The Underdog feedstock is getting Big Mo’, getting’ its due, with sorghum-based ethanol making the grade under optimal conditions as an advanced biofuel pathway, and EPEC landing new investment. What’s up? What’s next? New pathways, plus country-by-country yield data. Sorghum. It’s a feedstock right out the pages of the old South — sorghum syrup served […]
What magic is in the kool-aid, at biofuels’ newest commercial scale-up success story? Gevo CEO Pat Gruber adds that “Latitude to Learn” is key to success for advanced fermentation companies. You can think of him as the guiding technological force behind Cargill’s NatureWorks, the charismatic CEO of advanced biofuels darling Gevo, or as the winner […]
Is it time to think about 2013, for the supporters of military biofuels? Too many early-stage biofuels supporters, we think, come from major market cities like Boston and the Bay Area, where the local baseball teams are seemingly always in contention, and heartbreak, if it ever comes, never seems to come until September or October. […]
Note to readers: We’ve been running the Hot 40 Partners Voting for two weeks now, and here’s the first partner company that has provided, during the voting period, something more than a get-out-the-vote effort – here’s some pretty compelling thought-leader material from Fredrickson & Byron‘s Todd Taylor. It’s theme, things that companies and individuals in […]
In Washington, the Democratic-controlled Senate Armed Services committee defeated an Obama Administration proposal to re-program $170M in US Navy funds to the Title III, Defense Production Act office so that the DPA’s Pentagon staff could ensure sufficient production of advanced biofuels to meet US military demand at affordable rates. The proposal was removed from the […]
Next-gen, commercial scale biofuels debut in Minnesota – is the deck cleared for the isobutanol pioneer to soar? Not quite yet, with litigation and production ramp-up pending, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. In Colorado, Gevo announced it has begun startup of the world’s first commercial biobased isobutanol production plant located in […]
Biomass and natural gas XTL project gets more traction in Louisiana – what is XTL and why might that TLA become SOP? In Colorado, Sundrop Fuels announced a partnership with technology and engineering supplier ThyssenKrupp Uhde for what will be the nation’s first bona fide commercial “green gasoline” production facility. The company’s inaugural plant near […]
Today, at jobs.biofuelsdigest.com – you’ll see our greatly enhanced and improved job service.. We’ve been astonished by the growth of activity among jobseekers. Since the job board opened, Digest subscribers have clicked 184,602 times to see job listings – enough to fill a small city. It’s grown from a handful of clicks, to days of […]
Dupont is accelerating, after acquiring Danisco in a $6B 2011 takeover. Next stop – expansion in cellulosic biofuels and biobutanol. They’re bullish on biofuels and getting more so as their technology and vertically integrated strategy comes together. More than a year ago now, Dupont took a giant additional leap into industrial biotechnology with the acquisition […]
There’s nothing growing faster in the bio-based world than waste-based projects. Or, rather, is there any disappearing faster than the concept of waste, as bioenergy projects show us how to re-use and re-use and re-use? There are some names that have gone wrong – badly wrong – in bioenergy feedstocks. For example, vomit nut doesn’t […]
