The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.43 percent to a 32-month high of 91.89 as small caps and enzymes carried the Index forward. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) slipped 0.11 percent to $36.07, while Bluefire Renewables gained 15.38 percent to $0.45. Among other equities, Novozymes (NMZB) gained1.18 […]
Will Professor Plum do it in Brazil with a Magic Bug, or Miss Scarlet in India with a Magic Tree, or Colonel Mustard in Mississippi with a Magic Pyrolysis Machine? In the family board game Clue, players spend their time guessing which suspect committed the fateful deed, in which room using which implement – and […]
In Wisconsin, the state’s department of natural resources has granted United Ethanol the air permit to build its $6.75 million EISENMANN BIOGAS-TS Anaerobic Digester that will accompany its 50 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Milton. More on the story.
In Romania, Airbus has teamed with Tarom for aviation biofuel production from camelina. The project is undergoing a year-long feasibility study to evaluate “four to five” potential sites across Romania to find the most suitable location for the plant. More on the story.
In Michigan, B151, Inc. and Bio Evolution, Inc. have agreed to begin the development of B-100 Biodiesel plants in the State of Arkansas. The plants, when completed, are projected to each produce approximately 3.6 million gallons per year (MGY) of advanced biofuels, and biomass-based diesel from waste vegetable oils and animal fats. More on the […]
In Afghanistan, the US Marines are slowly but surely sourcing cottonseed oil from cotton gins in Helmond and surrounds to produce biodiesel for electricity generation at the Camp Leatherneck Marines base. The Marine Corps’ new expeditionary energy report released Monday says Marines must cut their fuel usage by 50% by 2025. More on the story.
In Brazil, BNDES, offered $1 billion to the Brazilian Innovation Agency to fund research and development into second generation ethanol. The loans would be part of the government’s Joint Plan to Support Industrial Technological Innovation in the sugar-based Energy and Chemical Sectors where it will support companies working on turning sugarcane biomass and sugarcane ethanol […]
kandimba: Jatropha biofuels more harmful than oil drgrist: Afghan-produced biofuels could be one good thing to come out of the war GLBioenergy: Federal funding landscape could drastically impact #biofuels research: enagri: RT @genencor: Congrats to our Biomass Team on winning the Sustainabile Biofuels Tech Award at the World Biofuels Markets conference in Rotterdam today! andrefarrar: […]
In Vermont, researchers from St. Michael’s College have teamed with researchers from the University of Missouri, University of Florida, Purdue University and the University Nebraska-Lincoln, on a five-year project to study the genes that control the movement of carbohydrates in corn in an attempt to increase corn yield, make more drought resistant plants, larger plants […]
Proposed Senate Bill S.559: Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act Comment on the Bill from an Advanced Biofuels Perspective By Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA) US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) recently introduced Senate Bill S.599, the “Securing America’s Future with Energy and Sustainable Technologies Act” or SAFESTA. […]
