Making renewable jet fuel from booze…uh, alcohol…is the latest drop-in biofuels craze. Who is doing what, with whom, and when? And how do they do it? When most of us think of highly customized aviation alcohols, we probably think of the little bottles of Johnnie Walker. But a handful of companies such as Cobalt, Gevo, […]
In Florida, Joule Unlimited and Terrabon continued their big first day leads in robust volumes of second day voting in the Final Four balloting in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. Voting to date (expressed in percentages) is: Solazyme 41 Joule 59 Terrabon 74 Novozymes 26 Final Four voting ends at 5pm ET on Friday, September […]
In Delaware, Butamax Advanced Biofuels responded to the announcement that Gevo has received two patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and sued Butamax for alleged patent infringement. “Gevo’s lawsuit against Butamax is baseless and irresponsible” said Paul Beckwith, CEO of Butamax. “When Butamax makes isobutanol, we do not use the technology […]
In Nebraska, FORTUNE Magazine’s 2011 “100 Fastest-Growing Companies” list has listed Green Plains Renewable Energy, in 8th place. The full list and related stories will appear in the Sept. 26, 2011 print issue and is online here.
In Hawaii, biofuels company, Hawaii BioEnergy LLC, has made a deal to supply Hawaiian Electric Co. with biodiesel made from eucalyptus on the island of Kauai. The Company has signed a contract to supply 10 million gallons of biodiesel annually to HECO’s Kahe power plant on Oahu, equal to more than four percent of the […]
In Brazil, SG Biofuels announced it has teamed with JETBIO, leader of a multi-stakeholder initiative including Airbus, the Inter-American Development Bank, Bioventures Brasil, Rio Pardo Bioenergia, Air BP and TAM Airlines, to accelerate the production of crude Jatropha oil as a source for aviation bio jet fuel in Brazil. SG Biofuels will work with Bioventures […]
In Tanzania, the government told the Parliament that it had been warned against allocating 320,000 hectares to American firm Agrisol Energy who is seeking to set up large-scale farming including for food and jatropha production as the allocation would displace 162,000 farmers.
In Mexico, researchers have demonstrated that use of oyster mushrooms reduces diaper decomposition from 500 years to four months. Researchers with the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City may have found a way to reduce some 18 billion non-biodegradable diapers to a delicious new source for oyster mushrooms.
Today on Twitter. ecomagination: Leaves of the eucalypt tree can fuel a koala, but can they also fuel a plane? See the latest developments in biofuels: carlafaraguna: @Toyota says: Stop biofuels programs. Invest in water, waste and land management. clubOmozambique: A factory producing ethanol from cassava should be operational by March 2012, in the town […]
In Texas, AlgEternal will soon open a facility in the J.J. Pickles Research Campus at the University of Texas, Austin, where algae will be cultivated using a vertical method involving glass tubes. The research partnership between UT’s Electromechanical department, UTEX Culture Collection of Algae and AlgEternal will produce algae for biodiesel as well as cosmetics […]
