studies and reports
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Russia in Bio Movement
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The blog is wondering what’s the potential market for bio-based products and chemicals in Russia given that DSM and Purac just separately announced bio-based activities within the region. Dutch biobased chemicals firm Purac briefly stated that it has signed a cooperation agreement with technology firm ROTEC, a subsidiary of private Russian financial firm RENOVA Group,…
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Algae 2013 Survey
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The Algae Biomass Organization recently released its 2013 industry survey conducted in January where more than 470 people within the algae industry submitted their opinions and projections on the industry’s growth, barriers to advancement and policy priorities through 2020. According to the survey, respondents this year more optimistic that algae fuels will be price competitive…
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From Pike Research: Green Garbage
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Pike Research’s Mackinnon Lawrence estimates the theoretical potential for biofuels production from global waste to be around 35bn gal/year today. This would more than double current production of biofuels worldwide while extracting untapped value from nearly 1.5 billion tons of waste. Garbage (or, as the industry refers to it, municipal solid waste, or MSW), is a rising…
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What are the real costs of biofuels?
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Hi folks. Sorry for the sparse blog posts as I’ve been traveling these past few days, one for possible employment position, and today, I am currently at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for tomorrow’s Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop. I will be doing a live blog for this event so this should be exciting as it’s been a while…