Archive for July, 2008
Environmental Power completes financing on JB Swift biogas project in Nebraska
In Nebraska, Environmental Power has completed financing of a project at the JB Swift plant in Grand Island to produce biogas from animal byproducts. The biogas will be used to generate power that will save JB Swift $1.7 million in annual energy costs as well as reduce waste management inputs. The project, which raised $7 [...]
Arisdyne completes $5.3 million equity raise for cavitation technology for increased biofuels production yield
In Ohio, Arisdyne Systems, a fuel cavitation technology, announced that it has raised $5.3 million in equity financing to expand its research into biofuel production. Arisdyne will license technology from Cavitech Holding Company and will research the enhancement of yields from ethanol production through hydrodynamic cavitation.
Biofuel yield improvement background
Researchers at the University of Georgia say [...]
Colorado researchers gain grant for conversion of algae, switchgrass to syngas, fuel
A research team at the University of Colorado was awarded $1 million by the Department of Energy and USDA to develop a solar-thermal chemical reactor to convert switchgrass and algae to synthetic gas. The team will concentrate sunlight to heat biomass to 2000 degrees, gasify the cellulose into syngas, and convert the gas of carbon [...]
New world trade agreement has “no chance” without global agreement on ethanol: Brazil’s foreign minister
At the Doha Round of world trade talks, Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim was reported to have characterized that the imperiled world trade agreement had “no chance” of being finalized without the inclusion of an agreement on the ethanol trade. Brazil, which received an offer from Europe of 1.4 million tons in ethanol imports based [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “There are 21 farm states, and that’s 42 senators…They’re going to have ethanol.”
T Boone Pickens, reporting a conversation in 1996 with Bob Dole: “He said, “Ethanol is, you say it’s a bad fuel.” I said, “Come on Bob, you spend more money making it than importing it.” And he said, “Let me explain something to you about politics: There are 21 farm states, and that’s 42 senators. [...]
Australian research team targets 12X improvement in saltwater algae costs
In Australia, researchers at Murdoch University will set up a series of saline algae test ponds and photobioreactors in a bid to reduce the cost of algae production from $11.46 per kilo to a target of $.95 per kilo. The university has received $1.8 million in federal government support for the project, which will be [...]
Massachusetts governor signs state biofuels bill; mandates B5 by 2013, cellulosic ethanol tax exemption
In Massachusetts, Governor Governor Deval Patrick signed the state biofuels bill that will require a B2 biodiesel blend commencing in 2012, increasing to B5 by 2013. The bill also exempts cellulosic ethanol from state excise taxes of $0.23 per gallon, based on the percentage of ethanol used.
Qualifying fuels must achieve at least a 50 percent [...]
Doha Round of trade talks: background
At a World Trade Organization meeting aimed at reviewing new proposals for the Doha Round of trade talks, New Zealand’s WTO ambassador Crawford Falconer reported that a number of countries had expressed unhappiness over the new US Farm Bill, just passed last week over President George Bush’s veto.
Under WTO rules, the US would have to [...]
AAA adding 36 percent to ethanol cost for advisories on fuel prices
AAA is releasing comparisons of ethanol and gasoline prices based on adding 36 percent to the cost of ethanol, to compensate for lower fuel economy . The AAA report as of today quotes E85 at $3.201 with an adjusted BTU equivalent of $4.212. That’s a 31.58 percent markup, which (given that this is E85 not [...]
Brazil’s Petrobras opens first biodiesel plant
In Brazil, Petrobras commenced operations at a 15 Mgy soy biodiesel plant in Bahia, the company’s first foray into biodiesel. Company officials said that Petrobras has targeted a total capacity of 248 Mgy in Brazil by 2012. Two more plants, in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, and Quixadá, in Ceará, are scheduled to open in August.
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
