Paris 2011: Honeywell Record Flight Brings Biofuel to the Paris Air Show. Honeywell made history here in Paris on Saturday morning, landing its Gulf stream G450 jet at Le Bourget after the first transatlantic flight using biofuel. The trip’s green credentials can be measured in the 5.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) saved in the course of the seven-hour flight from the New York-area Morristown Airport.
http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/paris-2011-honeywell-record-flight-brings-biofuel-to-the-paris-air-show-30097/
Biofuels Turning Trash Into Treasure Biofuels are fuels made from recently living organisms. They can be divided into three categories:· First-generation biofuels are made largely from edible sugars and starches.· Second-generation biofuels are made from no edible plant materials.· Third-generation biofuels are made from algae and other microbes. Chevron is active in all three biofuel categories. We are a major buyer and blender of first-generation biofuels, primarily ethanol. Almost aloof the gasoline Chevron sells in the United States contains ethanol. We also conduct research on second- and third-generation biofuels, which we refer to as "advanced." Advanced biofuels could play an important role in diversifying the world's energy supplies and curbing greenhouse gas emissions. What Are the Benefits? Biofuels are renewable, meaning their sources can be redrawn. Advanced biofuels can offer environmental benefits such as lower carbon emissions and lower sulfur compared with first-generation biofuels and conventional petroleum-based fuels
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Sweet on Second-Gen Biofuel IPO’s But a Few Caveats Remain Florida, USA -- Second-generation biofuel IPO’s are all the rage this year with recent deals pricing well above initial expectations and a growing number of companies expected to tap the capital markets in coming months. But analysts caution some of these companies will have a hard time wooing investor interest unless they become more transparent about their accounts and future path to profitability.” None of these companies will be earning much any time soon so investors want to see clarity and visibility about the enterprise story behind the companies," says Stacey Hudson, an analyst with Raymond James. "If they have a strong story and the right technology, there is definitely appetite out there. Investors have become more comfortable and knowledgeable for second-generation biofuel companies.” Certainly, investors have been keen to bankroll the latest IPO’s, sending their post-IPO valuations sharply higher. Late last month, algae-for-biofuels firm Solazyme priced its IPO at $18, the top of the initial price range and saw its shares jump 15% on its trading debut, raising$227m.Rising Value The last two deals before it - Gevo and Amyris - have seen their stock increase 32% and 83% respectively. Others including Codexis,Metabolix and Syntroleum, also performed well, helping the second-generation biofuels sector boost its market capitalization to $3.8bn in the past 14 months. Eager to profit from this momentum, investment banks are scrambling to price deals before market sentiment changes with one senior IPO banker saying his firm is working on at least 18 potential deals. So far, however, the only well-publicized IPO hopefuls include Petroalgae,Ceres, Myriant and Kior. Hudson expects Kior will do well because it has a "strong technology" and uptake partnerships. However, she says Petroalgae, which has been hoping to IPO since last year, may struggle because of "some week elements in its business model."Caroline Taylor, an analyst at the Energy Biosciences Institute in Berkeley, says Ceres could do very well. "I like them very much," she says."They have a practical and economically viable technology to make fuels from crops."
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/06/investors-sweet-on-second-gen-biofuel-ipos-but-a-few-caveats-remain
http://www.solazyme.com/
http://www.petroalgae.com/
I consider corn ethanol to be transitional technologies,
Biofuels will need to be produced largely from high yield non food biomass sources. I also envision advanced biofuels moving.
Well beyond ethanol and diesel to hydrocarbon fuels : renewable crude oil, drop in diesel, gasoline, jet fuels.
http://www.kior.com/ *****
Fuel and other petrochemicals. Through a combination of diverse feedstock and diverse end products, Bio-derived hydrocarbons and alcohols have the potential to replace an entire industry.
Ben Bernanke Power of 2011, Thanks for Stop Quantitative Easing.
Bernanke was born in North Augusta, South Carolina, and was raised in a ranch-style house on East Jefferson Street inDillon, South Carolina. His father Philip was a pharmacist and part-time theater manager, and his mother Edna was an elementary schoolteacher. He is the eldest of three children, having a brother and sister. His younger brother, Seth, is a lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his younger sister, Sharon, is a longtime administrator at Berkley College of Music in Boston.Bernanke was educated at East Elementary, J. V. Martin Junior High, and Dillon High School, where he was class valedictorian and played saxophone in the marching band. Since his high school did not offer calculus, he learned iton his own. Bernanke achieved an SAT score of 1590 out of 1600. Bernanke attended Harvard University,where he lived in Winthrop House and graduated with a B.A. in economics summa cum laude in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. Breakneck met his wife Anna, a schoolteacher, on a blind date. She was a student at Wellesley College, and he was in graduate school at MIT. The Bernankes have two children. They refinanced their Capitol Hill home in late 2009Bernanke taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1979 until 1985, was a visiting professor at New York University and went on to become a tenured professor at Princeton University in the Department of Economics. He chaired that department from 1996 until September 2002, when he went on public service leave. He resigned his position at Princeton July 1, 2005.Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005. In one of his first speeches as a Governor, entitled "Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn't Happen Here," he outlined what has been referred to as the Bernanke Doctrine.
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