Category: Top Stories

Intrexon makes farnesene from methane: hot route to low-cost jet fuels and diesels?

Intrexon makes farnesene from methane: hot route to low-cost jet fuels and diesels?

July 1, 2014 |

Second Product of Intrexon’s Proprietary Bioconversion Platform Following Isobutanol Who’s happy, who’s bumming — and how far along is the work, really? The Digest looks at Intrexon’s breakthrough. Gas-to-Liquids approach significantly more cost-efficient versus conventional methods, company says. In California, Intrexon announced the bioconversion of methane to farnesene in the lab with its proprietary platform. Farnesene […]

Read More

Are we there yet? The positioning and repositioning of the algae industry

Are we there yet? The positioning and repositioning of the algae industry

June 29, 2014 |

Probably every parent has heard the plaintive wail from the backseat, early in some long journey by car to some exciting place like Grandma’s or Disney World: “Are we there yet?” Today, we look at algae’s promise in 2008 and progress now. Has the industry repositioned? An agreeable reporter from KPBS San Diego visited with the […]

Read More

The Digest Dashboard for 6/30/14: Bioeconomy equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data summary

The Digest Dashboard for 6/30/14: Bioeconomy equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data summary

June 29, 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, […]

Read More

The New Hillary, the new biotechnology, and the new world order

The New Hillary, the new biotechnology, and the new world order

June 26, 2014 |

Hillary Clinton stops by the BIO International Convention to reflect on world leaders, pressing issues and not a little on climate change and the role of biotechnology. If you are a fan of the New Testament’s Book of James, you’ll remember the admonition that “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead,” […]

Read More

First commercial biofuels flight from Sweden, as Karlstad Airport installs biofuels storage capacity, teams with SkyNRG, British Midland

First commercial biofuels flight from Sweden, as Karlstad Airport installs biofuels storage capacity, teams with SkyNRG, British Midland

June 26, 2014 |

In Sweden, biofuels-powered flights have begun from Sweden, operated by BMI between Karlstad and Frankfurt and by Nextjet between Karlstad and Stockholm. Meanwhile, Karlstad Airport has become the first airport in Europe to install a fixed storage tank facility for aviation biofuel. The facility officially opened on Thursday 26 June and the first regular commercial […]

Read More

Branson: “We’re killing the world”

Branson: “We’re killing the world”

June 25, 2014 |

Branson at BIO. Branson on bio. And some of Branson’s bio. Sir Richard Branson joined BIO CEO Jim Greenwood on stage at the BIO International Convention for a talk on enterprises, the entrepreneurial spirit, a spirit of adventure. And the founder of brands ranging from Virgin Records to Virgin Galactic shared his views on the […]

Read More

Celtic Renewables raises $2M, partners with Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant

Celtic Renewables raises $2M, partners with Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant

June 25, 2014 |

Celtic Renewables, the Edinburgh-based biofuel company, has signed an agreement with Europe’s foremost biotechnology pilot facility to undergo next stage testing of its process to turn whisky by-products into biofuel that can power current vehicles. The partnership, which will allow the company to develop its technology at Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) in Ghent, […]

Read More

Saskatoon’s Agrisoma Receives Prestigious Gold Leaf Award as “Company of the Year” at the 2014 BIO Convention

Saskatoon’s Agrisoma Receives Prestigious Gold Leaf Award as “Company of the Year” at the 2014 BIO Convention

June 25, 2014 |

Canada’s first non-food crop used to fuel the world’s first 100% renewable biojet fuel flight Ag-West Bio announced today that one of its members has received the prestigious Gold Leaf Award at the 2014 BIO International Convention in San Diego. In a ceremony yesterday, Agrisoma Biosciences Inc., was named “Company of the Year”, recognized for […]

Read More

Canada gives thumbs up to Agrisoma’s carinata meal

Canada gives thumbs up to Agrisoma’s carinata meal

June 25, 2014 |

Clears way for oilseeds to advance market penetration; impacts expected in feed markets, biofuels and biojet. Meanwhile, Agrisoma deploys technology to launch varietals better, faster. In Canada,  Agrisoma Biosciences and PGF Biofuels announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency gave regulatory approval for Brassica carinata meal for use in feed for grower and finisher beef cattle in Canada. Marketed […]

Read More

Ethane vs methane, carbon storage vs carbon use: which are the bad trades?

Ethane vs methane, carbon storage vs carbon use: which are the bad trades?

June 24, 2014 |

Should we be looking to methane for vehicles, or ethane? Should we be looking to carbon storage or carbon use? Are the modern orthodoxies leading us in the wrong direction? It’s summer now in the northern hemisphere — the high season for sports. As any fan of any game will tell you, perhaps the only […]

Read More

« Previous Page — Next Page »