International development: Most Overlooked Biofuels Story #9

In this November story, the Digest covered the opening of the Inbicon cellulosic ethanol plant in Kalundborg, Denmark, which briefly became the largest single producer of cellulosic ethanol with its 1.4 Mgy (demonstration scale) production volume. Digest readers, 60 percent of whom reside in the US, have generally overlooked foreign developments, but when Great River signed with Inbicon later in the spring to bring their technology to an integrated energy project in North Dakota, interest sharply increased.

By summer, with US technologies fanning out to China, South America and elsewhere in droves, seeking needed capital, readers have become increasingly aware that the development of bioenergy is a global phenomenon, and that some of the most promising technologies were developed far away from the hotbeds of synthetic biology in Boston, San Diego and Silicon Valley.