In Florida, Dyadic International, announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,883,872 entitled, Construction of Highly Efficient Cellulase Compositions for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The invention embodied by this patent is a novel beta-glucosidase gene and its corresponding enzyme which when used in combination with […]
In Brazil, Reuters is reporting that Brazil’s Cosan, sugar and ethanol producer’s net income fell a full 83% for the quarter ending December 31. The main contributing factor was the increase cost of sugar due to crops being smaller and not able to keep up with demand. Unusually dry weather in Brazil during 2010 led […]
In Finland, a three-year biofuel trial organized by Neste Oil, Helsinki Region Transport, and Proventia has recently been completed, and the results have confirmed that Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel can significantly reduce local emissions that have a direct impact on urban air quality. Data collected by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland show that […]
In Canada, the Harper Government announced that it is moving forward with the requirement for an average 2 per cent renewable content in diesel fuel and heating oil. The Government’s press release stated that when fully implemented, the Strategy’s two regulatory requirements combined with provincial regulations will ensure a total volume of renewable fuel that will […]
guardianeco: Bristol’s biofuels plant must be refused planning permission | George Monbiot russfalls: Challenges for Biofuels – New LCA Report from Energy Biosciences Institute WildRoseMPBlake: 2% renewable content standard for Diesel fuel announced today…great news for farmers, biofuels industry and the environment SpenserVillwock: Brazil’s Petrobras To More Than Double Biofuels Output – Wall Street Journal […]
In Montana, Chengci Chen, a Montana State University associate professor of cropping systems, is working on testing camelina, pea and lentil as possible crop rotations for winter wheat at the Central Agriculture Research Station near Moccasin.. Chen noted that with the USDA requirement that next generation biofuels must be sourced from non food crops and […]
In South Dakota, the State’s Senate Affairs Committee endorsed SB 196, a new bill that seeks to set up a five year plan to assist the state’s ethanol industry to sell more ethanol. Current law has an annual budget of $7 million for production, and individual ethanol plants are limited to a lifetime subsidy amount […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dropped 0.36 percent to 88.o2 as ethanol stocks suffered. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.61 percent to $35.44, while Gevo (GEVO) gained 2.37 percent to $16.44. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) fell 2.56 percent to $0.76. Overall, advances led declines […]
For some time, critics of cellulosic ethanol (and even some supporters) have been known to ask rhetorically: “Where are the gallons?” followed by a deafening silence (or an extended discussion of the timescales involved in scaling up from bench, through pilot, to demonstration at commercial scale). Well, the time for the guffaws is over. So […]
In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 16 projects in 10 states for funding to create jobs and provide new economic opportunities. The projects are being funded through the Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG), which is administered by USDA Rural Development. Among the winners, Heartland Power Cooperative was […]
