Biofuels Industry News from World Biofuels Markets 2010

A new kind of sugar rush?

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:18:39 +0000

Last week may just have marked a turning point in the future of lignocellulosic (LC) ethanol production in Brazil when Graal Bio, the bioenergy arm of The Graal Group, announced their business plan for the construction of the first commercial scale LC ethanol plant in the Southern Hemisphere. Graal’s first plant will be sited in [...]

B-A-M-F spells….Brazil

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:17:56 +0000

Biomass, Attitude, Markets and Fleet: Brazil has it all, in abundance. Accordingly, technology and finance has been flocking there in search of disruptive opportunities. When you first spot the legions of well-dressed foreigners mobbing the Brazilian international airports these days, you would be forgiven for thinking that, oh mi gosh, the Rio Olympics are on. [...]

Wait’ll next year: advanced biofuels and the military

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:16:07 +0000

Is it time to think about 2013, for the supporters of military biofuels? The concept of “wait’ll next year”, or the rebuilding season, is alien to the developers of military biofuels, who have been on the offensive in an uninterrupted fashion for several years. But it is right to think in those terms now. Now, [...]

Green Dragon: 20 Signs that 2012 is the Year of China

admin — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:15:03 +0000

Why is China accelerating on industrial biotechnology, just as US pols preach unilateral disarmament on government efforts to foster commercialization? Does the sun rise in the east as it sets in the West? Yes, 2012 is supposed to bring, according to someone’s reading of a Mayan calendar, the end of the world some time in [...]

Global Biofuels Markets Round Up

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:31:08 +0000

Brazil, Europe, U.S, and more… Brazil Brazil has always been at the forefront of innovation in the ethanol and biodiesel sectors, and sugar is still king – however the global biofuels industry is evolving fast and Brazil cannot afford to stand still. It’s never been a better time for local and international senior level representatives [...]

Waste Makes Haste

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:01:07 +0000

In bioenergy, waste has been hot and is getting hotter. The powerful combination of low cost and low controversy has powered a group of technologies into the front rank in terms of getting steel into the ground on favorable terms. Let’s look at the 5 types of waste and some of the notable projects. Agricultural [...]

The Cleantech IPO Window – Closed for business?

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:42 +0000

IPOs are struggling, all across cleantech – and the biofuels IPO queue is long and tiring. Why Kiwano countries may be in your future. And, what is a Kiwano country, anyway? So, amidst all the legislative and policy hoopla last week for advanced biofuels, including winning funding for an energy title in the US Senate’s [...]

Picking up Pennies in Parking Lots: the algae biofuels angle

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:13 +0000

En route to zillions in algae? First, you have to get the water out of the algae or the algae out of the water. Making Algenol’s ethanol-secreting microalgae a technology worth a special accommodation. Which Florida finally granted. Last year, the US Government minted 8.2 billion coins, of which 4.9 billion were pennies. The vast [...]

Falling natural gas prices and the bio-based opportunity

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:59:51 +0000

Think that falling natural gas prices mean bad news for bio-based technologies? Don’t bet on it. There’s opportunity in there. On the chance that you were engaged in interstellar travel, or cryogenically frozen, over the past two years – US natural gas prices and global oil prices have completely decoupled, for the first time in [...]

Butamax and Gevo: Bio’s Montagues and Capulets get it on, and on, and on

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:59:08 +0000

Isobutanol – a gateway to bioprocessing fortunes? Well, the lawyers are doing just fine too. Here’s a 2-Minute Guide to all the Gevo and Butamax hollerin’, and how to separate the alcohol from the folderol. In case it has escaped your attention, Butamax is suing Gevo and Gevo is suing Butamax. Enough paper has been [...]