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Can Biofuels Companies Survive By Teaming Up?
May 27Bluefire Ethanol has announced that it is partnering with Solazyme to pair its acid hydrolysis technology for producing fermentable sugars from biomass with Solazyme’s algae-based fuel production process. This is an interesting partnership. Solazyme wins only if fermentable sugars are cheaper this way. Bluefire wins if Solazyme can produce fuel at lower cost than Bluefire. Or is Bluefire acknowledging that it lacks a competitive ethanol production method, and is simply trying to create value from its biomass pre-treatment method?
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