Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
So Exxon announced a $600 million investment in algae biofuels today. The company reported profits over $45 billion last year, and this investment will be spread out over 5 or 6 years. Furthermore, half of it will go for in...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The perennial question about cellulosic biofuels has been will they always be 5 years in the future. I've written about how there has been an explosion in private sector efforts to develop a wide range of technologies to convert biomass...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The great news of the day is that the House passed it's comprehensive energy bill. Here's NRDC's official press release. As noted in our release, the renewable fuel standard in the bill is a big change in our approach to...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I was surprised to learn that E3 Biofuels in Mead Nebraska filed for bankruptcy back at the end of November. I had been watching the project as a potentially great example of how to maximize the benefits of ethanol from...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I spent yesterday and today at the Future Fuels conference in DC, where I'll be giving this presentation (2.5MB file) shortly. There are some other interesting presentations here, that I believe will be on the conference web site soon. I'll...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Cai Steger, our former summer business fellow extraordinaire, sent me an email recently positing a set of year and cleantech pairings. As he put it: It certainly seems as though the last few years, one specific technology has captured the...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Partly inspired by the chance to use "ping-pong" and "pop" in a title, and partly because I've already speculated cleantech investing as a whole could suffer if ethanol's fortunes fall too far too fast, I've been thinking about investment bubbles today. A...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Over the weekend there was a spat of articles about slumping ethanol prices and the end to boom days in the ethanol industry (WSJ subscription required). As the articles point out, the slump is caused by explosive growth in production capacity...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
One result of writing this blog is that I've learned about a number of blogs out there that, day after day, offer some great commentary on developments in my field. I want to share what I've found. My blogger colleagues...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Xconomy reported earlier this week that algae feedstock developer, GreenFuel Technologies has secured a $5.5 million dollar bridge loan to carry the company through the end of the year and their next round of financing. Interestingly, the post also quotes the...continued→
