Oil from algae and the biomass from the green microbes could be the future for advanced biofuels… that word from a top U.S. Department of Energy official. Biomass Magazine reports that ValerieReed of the U.S. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy said at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy held [...]
Elsewhere in today’s Digest, comments from Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson and the DOE’s ValerieReed confirm an increasingly laser-like focus on renewable aviation fuels from the advanced biofuels community. Here are some developments in renewable, drop-in aviation fuels from biomass also highly worth noting. US Air Force The Air Force has announced that it will construct a...
ValerieReed, DOE-EERE: “The agency intends to develop advanced biofuels—hydrocarbons and other high-density fuels that can be drop in replacements for diesel and gasoline—in a more accelerated fashion than cellulosic ethanol. We learned a lot over the past 20 years, and we believe we can apply that to a faster deployment phase. Biomass-based liquid transportation [...]...
Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy hosted a webinar to discuss U.S. and Canadian government efforts to support commercial development of algae for biofuels, chemicals, pharmaceutical and food ingredients, and the long list of applications being considered. ValerieReed of the U.S. Department of Energy, noted that the U.S. Economic Recovery Act provided [...]...
Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
BIO will host three webinars from the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in Honolulu, featuring companies, researchers, and policy makers at the forefront of efforts to commercialize algae applications, cellulosic biofuels, and renewable chemicals. 1.International Developments in Algae Commercialization ValerieReed, U.S. Department of Energy; Patrick McGinn,...