Tag: Navy
BP Biofuels, BASF, Navy surge in biofuels Hot Partners poll
Tweet In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT. In voting yesterday, BP Biofuels surged into the lead for Finance (late or commercialization stage), BASF took the solo lead for “Separation, microharvest, informatics & catalysis systems and services” and the US Navy [...]
The Battle of the Beltway: DoD awards $16M towards parity-cost, drop-in, non-food biofuels
Tweet DoD goes forward, after internal wrangle, with advanced biofuels program via $16M phase 1 investment. With industry cost share, project totals $33M: aims for sub-$4, drop-in military biofuels. In Washington, the DoD will award three contracts totaling $16 million to Emerald Biofuels, Natures BioReserve and Fulcrum Biofuels for drop-in military biofuels, according to Sharon [...]
“Navy advanced biofuels program will create 35,000 new jobs by 2020.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: MattMcGovern Navy advanced biofuels program will create 35,000 new jobs by 2020, many in rural areas. #gjgj2013 RWLWater ”The price of perfection” regarding food waste. Turn price of food waste into energy? #biofuels zixri_net Carbon Neutral Energy: Taking Biofuels to the Next Level OECD: What is the future of biotechnology? Is there more to [...]
“Biofuels have the momentum”: US Senate votes 54-41 to clear Navy’s path to affordable, advanced biofuels capacity
Tweet In Washington, the US Senate voted 54-41 in favor of an amendment offered by Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina to repeal section 2823 of the annual Defense appropriations bill. Sec. 2823 of the FY13 NDAA (S. 3524) would have prohibited the Secretary of Defense or any other official from the Department of Defense [...]
Affordable Naval biofuel: First comes the feedstock
Tweet Is the US government right in aiming to commercialize aviation biofuels production – or should it be aimed at ensuring affordable feedstock? Pain at the pump. $5 gasoline in California. $8 gasoline in the EU. We hear about it all the time. But in biofuels, the pain comes long before the pump. It arrives [...]
“Biofuels industry does not deserve to be demonised.”
Tweet Today on Twitter. glynmoody: EU: Feed kids, not cars — 24 hours left! – time to bin the useless biofuels initiative #epetition ScienceNelson: The winning @Society_Biology photo from China harvesting seaweed for biofuels. Understated but stunning. guardianeco: Biofuels industry does not deserve to be demonised | Clare Wenner productspower: Why is it in America’s [...]
Truman Security Project TV buy targets Republicans on Navy biofuels
Tweet In Washington, the Operation Free campaign today released a new television advertisement entitled “Trust,” which asks why some in Congress aren’t listening to our military leaders who say that advanced biofuels make our forces more effective and energy-independent. In the ad, Marine Corps veteran Chris Marzoni, who served in Fallujah, Iraq as part of [...]
The Navy’s Green Strike Group sails on biofuels blend: will it sail again?
Tweet As the Pacific-based forces of Can-Do battle the Washington-based forces of Shouldn’t-Try, we look at the 6 Big Myths of Military Biofuels In Hawaii, the US Navy demonstrated its Green Strike Group as part of the 2012 Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise that includes 40 surface [...]
“Cellulosic ethanol will soon become competitive with gasoline.”
Tweet pewenvironment: .@USNavy continues to expand the Great Green Fleet. #Biofuels key to warship innovation. SteveHandy: Poor Corn Crop Will Have Major Impact on Ethanol Market via @EnergyCollectiv John_Westra: @GreenNewsDaily NOW is the time to ditch #Ethanol as an #EPICFAIL and embrace #naturalgas & #biodiesel which is a superior #biofuel DuPont_ability: Cellulosic ethanol will soon [...]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) push back on criticism over Pentagon’s use of biofuels
Tweet In Washington, amidst scathing headlines regarding the Great Green Fleet Demonstration, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have published an article in Politico criticizing Congress’s push back on the Pentagon’s efforts in the alternative fuel arena. Echoing the sentiments of the biofuel industry, they brought up the cost of our dependence on [...]
