Tag: Cool Planet
Cool Planet Energy could relocate to Denver
Tweet In California, Cool Planet Energy Systems may relocate its headquarters to Denver, opening a manufacturing plant there as well. The company stands to receive as much as $3.1M in job-growth tax incentives after the Colorado Economic Development Commission voted unanimously to provide tax incentives for the company’s transition. Cool Planet is also considering Texas [...]
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 [...]
“CarbonNegative is the future.”
Tweet Today on Twitter. FuelsAmerica: Check out the Pew Project’s video on the benefits of advanced #biofuel use in the military CoolPlanetFuels: RT to help spread the #biofuels word; #CarbonNegative is the future. jacobasterling: Interview with Danish “TV Avisen” on biofuels in shipping. Should broadcast on DR1 11 Dec 21:30 lawrencehurley: DC Circuit heard arguments [...]
Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?
Tweet While companies pursue alternatives to Fischer-Tropsch technologies, Velocys is seeking to make F-T work economically with micro-reactors. In last week’s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies – companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL): “The two major problems with any of the XTL [...]
Everyday low (fuel) prices: Drop-in advanced biofuels for under $100 per barrel
Tweet Brent Crude trades this past week at a transorbital $109 per barrel (West Texas Intermediate at a suborbital, if high, $85). It puts the conventional wisdom that biofuels are too infrastructure incompatible and too costly to the test. Are they? Let’s look today at progress in developing infrastructure-compatible, drop-in advanced biofuels that cost less [...]
Google runs biofuel car using Cool Planet carbon-negative fuel blend
Tweet In California, Google has run their biofuel car for more than 2400 miles on a 5% Cool Planet “carbon-negative” fuel blend. GRide, as the car is called, passed five smog checks, and the mileage of the test car evened out with the control car, run on 100% regular gasoline. Cool Planet calls the Google [...]
New Kids on the Block: 12 hot bio-based technologies worth watching (Part 2)
Tweet Part 2: As the biobased revolution moves into the commercialization stage, new products and enabling technologies continue to surface that offer tantalyzing opportunities. In yesterday’s Part I, we looked at 6 innovation-stage companies worth keeping a close eye on – some practically brand-spanking new – others have been flying under the radar for several [...]
On the Move in Biofuels: Cool Planet Energy Systems
Tweet In California, Howard Janzen is joining Cool Planet Energy Systems as president and CEO, Michael Bukowski joins as VP of Fuel Production, and Rick Wilson joins as VP, Strategic Relationships. Janzen was formerly president of Sprint Business Solutions, and CEO of One Communications; Michael Bukowski was VP of Sunoco’s Chemical and Manufacturing Division; Wilson [...]
Gasoline’s comeback in the bio-based era: 5 cleantech companies vie for green gasoline breakthroughs
Tweet Gasoline – the 20th century’s Wonder Fuel, bashed for years over price, source and emissions – ready for a comeback, courtesy of 5 bio-based revolutionaries? In the rush to replace fossil (e.g. ancient algae) gasoline over emissions, and energy security concerns, most of the focus has fallen on technologies that replace the fuel or [...]
[LL] Cool Planet Rocks the Bells
Tweet Our 3-part series, “Shake It Up, Baby”, turns to the mysterious world of Cool Planet Biofuels. What are Google, BP, Conoco, and GE investing? Is 3,000 gallons per acre of renewable gasoline possible? In the past few weeks, news has begun to circulate around the industry – and expanded by Twitter and other social [...]
