In India, LanzaTech is talking with Indian Oil and Jindal Steel on how they can leverage their resources to implement a commercial scale ethanol plant using LanzaTech’s technology to process waste gases from a Jindal steel mill. The fuel ethanol produced by the plant would be blended into Indian Oil’s gasoline pool. The announcement was […]
In Borneo, Mitsubishi and the Sarawak Biodiversity Centre will collaborate in exploring algal biodiversity as a possible source of renewable energy. SBC’s work has expanded over the last six years from long term pharmaceutical projects, to shorter term projects in areas such as biotechnology.
In India, SHK Energy and New York based World Health are looking to form a joint venture for algae production, starting with a five acre site, with plans to expand to over 45 acres in the near term. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, and the site being contemplated already has an […]
There’s a tradition on twitter to highlight on Fridays, people worth following – hence the #FF tag seen each Friday, followed by twitter IDs of interest. Here are some of our BFFs and #FFs for this week amongst the Biofuels Twitterati: @OriginOil @benlubbon @cs_thorne @algaeexec @BIOblogger @greenmacgal @johnnmarketing @matthewspoor @TomBuisGE @jmSchroeder @GBVeerman @DomesticFuel @cleantechczar @eleananeedham […]
In Canada, Dr. Nader Mahinpey, with the University of Calgary is working with pyrolysis to turn the non-edible parts of plants into biofuel. The resulting oil than needs to be upgraded before it can be used as transportation fuel, so Dr. Mahinpey and his team are working on developing the upgrading processes and to turn […]
In Washington, the USDA has expanded their BioPreferred list. Among the new entrants, California based Entropy Resins’ Super Sap 100/1000 System has been certified for sustainable performance composite resins. Also in California, BioSolar’s BioBacksheet for PV solar modules, was certified with the highest possible rating of 95 percent based on its extensive and innovative use […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 1.68 percent to 87.73 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.53 percent to $30.15, while Solazyme (SZYM) soared 5.42 percent to $22.97. Among other equities, Mission New Energy (MNEL) jumped 15.89 percent to $6.71. Advances led declines […]
Worried about the jobless recovery? Or how to build 600 biorefineries to meet US renewable fuel targets by 2022? Don’t feel alone. But here’s something you can do. In Washington, President Obama launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership – ho-hum, you say, and I think I hear you yawning. But get a cup of coffee, and […]
Is Canada on your mind? It’s been on ours lately. There’s a technology story, and a feedstock story. Plus a bioenergy community, from federal to the local level, public to private, and across the supply chain, that’s been pulling something special together. The US-Canada story is important too – and there really ought to be […]
In Michigan, economists at the MU Food and Agricultural Food and Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) ran ‘what if’ scenarios on both the current 45-cent tax credit for biofuel blenders and associated 54-cent tariff on ethanol imports and found that extending them would boost corn-based fuel production and corn prices. With incentives in place, they saw […]
