Category: Top Story
Where does corn play in (Next) Next-Gen Cellulosic Biofuels?
Share 8 billion gallons of new cellulosic biofuels capacity is mandated for 2016-2019 – here’s a sneak peek at corn stover technology that drop the price by 33 percent. With ethanol trading at $2.53 per gallon for the October contract on the Chicago Board of Trade, fans (and stakeholders) of cellulosic ethanol have reason to [...]
Will commodity crops survive?
Share Will the rise of designer fuels, chemicals and biomaterials put an end to crop growing system as we have known it? Will customers vie for differentiation and performance as well as price? A new sorghum deal between Constellation Energy and Chromatin may point the way. Earlier this week in California, Constellation Energy and Chromatin [...]
Corn prices a “statistically insignificant variable” in driving food price hikes: study
Share In Washington, Informa Economics released a new study (funded by the Renewable Fuels Foundation) entitled “Analysis of Corn, Commodity, and Consumer Food Prices”. Informa concluded that “the statistical evidence does not support a conclusion that there is a strict ‘food-versus-fuel’ tradeoff that is automatically driving consumer food prices higher.” The new study found that [...]
Gevo, Amyris, KiOR – as the Khosla Kids mature, scale, differentiate, who’s on top?
Share On the road from Pilot to Player, three Khosla companies have gone far and fast – but now, the differentiating points become clearer. Who’s better now? They share Khosla Ventures in their DNA, and are next-gen companies – but there, the similarities begin to fade. KiOR – making biocrude from woody biomass. Gevo, making [...]
Son of Billion Ton: The 10-minute version
Share Does the 180 page Billion Ton Study update have you caught between a “must-read” rock and a “no-time” hard place? Try our 10 minute version of the landmark biomass report. In Tennessee, a research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory projected that the US would have between 1.1 and 1.6 billion tons of [...]
Syngenta files suit against Bunge over corn trait
Share In Minnesota, Syngenta filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa against Bunge North America, alleging that Bunge is attempting to block the legal merchandising of the Agrisure Viptera trait The trait provides control of 14 insects including corn borer, corn rootworm and the multi-pest complex, a collection of [...]
Market access will save US from $4 gasoline, says FuelChoiceNow
Share Why can’t Americans get high-tech, low-cost fuels in an era of $4 gasoline? A new group called FuelChoiceNow has the reasons, and some answers. In Washington, a coalition called FuelChoiceNow has opened for business one worth taking a very, very close look at. The pitch: that advanced fuel companies are developing new, affordable and [...]
