This column originally appeared in Forbes.
Dexter Roberts wrote recently in BusinessWeek that more than Meanwhile executives at nearly a hundred multinationals recently told my firm that their biggest challenge for growth is recruiting and retaining talent. At more than one-third of the big businesses we talked to they said their annual employee turnover is [...]
Joule Unlimited: ‘Fuel from thin air’ comes closer, clearer
ShareIn Massachusetts, the secretive Joule Unlimited (then known as Joule Biotechnologies) emerged late last year from “stealth mode” with the startling announcement that their technology could produce up to 15,000 gallons per acre of drop-in hydrocarbon fuels, using only sunlight, CO2 and (fresh, brackish or saline) [...]
LS9 reports one-step sugar-to-diesel conversion
Drop-in fuels one step closer to parity with fossil fuels
In California, LS9 announced a major scientific breakthrough that will significantly lower the cost of producing “drop-in” hydrocarbon fuels. This breakthrough has allowed LS9 to accelerate its technology and demonstrate alkane production at pilot scale.
The discovery
In the article “Microbial Biosynthesis of [...]
25 Million Acres of Corn with nowhere to go?
Changes in bioenergy mix, corn productivity point to massive oversupply of acreage by 2030.
Buried inside the USDA’s Biofuels Strategic Production Report is a startling prediction from both EPA and USDA: if the Renewable Fuel Standard targets are to be met by 2022, there will be a wholesale [...]
Technology: Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with highly engineered photo synthetic organisms, which are designed to secrete ethanol, diesel or other products.
However, unlike algae and other current biomass-derived fuels, the Helioculture process does not produce biomass, requires no agricultural feedstock and minimizes land and water use. It is also direct-to-product, so there is [...]
The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years.
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Fuel from Thin Air
Joule Biotechnologies achieves conversion of CO2, sunlight into hydrocarbons – no biomass, no extraction, no kidding
In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with [...]
Segway creator unveils his next act
Inventor Dean Kamen wants to put entrepreneurs to work bringing water and electricity to the world’s poor.
By Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-large
February 16, 2006: 2:06 PM EST
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San Francisco (Business 2.0) – Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over [...]
MHG launches free Web-based biomass moisture calculator
Posted July 9, 2009, at 1:03 p.m. CST
Finland-based MHG Systems has launched a free calculator service on its Web site. This calculator reveals how the moisture level of biomass affects the profitability of the biofuel business. The service has been designed during several different projects and in cooperation with [...]