Author Archive: Jim Lane

Dig their Big Rig: Licella commissions world’s largest operating hydrothermal liquefaction facility

September 14, 2021 | Jim Lane

Licella commissions world’s largest operating hydrothermal liquefaction facility In Australia, Licella has completed initial commissioning of its upgraded Cat-HTR commercial-demonstration plant. The Commercial Stage 1 facility is co-owned with Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor), a global leader in the manufacturing of sustainable forest products, through its joint venture, Arbios Biotech. It is built around the […]

Energy Recovery Technology: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Observing I Ecotech

September 13, 2021 | Jim Lane

The waste treatment technology ERT (Energy Recovery Technology) highlighted by Observing I Ecotech is worth taking a look at as a way to recover energy like fuels and gas from unsegregated municipal and biomedical waste. How does ERT work in converting waste to liquid hydrocarbons and LPG? What makes it unique?

Hydrogen Ecosystem for Aviation: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Airbus ZEROe

September 12, 2021 | Jim Lane

It’s all about hydrogen propulsion with the ZEROe aircraft which Airbus aims to develop by 2035 as the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft. What is power-to-liquid or PtL for aviation and how will it be used in this aircraft? How will hydrogen hubs work at airports?

CORRECTION: Amyris, Total and farnesane based-jet fuel

September 10, 2021 | Jim Lane

In this morning’s Digest (September 10th) round-up of activities announced on advances in the production of sustainable aviation fuels, we reported on an announce by Amyris and Total regarding future production of farnesene-based jet fuel, in which we picked up a storyline from all the way back in 2014 and reported what was true then, […]

Job Creation, Decarbonization, Social Justice: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to BDO Zones

September 9, 2021 | Jim Lane

Ecostrat’s President & CEO, Jordan Solomon, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC Digital on accelerating biobased investment and infrastructure development in economically distressed areas. Find out what BDO zones are, how this initiative can help pull forward green tech and create new markets for biomass, and more.

DOE invests $64M in 22 advanced biofuels R&D projects: pre-pilot, pilot, demos, clean sugars, wood heaters, RNG in the mix

September 9, 2021 | Jim Lane

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced more than $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. These selected projects will support the newly-announced Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge: an interagency collaboration between DOE, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]

Funding & Formation: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Petri

September 8, 2021 | Jim Lane

Like a petri dish, Petri funds and grows formation-stage startups at the intersection of biology and technology. They invest pre-seed and seed capital and work 1-1 with founders for 12 months or more to build their company. Check out companies and tech they’ve worked with like cotton from plant-cell culture, next gen metabolomics, soil carbon […]

Big Changes in Renewable Diesel & SAF Feedstock Partnerships

September 7, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Will Thurmond, Emerging Markets Online Special to The Digest A new study titled Renewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation 2030, Vol 2 (September, 2021) has discovered some surprising answers and useful insights to key questions regarding feedstock availability, scale up, partnerships and from 2020 to 2030 where many states and nations have targets. For example, […]

Building the Largest Hydrogen Fueling Network: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to PowerTap Hydrogen

September 7, 2021 | Jim Lane

PowerTap Hydrogen’s President, Salim Rahemtulla, shared his thoughts and predictions for blue and green hydrogen in the U.S. compared to EU, and now we’ve got this slide guide highlighting how PowerTap is building North America’s largest hydrogen fueling network, companies investing in hydrogen like Amazon and Walmart, fuel comparisons, and more.

State of Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials

September 6, 2021 | Jim Lane

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