The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: France
As we continue with Gas Week, we’re providing you with 10 National Hydrogen Strategies between now and Friday. Today: France.
Author Archive: Jim Lane
Notes from the Bar None Ranch: The new Sheriff in Nitrogenville, Pivot Bio, raises another $430M
News arrives from Berkeley and Pivot Bio that the company has raised $430 million in its Series D venture round, led by DCVC and Temasek, bringing the total equity raised to more than $600 million. Last we saw, the company was valued at $1.6 billion — now, even more. The nitrogen rationale You might ask, […]
The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: Canada
As we continue with Gas Week, we’re providing you with 10 National Hydrogen Strategies between now and Friday. Today, the Big Hockey Stick, that is to say, Canada and its desire for this sector to “Take Off, Eh?” and as quickly as possible. Un génération nouvelle de technologie arrive pour pour la mobilité, l’énergie et […]
The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: The United States of America
As we continue with Gas Week, we’re providing you with 10 National Hydrogen Strategies between now and Friday. Today, the Big Kahuna (or Enchilada, if you like), the US, where actions have been lagging but ambitions growing and a refining base of scale and national importance awaits a new generation of technology for mobility, power […]
The Digest’s Green Hydrogen Horizons
It’s Gas Week here in Digestville, all this week we’re highlighting new technologies, commervcial breakthroughs and new strategies relating to the production of, applications for, or the avoidannce of: Green Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Syngas. Later this week we’ll look at the monster valuatino and progress at Pivot Bio, replacving nitrogen — today, we’re focusing on […]
The Digest’s Multi-Guide Slide to National Hydrogen Strategies: Finland
The Finns are flying when it comes to hydrogen and, even better, this national hydrogen strategy has some great green hydrogen factoids and charts whether hydrogen in Scandinavia tickles your fancy or not. For mobility, stationery power and above all, for industrial applications, here’s a can’t miss, must-read deck.
Renewable Butyl Acetate for Diesel: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Butyl Acetate as Bioblendstock
Does renewable butyl acetate make a good fuel additive? Can it be used as a bioblendstock for diesel to decrease combustion pollutants and lower the sooting propensity of a BA/diesel-based mixture? Can it’s low freezing point and high flash point improve fuel properties?
Competitive Edge: Bio2oil
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? Bio2oil was founded with the aim of commercializing the Hydrothermal Liquefaction technology (HTL). It’s a process that converts biomass to […]
Seafood to Sustainable Packaging?: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Cellulose-Chitin
This weekend, hold onto that crustacean food waste – your crab, lobster and shrimp shells – it has chitin in it! Chitin is being looked at by Georgia Tech as feedstock to create bioplastic and biodegradable food packaging. Check out their progress and outcomes and how they are developing a performance advantaged bioproduct.
Technology for Space Exploration: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Space Biotech
To space, what will we take? In space, what will we make? What are the technologies under development to create fuels, foods, materials, health, protection and new science in space, and for space exploration? With no fossil fuels on Mars, it’s a biobased opportunity covering the entire range as well as circular technologies that use […]
