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There is no good news for biofuels, excluding the narrow category of recycling things like cooking oil. The category is trash. Plants are wildly inefficient; we have much better technology for extracting maximum energy from sunlight. The whole thing is just an agribusiness subsidy with countless extra steps.
There IS some good news for renewable combustible fuels. E.g., this recent episode of Volts where the CTO of ET Fuels talked about his company's current deployments (and plans for a big scale up) of off-grid, renewably-powered facilities to produce green e-methanol.
But even the guys who are in this industry don't even entertain the idea that this will ever be a car fuel. They market it as a shipping fuel.
And agribusiness is just three chemical companies in jean overalls masquerading as a "humble farmer".