In Brazil, CEO Jose Sergio Gabrielli of Petrobras said last week at the World’s 20th Petroleum Conference that he predicts all cars in Brazil will soon be running on ethanol. This speculation came amidst oil executive’s forecasts that the world’s energy demand will increase by 50% by 2035 at the Doha, Qatar conference.
In Canada, new solvent-recovery equipment is being installed at POS Bio- Sciences to improve its capacity to help Canadian industry and international clients bring new bio-based oil ingredients to market. POS will assist clients from the cosmetics, nutraceuticals, food supplement and biofuels industries. The federal and provincial governments each contributed $130,500 through the Canada-Saskatchewan Western […]
Today on Twitter. BioFuelsChat: ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50 percent CapitaRenewAble: #Biofuel #Energy News: NH #Biofuels Company Signs Deal With #Texas-based #Valero Snarkky: @PatriotLand Higher cost of diesel (transportation), corn prices (ethanol scam) and inflation makes food prices higher. Thx Pelosi pandagon: How have we gotten through over […]
Today on Twitter. BioFuelsChat: ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50 percent CapitaRenewAble: #Biofuel #Energy News: NH #Biofuels Company Signs Deal With #Texas-based #Valero Snarkky: @PatriotLand Higher cost of diesel (transportation), corn prices (ethanol scam) and inflation makes food prices higher. Thx Pelosi pandagon: How have we gotten through over […]
In Canada, Whitecourt Alberta has successfully harvested its first crop of waste-irrigated willow and poplar trees. The trees, planted two years ago, have been part of a biomass study regarding how fast-growing trees naturally break down effluent. According to Peter Yackulik, the town’s project manager, “the irrigated trees were 30-percent larger than the ones that […]
In Sri Lanka, economic analyst Bandula Sirimanna believes the sugar industry is in crisis. He blames a lack of coherent government policy towards growers and consumers of sugarcane for the rapid decline of the sugar industry. He asserts that government regulation of management in the private sector management must be expanded, but not ad hoc […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 1.41 percent to 71.96 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 1.32 percent to $29.12, while Solazyme (SZYM) rose 4.18 percent to $11.95. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) rebounded 8.75 percent to $5.72. Overall, advances led declines 2 […]
Cameron, Erickson to head new fund. Seed stage to full commercialization vision. The rise of the green-black economy. Uh, the what economy? In Minnesota, Warburg Pincus announced that it will invest up to $355 million in First Green Partners, a newly formed early-stage venture capital company. First Green will, in turn, invest in early-stage companies […]
In California, Verenium announced that sales of its Purifine phospholipase C (PLC) enzyme product will now also be targeted for use in pretreatment of oil for biodiesel production. Verenium’s Purifine PLC product is a groundbreaking enzyme designed to improve yields and overall economics of edible oil and biodiesel production. Verenium began marketing and selling Purifine […]
In Colorado, Gevo received yet another patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on another aspect of its yeast technology that Gevo reports will enable low-cost, high-yield production of biobased isobutanol. Gevo was awarded U.S. Patent No. 8,071,358, covering additional “Methods of Increasing Dihydroxy Acid Dehydratase (DHAD) Activity to Improve Production of Fuels, […]
