In Finland, Neste Oil announced that it has joined the Initiative Towards Sustainable Kerosene for Aviation (ITAKA) project, which is being funded by the EU to support the commercialization and use of renewable aviation fuel in Europe. Neste Oil’s role in the consortium will be to produce the renewable fuel used in the project. The […]
The Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC) released a progress report today on the development of the cellulosic biofuels industry. The release comes on the five year anniversary of the signing of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and on the heels of Secretary Vilsack’s speech on rural innovation and economic opportunity at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The report, for the […]
Unofficial reports indicate that biofuels provisions have survived a House-Senate conference over the Defense bill. According to sources, House and Senate conferees have finished work on their conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act. Sources indicate that House language prohibiting DOD spending on biofuels has been removed and replaced with a requirement that DOD […]
Investors, policy-makers, supply-chain partners, observers – so many stakeholders ask the same question – how do you really know when your favorite biofuels venture is having real trouble as opposed to a non-material slowdown or hiccup. But not every venture is far enough along or transparent enough to offer classic data for analysts or the […]
Investors, policy-makers, supply-chain partners, observers – so many stakeholders ask the same question – how do you really know when your favorite biofuels venture is having real trouble as opposed to a non-material slowdown or hiccup. But not every venture is far enough along or transparent enough to offer classic data for analysts or the […]
Investors, policy-makers, supply-chain partners, observers – so many stakeholders ask the same question – how do you really know when your favorite biofuels venture is having real trouble as opposed to a non-material slowdown or hiccup. In industrial biotechnology as in all business, the laws of gravity apply — and profits are the driver and […]
Is your favorite biofuels venture in trouble? — or might look in trouble but actually be just fine. Here are 12 tell-tale signs if you’ve “got trouble, right here in River City.” In the game of professional golf, Saturday is traditionally known as “moving day” as the leaders begin to separate themselves from the pack […]
Why is making affordable renewable sugars potentially big business? Which intrepid investors have targeted biofuels’ biggest bottleneck? News has been circulating that Proterro raised $3.5 million for a demonstration-scale of their renewable sugars technology, and secured a key patent allowance for their bioreactor system and microorganism. Giving us a good opportunity to review how Proterro, […]
“What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar”, US Vice President Thomas Marshall once remarked to the United States Senate during a long speech by Kansas Senator Joe Bristow on the subject of “what this country needs.” Today, we could use a good five-cent renewable sugar, suitable for microorganisms that, from sucrose, make affordable […]
Where other companies are growing sugars via crop improvements, or extracting them, Proterro is making them via synthetic biology. Specifically, they have engineered a cyanobacteria to make sucrose (via a series of steps you can read all about here), ultimately from CO2, water, sunlight and nutrients – and secrete it into a sugarwater stream that […]
