In Georgia, researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a “super strain” of yeast that can efficiently ferment ethanol from pretreated pine-one of the most common species of trees in Georgia and the U.S. Their research could help biofuels replace gasoline as a transportation fuel. Their research, published online in Biotechnology for Biofuels, shows […]
In India, the government says that it is preparing to release the final price at which oil companies must buy ethanol from sugar mills with the decision going to cabinet by the end of November. The temporary price of about 50 cents per liter has been criticized by industry as being too low. So far […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 2.87 percent to 68.70 as the German bond crisis hit all global equities. For the day, Monsanto (MON) fell 2.03 percent to $67.97, while Gevo (GEVO) plunged 9.12 percent to $5.48. Among other equities, Syntroleum (SYNM) fell 8.65 percent to $0.95. Overall, declines […]
In Japan, Toray Industries reports they have succeeded in producing laboratory-scale samples of the world’s first fully renewable biobased PET fiber by using fully renewable biobased PET derived from biobased para-xylene from Gevo. Toray used terephthalic acid synthesized from Gevo’s biobased para-xylene and commercially available renewable mono ethylene glycol (MEG) as raw materials, and successfully […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the winners of its “Day in the Life of Biofuels” photo contest, and published the winning entries. Clink on the individual links below to view the winning images. In addition, 50 second prizes were awarded as well as 100 Third Prizes. All winning entries will be published in the Day in […]
GRAND PRIZE: An Indonesian woman prepares dinner on her Protos, Plant Oil Cookstove built by the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) in Munich, Germany. Today she is using pure jatropha oil, which her husband receives in addition to cash when he brings seeds to a local oil press near Purwadi, Indonesia. However, the […]
FIRST PRIZE: Propel Fuels CEO Matt Horton writes, “Here’s a photo of the Horton family “Fueling Change” at our neighborhood Propel station in Redwood City, CA. One of my favorite things about the Propel experience is the amazing feeling that our customers get when they fill up with renewable fuels. I definitely know how our […]
FIRST PRIZE: JBEI researcher Jana Mueller with arabidopsis plants in the growth room at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Emeryville, CA. Photo by: Roy Kaltschmidt, US Dept. of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Biofuels Digest adds: “Arabidopsis – the workhorse model plant of modern plant genetics. But, in Roy Kaltschmidt’s image, there’s less lab and […]
FIRST PRIZE: Chemical engineering student Bridget Meaux measures the amount of methane being produced by fermenting sewage sludge. Photo by: Doug Dugas Biofuels Digest adds: “A great subject, in waste to energy, lightened with strong pictorial composition, effective lighting and a beautiful face to work with.” More on the “Day in the Life of Biofuels” […]
FIRST PRIZE: PetroAlgae’s Demonstration Facility in Florida is an animal friendly facility! When friends like this get to a certain size we have them removed and taken to their natural habitat. Photo by: Tom Riding Biofuels Digest adds: “When we talk about predatory species in a micro-crop or algal environment, we usually mean another micro-organism. […]
