Produces Drop-In Jet Fuel from 100% Renewable Plant Sugars In Wisconsin, Virent announced the delivery of 100 gallons of its bio-based jet fuel to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for testing purposes. Product testing will begin at Wright Patterson Air Force Base to validate Virent’s jet fuel against the standards required for qualification […]
Energy cane for California’s Imperial Valley? Canergy lines up Beta, CHS, Certis as partners for greenfield low-carbon fuel project slated for 2016 opening. In California, Canergy announced that it has selected Chemtex and Beta Renewables for the development of their 25 million gallon per year cellulosic biofuels facility to be located in the Imperial Valley […]
In recent weeks, Kapyon Ventures led two Series A capital raises: Algenetix, a company developing biofuels and other products from microbes, raised $2 million while ZeaKal, a developer of technologies to increase yields from soybeans and rice, has raised $3.8 million. Today, we excerpt from a white paper detailing Kapyon’s incubation model: “New ventures will […]
Peril and Promise from Haiti to Hawaii: a two-part series Geology denies them fossil fuels for cheap fuel, powerful export incomes, or fertilizers. Isolation brings them thin soils better suited to growing wood than staple crops. Deforestation is often rampant. Energy dependency leads to trade imbalances and weak currencies that make importing foreign technology prohibitive. […]
Peril and Promise from Haiti to Hawaii: a two-part series Few places are as long on beauty yet short on energy as a tropical island. Geology denies them fossil fuels for cheap fuel, powerful export incomes, or fertilizers. Heavy rainfall brings them thin soils better suited to growing wood than staple crops. Deforestation is often […]
What Do I Absolutely Need to Know About… UPM and VTT, wood-based diesel and Volkswagen cars. UPM, VTT and VV-Auto Group will start fleet tests of renewable domestic diesel next month Biofuel will be produced by UPM, fleet tests will be coordinated by VTT and cars will be supplied by VV-Auto Group (which imports and […]
Darling of the mid-2000s, still beloved by its many fans — biodiesel is increasingly a key to delivering advanced biofuels volumes now — and even more so between now and 2022. Presentations by NBB CEO Joe Jobe and REG CEO Daniel Oh at ABLC 2013 explained the how and why. In the excitement over cellulosic […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative”, with contributions from Jacques Beaudry-Losique We all applauded often at the recent Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference the progress many individual companies are making in getting to market. But, those successes are fighting growing headwinds from the nation’s capital. What do coaches do when the season is not living […]
Toray demonstrates products made from renewable PBT — another landmark step in “replacing the whole barrel of oil”. In California, Toray Industries announced that it has successfully made a partially bio-based PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) using 1,4-butanediol (BDO) made with Genomatica’s bio-based process technology. Toray is the first company to publicly confirm successful PBT polymerization of […]
Strong Involvement from Strategic Investors Representing almost 91 Percent of Deals China Remains Active, India Shows Projected Growth In New York, PwC reports that U.S. transactions led M&A activity in the chemicals industry in the first quarter of 2013 by driving almost 45 percent of the total deal value as companies focused on domestic growth. […]
