In Canada, Owen Sound City Council voted January 10 to end their biodiesel program. Citing numerous problems such as major engine failures in their buses, which the city’s transit contractor blamed on the biodiesel blend and warnings that the use of biodiesel would void the bus warranties. Additionally, the contracted supplier was not able to […]
Randy Kray, AIA, has joined Merrick & Company’s Science & Technology group as Director of Laboratory Architecture. In this role, Kray will be responsible for directing projects and extending Merrick’s global reach in project development and execution. More on the story.
In the Old Norse, the term “viking” meant to “undertake an expedition” and it later came to characterize the raiders, settlers and traders that epitomized an era of Scandinavian expansion that impacted Europe, Asia Minor and the Americas for a hundreds of years. At the heart of the Scandinavian technology, for so many years, has […]
In Canada, NX Global Inc. has received $100 million in private placement to purchase property and fund construction on a MSW-to-energy and algae facility in Canada at the site of an old paper mill. The facility is expected to be fully permitted by the end of March and production to start running up to 12 […]
In Delaware, Butamax Advanced Biofuels filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Gevo relating to use of Butamax’s biobutanol technology, which was covered by a foundational patent granted by the USPTO last month. The patent encompasses biocatalysts developed to produce isobutanol. A number of patent applications by Butamax have been successfully accepted into the United States […]
In Oregon, Pursuit Dynamics has announced that their ERS system installed at the Pacific Ethanol Columbia Plant is operating with no errors or stoppages and with all sub-systems working to design specification. Pursuit states that the analysis of the results allows them to confirm their previously forecast cost savings and yield improvements. With the rollout […]
In Colorado, Range Fuels confirmed to a variety of media outlets that it had made layoffs in Colorado and Georgia, and will shut down its Soperton, Georgia plant after an initial ethanol demonstration run in order to raise more capital and “tackle technical problems.” Last February, Range CEO David Aldous told the Digest “We intend […]
In India, IndianOil and LanzaTech have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a demonstration of LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology collaboration in a technology demonstration at one of the India Oil refineries. that will enable IndianOil to produce fuel grade ethanol. B M Bansal, Chairman of IndianOil, said that IndianOil was looking at […]
In Hungary, the €120 million Pannonia Ethanol project in Hungary has attracted Irish entrepreneur Greg Turley, founder of car rental search engine CarTrawler, as chairman and major investor. The Pannonia plant is being constructed by Fagen in Dunafdva, and is expected to commence operations in early 2012. Fagen is also reportedly an investor in the […]
In Washington, the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Program is offering a free Webinar on Monday, January 24, 2011, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Eastern titled “Improving Photosynthesis for Hydrogen and Fuels Production” in conjunction with the Biomass Program. Dr. Tasios Melis of UC Berkeley will be providing an overview of his invention disclosing […]
