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What hurdles remain for E15 ethanol?

May 18, 2012 by Dan Haugen
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Corn growers and ethanol producers want to expand their market by selling a new, higher-blend ethanol fuel that’s safe to use in most vehicles.But the timeline for introducing E15 remains uncertain as industry and government officials continue to sort out the final details for the fuel’s sale.The American Coalition for Ethanol and... [read more]

The Biofuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Labyrinth

May 18, 2012 by Nathanael Baker
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As governments roll out public policy directing increased biofuel production for all sectors of the transportation industry, serious questions around environmental sustainability still remain.Although the food versus fuel debate -- should arable land be used to grow energy crops, or food crops be used to fuel our cars instead of our... [read more]

Obama’s Biggest Climate Decision Of The Year May Be … Palm Oil?

May 17, 2012 by Joseph Romm
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The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions of its entire administration – and it’s not about coal, oil, or gas, but rainforests. EPA is deciding whether or not palm oil should be included in the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates that American motorists use 36 billion gallons of biofuel in their cars and trucks by 2022. [read more]

Current and Projected Costs for Biofuels from Algae and Pyrolysis

May 7, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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Can algal biofuel actually be competitive with petroleum? Recent DoE studies suggest it will. [read more]

What's up with all the management reshuffling at green chemical companies?

May 4, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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I noticed the blog has been receiving a lot of notices on personnel changes within the renewable chemicals sector this year and the most recent one is Amyris' top management team announced yesterday.According to Amyris, three of its management team - the president of global operations Mario Portela,  VP general counsel and corporate... [read more]

Clean Energy Rides Bucking Economy To Growth

April 25, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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Reflecting on clean-energy performance in 2011, research firm Clean Edge released a report of the good, the bad and the not-too-ugly. Despite a turbulent economic year for most industries, combined revenue for the global solar, wind and biofuel industries rose 30 percent from $188 billion in 2010 to $246 billion... [read more]

The Future of Algae Biofuels

April 5, 2012 by Benjamin Lack
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The Future of Algae Biofuels Researchers at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have assembled the draft genome sequence of a marine algae,  Nannochloropis gaditan, that may be capable of producing the lipid yields necessary for a viable fuel source.Algae is an ideal alternative, renewable fuel source... [read more]

US Navy Adding Biobutanol To Alt-Fuel Repertoire

April 3, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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We’ve seen the military embrace fuels derived from algae as well as fuels made from old cooking grease and animal fats. And now the U.S. Navy is expanding the search for petroleum alternatives with a deal to make fuels from non-food plant feedstocks. [read more]

Biofuels and climate: a simple but troubling view

March 14, 2012 by John DeCicco
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If biofuels benefit the climate, it's not when they're burned; those CO2 emissions are the same as from the fossil fuels they replace. Any potential benefit is due to the CO2 uptake when plants are grown. [read more]

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Defense Department Releases Roadmap to Transform Energy Use in Military Operations

March 13, 2012 by Jeff Voth
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The Defense Department recently released its widely anticipated roadmap to transform operational energy security. Energy security has become a strategic as well as an operational imperative for U.S. national security. [read more]

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Is Wall Street Really Driving Up Gas Prices?

March 8, 2012 by Devon Bass
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People want to know what has been driving the price of gas recently. [read more]

Boosting the economy with biobased products

February 22, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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US producers of bio-based products will be happy to know that President Obama signed a presidential memo yesterday that requires the federal government via the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) BioPreferred Program to track and increase its purchases of products made from plants and other renewable agricultural materials. The... [read more]

Biofuels Retrospective: What Lessons Apply to Future Due Diligence?

February 21, 2012 by Gerry Runte
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And now for something completely different…  Last week I gave a presentation at Renewable Energy World 2012 as a member of a panel entitled “Biomass Due Diligence: How Your Project Can Learn from Failure to Better Ensure Success.”  I provided the following retrospective on the biofuels experience and a few recommendations on... [read more]

Biofuels: Value vs. Volume

February 14, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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I was only partially surprised to read in MIT's Technology Review that Amyris, a biotechnology company developing renewable diesel and jet fuel from sugar cane, was backing away from the biofuel market to pursue more lucrative products. Fuels are a highly competitive, low-margin business, and it's hard enough to make money refining them... [read more]

Cockroach Fuel Cell: Our New Energy Frontier?

February 9, 2012 by Nino Marchetti
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As if we didn’t have enough phobias about creepy crawly cockroaches, now they’re generating energy thanks to scientist Daniel Scherson and his colleagues. No, this is not preparation for a sci-fi movie where cockroach robots build a new society; it’s a quest for renewable energy wherever it may be. [read more]