Cobalt Biofuels

January 2010

January 25, 2010

Governor touts jobs plan at new biofuel plant

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used the opening of a new biofuel plant in Mountain View Tuesday to pitch his plan for keeping and creating jobs, saying California can't afford to lose its burgeoning green-tech industry to other states.

January 25, 2010

Cobalt Technologies Launches Biobutanol Pilot Facility in California

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production for commercially viable renewable fuels and chemicals, formally its pilot facility in Mountain View, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand.

January 25, 2010

Ethanol alternative gains ground with new plant

Fuel tech start-up Cobalt Biofuels launched a California plant on Tuesday that will produce biobutanol from forestry byproducts.

January 25, 2010

Governor visits Mountain View startup to tout green jobs plan

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a visit Tuesday to the Mountain View clean energy startup Cobalt Biofuels to tout a proposed sales tax exemption on the purchase of green manufacturing equipment.

January 25, 2010

Cobalt Biofuels Launches Plant, Biobutanol The Next Thing?

This morning Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Cobalt Biofuels, which produces biobutanol, opened up its first pilot plant for a tour by Arnold Schwarzenegger, followed by a press conference that featured the California governor, Silicon Valley heavyweights from local trade groups and other local clean power startups that have set up manufacturing in the state.

January 25, 2010

Car Fuel for $1.40 a Gallon?

It’s all how you cook it, says Cobalt Biofuels.

January 25, 2010

A butaful fuel: Schwarzenegger launches Cobalt’s biobutanol pilot; rapid commercialization, green chemicals in focus

“Cobalt’s development of biobutanol as a replacement for petroleum and petrochemicals meets the Low Carbon Fuel Standard challenge and is proof that California is the global dynamo for clean technology,” Gov. Schwarzenegger said in a ribbon cutting ceremony.

January 25, 2010

Biobutanol Firm Aims to Compete With Ethanol in 4 Years

California startup Cobalt Technologies is the latest in a growing number of biofuel ventures banking on biobutanol as an attractive ethanol alternative.

January 12, 2010

California Governor Launches Cobalt Technologies Low Carbon Fuel Plant

Cobalt Technologies, the leader in commercializing biobutanol as a renewable fuel and chemical, today formally launched its first facility. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand, demonstrating the importance of clean technology to the state’s future economic vitality.