The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 0.55 percent to 73.15 as US Navy purchases lifted Solazyme and Syntroleum. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.10 to $29.96, while Solazyme (SZYM) gained 6.94 percent to $12.94. Among other equities, Syntroleum (SYNM) soared 10.48 percent to $1.16. Overall, advances […]
“Taxpayers will foot the bill, they will become cynical about biofuels as a result of the many broken promises, and ultimately funding will dry up for everyone in the sector.” Will that prediction from 2010 come true? Let’s talk about Range Fuels, the good and the bad. In Georgia, the AgSouth Farm Credit bank, which […]
In Minnesota, Butamax Advanced Biofuels announces that Highwater Ethanol, will be its first entrant to the Butamax Early Adopters Group. The ICM-designed facility was constructed by Fagen with a nameplate capacity of 50 mgpy. Butamax’s business model is to offer current ethanol producers proprietary biobutanol technology to permit improved biofuels growth and plant profitability. Last November […]
In California, Chevron warned its marketers that the ethanol tax break may be coming to an end in the near future. In the notification, the company indicated that higher pump prices are a likely effect for consumers. “We’ll be sending our dealers a copy of the letter so that they know what’s happening,” said a […]
In Nebraska, Laurel BioComposite, a start-up bioresin company has opened its first pilot plant in Laurel, Nebraska. The “Bio-Res” pellets, made from ethanol byproducts, were shipped to several customers for tests regarding the improvement of renewable content in plastic products up to 40%. The company plans to build a $17m commercial-scale plant with a 40m […]
In South Africa, The Carbon War Room and Elsevier unveiled RenewableJetFuels.org, the world’s first platform for analyzing the efforts made by the renewable sector’s leading companies in the aviation industry. Currently in beta testing, the team is collecting data to be used to compare technical performance, economic viability, carbon footprint, and overall sustainability of renewable […]
In Thailand, Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation has committed to investing over $60M to double ethanol production capacity. With the approval of a recent resolution to terminate the use of gasoline 91 by October 2012, ethanol consumption in Thailand is expected to skyrocket up to 21 million liters per month. The company intends to lead the […]
In California, scientists with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a key discovery that would possibly allow for capturing atmospheric nitrogen for fertilizer. The discovery used an intense beam of X-rays from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to identify a hidden atom at the heart of the enzyme called nitrogenase, which plays a critical […]
In California, scientists with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a key discovery that would possibly allow for capturing atmospheric nitrogen for fertilizer. The discovery used an intense beam of X-rays from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to identify a hidden atom at the heart of the enzyme called nitrogenase, which plays a critical […]
Today on Twitter. ComingFamine: The Great African Land Grab: powerful article and video. FueltheFuture: South America Strives to Become the Greenest Continent with #Biofuels and More Biodiesels: Study: U.S. Biofuels Policy A Fail – EarthTechling Rod_McCallum: “U.S.-produced biofuels would cost 20 to 31 times more than energy efficiency improvements that would reduce gas consumption by […]
