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In a recent poll, Digest readers identified "waste biomass" as the hottest feedstock - and companies using agricultural, forest, animal and municipal residues have been receiving much support in the "50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy" voting, underway this week. Before

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All this week, subscribers are casting their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST. To

GEM BiofuelsBased in: Madagascar2008-09 ranking: 47Business: GEM BioFuels is initially focusing on the establishment of 'company managed' plantations of Jatropha trees in Madagascar and the extraction of the vegetable oil that is produced from its seeds as this oil is

Verenium executive vice-president William Baum: "We've got hundreds of biofuel companies that are trying to get to the next stage. If you don't have a big brother with deep pockets, like a BP, Exxon, Shell, or a Chevron, it's going

In New Zealand, Minister of Energy Hon Gerry Brownlee opened a wastewater algae to bio-crude oil demonstration project. The project combines NIWA's scientific expertise on advanced wastewater treatment and algal production pond technology with Solray's bio-crude oil conversion technology and

In Nigeria, the Cassava Growers Association signed a $371 million, 8 million metric ton supply contract with Cassava Agro Industries Services. The Cassava Agro project will supply ethanol for home cooking, lighting and power generation for 4 million families, via

In Brazil, the biofuels arm of Petrobras acquired a 50 percent stake in the BSBIOS biodiesel plant in Parana. The project is expected to open with a30 Mgy capacity in Q2 2010. With this acquisition, Petrobras has four biodiesel plants

A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science. The corn genome is a hodgepodge of some 32,000 genes crammed