Renewable fuel from vehicle exhaust: Oak Ridge’s catalytic breakthrough
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory have come up with a highly-efficient process to make liquid fuels directly from carbon dioxide and water.
Because burning...
Will the Lemonade Stand Era end in renewable fuels, sooner, later, ever?
A few weeks ago on the Digest’s tiny home island of Key Biscayne, we saw something along our one main boulevard not seen in...
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In: Anellotech, Edeniq, Novvi
The old Christmas carol goes, “I saw three ships come sailing in,” and those perched on a widow’s walk this morning might have espied...
Fantastic 5: US States getting it done, making biobased happen
Any way you look at the US 2016 presidential elections or the turmoil within the European Union (e.g Brexit, or Italy’s referendum on membership),...
Indian Oil’s landmark project for fuels+, from refinery waste CO2: The partner? It’s LanzaTech
In Turkey, at the World Petroleum Congress, India’s flagship national oil company Indian Oil Corporation and carbon recycler LanzaTech unveiled a Statement of Intent...
The Nitrogen Engine: Ricardo spins out company to commercialize game-changing engine tech
In the UK, Ricardo has unveiled its CryoPower engine technology and points towards a potential saving of approximately 30 percent in CO2 emissions and...
Podesta, Putin, Trump, Gingrich, and Joule: WikiLeaks and the inside true story
If you’ve been following the Sunday news programs in the past week, or breathless reporting in the Wall Street Journal (“John Podesta and the...
Global Bioenergies completes construction of German demo-scale plant
In Germany, Global Bioenergies has completed construction of its 100 tons/year demonstration-scale plant, a project which commenced in mid-2015.
It is located in the facility owned...
Chief Pilot: the ABPDU, where the elite meet to defeat petroleum
Every airline has pilots, but then there’s the Chief Pilot, and in the advanced bioeconomy the chief pilot is known by the ungainly acronym...
$2.25 per gallon biohydrocarbon fuels, unsubsidized? Biozin licenses IH2 Technology — heads for commercial-scale...
In Texas, CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company has awarded an FEL-2 license agreement for the IH2 technology which converts biomass to liquid transportation fuels, to Biozin...