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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon Recycling 

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon Recycling 

January 31, 2025 |

This is a presentation given by Lotte Rosenberg, CEO of Carbon Recycling International (CRI), at the ABLC San Francisco conference in October 2024. It highlights CRI’s role in decarbonizing transportation through their innovative technology that transforms captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into sustainable methanol. The presentation showcases CRI’s global leadership with multiple plants in operation and […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Virtual Institute of Feedstocks of the Future

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Virtual Institute of Feedstocks of the Future

January 26, 2025 |

This presentation deck outlines the Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF), a collaborative initiative funded by the Schmidt Sciences philanthropy and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR). The initiative aims to accelerate the development and use of underutilized biomass as alternative feedstocks for biomanufacturing. VIFF’s mission is achieved through five research […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the BioFuture Campaign

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the BioFuture Campaign

January 19, 2025 |

This presentation deck outlines the Biofuture Campaign’s strategy to promote sustainable fuels and chemicals (SFC) on a global scale. The campaign, spearheaded by the Molecule Group, aims to integrate SFC technologies into international policy frameworks like the G7, G20, and Clean Energy Ministerial. The presentation deck highlights key milestones, such as the G20 Energy Ministers’ […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Corn to Chemicals Summit

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Corn to Chemicals Summit

January 12, 2025 |

This presentation deck details the proceedings of the 2024 Corn to Chemicals Summit, highlighting efforts to increase demand for corn by exploring new uses beyond traditional applications like ethanol, feed, and export. The summit features the Radicle Challenge, a $1.5 million investment competition seeking innovative technologies and business models to create sustainable, long-term demand for […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas upgrading opportunities

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas upgrading opportunities

January 4, 2025 |

This is a presentation about the economic evaluation of biogas upgrading opportunities. The presentation, by Michael Long of Long Thermochemical, outlines a process for identifying and analyzing potential biogas upgrading opportunities for businesses. The core of this process involves understanding a client’s existing operations and identifying potential “additive” or “alternative” biogas upgrading opportunities based on […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SunGas Renewables

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SunGas Renewables

December 27, 2024 |

This presentation deck presents a business proposal for the development and deployment of SunGas’ S1000 technology, a gasification system designed to produce green fuels, primarily methanol, from sustainably managed forest thinnings. The presentation deck emphasizes the S1000’s scalability, efficiency, and environmental benefits, highlighting its potential to reduce carbon emissions by utilizing a negative carbon intensity […]

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US DOE launches $33M funding opportunity for sustainable propane, renewable chemicals and algal system cultivation and preprocessing

US DOE launches $33M funding opportunity for sustainable propane, renewable chemicals and algal system cultivation and preprocessing

December 22, 2024 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced their intent to issue funding to support high-impact research and development (R&D) projects in two priority areas: sustainable propane and renewable chemicals and algal system cultivation and preprocessing. Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals Funding Opportunity The United States is the world’s second largest chemicals […]

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U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization released

U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization released

December 22, 2024 |

In Washington, the US government released The U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, a strategy for cutting all greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector by 2050. The Blueprint was developed by the EPA, along with Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  The Blueprint provides a comprehensive, […]

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RNG Coalition releases new study on industry impact

RNG Coalition releases new study on industry impact

December 22, 2024 |

In Washington, the RNG Collation released its Renewable Natural Gas Economic Impact Analysis report, and found that the RNG industry supported over 55,000 jobs and generated $7.2B in GDP in 2024. Of all feedstocks, MSW and agricultural waste projects created the largest economic impacts, and the report also found that Many jobs supported by the […]

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Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing Decarbonization project launches in US to foster sustainable manufacturing

Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing Decarbonization project launches in US to foster sustainable manufacturing

December 22, 2024 |

In Washington, the National Science Foundation has funded the Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing Decarbonization, or CURB, Engineering Research Center, or ERC, a multi-institutional engineering research center that aims to develop transformative technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and foster sustainable manufacturing practices. The $26 million project is led by Washington University in St. Louis. The […]

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