Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), International Regional match-up between #2 seed LS9 and #6 seed Enerkem, 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),International Regional match-up between #1 seed Amyris and #5 seed Novozymes, 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 to […]
Background: This is a Sweet Sixteen (third round), Central Regional match-up between #2 seed Virent and #6 seed Terrabon, 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), Central Regional match-up between #1 seed Gevo and #4 seed POET, 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 to […]
The National Corn Growers Association declares War on cellulosic biofuels, calling them “non-existent”, then mysteriously removes the blog post. What gives? Ten days ago, Cathryn Wojciki, communications manager for the National Corn Growers Association, wrote a blog post in which she tossed the cellulosic biofuels industry under a bus. Referring to cellulosic biofuels targets in […]
Transformative Technologies 2011 Today is the FINAL day for second-round voting in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament – at 5pm ET TODAY 16 contestants will advance to the third round. Here are the vote totals (expressed in percentages), so far: International Regional Amyris 68 vs DSM 32 LS9 58 vs SG Biofuels 42 Enerkem 55 […]
In Hawaii, Honeywell’s UOP is expected to break ground at its Kapolei biomass to transportation fuels demonstration plant next week. The plant will be built an at existing Tesoro refinery, and was funded through a $25 million grant from the DOE. Honeywell anticipates having the plant operational by the end of 2012, and running at […]
In Minnesota, B99 or B100 biodiesel is now available via truck and rail from Renewable Energy Group’s newly acquired facility in Albert Lea. REG was the general contractor and manager for the 30 mmgy refined vegetable oil feedstock biodiesel plant which originally began production in April 2005. REG officials noted the facility could be upgraded […]
In New York, Albany Renewable Energy has cancelled their lease with the Port of Albany. Originally, Albany Renewable had planned to build a $350 million ethanol plant at the sight, but has not been able to meet deadlines outlined in their twenty year lease. Rick Hendrick, Albany Port General Manager stated that the Port and […]
In England, Toyota’s South Africa CEO, Dr. Johan van Zyl, stated that South Africa needed to increase its efforts to get biofuels into their fuel supply. Dr. Zyl commented that 50,000 more jobs could be created just by reaching a 2% biofuel mix in South Africa’s national fuel supply mix. He further stated that Kenya […]
