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Novozymes acquires 10% of Beta Renewables for $115M; companies to jointly market, demonstrate and guarantee cellulosic biofuel solutions.

Novozymes acquires 10% of Beta Renewables for $115M; companies to jointly market, demonstrate and guarantee cellulosic biofuel solutions.

October 29, 2012 |

Novozymes becomes preferred enzyme supplier for Beta Renewables’ current and future cellulosic biofuel projects; embedded in Proesa production technology. In Denmark and Italy, Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes, and Beta Renewables, a global leader in cellulosic biofuels and part of Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi, announced an agreement to jointly market, demonstrate and […]

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The October Surprise: BP Cancels Plans for US Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

The October Surprise: BP Cancels Plans for US Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

October 26, 2012 |

BP to focus U.S. biofuels investments on R&D, technology licensing. What happened? What’s next? In Florida, BP announced it is canceling plans to build a 36 million gallon commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. The company said that it would refocus its US biofuels strategy on R&D, as well as licensing its industry–leading biofuels […]

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Fuel From Thin Air? The skinny on making gasoline from air and water

Fuel From Thin Air? The skinny on making gasoline from air and water

October 26, 2012 |

By Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider This week a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) announced that they were producing gasoline from thin air. The raw materials for their process reportedly being literally air and water. A company spokesman explained: “We haven’t broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics or anything. We take carbon, we […]

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Algae’s Secret Investor

Algae’s Secret Investor

October 25, 2012 |

Who’s poured $116M into Algenol and Aurora Algae? Now we know, it’s Reliance. Back in early 2010, a lot of data began to accumulate suggesting that Reliance Industries Limited, the petroleum, chemicals, telecom and manufacturing conglomerate, was going to make a bet on algae in the fuels and chemicals space. Reliance — for those less […]

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The Dandelion Model: Two-step biofuels technologies and the emergence of super-refineries

The Dandelion Model: Two-step biofuels technologies and the emergence of super-refineries

October 24, 2012 |

Can local communities pyrolize their wastes and residues, to make renewable fuels and chemicals at biobased super-refineries? Two-step processes could be the ticket to the future, according to an Iowa State team. Imagine, for a moment, a biorefinery as large as an oil refinery – competing on equivalent scales, gaining comparable economic and tax incentives […]

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The Big Bagasse Biofuels Boom

The Big Bagasse Biofuels Boom

October 23, 2012 |

Deployment of next-gen bagasse-to-biofuels technologies could expand ethanol production in Brazil, India by 35 percent without land, water intensification. After several years of technology and partnership development — advanced biofuels are coming to Brazil in a big way, and India may not be far behind. The reason? Opportunities with bagasse, the leftover from crushed cane […]

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The Gas Rush: Calysta Energy aims for high-value markets via unconventional natural gas

The Gas Rush: Calysta Energy aims for high-value markets via unconventional natural gas

October 22, 2012 |

Calysta Energy emerges from stealth — with new, biobased technologies to unlock high-value fuels, chemicals markets for stranded, unconventional natural gas The synthesis of biobased technologies and abundant supplies of natural gas took a major step forward today with the emergence from stealth of Calysta Energy. The new company is a spinout of DNA 2.0, […]

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Rain dancing on Wall Street, Main Street and Elm Street

Rain dancing on Wall Street, Main Street and Elm Street

October 19, 2012 |

As drought, recession, and capital starvation form a perfect storm, will advanced biofuels be thrown under the bus? Industry leaders say that dropping biofuels production targets will not reverse impacts of the 2012 drought. Instead, it may extend a devastating drought in project capital markets. It’s been a tough, tough year for farmers and ranchers, […]

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ZeaChem a finalist for $4.6M 3-carbon platform grant from California Energy Commission

ZeaChem a finalist for $4.6M 3-carbon platform grant from California Energy Commission

October 19, 2012 |

In recent years, the two-carbon (ethanol, ethyl acetate, acetic acid) and four-carbon (butanol, butadiene, butanediol) platforms have been the most highly-chased in the industry. The three-carbon platform has excellent prices and market potential, but development in proproylene, propane, and propanol (among other 3-carbon molecules) has lagged. That may change, following action on proposed grants from […]

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Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guides: first wave of company reports released

Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guides: first wave of company reports released

October 19, 2012 |

Biofuels Digest has released the first wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]

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