In California, the U.S. Geological Survey reduced its estimate of “technically recoverable natural gas” from the Marcellus Shale formation, by 75 percent, to 84 trillion cubic feet, from a figure of 410 trillion cubic feet previously estimated by the Energy Information Administration. The Post Carbon Institute writes “our detailed new energy report, “Will Natural Gas […]
In Louisiana, U.S. Sen. David Vitter said “Congress has been using exactly the wrong model,” and contended that, with algae, “we stack up very favorably to ethanol, which has been very politically driven and is dependent on that huge subsidy. This process can compete and can win with no special favors.” Vitter criticized the decision-making […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 2.13 percent to 72.33 as ethanol stocks jumped. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)recovered 0.54 percent to $27.80, while Paciic Ethanol (PEIX) soared 22.86 percent to $0.43. Among other equities, Syntroleum (SYNM) gained 6.42 percent to $1.16. Overall, advances led declines 4 […]
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 Cobalt Technologies OriginOil vs Codexis […]
Round two voting finished on Friday in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament, and 11 of the 16 organizations and technologies that advanced were favorites – but five favorites fell. #1 East seed Coskata, #2 East seed KiOR, #3 West seed Sapphire Energy, #3 Central seed ZeaChem, and #4 International seed LanzaTech, all bowed out earlier […]
Round two voting finished on Friday in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament. Here are the final vote totals (expressed in percentages). International Regional Amyris 68 vs DSM 32 LS9 59 vs SG Biofuels 41 Enerkem 54 vs Abengoa Bioenergy 46 LanzaTech 48 vs Novozymes 52 Eastern Regional INEOS Bio 52 vs Coskata 48 Joule 53 […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Eastern Regional match-up between #3 seed Mascoma and #7 seed Joule Unlimited Technologies, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Eastern Regional match-up between #4 seed Qteros and #8 seed INEOS Bio, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Western Regional match-up between #2 seed Codexis and #11 seed OriginOil, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Western Regional match-up between #1 seed Solazyme and #4 seed Cobalt Technologies, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes […]
