MIT Technology Review - Sundrop Fuels en A New Strategy for Advanced Biofuels: Drop the Advanced Technology <p>Sundrop will use off-the-shelf equipment instead of its concentrated solar technology.</p><p>Sundrop Fuels, a startup based in Longmont, Colorado, says it has found a way to break into the notoriously difficult advanced biofuels business: it’s putting its advanced technology on hold for now, and instead building a plant for converting wood chips into gasoline. The plant will use largely off-the-shelf technology, making it easier to get loans. It’s also planning to reduce costs by using cheap natural gas to generate the high temperatures needed in the plant, rather than using concentrated sunlight, as it had originally planned. </p> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 428194 at Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight <p>A solar-driven process could yield far more fuel than conventional biomass production.</p><p><a href="" target="_blank">Sundrop Fuels</a>, a startup based in Louisville, CO, says it has developed a cleaner and more efficient way to turn biomass into synthetic fuels by harnessing the intense heat of the sun to vaporize wood and crop waste. Its process can produce twice the amount of gasoline or diesel per ton of biomass compared to conventional biomass gasification systems, the company claims.</p> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 417947 at