Biobutanol Firms Chart Diverging Paths For years, industrial biotech companies have sought to make renewable chemicals by repurposing the corn fermentation capabilities of underutilized fuel ethanol plants. As recent news from two firms ...
Researchers make key advance toward production of important biofuel An international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable manufacture of biobutanol, an alcohol whose strong potential as a fuel for gasoline-powered engines ...
Scotland fuels car with biobutanol derived from whiskey production Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes ...
DuPont bets on billion-dollar ethanol industry Scientists at the DuPont Experimental Station have developed a new fuel that could soon replace ethanol at gas pumps and bring in billions of dollars. And now, with a patent dispute settled, DuPont ...
Gevo alternative fuel gets endorsement; stock rises Gevo's biobutanol fuel blends deemed "safe and viable" by boating industry trade group. Alternative fuel company Gevo Inc. got some good news yesterday when a boating industry trade group endorsed the ...
Richard Branson’s Renewable Fuel, Butanol, Prepares for U.S. Debut Butanol is a renewable biofuel that is set to debut at U.S. pumps next year, and hopes to challenge ethanol's dominance of the $26 billion market. Just as with ethanol it can be produced from corn or ...
Biobutanol firm to shift to ethanol in short-term SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A next-generation biofuels company says it's suspending plans to produce isobutanol from corn at its Minnesota plant and will instead make ethanol in the near term while it ...
Corn's second act: biobutanol There is more corn grown in the United States used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed. Yet, ethanol arguably has a demand constraint: the so-called "blend wall," and government ...
U.S. Navy To Test Jet Fuel From Biobutanol The U.S. Navy plans to test renewable jet fuel derived from butanol produced from biomass. The biobutanol is being produced by Cobalt Technologies, which has partnered with chemicals company Albemarle ...
Biobutanol: The Aviation Fuel Of The Future? A close chemical relative of the fuel in butane cigarette lighters may be what helps keep air travel viable in a post-petroleum world. As affordable petroleum becomes scarcer, it’s easy to imagine ...
Cobalt Technologies gets $25m to increase biobutanol production When thinking of biofuels, the usual suspects that pop up first are probably ethanol and biodiesel. That’s not to say, though, that these two are the only biofuels. There’s another non-petroleum fuel ...
Cobalt, American Process ramp up biobutanol production Green technologies such as biofuels are great, but if they can't scale -- technically and economically -- they're dead in the water. The companies plan to build the world's first industrial-scale ...