In Colorado, a report has been received that Range Fuels is shutting down its corporate headquarters in Broomfield. According to a source, “the people who work in Broomfield were told not to come to work (Thursday).” Range Fuels, recently opened its biofuels demonstration project in Soperton, Georgia and secured $150 million in an equity round […]
In California, Joel Velasco, Chief Representative in North America for the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), is leaving to join Amyris, Inc., as Senior Vice-President, External Relations. Leticia Phillips and Ana Carolina Lessa will now jointly oversee UNICA’s activities in Washington. More on the story. In Massachusetts, Christopher J. Dale, Ph.D., joins Qteros as Vice […]
In China, China Biological Engineering of Hong Kong completed the final installment of an 18% equity investment in Phyco BioSciences. CBEL is developing projects in the Peoples Republic of China beginning with a joint venture project that is utilizing Phyco’s super trough production and harvest platform and plans rapid expansion of algae biomass projects in […]
In Brazil, Reuters is reporting that Cosan (CZZ.N) will acquire the Zanin Acucar e Alcool sugar and ethanol mill for 378.6 million reais ($224.7 million), including a combination of cash and debt. The acquisition price includes 142 million reais ($84.3M) in cash and the assumption of 236.6 million reais ($160.4M) in debt. The Zanin deal […]
In Zambia, President Rupiah Banda announced that, following a state visit to Brazil in which Zambian officials explored opportunities in biofuels project development, the government will construct a sugarcane ethanol plant in the country’s Eastern province. The president did not release details on the locaiton or capacity of the proposed project. More on the story.
feedthegrid: GRFA: Biofuels Can Ease the Impact of Hazardous #Oil Prices CyG_Energy: Energy from waste water? The usual shrewd analysis from Geoff Styles and no jokes about biofuels BIOblogger: Is OPEC just plundering crude oil? WildlifeCenter: Interesting read about habitats and biofuels. SustainableNet: Ethanol all about national security – Agriculture Online
In Florida, a U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle successfully completed a biofuels trial at Eglin Air Force Base using Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ) blended with traditional JP-8 jet fuel. Ground testing also included a blend of JP-8 jet fuel, HRJ, and a synthetic fuel made from coal. This is Pratt & Whitney’s second military engine […]
In Texas, four inventors and Celanese International have received US Patent 7,863,489, for their novel process to produce ethanol from acetic acid using a platinum and tin based catalyst. Celanese owns the world’s largest acetic acid plant in the Pasadena area near Houston, as well as a major acetic acid plant in Nanjing, China. More […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.06 percent to 81.95 as cellulosic ethanol sputtered but large caps strengthened. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) recovered 0.82 percent to $31.95, while BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB) plunged 12.50 percent to $0.35 on investor jitters over a pending USDA loan guarantee application. […]
The US economy is just now showing signs of revival, and already we are seeing signs of runaway oil and grain prices that may bring unwanted inflation and dangerous instability hardly before the recovery has had a chance to add jobs. I used to have a car like this – an old Mustang – that […]
