Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Western Regional match-up between #1 seed Solazyme and #4 seed Cobalt Technologies, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes […]
Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #4 seed Cobalt Technologies and #5 seed Ceres, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the […]
Background: This is a first round, West Regional match-up between #4 seed Cobalt and #13 seed Verenium in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the […]
In California, Cobalt Technologies announced that it has closed a $20M Series D funding round. The round was led by The Whittemore Collection Ltd., the investment vehicle of Parsons & Whittemore, formerly one of the world’s largest manufacturers of market pulp and builder of some 60 pulp mills in 28 countries. All of Cobalt’s current […]
Biobutanol from wood biomass; 470,000 gallon facility to switch to biobutanol in April 2012 In Michigan, Cobalt Technologies and American Process announced an agreement to build the world’s first industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery to produce biobutanol. Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt, and Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, will join 120 other C-level advanced biorefining executives […]
Cobalt CEO Rick Wilson challenges himself, policymakers, and the industry, to focus on the importance of cost advantage in establishing and financing an integrated biorefinery industry. “Why make a $2 fuel when you can make a $5 chemical?” asks Cobalt CEO Rick Wilson, whose company was branded in the public eye as Cobalt Biofuels for […]
In California, Andrew Meyer has joined Cobalt Technologies as Senior Vice President of Business Development, and will be responsible for leading Cobalt’s effort to commercialize biobutanol, while driving partnership development. Meyer comes to Cobalt from Amyris where he was director of Supply and Distribution, having built the company’s fuels marketing efforts from inception. Prior to […]
In California, Cobalt Technologies announced a partnership with the U.S. Navy to develop technology for the conversion of biobutanol into full performance jet and diesel fuels. Under the agreement, n-biobutanol produced by Cobalt will be converted to bio-jet and biodiesel fuels using technology developed at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in […]
By Peter Brown Special to The Digest I have come to the conclusion that due less to climate change than suffocation we are coming to the last chapter of our presence on this planet. AND we will have done it with the best intentions. In pursuit of our salvation from climate change we are now […]
In Sweden, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an environmentally friendly method for recycling and purifying metals. Using gold earrings from a pawnshop in Gothenburg and biodiesel from the nearest filling station, the discovery could change an industry that is currently dependent on large amounts of fossil oil. In the researchers’ […]
