Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'cellulosic'
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...
Verenium: BP responds
I've just had this email from the press office at BP about its joint venture with Verenium which was mentioned in an earlier post today.We remain focused on commercializing the technology that we are developing jointly with Verenium and continue to progress...
Arkansas: promised land for biofuel
Could Arkansas be a promised land for biofuel. This article from Delta Farm Press seems to think so. Of course it doesn't explain how all the biofuel that could be producecd in the state could be got to the markets...
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...
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...
Michigan state in big cellulosic ethanol drive
The Michigan Messenger has a story about converting 375,000 chords of timber into 40m gal ethanol for biofuel. I think that this may be the start of a concerted campaign by environmental groups to stop or modify the plan. I...
Corrected: BP ups Verenium investment
Corrected: Corrected amount of new investment by BP in Verenium from press release received from BP on 23 Feb 2009. BP is upping its investment in Verenium by $22.5m, according to Gas 2.0 blog, which has more details. Key point...
Biofuels feature for ICIS Chemcial Business
Ah the echoes of my old papery life keep rustling around me. I'm writing a feature for ICIS Chemical Business on Second Generation Biofuels. I've just asked Air Liquide for more details on Bioliq a process developed by its subsidiary...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
Eleven eastern US states plan biofuels boost
Eleven eastern US states are planning an indirect boost to biofuels with a plan to significantly reduce emissions from transportation, according to the Environmental News Service. It is hard to disagree with both the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who...
A time to look back and a time to look forward
As 2008 draws to a close it is time to look back and assess how well I did in my predictions for 2008, at the start of the year, and let you know about a couple of guest bloggers who...
DSM starts DOE funded biofuels project
DSM an international chemicals company based in the Netherlands says it is launching a project funded by the DOE into biofuels through a "multimillion dollar cooperative funding agreement with the US Department of Energy to underwrite a portion of research...
Biomass could get tight from 2030
Researchers In Denmark have been looking hard at the amount of biomass that will be available for biofuels after 2030 is going to become tight. This is what they say in a peer-reviewed paper in Environment Science Technology, produced by...
Corn estimates down in the US
The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the...
Wal-Mart supports cellulosic research
Wal-Mart has made a donation to Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University to help fund biomass to ethanol research, according to Domestic fuel. This should help the Institute gain funding from the Department of Energy. That's interesting, about 10%...
Poet to make cellulosic biofuel by year end
Poet LLC, formerly Broin, says it will be making cellulosic ethanol at a plant in Dakota by the end of the year, according to a report in Iowa Farmer Today.It looks like Poet will be using DuPont technology, under an...
Corn stover research gets started
Just how much corn stover can you remove from fields without destroying the soil structure or significantly reducing the amount of organic material in the soil? With luck this collaboration by Monsanto, John Deere and ADM will answer that question...
Switching to switchgrass isn't easy
Switching to switchgrass isn't going to be easy, according to this useful piece from redorbit. Worth reading. ...
Kudzu its catching on
I reported that Kudzu could be a good biofuel source for ethanol. Looks like the Huffington post agrees. Kudzu is the latest new craze, according to Huffington. Like all crazes I'll give it a couple of months. Now what about...
Corn price and investors
Des Moines Register has a piece about the way that moves to reduce the ethanol mandate in the US could reduce the amount of investment in cellulosic ethanol.To which I say: Duh. well yes if its done wrong I guess...
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