In Ghana, the UNDP is helping India’s Abellon CleanEnergy to develop a major biomass energy project that will give jobs to 21,000 farmers and 4,000 others in the processing side. The project will grow biomass on 10,000 hectares of derelict land. By 2015 a power plant will be built in the Ashanti region that will […]
In Mexico, the Bioenergy Commission of Chiapas State’s legislature is working with mayors and municipalities about growing pine trees on degraded land for biofuels. Studies in the state have shown that there are 900,000 hectares suitable for pine trees—whose seeds have high oil content for biodiesel production—while 280,000 hectares are considered to have the highest […]
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In Texas, researchers at Rice University have discovered that using fertilizer at the same rates as corn for food as corn for ethanol can actually make it more difficult for biofuels processing because that additional nitrogen speeds up the production of lignin—getting in the way of cellulosic ethanol production. The researchers found that lignin yields […]
In Washington, former US President Bill Clinton made headlines by claiming that biofuels cause food riots. However, according to his actual quote from the Associated Press, “I think the best thing to say is we have to become energy independent, but we don’t want to do it at the cost of food riots.” More on […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.44 percent to reach a 31-month high of 89.77 as large caps advanced. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) added 0.81 percent to $37.18, while Dupont (DD) increased 1.48 percent to $54.87. Among other equities, Cosan (CZZ) jumped 2.76 percent to $13.76. […]
Part 3-Dealing with Deal Breakers. How financial modeling can be used in quantifying risk and identifying “Deal Breakers” By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Tim Sklar In Part I of this three part series titled “On Identifying Risks”, discussions were included that focused upon the high-risk nature of advanced bio-refinery projects, why financing is hard to obtain […]
In Ohio, the National FFV Awareness Campaign is partnering with national, state and local organizations to launch the Ohio FFV Awareness Campaign at the Cleveland Auto Show. The Campaign’s mission is to locate, educate and motivate FlexFuel Vehicle (FFV) owners to find and use higher blends of ethanol to meet the national Renewable Fuel Standard. […]
In Kentucky, Alltech Algae cut the ribbon on its new $200 million plant in Winchester, Kentucky. The plant was acquired in 2010 from Martek Bioscience Corporation for approximately $14 million and has been renovated in the past few months to begin in April as what Alltech calls one of the largest algae production sites in […]
In Massachusetts, Diversified Technologies’ announced that they have introduced low-cost process (patent pending) for the pre-treatment of algae using pulsed electric field (PEF) technology to streamline the extraction of oils from algal cells early in the biorefining process. The PEF applies 10-30 kV/cm electric pulses for 2 to 20 microseconds to an algal slurry which […]
