Enerkem bolted into the #2 position and Braskem reached the top 5 in the 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy ballot, as subscriber balloting began to near the February 2nd conclusion for the 2018 poll. Overall, LanzaTech remains in the lead, followed by Enerkem, Amyris, Novozymes, Braskem, BASF, DSM, Genomatica, Renewable Energy Group and Poet-DSM. The […]
We reported last week on the Silva Green Fuels JV between Sweden’s Södra and Norway’s Statkraft, using Steeper Energy technology to produce drop-in advanced biofuels in Norway. And we reported the stunning news this week that Enerkem signed an agreement with Sinobioway Group worth over C$125 million in the form of equity investment in Enerkem Inc., […]
It’s been a big week in plastics and nylons, all right — not only for those who value sustainability attributes, but for fans of lower costs and higher performance, too. Let’s look at 4 Biggies makin’ a stir. Wisconsin researchers report bioplastic precursor breakthrough In Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering […]
Think of it. There’s the brain — with its trillion synapses, sensing, diagnosing, prescribing, responding, targeting. What if a human cell could be programmed to detect a disease, manufacture a drug and deliver it? As in no doctor, no skyrocketing drug cost, no delay, no hassle, no kidding. It would revolutionize medicine. But also, agriculture […]
Without Professor Snape in Harry Potter, there would be no Harry Potter. Without Professor Snape at University of Nottingham, perhaps there would be no Hydrothermal Carbonization in the UK? The University of Nottingham’s Professor Snape isn’t working alone and has partners that are helping magic happen in the biomass and biofuel world. In the United […]
Algae chocolate, algae ink, algae protein powder, algae as a solar technology and algae as a diversification strategy for tourist economies? Algae investors and project developers may be the most inventive group of people in the world when it comes to finding new market niches for the world’s oldest living oil source, friend of the […]
This week we reported that Steeper Energy is partnering with Silva Green Fuel, a Norwegian-Swedish joint venture, to construct a $59M industrial scale demonstration plant at a former pulp mill located in Tofte, Norway leading to a future commercial scale project. Let’s look at that item in more detail. Silva is a joint venture between Norway’s […]
News arrives from Israel’s Technion Institute that they have developed a stable catalyst that can split water at extravagantly low energy-levels – and haven’t ruled out being able to split water with energy levels obtainable from the sun. Before you skip this story to check out more pulse-quickening items such as Oscar nominees or pre-Olympics […]
We dreamed of the day waste projects would get the funding needed to gain ground, and that day may have finally come. One of the most remembered parts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech is when he said “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the […]
In the world of drop-in military biofuels, two major updates appeared this week. In Oregon, Red Rock Biofuels got good news on Monday when the governor approved $245 million in bonds that will allow the company’s planned aviation biofuel plant thanks to overwhelming support by state level legislators and business groups. The facility set for […]
