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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/22/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/22/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

September 21, 2014 |

About The Digest Dashboard. Biofuels Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, […]

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US Navy, DOE, USDA award $210M for 3 biorefineries and mil-spec fuels

US Navy, DOE, USDA award $210M for 3 biorefineries and mil-spec fuels

September 19, 2014 |

In Washington, the Department of Defense has awarded $210 million under the Defense Production Act to Emerald Biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy and Red Rock Bio towards the construction of biorefineries that produce cost-competitive, drop-in military biofuels. Under the grants, the companies will build biorefineries to produce military spec fuel that is expected to cost the US military, on […]

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An Energy Insurance & Security Act: Looking behind “Mend it and End it”.

An Energy Insurance & Security Act: Looking behind “Mend it and End it”.

September 18, 2014 |

In today’s Digest, we published an important column by longtime contributor Douglas Faulkner, the former acting Undersecretary of Agriculture and a former Assistant Secretary of Energy, titled “The Renewable Fuel Standard:  Mend It AND End It.” In his column, Faulkner begins by citing the competing and buffeting political winds around the RFS — from the […]

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The Renewable Fuel Standard:  Mend It AND End It

The Renewable Fuel Standard:  Mend It AND End It

September 18, 2014 |

By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” President Clinton gave a major speech in defense of affirmative action in 1995 entitled, “Mend It, Don’t End It”, an easily-remembered and clear summary of his policy approach.  So, to borrow a pitch and reformat the goal, my recommendations for fixing the current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) work […]

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Up in the Air: Can aviation save the Renewable Fuel Standard?

Up in the Air: Can aviation save the Renewable Fuel Standard?

September 17, 2014 |

Declining gasoline demand, blend walls, lack of blender pumps, a fight over E15 ethanol, food vs fuel — it all looks pretty dire for the US Renewable Fuel Standard target of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. Or does it? Does the key to making everyone happy lie 8 miles high, in the aviation sector? […]

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4 Rules for Becoming an Investment Winner in industrial biotech

4 Rules for Becoming an Investment Winner in industrial biotech

September 16, 2014 |

It’s hard to make a valuable molecule out of low-value biomass. And even harder to make money out of it. What are the rules of the road, as understood by those who have dared, and done it, and lived to tell the tale? So, the Biofuels Digest Index is up 10 percent since May, but it’s […]

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A looming cellulosic feedstock shortage?

A looming cellulosic feedstock shortage?

September 15, 2014 |

As the first wave of cellulosic biorefineries launch — is there really enough affordable feedstock for the next wave? Can growers make enough money to justify the switch…and risk? For several years, the questions that have perplexed actors in the advanced bioeconomy have revolved around policy stability and the effectiveness of the new technology: can […]

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Spirit of Innovation: Hot Companies photo voting

Spirit of Innovation: Hot Companies photo voting

September 14, 2014 |

Here are the winning photo votes chosen for the week starting 9/8/14 in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. This week, you can see teams invoking Bart Simpson, Pac-Man, Barbie, Justice League, The Beatles, and Monopoly as they visualize their innovative spirits and communicate their enthusiasm for their […]

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PUMP debuts Sept. 19 in NY and LA. Elon Musk, Jason Bateman, Lula head a star-studded documentary on energy choice

PUMP debuts Sept. 19 in NY and LA. Elon Musk, Jason Bateman, Lula head a star-studded documentary on energy choice

September 14, 2014 |

This Friday, a new movie debuts — billed “the movie that will change your attitude about fuel forever” — and specifically, about ending oil addiction It’s PUMP — an eye-opener directed by Josh Tickell (director of the Sundance-honored FUEL) and narrated by Jason Bateman. Featuring a host of personalities such as former Brazilian president Luiz […]

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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/15/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 9/15/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

September 14, 2014 |

About The Digest Dashboard. Biofuels Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, […]

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