In Sweden, Preem has announced that they have developed renewable diesel from Swedish forestry industry residuals. Taking six years and over USD $47 million to develop, the diesel is formulated by processing black liquor from pulp mills. Preem reports that their diesel is molecularly identical to oil based diesel, but due to the fact that […]
In Israel, Rosetta Green has closed an initial public offering which raised gross proceeds of 21,900,960 NIS ($6.06 million). Shares of Rosetta Green will trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) under the ticker symbol, “RSTG” beginning on February 23, 2011. Rosetta Green is investigating the use of microRNAs in agricultural, industrial and clean […]
In the UK, the Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate the Group’s ongoing transition from a research and development organisation to a commercial product company. In particular, additional staff will be hired to support its commercial and manufacturing […]
bdigest : Ariana Huffington: ignorance comes from people literally suppressing truth — or drowning it out – Agnotology – theeconomist: A special report on feeding the world: Plagued by politics. Biofuels are an example of what not to do neerav: “Nestle: We cant produce biofuels & feed the worlds increased population” devriep: Don’t forget, not […]
In Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working on bringing supercomputer simulations and experimental results closer together by identifying common “fingerprints.” ORNL’s Jeremy Smith collaborated on devising a method that reconciles the different signals between experiments and computer simulations to strengthen analyses of molecules in motion. The research will be published in the Proceedings of […]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that he will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to encourage the continued development of bio-based products for energy consumption, animal feed, chemicals and other uses. Vilsack will sign the MOU with the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, which was originally formed to provide leadership on ethanol policy development but has […]
Amyris announced today that Paulo Diniz has joined as CEO of Amyris Brasil. Prior to Amyris, he served as chief financial officer of Bunge Brasil.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, soared 2.01 percent to 89.38 as advanced biofuels rocked. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) jumped 1.24 percent to $36.88, while Amyris (AMRS) jumped 4.34 percent to $32.67. Among other equities, Gevo rallied 3.21 percent to $19.94. Overall, declines led advances 3 to […]
Part 2-On Quantifying Risks By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Tim Sklar In Part I of this three part article 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 what can be done to improve the odds. In Part 2 titled […]
In Washington state, the state House of Representatives has approved a request by the Washington Department of Natural Resources to test forest biomass as a feedstock for renewable jetfuel. The proposal now moves on to the state’s Senate. More on the story.
