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The Hillary Step: 7 Biofuels Contenders, 7 Routes to Scale, Who’s Near the Summit, Who Will Plant the Flag?

The Hillary Step: 7 Biofuels Contenders, 7 Routes to Scale, Who’s Near the Summit, Who Will Plant the Flag?

October 8, 2012 |

The Hillary Step. It’s the last big technical obstacle between a mountaineer and the summit of Mount Everest. Every biofuels contender has its own route to the top – with unique advantages and technical challenges. Who is nearing the Summit, what’s their Hillary Step, who’s got Sherpas, who’s got oxygen? It’s the race for scale […]

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Super-cali-thali-terpa-butyl-peta what? The hockey-stickin’, flash-mobbin’ growth in biobased intermediates

Super-cali-thali-terpa-butyl-peta what? The hockey-stickin’, flash-mobbin’ growth in biobased intermediates

September 6, 2012 |

The new trend in biofuels is not a biofuel at all – it’s an (usually unpronounceable) intermediate that can be refined into an array of fuels, chemicals, flavors, fragrances, and construction or packaging materials. Ptera-buta-thalic-what? We can hardly pronounce them, but we sure need to know about them. Amyris, KiOR, Renmatix, Virdia, Blue Sugars, Proterro, […]

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Dating Your Feedstock and Never Marrying: The 6 Hottest Ways to Alleviate Food vs Fuel

Dating Your Feedstock and Never Marrying: The 6 Hottest Ways to Alleviate Food vs Fuel

August 21, 2012 |

With the US drought, food vs fuel has returned as an issue. What alternatives are scientists, entrepreneurs developing to take us beyond the old debate? In the past week we published a report that the chairman of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Lemathe, has called anew for a ban on making biofuels from feedstocks that can also be […]

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No Eeyores for KiOR

No Eeyores for KiOR

August 16, 2012 |

Analysts are bullish as KiOR’s drop-in biofuels technology transitions to commercial phase – what factors are driving all the good vibes? There are a lot of Eeyores around the advanced biofuels space these days – well, around the United States and to a great extent the EU as a whole, really. Gloomy, pessimistic, chronically depressed. […]

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Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky

March 28, 2012 |

Companies like KiOR, ZeaChem, Virent take aim at a tasty aviation biofuels market with new recipes and game-changing economics Seattle, as just about anyone can surmise from the soaring Space Needle and the sprawling Boeing complex south of downtown, has a pretty long tradition in aviation and transportation, and a progressive tradition based in a […]

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KiOR rated "Outperform" despite cash-for-scale-up concern

KiOR rated "Outperform" despite cash-for-scale-up concern

August 15, 2011 |

In Texas, KiOR received an Outperform rating from Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov, who wrote that “the Columbus plant remains on track for a 2H12 start-up, with engineering 80% complete and construction 25% complete. Project enhancements will result in higher costs, but management targets total costs to be within 8-10% of the $192 million originally […]

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Gevo, Amyris, KiOR – as the Khosla Kids mature, scale, differentiate, who's on top?

Gevo, Amyris, KiOR – as the Khosla Kids mature, scale, differentiate, who's on top?

August 4, 2011 |

On the road from Pilot to Player, three Khosla companies have gone far and fast – but now, the differentiating points become clearer. Who’s better now? They share Khosla Ventures in their DNA, and are next-gen companies – but there, the similarities begin to fade. KiOR – making biocrude from woody biomass. Gevo, making isobutanol […]

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KiOR files $100M IPO – the complete Digest analysis

KiOR files $100M IPO – the complete Digest analysis

[ 4 ] April 13, 2011 |

Khosla-backed pyrolysis venture heads for the public markets. Is the IPO window still open? Will this one fly? Should it? The Digest looks at the technology, the team, the progress, the economics, the proof, and the prospects. In New York, KiOR filed its $100 million IPO with Credit Suisse, UBS and Goldman Sachs as underwriters. […]

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Oscar Mayer’s bologna-esque face mask, biobased traffic pillars, Delta airlines’ bamboo, algae-based skis, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of February 3rd

Oscar Mayer’s bologna-esque face mask, biobased traffic pillars, Delta airlines’ bamboo, algae-based skis, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of February 3rd

February 2, 2022 |

  In what seems like a twisted, alternate universe, famous wiener maker and bologna bliss master, Oscar Mayer, launched a face mask that looks like bologna but is made out of seaweed, witch hazel and collagen (and as clearly marked on their packaging, is not meant to be eaten). If walking around with a bologna-looking […]

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Holy Biobased Bat-Bridge Batman!: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of January 14th

Holy Biobased Bat-Bridge Batman!: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of January 14th

January 13, 2021 |

Biobased bicycle path bridges that feature bat-friendly design in the Netherlands, biobased backpacks in Sweden, footwear featuring Fido’s dog hair in Germany, drones gettin’ their crown on with pineapple waste in Malaysia, biodegradable floss to keep your smile green and clean in New York – these are just some of this week’s Top 8 Innovations.

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