Tweet South Dakota has become one of the fastest-growing states in the US, at the same time as it has achieved energy independence through development of its biofuels fleet. Coincidence, or correlation? We look at the data, and the trends powering South Dakota’s biofuels industry. If you happen to be a devotee of spreadsheets released [...]
Poet teams with Agrivida on cellulosic ethanol research
Tweet In South Dakota, POET Research Inc and Agrivida, Inc have announced the signing of a technology collaboration joint development agreement in the field of cellulosic ethanol. Under the terms of the four-year agreement POET and Agrivida will develop Agrivida’s technology platforms with the goal of significantly reducing the capital and operating costs of commercial cellulosic [...]
Agrivida starts field trials for in-corn enzymes
Tweet In Massachusetts, Agrivida has launched its first significant field production of research materials in USDA-permitted field trials. “Agrivida has created a proprietary INzyme molecular engineering technology that allows the renewable chemicals, fuels and other industries to grow a substrate of non-food energy crops that contain dormant enzymes, “said Agrivida’s Dr. Michael Lanahan. “These enzymes accumulate [...]
The quick lowdown on energy crops and low-cost sugars
Tweet In Texas, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov issued a new report, “Gen2 Biofuel Feedstocks: The Coming Surge in Energy Crops and Cellulosic Sugars.” Molchanov writes: As energy investors know well, it is much better to own the oil than to refine it. In other words, the bulk of the value is in the upstream [...]
The 7 Paths of the New Agriculture
Tweet Biofuels booming? It’s not just the new transformative processing technologies, it’s the new agriculture. Here’s what’s going on, by whom, and where, when and why. In the bioenergy business, no one has nightmares, they have feedstock-mares. You wake up, sweating and panting and shaken, with the unmistakeable sensation that your feedstock of choice is [...]
The (Next) Next-Gen Cellulosic Biofuels
Tweet 8 billion gallons of new cellulosic biofuels capacity is mandated for 2016-2019 – here’s a sneak peek at technology that could transform the economics. With ethanol trading at $2.53 per gallon for the October contract on the Chicago Board of Trade, fans (and stakeholders) of cellulosic ethanol have reason to be hugely excited by [...]
Agrivida aims for $0.80 corn ethanol, inserting fast-acting enzymes into plants
Tweet In Massachusetts, Agrivida plans to deliver three enzymes to bring down the cost associated with corn-based ethanol to $0.80 per gallon. After receiving $6.8 million in grants from the USDA and the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program earlier this year, Agrivida plans to deliver these three enzymes for corn this fall. Agrivida’s technology triggers [...]
ARPA-E chief highlights Agrivida's enzyme process
Tweet In Massachusetts, ARPA-E chief Arun Majumdar recently highlighted Agrivida’s biofuels technology, stating that “They take the gene sequences that produce enzymes and put them in the plant itself, so when the plant grows, it produces the enzymes free of cost.” Agrivida’s research is focused on mechanisms to “switch off” the enzymes during the plant’s [...]
