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Bioenergy Profits Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and cellulosic ethanol

What is it I was Looking For?: PROFITS Principle, Obtaining Vital Information – Part II
Over the next few weeks, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to running your business more effectively and illustrates best practices of currently successful [...]

Challenges Associated with Recovering CO2 from Flue Gas, vs. Concentrated Sources Such as Ethanol: a Biofuels Digest special report

By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Sam Rushing

BACKGROUND

Flue gas is the most prevalent source of CO2 off-gas from all processes globally; among the lion’s share of this flue gas is the ever – present electric power plant, primarily fueled by coal, and then secondly, natural gas. The CO2 found in coal fired power [...]

Algenol: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Algenol
Based in: Florida
2008-09 rank: #35
Business: Algael fuel developer. Algenol explains that energy from the sun through photosynthesis produces simple sugars inside algae cells which, concurrently with enzymes, produce ethanol. Extremely fast growing algae renews the sugar supply.
Model: Owner-operator and partner.
Past milestones:
In 2008, Biofields CEO Alejandro González Cimadevilla said that the company is targeting  [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “financiers explaining why they aren’t touching this stuff with a 10 foot pole.”

From Global Carbon Project: “Scientists report a 29 per cent increase in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel between 2000 and 2008 (the latest year for which figures are available), and that in spite of the global economic downturn emissions increased by 2 per cent during 2008. The use of coal as a fuel has [...]

European SET-Plan calls for $75 billion in new investment in low carbon technologies during 2010s

In Europe, the European Biofuels Technology Platform consortium released a report on the adoption by the European Commission of the SET-Plan. The SET-Plan calls for an additional $75 billion in public and private investment in low carbon technologies over the next decade and details the technology roadmaps for the Industrial Initiatives.
According to the EBTP, “next [...]

Airlines face $1.53 billion carbon shortfall in 2012 without emissions reductions, biofuels: new report

In the UK, a report from RDC Aviation and Point Carbon has concluded that the aviation industry will face an initial carbon liability of $1.53 billion in 2012 when aviation enters the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme in 2012.
The groups found a shortfall of 77 million tonnes of CO2, and applied today’s spot price of $20 [...]

EPA to hold workshops 11/18 and 11/19 on new GHG regulations affecting larger ethanol plants

In Washington, the EPA announced the location and dates for two public hearings on the proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions thresholds, defining when Clean Air Act permits would apply to new or existing industrial facilities. According to the EPA, this new program would cover nearly 70 percent of the nation’s total GHG emissions from stationary [...]

Mascoma / Longyear JV, Frontier Renewable, funds $2 million Michigan research project for biomass logistics

In Michigan, Frontier Renewable Resources, building the state’s first cellulosic ethanol plant in the Upper Peninsula, has provided a $2-million grant designed to strengthen the sustainable wood fiber supply, develop greater efficiencies in the harvest and transportation equipment and processes, and further reduce costs for the cutting edge project. The grant will fund critical research [...]

Diversified Energy meeting DOE/NETL gasification program milestones

In Arizona, Diversified Energy announced it completed key milestones in an advanced gasification development program sponsored by the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. The 24-month, $945,000 grant is focused on the design and demonstration of a one ton per day OmniGas gasifier to process biomass, coal.
OmniGas uses molten slag to produce syngas that can be [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Yield growth alone will provide significantly more than the 520 million bushels of additional feedstock required by the ethanol industry.”

From Farm Online (Australia): “Those familiar with the US agriculture sector’s long history of productivity and efficiency have maintained that increased demand for grain can be readily met through increases in the amount of feedstock produced per unit of land, not through expansion of the area devoted to cropland…yield growth alone will provide significantly more [...]