By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest What Can You Do to Expand Access to Development Capital? A lot. It is neither too late nor too early to begin advocating for federal financing to expedite the development and deployment of projects that will […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest There’s good news and bad news about the climate crisis. The good news is that virtually every technology that can mitigate the climate crisis and avert its worst impacts already is under development or being commercialized. […]
By David Peterson, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Daily Digest When an industry faces significant challenges, which all industries will at some time, quite often the responses not only influence short-term achievements but may also influence the trajectory of the industry, and quite possibly the very survival of the industry. The pulp and paper […]
The DOE’s goals are >54% upgradable products from Lignin by 2030, including an emphasis on Deconstruction and depolymerization, conversion of lignin oils to liquid fuels, opportunities for lignin to SAF, and valorization of lignin-derived monomers to high value products Biological Lignin Valorization. BETO technology managers Beau Hoffman and Lisa Guay presented these slides at DOE’s […]
High-value chemicals and materials have the clearest near-term path to market; accordingly, the program is encouraged to increase its focus on ancillary technologies for producing high-value chemicals alongside core technologies that focus on producing high-volume fuels. Yet, catalyst stability remains problematic across the entire portfolio, and challenges presented by deactivation are likely to increase as […]
The Agile BioFoundry is a consortium of seven U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories that operate as a distributed biofoundry in collaboration with industry and academia. They partner with the biomanufacturing industry to accelerate bioproduct development. Advancing biomanufacturing across the public and private sectors. Here, BETO Conversion Technology Manager Gayle Bentley gave this overview […]
You may recall, about the time the Digest was founded back in 2007, a multi-national product scandal that erupted when it turned out that a shipment of colorful set of children’s’ design beads, called Bindeez, was improperly made from 1,4 butanediol instead of the non-toxic plasticizer known as 1,5 pentanediol. Sounds like a harmless swap? […]
The REenergize webcast series returned to the airwaves again this past week and first presenter was ABLC veteran and DMC Bio’s CEO and co-founder, Matt Lipscomb, with this cogent and comprehensive update on efficiently developing and deploying fermentation process. Here we learned about sustainably produced bio-based chemicals that are Made to Scale, as the DMC […]
This past spring on the ABLC stage, a parade of senior US government officials — led by Arati Prabhakar, Science Advisor to the President, and including representatives from USDA, DOE, Defense, Commerce, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation — unveiled the Biden Administration’s Bold Goals for the deployment of the bioeconomy […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). If we seek to make the carbon we need from the carbon we have, what do we have? […]
