The Top 25 Advanced Bioeconomy Stories of the Year
5 The 20 Hottest Carbon-Capturing Technologies of 2016
https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2016/06/27/the-20-hottest-carbon-capturing-technologies-of-2016/
https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2016/06/27/the-20-hottest-carbon-capturing-technologies-of-2016/
4 The Top 100 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2016
https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2016/01/31/the-top-100-people-in-the-advanced-bioeconomy-2016/
https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2016/01/31/the-top-100-people-in-the-advanced-bioeconomy-2016/
https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2016/01/31/the-top-100-people-in-the-advanced-bioeconomy-2016/
3 KiOR: The Inside True Story of a Company Gone Wrong
Not long ago, KiOR quietly re-named itself Inaeris Technologies and launched a modest website which discussed the technology and management in little detail, but focused to an extraordinary extent on a declaration of values.
Not the bold, We-Are-Black-Swans, detailed descriptions of yields, costs, downstream partners, brand-name board members and timelines to commercial-scale that had been the style of the Old KiOR. Old KiOR was exciting, dramatic, and fast, and the headlines it produced between 2008 and 2011 were candy for a renewables-hungry world.
And then the shortfalls started. KiOR fell further and further behind on its production goals throughout 2013, and ran out of cash and tumbled into bankruptcy in 2014. Since last winter, we have visited with multiple parties intimately familiar with KiOR’s science and commercial progress dating back to its formation, and we have reviewed dozens of documents relating to technology development, yields, and commercial claims from 2007 — that tell the true story of KiOR.
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