In Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander are promoting switchgrass for ethanol production, as a DuPont venture gets ready to begin production next year. Switchgrass is widely grown in East Tennessee and can offer several benefits to the region and country including reducing the strain on corn production, which creates higher prices. […]
In Nebraska, Gavilon has signed with Heron Lake BioEnergy to be their exclusive corn supplier, and ethanol and DDGS marketer. Heron Lake is a dry mill ethanol producer in Minnesota, procuring approximately 18 million bushels of corn per year and produces approximately 50 MGy, and 160,000 tons of DDGS.
In West Virginia, North American BioFuels, a waste to biofuels company, has told Hampshire County that due to lack of a gas supply, and the extensive soil studies and remediation needed for a proposed site, NAB has changed their plans. Business Development’s Executive Director Pat Ford, has stated that his agency has been showing NAB […]
In Alabama, the Green River Biodiesel facility in Moundville is going up for auction in October. New York’s Sheldon Good and Co. will be marketing the site, and it is not clear whether it will ever be restarted as biodiesel plant, as the 54 acre facility has 100,000 sq ft of storage, warehouse and office […]
In China, hogwash cooking oil is an underused feedstock for biodiesel. According to the article, some 60 million tons of hogwash is produced annually in China, but instead of being recycled for biodiesel, it is reprocessed illegally and sold back to restaurants. Doctors in China are concerned that this practice may be a vector of […]
In Europe and the US, an international team of researchers have produced a viable bacterium in which one of the four DNA bases has been replaced with 5-chlorouracil. Applied to Escherichia coli K12 strain, the researchers have developed a bacteria that requires 5-chlorouracil which is not found in nature, resulting in a bacteria that cannot […]
In England, University of York researchers, working with other researchers in the U.S. and Europe have a identified the molecular mechanism behind an enzyme found in fungi which can degrade the cellulose chains of plant cell walls to release shorter sugars for biofuels. They found a way of initiating effective oxidative degeneration of cellulose using […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, plunged 4.61 percent to 71.86 as advanced biofuels dove off a cliff. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 3.38 percent to $27.43, while Gevo (GEVO) dropped 9.57 percent to $9.64. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) shed 8.04 percent to $12.58. Overall, declines […]
Voting in the third round (Sweet 16) of the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament begins Monday, August 29 and will close on Friday, September 2 at 5pm ET. Here are the match-ups, with links to previews of the contests and data on each company’s technologies and progress towards commercialization. Solazyme vs OriginOil Gevo vs Terrabon Joule […]
Sweet Sixteen (round three) voting finished on Friday in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament. Four favorites advanced, yet four fell, including a #1 regional seed, (Amyris) and two regional #2 seeds (Virent and Codexis). East Regional #3 seed Mascoma also fell, toppled by Joule Unlimited in a close match. What went right and wrong? 1. […]
