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President Biden’s Climate Plan and its Role in Agriculture & Renewable Biofuels

President Biden’s Climate Plan and its Role in Agriculture & Renewable Biofuels

August 2, 2021 |

By Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., CEO of Yield10 Bioscience Special to The Digest During President Biden’s April 22nd climate plan speech at the Virtual Leaders’ Summit on Climate, he announced his goal of cutting 50 percent of U.S. carbon-emissions levels by 2030. This is no simple task, and consumers, investors and businesses alike are aware of […]

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Wet Waste as Significant Net Energy Producer: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to BioEnergy from Wet Wastes

Wet Waste as Significant Net Energy Producer: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to BioEnergy from Wet Wastes

August 2, 2021 |

How can anaerobic membrane bioreactors increase wet waste’s net energy yield? That’s exactly what University of Illinois scientists are working on to develop improved AnMBR and integrate it into pilot demonstration. Find out their results so far, if they were able to improve wet waste energy balance, reduce effluent nutrients, and more.

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Is Your Project Investment-Ready?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biotech Due Diligence

Is Your Project Investment-Ready?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biotech Due Diligence

August 1, 2021 |

There are some great projects and investment opportunities in the marketplace. Andrew Grant from Lee Enterprises Consulting and LEC Executive VP Glenn Farris shared this illuminating slide guide at last week’s DigestConnect asking Why perform Due Diligence? Who should do it? What is the Process? Who should be involved?

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Protected: ABLC Digital 2021 presentations

Protected: ABLC Digital 2021 presentations

August 1, 2021 |

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The Rubbishing of Aviation, and the search for carbon-negative rubbish

The Rubbishing of Aviation, and the search for carbon-negative rubbish

July 29, 2021 |

Where I come from, rubbish is used as a verb, meaning to denigrate, and there’s been an awful lot of rubbishing going around with respect to aviation. Once, we Flew the Friendly Skies, but these days, the runways are getting surly, and when the UK government issued a report finding, as the BBC reports here, […]

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Better Biocatalysts for Biogas: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Biocatalysis

Better Biocatalysts for Biogas: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas Biocatalysis

July 29, 2021 |

Biological gas-to-liquid conversion offers a means to valorize biogas, improve bioprocess sustainability, and reduce risk of waste and biomass processing. How big is the biogas market? What are the newest biocatalysts and gas fermentation tech to enable gas-to-liquid conversion? Does it improve economics and sustainability?

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Data that Makes a Difference: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biofuels Information Center

Data that Makes a Difference: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Biofuels Information Center

July 28, 2021 |

Data – we all need it. And the Biofuels Information Center provides essential bioenergy data, information, and tools to educate stakeholders on all aspects of biofuels. Where do they get the data from? How does the data help bioenergy companies? What does the latest data show? How can you access it?

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Aviation leaders say biofuels still too expensive

Aviation leaders say biofuels still too expensive

July 27, 2021 |

By Cécile Michaut, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Special to The Digest Aviation is counting on the use of biofuels and petrol-free synthetic fuels to reduce carbon emissions. Technically it is possible, but some say it’s still too expensive. Hear from Samuel Saysset, Lead techno advisor at ENGIE Research; Jean-Philippe Héraud, Process engineer at IFP Energies […]

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Cellulosic Ethanol Fermentation to DDGS: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to White Dog Labs

Cellulosic Ethanol Fermentation to DDGS: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to White Dog Labs

July 27, 2021 |

White Dog Labs is working on producing a Single-Cell Protein product from a cellulosic ethanol plant waste stream. The goal – to produce enough butyrate enhanced SCP product from cellulosic ethanol streams, that can be mixed with DDGS, for broiler chicken feed trials, which can provide cellulosic ethanol plants with a new valuable co-product from […]

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God Speed the Right: a bioeconomy in an exciting, turbulent adolescence

God Speed the Right: a bioeconomy in an exciting, turbulent adolescence

July 26, 2021 |

Fourteen years ago today, the Daily Digest debuted not very auspiciously with two readers and a goal to cover you: the people and technologies of the advanced bioeconomy. Since then we’ve published 36,400 articles to date in the telling of your story, and, though promoted only via word of mouth, the Digest recently passed the […]

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