Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #2 seed Codexis and #7 seed Rentech, 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 Sweet […]
Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #3 seed Sapphire Energy 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 to the […]
Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #4 seed Cobalt Technologies and #5 seed Ceres, 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 […]
Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #1 seed Solazyme and #8 seed Genomatica, 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 […]
By Walt Palmer Recently, President Obama announced over $US500M in spending to finance up to 50/50 financing for privately developed initiatives leading to ‘drop-in’ diesel and aviation jet fuel. This inter-agency project sees three departments coming together to make it happen: Energy for technology; Agriculture for biomass and the Navy buys the stuff. Cool! There are lots of things in […]
The forgotten, er, customer – or, the Case of “Someone Else’s Problem” – and what Propel Fuels is doing about putting low-carbon fuels into tanks. In all the discussions about renewable fuels R&D, engineering, policy, finance, and construction, the customer – that is, you and me – generally are an afterthought. Could be because most […]
In Florida, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy has closed $75 million in private financing utilizing the USDA loan guarantee program for its new Indian River BioEnergy Center located in Florida. This is the first large-scale advanced bioenergy project in the United States to finalize its financing in the latest round under the USDA government program to […]
Today is the final day for first-round voting in the Transformative Technologies 2011 tournament – at 5pm ET 32 contestants will advance to the second round – 32 go home. Among those “on the bubble”, where a strong voting surge either way could decide the contest: OPX Bio leads Elevance 52-48, UOP leads GlycosBio 52-48, […]
In Colorado, Gevo fires its first legal broadside, filing with the USPTO to invalidate Butamax’s patent. The filing is for the reexamination of Butamax patent 7,851,188 issued in December 2010, and Gevo reports they are planning to file a second petition for reexamination and invalidation of Butamax’s patent 7,993,889, issued on August 9, 2011.
In Georgia, GreenShift and Advanced BioEnergy announced the execution of a license agreement and the commissioning of GreenShift’s oil extraction technology at ABE’s 110 MGy ethanol plant in Fairmont, Nebraska. The license agreement calls for GreenShift to provide ongoing technical support, and ABE will access to GreenShifts technologies portfolio to further improve by-product revenues beyond […]
