Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'biofuels'
Follow the tweets on biofuels
For those of us who love Twitter. I've aggregated four hash tags relating to biofuels in a single handy to view feed called #biofuelhashtags. It aggregates #algae #ethanol #biodiesel and #biofuels into one place. You can see it in the...
UPDATED: Verenium and Aventine in difficulties: Reuters
Verenium could have jhad difficulty continuing as a company, its auditors say in a report from Reuters yesterday and carried in the UK's Guardian Business Feed.The same report says Aventine may need to take Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Key points...
PetroSun pays catfish farmers in Mississippi to convert ponds to algae
uploaded from pacres on flickr. PetroSun is paying catfish farmers in Mississippi to convert their ponds to algae production. Here's the deal, according to Terri Chiang, an authorized agent for PetroSun BioFuels "initially, we have arranged for the landowner to...
Shell ups its stake in Codexis
Shell has increased its stake in Codexis, in a story filed by ICIS news last night. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS)Shell gets an second seat on the Codexis board an makes a financial contribution. It reinforces Shell's commitment...
FAO's case studies on small-scale bioenergy initiatives
The FAO has pdf on the impacts that small scale biofuels initiatives have had on the lives of participants in the developing world. It is downloadable as a PDF. The report is interesting because it approaches the users and producers...
The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Indusries on sustainability
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of...
Algae to biofuel: vertigrow's view
It would only take 10% of the surface area of the state of New Mexico to meet the US energy needs if it were devoted to algae production according Val Kurtz, ceo Valcent Products, speaking in this video. Thanks...
Biofuels feature... but you'll have to wait
It's been a busy few days, the other parts of my job have been pressing and I think that I'm back above water again for a few days at least. One of the more enjoyable things that I have been...
1m Euro grant for catalyst route to biofuels
The University of Amsterdam and companies Solarix and Yellow Diesel have won a grant worth Euro 1m to develop and produce biofuels more efficiently using hetrogeneous catalysis, under Prof Gadi Rothenberg according to SenterNovem. ...
The Global Justice Ecology Project doesn't like biofuels
The ethanol battle has been joined again now that a new Administration is due to take over the White House. The flurry started late yesterday UK time (for me at any rate) with an email from The Global Justice Ecology...
New Generation Biofuels offers stock, gains trials
New Generation Biofuels is offering stock for sale through its prospectus. New Generation uses a proprietary technology exclusively licensed in the US from Ferninando Petrucci, who owns around 5.4% of the firm. The financial engineering behind the relationship is at...
India's biofuel market: a report
There's a new report on the outlook for India's biofuels market. The key take-away for me is that despite a growing ethanol industry, India is going to have an ethanol deficit until at least 2017 as demand outstrips supply by...
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports.
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME -5 & -0 CFPP), the report will now also reflect biodiesel...
Biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts
The Catalyst Group says that biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts, which could help improve yields and reduce reaction times. It's not on the Catalyst Group's website yet... so here's what they said in an email... The Catalyst Group Resources...
Bill Clinton's ideas for agriculture
Bill Clinton, ex US president, was speaking at world food day recently. He said:"We should go back to a policy of maximum agricultural self-sufficiency," Clinton said. While there would always be a global market for crops like rice, wheat and...
Meatpackers say aid to ethanol plants would be unfair and discriminatory
US meat producers are saying in the Des Moines Register that aid to ethanol producers that are facing trouble because of movements in the price of corn over the previous year would be unfair and "would be a startling new...
ICIS bioresources summit
ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers...
US Government offers small grants to biofuel firms
The US government started asking for grant applications as part of its Clean Cities programme. This includes biofuel from biomass. Also the US department of Agriculture is offering grants to help turn forest waste into energy. Worth checking out. ...
Could Russia become a biofuel superpower?
This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK's Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking about the possibility of it becoming a biofuel...
Shell is involved in six new biofuel research ventures
Shell announced on 17 September that it was involved in six new research agreements for biofuels. This builds on a number of piecemeal announcements including an interest in a Hawaiian biofuel from algae venture and an agreement with Codexis. The...
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