Tag: Sundrop Fuels
Hot sauce! 5 Lessons Louisiana can teach us about advanced bayoufuels
Tweet Louisiana — it’s as hot as cayenne pepper in biofuels capacity development, but there are cautionary tales hidden in the sauce. When it comes to the first generation of ethanol and biodiesel-based biofuels, Louisiana didn’t figure much into the calculations — to date, there’s just the 5 million gallon (per year) Oswalt Bioenergy biodiesel [...]
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 [...]
Sundrop Fuels moving forward on construction for Louisiana plant
Tweet In Louisiana, Sundrop Fuels Inc. will begin construction early next year on its first commercial plant. The company has begun to hire plant managers and plans to begin training entry-level and other staff positions in late 2013, as construction is expected to be complete in 2014. The $450 million plant will produce synthetic gasoline [...]
Hybrid, hyperlocal: 5 Paths of the New Fuel Economy
Tweet Wondering where biofuels are going in a world of low-cost natural gas and titanic battles over renewable fuel standards? We look at the latest on gas-biomass hybrids, and even further down the line at 5 pathways that may emerge as winners. In April, we took a look at falling natural gas prices and the [...]
The Olive Economy
Tweet If the long-term is green, and the present is based on carbon-intense “black” technologies – the near term is going to be shades of olive, and technologies that combine green and black may be the big winners. Today, 5 strategies at the nexus of green and black, exemplars of the Olive Economy A couple [...]
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 [...]
Wood waste bioproducts a growth center for Louisiana?
Tweet In Louisiana, LSU held a forum regarding the use of waste wood products for biofuels after Sundrop Fuels of Colorado recently announced their plans to build a woody biomass and natural gas biofuels plant in Alexandria. Due to the recent recession, tree farms have seen their land value dip tremendously and view biofuels as [...]
Sundrop Fuels to buy 1200 acres in Louisiana for first commercial green gasoline plant
Tweet In Louisiana, Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels is buying about 1,200 acres near Alexandria for its first gasification plant to produce 50 million gallons per year of green gasoline from forest waste that is expected to cost between $450 million and $500 million. The company expects to produce 1 billion gallons of its fuel annually by [...]
Sundrop announces $450M biofuels project in Louisiana
Tweet In Colorado, Sundrop Fuels announced that they have agreed to purchase about 1,200 acres of land near Alexandria, Louisiana to build their first plant. Using forest waste and hydrogen from natural gas, their plant will produce up to 50 MGy of renewable gasoline. The plant will cost $450 to $500 million to build and [...]
10 Top Solar Biofuels Projects
Tweet In the lexicon of renewables, solar and biomass-based energy are usually separated out into two distinct categories: there are different researchers, different grants, different media, different supporters. Generally, people think of solar as a source for electric power, and biofuels as a source for liquid transportation fuels. But it isn’t always so. Aside from [...]
