azyme (szym), now renamed as TerraVia, says it will no longer focus on its fuels and its industrial businesses, and instead will double down on selling its algae oil to the food and personal care industries, for use in products like cooking oil, protein powders and face lotion.
Along with the new focus, the company has announced a $200 million supply deal to sell algae oil to Unilever for personal care products, and new financing of $28 million from a handful of food-focused investors, like founder and former CEO of Popchips Keith Belling.
With the change in direction, the company’s long time CEO and co-founder Jonathan Wolfson will move to chairman of the board and TerraVia will bring in a new CEO.
The move isn’t a surprising one for Solazyme, as well as any other company that’s been trying to make the next-generation of biofuels in a market filled with rock bottom oil prices, changing sentiment around the benefits of biofuels, and uncertain U.S. government subsidies.
A handful of other companies have taken similar steps, including Amyris and Sapphire Energy. And those are the lucky ones. Many biofuel companies trying to make fuels from waste, garbage, energy crops, and the like, have struggled and gone out of business. Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla invested hundreds of millions of dollars into a dozen firms that have mostly either shut down or changed focus.
Solazyme was once a symbol of the potential of a big win for investors looking to back biofuels. The company raised $125 million in venture funding—from a list of investors including Morgan Stanley, Chevron’s VC arm, and Richard Branson—and held an IPO five years ago, one of the rare exits for a cleantech startup in 2011.
The company appeared to be finally reaching its biofuel goals around 2012. The company had $20 million in grants to build a factory to make biofuels in Illinois and broke ground on a biofuel plant in Brazil through a joint venture with Bunge.
Meanwhile the market for biofuels has soured in recent years. Last year oil prices plunged to $30 per barrel, sending oil and gas companies flailing and cutting budgets and a massive oversupply of cheap oil emerged on the market. It was hard enough for biofuels to compete with oil, when oil prices were high, but when they crash, it’s nearly impossible.
At the same time, the U.S. government’s renewable fuel standards, which mandates blending corn-based biofuel and the next-generation of biofuels into fuel products, has been controversial and mismanaged. The Environmental Protection Agency has been years behind on announcing quotas for biofuel blending.
Solazyme’s stock has collapsed in recent years. The company went public at $18 per share, and went as high as $27.47 soon after, but dropped as low as $1.18 in recent months. On Wednesday the company’s stock slid almost 5% to $2.06 in morning trading.
Its facilities have also been refocused on algae oil for food not fuel.
The company has racked up a deficit of $609.9 million since its inception, including $141.4 million last year. In 2015, Solazyme generated just $46.13 million in revenue and lost $141.45 million, twelve years after it was founded.
Solazyme produces algae oil by taking its engineered algal strains, growing it in closed fermentation tanks, and feeding it sugar. Some other algae oil makers grow their algae in open ponds under natural sunlight.
Euglena, a single-celled microscopic algae, known as Midorimushi in Japanese, is cultivated in a reactor at the Euglena Co. laboratory in the University of Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.I was going to be the "build a permanent home" guy but waited to see if someone else posted something similar. 

What I think is really behind the portability trend is that it allows you to ignore the long-term issues up front. It's a form of procrastination. But it also ignores all the other issues that come along when you go portable. 

To me, a home is a part of the landscape. It's not just about the utilities but about being a part of the land. A house is connected to the land at the end of the day no matter what the foundation is made of or whether it contains wheels and axles. I think it's a huge mistake to start off with the house and skip its relationship to the environment because it is simply avoiding the inevitable. You're going to have to park it long-term eventually and if you're not then it's an RV and not a home.Post Independent Photo/Kelley Cox Garfield County Sheriff deputy Jesse Burris keeps watch along the Colorado River east of No Name after two separate rafting incidents occurred Tuesday morning.
Willie Blanco often carries a long rope in the back of his orange truck when he’s working along the Colorado River. Tuesday that rope would have come in handy.The Glenwood Springs Fire and Garfield County Sheriff’s departments responded to two late morning calls that commercial rafts had flipped on the Colorado River through Glenwood Canyon. Several of the rafts’ crew members had to swim to safety; no one was injured. About 7 p.m., GSFD responded to a third call of a rafting incident, but no details were available at press time.”Many times, when I’m on the bike path, I take a rope with me in case I need to save someone, but today I was on the tractor,” said Blanco, a Colorado Department of Transportation employee who was on the job when the second boat capsized. “In six years, this is the first time I’ve seen an accident. I tried to help the people on the sides of the river.” Blanco was sweeping and trimming grass along the bike path that runs parallel to the river stretch between Grizzly Creek and No Name when he saw a commercial raft stall on a large rock and overturn.
“Two people were in the water, and I saw a lady in the river. She was face-up and she moved, but not very much,” Blanco said. “I wasn’t prepared to see somebody in the river.”Jim Sears, emergency operations commander for the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department, said the incidents did not require professional rescue.”There were people in the water, but they all self-rescued,” Sears said. “They self-rescued the female party. The fire department was there and they did contact her later, and she’s fine.”Pete Bradshaw, public information officer for the GSFD, confirmed that two rafts, including one operated by Nova Guides of Vail, overturned Tuesday morning and that no one was hurt. Nova Guides declined to comment.
“The second boat overturned upriver of No Name. The swimmers were all located by the rafting company.” he said. “The female did not suffer injuries.”Bradshaw said the river running through Glenwood Canyon was busy coming off the Fourth of July holiday weekend. While not running at peak flow level, the Shoshone section of the Colorado River near Dotsero remained around 3,700 cubic feet per second Tuesday. The river peaked at more than 7,200 cfs earlier this season.”There were a lot of people on the river today. The water has remained pretty high – higher than we’ve seen in years,” he said.Blanco said he hoped the female swimmer he saw in the water was not hurt.
Yep it's pretty much only VATS that will stop you.

But it's good to have HP Twizlers so you can get rid of all the CEL codes you don't care about (rear O2 sensors, EVAP etc) and be able to trust your check engine light.

You should also be able to dial in your MAF, tweak when PE kicks in and maybe add a little ignition timing for some power gains too.

The factory fan kick-on temperatures are usually higher than I like and can be easily tweaked as well.

The only real downside to the gen 4 vs the gen 3 is the fact that they added so many parameters to the PCM. Can be a bit overwhelming to us home gamers at first. And I guess the removal of DBC functionality means you need to get the DBW TB, controller and pedal all matched up correctly.<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Custom Node Workspace Category Preservation
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