passongas: Could the Farmland Bubble be about to Burst? What Will this Mean for Corn Ethanol AlgaeExec: Jet fuel made from #algae? Definitely. Video interview is about the future of aviation #biofuels CarbonUnity: Biofuels: The answer or the problem – What do you think?? Firefighters powerless as fire destroys Pa. biodiesel plant – FireRescue1 SaveMoney42: […]
In Germany, Bayer CropScience AG and Evogene have entered into a five-year collaboration to accelerate the development and introduction of improved wheat varieties. Improvements will be pursued for wheat yield, drought tolerance, fertilizer use efficiency and certain other wheat traits utilizing a combination of advanced breeding and state of the art genetic modification methods. Bayer […]
In California, Wilson Sonsini has set up a webinar on USDA financing programs for bioenergy. According to WSGR, “We already have over 300 RSVPs and we just added John May from Stern Brothers and a speaker from Silicon Valley Bank.” The webinar will be Thursday at 1-2:30pm ET. More on the story.
Colin South, the former President of Mascoma, has joined Lignol as CTO and has joined the company’s board. “Colin was serving on the board,” said Lignol CEO Ross MacLachlan and I had asked him to lead a technology review as we looked at setting up a technology advisory board. A couple of months into the […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.36 percent to 77.72 as advanced biofuels equities cooled. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.22 percent to $30.89 while Amyris (AMRS) plunged 4.34 percent to $23.15. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) jumped 6.67 percent to $0.80. Overall, declines led […]
In Honolulu, much of the leadership of the advanced biofuels and renewables chemicals industries have gathered this week at BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit. With seven of the hottest 14 companies in bioenergy on the presentation docket – plus USDA and DOE and a host of Asian academics and companies – what are the key trends? […]
In Nevada, International Procurement Tools announced that they had developed a biodiesel construction platform that would bring down ‘pipe to pipe’ installed costs for a 60 Mgy biodiesel system (100,000 tons/year) to $6 million, or ten cents per gallon of installed capacity. Smaller or larger units are available in increments of 35,000 T/Yr units based […]
In California, SynGest announced that the Iowa Power Fund and Iowa Office of Energy Independence have awarded $2.5 million for the design and engineering stage of a biomass ammonia facility to be built and operated in Iowa. One requirement of the contract is evidence that SynGest has raised an additional $3.5 million in new cash […]
In Washington, SBI Energy has published a report on specialty pipelines on ” Specialty Pipelines for Renewable and Alternative Energy Substances.” Noting that since a number of renewable fuels can be corrosive and because of concerns regarding contamination, SBI Energy expects the specialty pipeline market to expand 30% per year, to reach $3 billion worldwide […]
In India, three national oil companies have begun blending ethanol in 14 states and 20 will be online by the end of the month. Five of the states expected to participate in the 5% ethanol blending program won’t be able to due to a lack of ethanol availability. It is expected that the three companies […]
