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Biofuels executives increasingly bullish for industry growth in 2011
January 12th, 2011
Biofuels Digest reports that 80 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic both about their organization’s prospects for growth and industry growth, than 12 months ago, and that confidence about industry growth prospects has jumped 11 percentage points in the past quarter.
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The New Economics of Next-Gen Gasification: ClearFuels Technology
January 12th, 2011
Those who have been drilled in Santayana’s dictum: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and who take an interest in the history of engineering will not need a reminder that the problems of high cost and fuel yield plagued the development of the steam engine. Just as they have plagued the development of affordable Fischer-Tropsch and other thermal and catalytic conversion technologies for biofuels.
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Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2011
January 12th, 2011
#10. USDA Loan Guarantees
Well, this one is a little like shooting fish in a barrel, because we expect this to be announced almost immediately, and close by the first quarter. We expect up to four loan guarantees – USDA originally wanted six by January 1, 2011 – to close in the first quarter, before the US Congress can swipe the money away from the program. We expect to see a lot of added loan guarantees financed not only by the project finance market, but the bond market.
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The big price build-up: are you ready?
January 12th, 2011
The US economy is just now showing signs of revival, and already we are seeing signs of runaway oil and grain prices that may bring unwanted inflation and dangerous instability hardly before the recovery has had a chance to add jobs.
I used to have a car like this – an old Mustang – that at end of life could hardly get running before it was overheating. It was easier to trade in the car than trade in the economy, but what are we all to do? How are we to prepare? And, now that the global biofuels industry has soared to more than $50 billion in annual revenues and is a lot more than just a niche industry, how should the industry respond.
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Algae: 10 Superstars with Strategies for Success
January 12th, 2011
From the low points like the closure of the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Aquatic Species Program to highs like 2009′s “Summer of Algae”, aquatic organisms from cyanobacteria to macroalgae have maintained a hold over the imagination of a large cheering section of the biofuels industry, and indeed, the world.
Lately, relentless television advertising from ExxonMobil, touting its cyanobacteria-based R&D partnership with Synthetic Genomics, has continued to drive home the message of the promise of algae.
The promise can be summed up in one word: yield. While terrestrial biofuels ventures have no more than 2,000 per acre yields – and most sugarcane ethanol venture gallonage per acre measures in the mid 600s, corn in the 400s. and soybeans in the 60s – algae has the promise of taking yields up to 5,000 gallons per acre – even 10,000 gallons per acre. It’s Moore’s Law wrapped up in a one-celled organism.
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