In South Dakota, POET has started selling corn oil from its biorefinery in Hudson for both the biodiesel and feed markets. With corn oil removed from every bushel of corn processed at all of the company’s ethanol facilities, POET would produce more than 500 million pounds per year, which could be made into 60 million […]
In Brazil, it seems the government is getting more serious about regulating the ethanol industry in the short-term beyond its current regulations purely on fuel specifications. The president has told the national oil agency to treat ethanol as a “strategic fuel” and no longer as an agricultural commodity in order to stem inflation in the […]
In Israel, seed breeding company Kaiima has raised $18 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and current investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures Ltd., bring in a total of $26 million in financing, to enhance its Clean Gene Multiplication technology. The company says it has had success in 30 different […]
0waste: #gogreenAus Kay Hammer, Dorsen Biofuels: Biofuels should be small scale operations, not like large petroleum operations. csdigest: Secretary of #Agriculture Tom Vilsack stands behind #ethanol, #biofuels, #ruralamerica. TipOfMyBrain: Wow – USDA estimates that 40% of US corn crop will go into #ethanol | FT TrumanSemans: Biofuels demand will drive new tech and cost redux […]
In Kansas, a new study from Kansas State University shows that commercial-scale algae biodiesel production pose a lot of scientific and economic challenges that may keep the technology from taking off. Using carbon mass balance, the study showed that from a purely technical standpoint, producing algae-based biodiesel in a sustainable way works — but not […]
In Belgium, the US’s National Biodiesel Board is lashing back at the European Commission’s recent decision to expand punitive tariffs against US and some Canadian biodiesel imports. The NBB is waiting on legal advice as to whether the move goes against current EU trade rules but it seems the EU diplomats didn’t think there would […]
In Washington, BIO announced that Sarah Thornton joins as director of biofuels and biomass policy and Miguel Suazo as manager of policy within the Industrial & Environmental Section. UNICA announced the appointment of David Thomas as its new Chief Lobbyist and Leticia Phillips as the organization’s Representative for North America, both based at UNICA’s Washington, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.25 percent to a new 33-month high of 94.95 as Gevo surged again. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.24 percent to $36.56, while Gevo (GEVO) soared 7.36 percent to an all-time high of $24.65. Among other equities, Monsanto (MON) plunged […]
The public says “depends on the feedstock,” but generally more moral than converting land for oil & gas or housing. An in-depth Digest survey looks at a wide variety of cases. In Florida, respondents to a Biofuels Digest survey concluded that the morality or immorality of “food versus fuel” depends entirely on the feedstock, with […]
In New York, the head of BP’s alternative energy business said that the company plans to invest $2 billion in alternative energy in 2011, in part with its recent investments in Brazilian sugarcane ethanol but also it is looking forward to next generation, non-food based production technologies. The company had invested $5 billion in alternatives […]
