The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris
Delivering on the promise of synthetic biology, her’s the latest view on products and technology from the “No Compromise Crew” at Amyris.
Author Archive: Jim Lane
Young Fresh Fellows: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Activate.org and its Fellowships
Activate organizes and manages two-year fellowships to turn technology concept into a product. Fellows receive a yearly living stipend of $80,000 to $110,000 plus a health insurance stipend and travel allowance. This enables them to focus on their project full-time. Each project also receives $100,000 in research funding. Activate managing director David Anton gave this […]
Biogas, RNG renaissance: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy
Winter is coming, and renewable heating as well as power are in the seasonal conversation. For those facing big heating bills this winter from an expected shortage of fossil natural gas and propane, the remedy is clear — renewable biogas and RNG. Companies have been developing hundreds of these facilities around the countries, it’s hard […]
Closing the Gap in Renewable Energy – the Next 80%?
By Sergey Nuzhdin, Kristen Davis, Meredith Brooks, Ann Carpenter, Pierre Wensel, Cindy Wilcox, all from the Cluster for Sustainable Seaweed Solutions (CS3) Special to The Digest A rising human population coupled with the damaging effects of climate change pose a paramount challenge to producing more resources in an increasingly variable climate. As the agricultural “Green […]
Praj and IndianOil sign MOU to fast track Alcohol to Jet fuels
In India, Praj Industries Limited (Praj) and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil) have inked an MoU to explore opportunities to fast-track India’s transition to leaner and greener sources of energy by exploring avenues such as the production of Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) fuels, 1G & 2G Ethanol, Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) and related opportunities in the […]
Carbon Zero 1: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis
Aemetis has transitioned a set of first-generation biofuels assets into an advanced, integrated energy platform for fuels, feed, power, heat and more — branching from ethanol and biodiesel into high-value protein, RNG and jet fuel along the way. The project concept is Carbon Zero, and the central California location is Carbon Zero One.
Lowering the cost, increasing the value: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to ABB
Long-time ABLC presenter John Oyen brought these slides to the main stage, as we looked in the Advanced Biofuels and a suite of “safe, smart and sustainable operations through solutions that digitalize, automate and electrify industry. Turns out that 62 percent of projects face cost overruns, 79 percent face schedule delays — that’s addressable, as […]
Electrofuels Advance: Vattenfall, SAS, Shell, LanzaTech, US Air Force, Emerging Fuels Technology and Twelve advance on Power-to-liquids via waste CO2
It’s a simple idea, using renewable electricity to induce carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form a hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons, you know, the stuff we burn as liquid fuel and from which we make plastics, fabrics, flavors, fragrances, resins, coatings, etcetera. If you are what you wear, as the New York Times once famously opined, you are […]
Competitive Edge: PQ Corporation’s Materials Science
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Pennsylvania-based PQ has a history dating nearing 200 years with our first products being soap and candles, among the basic […]
Clostridia for synthesis of fuels and chemicals: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biosynthetic Pathways
LanzaTech, Northwestern, University of South Florida and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are working on the engineered reveral of the β-oxidation cycle in clostridia for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals. The objective? To develop clostridia to ferment synthesis gas produced from cellulosic biomass by established gasification tech into a range of advanced bioproducts.
