Cobalt Biofuels

January 12, 2010

"Cobalt shows us that what is good for the environment can also be good for the economy."

- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Televised Media Coverage

January 12, 2010

Video: NBC Coverage of Governor Schwarzenegger's Visit to Cobalt

Video Overview:
California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a plan to create new jobs and he picked the Silicon Valley startup Cobalt Biofuels who makes a cheaper alternative to gas as a prime example of growth. Cobalt is ready to build a new facility which will employ 1,300 people and the Governor says that is what his new job creation initiative hopes to encourage.
January 12, 2010

Video: CBS Coverage of Governor Schwarzenegger's Visit to Cobalt

Video Overview:
While promoting his California jobs initiative, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made a stop in Mountain View to tour the facility of Cobalt Biofuels, a 3 year old green tech company that is producing the next generation of Biofuel. The Governor says his plan will create or retain at least 100,000 jobs. Cobalt is planning to build a new facility that will create 1,300 jobs.

Additional Media Coverage

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Car Fuel for $1.40 a Gallon?

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

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.

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.