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Navy to launch Great Green Fleet with 77 million gallon buy of cost-competitive, non-food advanced biofuels blends

Navy to launch Great Green Fleet with 77 million gallon buy of cost-competitive, non-food advanced biofuels blends

January 7, 2016 |

They’re here. $2.05 per gallon, at-scale, domestically produced advanced renewable fuels — utilizing non-food feedstocks and based on next-generation technology. The Navy’s 7-year quest to diversify its fuel supply without paying more or changing its fuel spec reaches a key milestone. In Washington, The Department of the Navy has obtained 77.66 million gallons of cost-competitive, […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index dumps 1.63 percent to 49.94 as ethanol equities tank under sliding oil price pressure

Digest Bioeconomy Index dumps 1.63 percent to 49.94 as ethanol equities tank under sliding oil price pressure

January 7, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, dumped 1.63 percent to 49.94 as ethanol equities tanked under sliding oil price pressure. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) dropped 5.06 percent to $2.25, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) lost 8.86 percent to $3.91. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) soared 34.43 percent to $0.82. […]

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Great Green Fleet: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to the US Navy’s transition to renewable fuels

Great Green Fleet: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to the US Navy’s transition to renewable fuels

January 7, 2016 |

The Department of the Navy is now buying advanced, drop-in, cost-competitive, next gen renewable fuels. The biofuels sought can be blended in a range of 10 to 50 percent with conventional petroleum products and must meet all military fuel specification properties which make handling requirements and performance indiscernible to the end user. Currently, two biofuels pathways […]

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Short on sustainable hydrogen? Here comes new water-splitting tech to save the day

Short on sustainable hydrogen? Here comes new water-splitting tech to save the day

January 6, 2016 |

You may not know it, but you are short on hydrogen. Right now. We live in a hydrogen-starved world, and it’s expensive to make. And most of what we make is unsustainable, produced from fossil sources. All that might be ready to change. The Digest investigates. Making syngas for efficient production of fuels? Need hydrogen. Fuel-cell […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index falls 1.59 percent to 50.78 as advanced bio slumps

Digest Bioeconomy Index falls 1.59 percent to 50.78 as advanced bio slumps

January 6, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, fell 1.59 percent to 50.78 as advanced bio slumped. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) dropped 10.90 percent to $2.37, while Gevo (GEVO) shed 10.73 percent to $0.60. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) lost 7.17 percent to $2.20. Overall, declines led advances 7 to 1 […]

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IH2 deep-dive: breakthrough technology has commercial-scale in sight

IH2 deep-dive: breakthrough technology has commercial-scale in sight

January 5, 2016 |

$2.25 per gallon hydrocarbon fuels from biomass, unsubsidized? CRI moves to second-stage towards a commercial-scale deployment of its high-yield, low-cost drop-in fuel technology. And residence time may be the key. This week, a cryptic but tasty news kernel has emerged from CRI, that they have entered into a Front End Loading (FEL-2) evaluation package license […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index gains 0.53 percent to 51.60 as advanced bio rallies

Digest Bioeconomy Index gains 0.53 percent to 51.60 as advanced bio rallies

January 5, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, gained 0.53 percent to 51.60 as advanced bio rallied. For the day, Global Bioenergies (ALGBE.PA) jumped 11.67 percent to $28.70, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dropped 6.80 percent to $4.52.  Among other equities, Abengoa (ABGB) dumped 10.16 percent to $1.15. Overall, declines and advances […]

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Digest Bioeconomy Index opens 2016 with a 1.21 percent loss to 51.33 as ethanol equities fall

Digest Bioeconomy Index opens 2016 with a 1.21 percent loss to 51.33 as ethanol equities fall

January 4, 2016 |

The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, opened the year with a 1.21 percent loss to 51.33 as ethanol equities fell. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) lost 4.36 percent to $2.60, while Solzsyme (SZYM) shed 4.02 percent to $2.39.  Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) dumped 23.75 percent to $0.61. Overall, […]

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The 30 Hottest Molecules of 2016: sneak preview

The 30 Hottest Molecules of 2016: sneak preview

January 4, 2016 |

Last week, we asked the readers to participate in our 30 Hottest Molecules survey, which you can take here (and the supplementary Survey, which you can see here) if you haven’t yet completed. Thank you to the hundreds of readers who took time to consider the nominees. We were astonished by the range of suggestions […]

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Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2016

Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2016

January 3, 2016 |

  Who mandates what in biofuels? 64 countries have targets or mandates — but how much where, and when, and what? In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 64 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come […]

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