Biofuels developers get a taste for waste
Yesterday’s story on the partnership between Solena and Qantas — which will investigate the prospects for a waste-based Fischer-Tropsch processing plant in Australia to produce aviation jet fuel —...
View ArticleAlitalia signs with Solena for MSW-to-aviation fuels project
In Italy, Alitalia has signed a deal with Solena—who is currently developing a biojet project with British Airways—to explore transforming MSW into biojet using the Fischer-Tropsch process. A location...
View ArticleUK-NY in one hour in algae-powered rocket plane: Paris Air Show
Rendering of ZEHST algae-powered plane that will achieve speeds of greater than Mach 4 Paris when it Sizzles: EADS announces algae-powered, Mach 4-hurtling ZEHST rocket plane at Paris Air Show; nine...
View ArticleSolena Fuels sets biojet facility construction plan in motion
In California, Solena Fuels expects to put in its planning application with the City of Gilroy for construction of its first biojet facility sometime within the coming year. The company says it still...
View ArticlePhase Shift: 12 Hot Gas-based biofuels technologies
Jumpin’ Jack Flash! It’s a gas, gas, gas! New technologies bring gases into the vanguard of advanced biofuels feedstocks. In traditional biofuels, the story to date been all about solids and liquids –...
View ArticleSolena, SAS partner for aviation biofuels project at Stockholm Airport
Solena and SAS announced a partnership to develop a waste-to-jet fuel project at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, with a goal of establishing similar projects in Denmark and Norway. The Arlanda project...
View ArticleUp, up and away: aviation biofuels players start building capacity
Great Scott! Look up in the Sky! There hasn’t been a hotter sector in biofuels demand than aviation. Now, flight tests and fuel development has given way to real capacity building. Who’s in the lead to...
View ArticleOn the move in the bioeconomy: Elevance, Heliae, Solena, LeSage, VecoPlan
In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has hired Robert “Bob” Kumpf as the company’s CTO. Prior to joining Elevance, Kumpf served as Chief Operating Officer at Plextronics and...
View ArticleBritish Airways drops Solena project after failure to raise funds to build plant
In the UK, Solena’s project to develop a MSW-to-aviation biofuel facility in conjunction with British Airways has been dropped due to the company’s failure to raise the necessary investment to build...
View ArticleBA partly blames lack of UK government support for Solena failure
In the UK, British Airways partly blames lack of government support for having to scupper its Green Sky project with Solena to produce 16 million gallons of aviation biofuel annually from London’s MSW...
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