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Tag Archives: Biofuel Technology
Check out the BIO Roundtable on Biofuel Life Cycle Analyses Under the Renewable Fuel Standard
Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Section, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO); Bruce Dale, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center; Brian Davison, Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the BioEnergy Science Center; Keith Cole, Director of Legislative & Regulatory Affairs, General Motors (GM); and Michael Parr, Senior Manager Government Affairs, DuPont discuss possible impacts on the industry of the EPA’s Read More >
Scientists Call for EPA to Delay Rulemaking Process
In a letter submitted yesterday to Stephen Johnson, the Administrator of the EPA seven leading scientists called for a delay in the planned October 31st rulemaking citing several concerns, among them, “Of particular concern is that the EPA appears to be relying heavily on the February 2008 paper concerning potential land use change impacts authored by Searchinger et al. (Science, 319, 1238-40, 2008). We belive this would be a grave error.” In addition to the Read More >
Don't Rush to Judgment
In 1953 Linus Pauling and Robert Corey published their structure of DNA, 3 strands twisted around each other. Shortly after that James Watson and Francis Crick published the correct structure of DNA, the one on which the biotechnology industry is built.That is the way science goes. Scientists make discoveries, publish their work, and others come along to either support or dispute those discoveries. Imagine if we had just rushed to judgment back then and gone Read More >
Life Cycle Analysis, International Land Use Change and Uncertainty
Bruce Dale, University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University, shared this presentation that he gave during a webinar hosted by the North Central Bioeconomy Consortium. In it, he highlights the number of factors in Life Cycle Analysis and Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) models that produce uncertainty – in other words, if the assumptions or data for these factors change, how much do the results change. Dale is primarily examining the “carbon Read More >
2008 is a Good Year for Algae
And we’re not just talking about sushi here. According to Greentech Media 2008 has been a banner year for venture capital financing of algae based biofuel companies. $179.5 million to date, according to numbers from the Cleantech Group. That compares with what appears to be about $32 million raised last year, based on a Cleantech Group chart of quarterly totals that doesn’t list the actual numbers And, elsewhere in the blogosphere algae biofuels are getting Read More >
