- Biofuels Research and Development Initiatives – Feedstock Development
This US multi-government department and agency group commissioned an overview of efforts aimed at producing more and better feedstocks with higher yield and faster payback. (more…)
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Friday, March 5th, 2010Posted in Agriculture, BioPower Generation, Bioenergy, Biofuel Policy & Regulation, Biorefineries, Forestry and Pulp, Future feedstocks, Jatropha, Next Generation Fuels | Comments Off
The “new jatropha”: SG Biofuels partners with Life Technologies to accelerate new cultivar development by 60 percent; product line this year, says CEO
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010In California, jatropha pioneer SG Biofuels announced a strategic alliance with Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, to advance the development of Jatropha as a sustainable biofuel. (more…)
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Benjamins for Biofuels: Who’s Getting Money Now, How
Friday, October 16th, 20091. Cheap sugar, baby.
Many strategies have been mooted, but one perennial is still popular. Have the cheapest way to make a load of sugar. Simple sugars are the new gold: if you can make it fast enough and cheap enough, customers and their own financing backers will beat a path to your door.
Sometimes, though, you can just be the biggest, baddest sugar project in a local market, even if your technology is not quite ready for the 22nd century. This Philippine project went down just such a road, obtaining $30 million in equity from Itochu and others.
Posted in Algae, BioPower Generation, Bioenergy, Biofuels General, Cellulosic Ethanol, Diesel, Ethanol, Jatropha, Next Generation Fuels | Comments Off
Who’s Your Daddy? A special report on biofuels investors and investment
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its list of current investors backing the Hottest 20 Companies in Bioenergy. (Note: The Hottest 50 companies in Bioenergy rankings for 2008-09 were released last December).
Overall, of the top 20 companies, two were privately held by individual private investors (POET and Aquaflow Bionomic), two are public (BlueFireEthanol and Novozymes), five are subsidiaries or joint ventures of major industrial firms (DuPont Danisco, Iogen, UOP, Petrobras Biocombutives, and AbengoaEnergy), and 11 are backed by venture capital.
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