Today on Twitter. ErnestineMirman: Wrongly produced green biofuels can be harmful: The research promises cheaper, faster and above all safer develo… ScienceBlogTwit: Computational chemistry shows the way to safer biofuels Earthjustice: Move over corn-based ethanol, here comes tequila to help fight climate change. Let’s drink to that. OpenFuel: Everything is Up, But Corn is Up […]
In Wisconsin, a Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center team has found new genes that improve yeast’s ability to process xylose. The team inserted genes into S. cerevisiae and found that one particular gene, CtAKR increased xylose consumption. As xylose can be nearly half the sugar available in a plant, any increase in yeast’s ability to […]
In New York, “How do we fix our fuel and energy problems?” is a question posed by Bloomberg Businessweek Chairman Norman Pearlstine to BP Capital Management’s T. Boone Pickens; Bob Shapard, chairman and chief executive officer of Oncor Electric Delivery and chairman of GridWise Alliance; Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.30 percent to 86.65 as ethanol stocks dipped. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 1.40 percent to $30.38, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) plummeted 20.37 percent to $0.86. Among other equities, Syntroleum (SYNM) fell 4.96 percent to $1.34. Overall, declines led advances […]
Codexis unlocks the bagasse-to-chemicals path, and lays down the gauntlet, in entering the $6B market for sustainable detergent alcohols. In California, Codexis and Chemtex announced a broad collaboration to develop and produce the first sustainable detergent alcohols, made from cellulosic biomass instead of from sugar, with product beginning to come online in The collaboration will […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the individual subscriber, international selector and Digest Online Community poll data, which are combined to form the 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials. Amyris ranked #1 in the international Selector poll, Genomatica ranked #1 in the Digest online Community poll, and Solazyme ranked #1 in the subscriber poll. […]
In California, OriginOil has selected Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering to fast-track the rollout of its line of Single Step Extraction systems in response to customer demand. OriginOil already has contracts in hand with Australia’s MBD Energy for a system to process as much as 300 gallons per minute of algae culture, and a small mobile […]
In Oregon, InEnTec converted itself from an LLC to a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, and has filed a Form D with the SEC disclosing a $20 million capital raise, with a goal of $69 million. Karl A. Schoene, InEnTec President and CEO, stated that this was done to fuel fund […]
In Germany, Lanxess reports they have signed the United Nations Global Compact, committing to a 10 percent reduction in specific CO2 emissions and specific energy consumption for each business segment by 2015. Moreover, emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are also to be cut by 30 percent worldwide by 2015. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of […]
In Canada, Enerkem announced the closing of US$30 million in additional financing through corporate equity (US$15.3 million) and corporate debt (US$15 million) transactions. As part of the equity financing round, The Westly Group, Fondaction CSN and Quince Associates, L.P. join existing investors Valero Energy Corp., Waste Management, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and Cycle Capital, […]
