Can Electrofuels and Electrosugars Save the Day?
Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Is the ultimate industrial fuel system going to be based on electricity, waste CO2 and brackish water – to return society to the days of energy abundance? It will take a...
View ArticleBIO World Congress Cellulosic Ethanol Panel: The Latest on Commercialization...
by David Glass (D Glass Associates) One of the morning sessions at the Tenth Annual BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology put four of the companies in the forefront of commercial development...
View ArticleIncreased Enzyme Binding to Substrate Is Not Necessary for More Efficient...
by Dahai Gao, Shishir P. S. Chundawat, Anurag Sethi, Venkatesh Balana, S. Gnanakaran, and Bruce E. Dale (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Substrate binding is typically one of the...
View ArticleGreen Biologics Inks Iowa Demo Plant Deal with Easy Energy Systems
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Green Biologics heads for scale – pilot complete, demo ready in 2014. The race for n-butanol from cellulosic materials is on. The prize for a transformative...
View ArticleCellulosic Technology— Pulp and Paper Style
by Chris Hanson (Ethanol Producer Magazine) American Process applies forestry products know-how to cellulosic conversion. Though a relative newcomer to the ethanol world, Georgia-based American...
View ArticleMomentum: 12 Biobased Ventures Raise $435M in Q2 2013; 32 Projects Being...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Despite negative press from Bloomberg, biobased investing is surging, both direct and via strategics. The Digest has the data and the scoop. After we profiled, last...
View Article54.40 or Fight: the Cost of Biofuels, Emissions, Energy Security and Economic...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …The financing of biofuels is founded, to put it as simply as possible, upon the economics of substitution. On the one hand, there’s the price of energy currently locked...
View Article12 Bellwether Biofuels Projects – Where Do They Stand?
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Advanced biofuels – mirage or reality? In January we wrote: “When these 12 projects open for business (or not) in 2013, you’ll know for sure.” So, what do we know? … We...
View ArticleRochester Institute of Technology Students Learn About Sweetwater’s...
(AZOCleanTech) A collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology’s Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences and Sweetwater Energy Inc. will give students experience with the Rochester-based...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Jet Biofuels Advances of the Year
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …Here are the biggest pacts and advances, tests, investments and grants with the likes of Amyris, Total, Airbus, Solena Fuels, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines, AltAir...
View ArticleWant Better Biofuels? Get the Wood Out
(Science Magazine) Addition by subtraction. By removing a specific gene, researchers reduced the amount of lignin (stained red) by 36% in cells in a plant’s stem, making it easier to recover...
View ArticleUSDA Solicits Bids Under the Feedstock Flexibility Program
(U.S. Department of Agriculture) The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that purchase invitations have been extended to solicit bids to the Commodity...
View ArticleProposed Biomass Company Looking to Build Near Ace Ethanol
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) An unidentified company is looking to build a biomass plant in Stanely near where the Ace Ethanol factory is located. …Once in operation, the company would make cellulosic...
View ArticleBiofuels’ 10 Scariest Challenges: Part 2 of 2
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Upstream, downstream, processing, policy, finance – opportunities and challenges abound in the bioeconomy – but which challenges are the most intractable and daunting of...
View Article4C-Able Future: Biobased Butanol, Butadiene and BDO Are Having a Hot Year
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … It’s been quite a year on the four-carbon platform — also known as C4, 4C, buta-something, Fantastic Four, or what have you. Though two-carbon fuels such as ethanol...
View ArticleThe Hurtlin’, Tumblin’, Twistin’ of the Big Energy Rollercoaster
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … But is the real RINsanity the focus on RINsanity itself? We might be more focused on the insanely huge amounts of energy demand that are coming, and what the heck we...
View Article36th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals April 28-May 1, 2014...
The Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemical covers topics such as: Enzyme Science & Technology Biomass Supply & Sustainability Plant Science & Technology Algae Science &...
View ArticleMore Efficient Production of Biofuels from Waste with the Help of Modified...
(Phys.Org) … Researchers from VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) who are associated with KU Leuven have developed yeast strains that produce bio-ethanol from waste with an unprecedented...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Biofuels?
(The Economist) Energy technology: Making large amounts of fuel from organic matter has proved to be more difficult and costly than expected …As well as being available to countries without tar sands,...
View ArticleThe One-Stop, Get It Hot, Biobased Candy Men: Midori and Low-Cost Cellulosic...
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … Midori reports they have broken through on a 100-year quest for low-cost cellulosic sugars. And found a way to turn your cotton tees into sugars, too. About a year ago,...
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