Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'cellulose'
25x25 warns on restricting cellulosic biomass
25x25 a pressure group in the US is warning that some proposed legislation in the US could severely restrict the amount of cellulose available for biofuels in what is effectively a call for managed woodlands. I can see why the...
Cellulosic ethanol the US dream and reality
This graph, produced with data from the Des Moines Register, and another good article from Phil Brasher shows the current gap between US cellulosic ethanol production next year and the curent legislative requirement for it. It looks as if the US...
The right cellulosic biofuels might help protect the environment
Biofuels from cellulosic feedstock could help to protect the environment by reducing the amount of nitrogen that runs off into rivers and by providing coverage that helps protect the land against wind and rain erosion. That is one of the...
The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009
The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...
Fungus joins biofuel armoury
There's some excitement about a newly discovered fungus that makes chemicals similar to biofuels from cellulose. (Thanks David). It looks legit, because a couple of my colleagues sent me this link (thanks Clay and Doris). This isn't the first time...
Interview with Geoff Broin CEO Poet
The industrious chaps over at earth2tech have secured an email interview with Geff Broin, ceo of Poet industries which recently announced plans to build a cellulosic ethanol plant by the end of the year. He's a big fan of subsidies,...
BP invests in Verenium
There's a Wall Street Journal article about BP investing $90 m in Verenium a US cellulosic ethanol technology company. Both firms hope to start a jointly making biofuel in a few years. The WSJ says this is BP's first venture...
GM and Marathon invest in biofuels
Good to see big names in energy and the automotive sector investing in cellulosic biofuels in Mascoma's latest round of financing, according to Domestic Fuel....
Trees could be the future for biofuels
Trees could be the biofuel of the future, according to this analysts report from Jeffries & Company which examines clean technology and industrial biotech following the BIO's Industrial Biotechnology conference in the US recently. Key quotes for me are Forestry...
Four or five biofuel predictions for 2008
Here are five predictions for things that I think are likely to happen in the world of biofuels sometime in 2008. 1. The price of food grains will continue to rise putting pressure on the economics of new build ethanol...
Biochar conference
There's an international biochar conference coming up between 8-10 September 2008, its in Newcastle, UK. I might go along. I'm interested in what the effect of removing cellulose could have on soil structure should cellulosic biofuels take off. This conference...
Shell and codexis see 2nd generation biofuels in five years
Shell is taking a seat on Codexis' board and making a capital investment into the biofuels technology company as the firms announced their research collaboration is being extended by five years, according to a report on ICIS news. (Disclosure I...
Warwick University looks at straw as a biofuel source
Warwick University looks at how we could use straw as feedstock for biofuels. They are taking an ethical stance......
Berkeley's biofuels research gets $10m extra
University of California, Berkeley, has won a further $10m from the Federal government to research biofuels, according to Deepti Arora in the Daily Californian, which says: A group headed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received an extra $10 million...
Oregon's academics say ethanol is a waste of effort
Oregon's academics say ethanol is a waste of effort in a report published recently and discussed on the Onward Oregon Blog Our George Seldes says Whether you care about the phony issue of "energy independence," the very real issue of...
Cornell finds a new enzyme for ethanol production
In a breakthrough that could make the production of cellulosic ethanol less expensive, Cornell researchers have discovered a class of plant enzymes that potentially could allow plant materials used to make ethanol to be broken down more efficiently than is...
Ever wondered how cellulosic ethanol might be made?
If you've ever wondered how cellulosic ethanol might be made check out the page on wikipedia about cellulase, which is an enzyme......
Celulose, ethanol and corn
The current drive into corn-based ethanol, its limitations and the potential for celulosic ethanol is explored thoroughly in this piece by Tyler Hamilton in the Toronto Star....
Next generation biofuels
Using crops is the basis of many biofuel projects around the world and there are some interesting views on the way ahead. But what could the next generation of biofuels look like? How about self-digesting corn?. In mid September, this...
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