Author Archive: Jim Lane

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The Road to Lumberton

The Road to Lumberton

April 17, 2023 |

For many years I knew that when we saw the first signs for Lumberton, when traveling north on Interstate 95, having passed into North Carolina, that it was time to seek the weatern turn onto Highway 74 and make the pilgrimage to Pinehurst, where the pine-scented air and the puzzles of a Donald Ross golf […]

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Sixteen Going on Seventeen: It’s Springtime in the Bioeconomy, where’s Summer?

Sixteen Going on Seventeen: It’s Springtime in the Bioeconomy, where’s Summer?

April 16, 2023 |

The Energy Independence and Security Act is sixteen years old this year, going on seventeen, and when I think the industry that has sprung up to deliver the advanced fuels contemplated by the Bush Administration, I think of the old lyric from The Sound of Music: You are sixteen going on seventeen Baby, it’s time […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

April 13, 2023 |

It’s Friday and you’re ready for the weekend so here’s a short and sweet slide guide from DG Fuels on their second-generation cellulosic biofuel whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and 3% carbon mineralization. DG’s Chris Chaput presented these slides […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Rural Business – Cooperatives Service

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Rural Business – Cooperatives Service

April 12, 2023 |

USDA’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service offers  loan guarantees, grants, and technical assistance support of the bioeconomy and access to capital for Commercialization of emerging technologies; Production of biofuels and renewable chemicals and manufacturing of biobased products; Service, supply, and marketing industries; Infrastructure; and, USDA’s BioPreferred® program supports the marketing of biobased products. USDA RBCS Deputy Administration […]

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Axens acquires stake in BioTFuel renewable fuels project

Axens acquires stake in BioTFuel renewable fuels project

April 12, 2023 |

In France, Axens has acquired a stake in the BioTJet project, which will build and operate the largest European SAF production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process, relying on the BioTfueL technology. This unit will be built in France and will be started up by 2027.  BioTfueL is an advanced biofuel production technology using the thermochemical route, […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Fidelis New Energy & Grön Fuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Fidelis New Energy & Grön Fuels

April 11, 2023 |

Fidelis New Energy  is a decarbonization enterprise developing and operating multiple synergistic infrastructure GigaSystems that generate climate-positive, stable, and predictable EBITDA in the following global growth sectors: Renewable Transport Fuels; Carbon Management; Carbon Negative Power and Clean Hydrogen and Hydrogen Derivatives. Fidelis New Energy’s Gardner Boulmay presented these slides at ABLC 2023..

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to OMC Hydrogen

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to OMC Hydrogen

April 10, 2023 |

Hydrogen is widely used throughout major industries such as petroleum and biofuels refining, ammonia production, and many other processes. When produced cleanly, hydrogen has the ability to help decarbonize these and other industries such as transportation and steelmaking. Accordingly, green hydrogen production has become a global priority with a projected market in excess of 600bn […]

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Growing In Iowa: The Future of Food and Farming

Growing In Iowa: The Future of Food and Farming

April 10, 2023 |

Pivot Bio improves grower access to a dependable nitrogen source From his time at the University of Iowa to the first startup he founded with support from the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, Karsten Temme, Ph.D., credits much of his accomplishments as Pivot Bio CEO and co-founder to the invaluable insight he gained in Iowa. Pivot […]

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B-Harmony: Creating Happy Bacterial Colonies and ridding the world of its methane malaise, the Windfall Bio way

B-Harmony: Creating Happy Bacterial Colonies and ridding the world of its methane malaise, the Windfall Bio way

April 9, 2023 |

Our tale today will take us to the avant-garde of biology, and methane is at the heart of it. Ah. methane, scourge of climate lovers, the “dry gas” disdained by ethane and propane lovers, citizen of the Land of Misfit Molecules, yet it is the Food of Life, or rather perhaps the food that gave […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

April 6, 2023 |

It’s Friday and you’re ready for the weekend so here’s a short and sweet slide guide from DG Fuels on their second-generation cellulosic biofuel whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and 3% carbon mineralization. DG’s Chris Chaput presented these slides […]

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