gwynn50: This Week in Biofuels, A Patent Perspective iScopeMediacom: 2010 Year in Review of Biofuels SustainableNet: Lorne Gunter The futility expense and enviro-damage of biofuels – National Post blog AlinaJette: @geneticmaize how does #ethanol make feed cost increase if the byproduct (waste) of making ethanol is feed? My_natour: Ethanol tax credit levels the playing field: […]
In Illinois, researchers from the University of Illinois, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California and BP have discovered a newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume both glucose and xylose from plants to produce ethanol. The new strain, made by combining, optimizing and adding to earlier advances, reduces or eliminates several major […]
In Singapore, Wilmar says the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive is purely ‘green protectionism’ and the US is just as bad. The way that Greenpeace and other NGOs portray the palm oil industry is ‘just sickening’ and ‘outrageous.’ The company feels that the US will eventually approve PME as an advanced biofuel under the RFS2 but […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rose 1.24 percent to a 28-month high of 80.85, continuing a Santa Claus rally and cresting the 80.00 mark for the first time since the global financial crisis of 2008. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) soared 12.84 percent to $27.25 on strong trading volume, […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Iowa State University, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and the Energy Biosciences Institute won Research Facility of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. The Digest recognized Iowa State University as Institutional Research Facility of the Year, the Joint BioEnergy Institute as Government-Institutional Research Facility of […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that LanzaTech, the partnership of Rentech and ClearFuels Technology, the partnership of Taurus Energy and SEKAB, and Renewable Energy Group won Technology of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. Technology of the Year Awards recognized pre-pilot, pilot, demonstration-scale and commercial-scale installations. LanzaTech is commercializing the […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Ceres, SG Biofuels, and Genera Energy won Feedstock Development of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. Ceres is recognized as Feedstock research project of the year (new feedstock or traits) for its development of seawater-tolerant energy grasses. SG Biofuels is recognized as Feedstock […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that LanzaTech, the partnership of Rentech and ClearFuels Technology, the partnership of Taurus Energy and SEKAB, and Renewable Energy Group won Technology of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. Rentech and ClearFuels won for pre-pilot, LanzaTech for pilot-scale, Taurus and SEKAB for demonstration-scale, and Renewable […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Boeing, Air China, PetroChina, Algenol, Lee County (FL), Enerkem, the state of Mississippi, the The US Department of Agriculture , Ineos BIO, the US Department of Energy, the US Navy, Cosan and Shell won Partnership of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. The Corporate […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Amyris, OPX Biotechnology and Genencor won Product of the Year awards, among this year’s roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. The award for Product of the Year (fuels) went to Amyris for its farnesane molecule, which it is now producing in Brazil. Made by adding hydrogen to farnesene (itself […]
