A Sugar Fix: Proterro, Biofuels and Affordable, Renewable Sugars
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Why is making affordable renewable sugars potentially big business? Which intrepid investors have targeted biofuels’ biggest bottleneck?
News has been circulating that Proterro raised $3.5 million for a demonstration-scale of their renewable sugars technology, and secured a key patent allowance for their bioreactor system and microorganism. Giving us a good opportunity to review how Proterro, in making sugars, is different from companies like Renmatix and BlueFire that are extracting sugars. Why the development of low-cost sugars is critical to key advanced biofuels and biobased technologies.
And what solid-phase bioreactors are all about, and why it’s a trend to watch in bioreactor design. READ MORE