Spiber’s partnership with ADM! The all-new Qore JV between Cargill and HELM (using Genomatica technology). Both setting up shop in Iowa to revolutionize biobased materials. Get the Inside True Story— spider silk proteins and bio-based BDO, what are the techs, projects, apps, rationales and more.
What if we could build a biorefinery in every state and divert all 76 million dry T/y of organic wastes into transportation biofuels…forever? That’s what Pacific Northwest National Lab hopes will happen someday as they work on accelerating the adoption of promising conversion technologies.
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? Sweet Gazoil was founded to solve water pollution from waste and used oil. EPA states that 60% of water pollution […]
Global protein consumption, especially of meat, continues to rise. The food industry’s burgeoning demand for livestock creates massive environmental, health, financial and ethical problems, but MeaTech is developing an alternative with an industrial cultured meat production process with integrated 3D printing technology. Find out about this cellular agriculture and Meat 2.0.
Check out this NREL slide guide covering their latest work on waste-to-energy resources, municipal solid waste (MSW) streams available for bioenergy conversions, and the latest data and analyses on WTE projects. From food waste management pathways, wood waste, management cost and policy structures.
For an invisible gas, hydrogen seems to come in more colors than boy of crayons. And, you have to learn to weed out the greenwash and the cleanwash. And some of the hogwash. Take for example the news from North Dakota, where Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas, inked a strategic partnership agreement to create […]
There’s nothing hotter right now than renewable diesel and SAF – what are the pathways, projects, who are the players, what are the business models, are there alternative feedstocks? Check out this slide guide from last week’s DigestConnect where Will Thurmond, author of Renewable Diesel & Sustainable Aviation Fuels 2030 highlights the latest.
By Dave VanderGriend, President, Urban Air Initiative Special to The Digest For the last decade, efforts to reduce carbon were simmering on back burners in various pockets of government but have now reached a full boil with legislative proposals and regulatory directives going all in on carbon reductions. The buzzwords we hear in Washington and […]
Can you really convert 50% of lignin carbon into bio-phenols? Spero Renewables is working on exactly that and making polymers and chemicals from lignin bio-phenols. Spero even enables biofuel cost reduction of $1-2 gallons gasoline equivalent. Get the details on the tech behind it, how they are scaling it up, and more.
17 years ago, Werpy and Peterson gave us the seminal “Top 12 Biobased Molecules” – how have they fared? What are the top 12 now, and the top 12 tomorrow? BioCognito’s Nathan Danielson and NCGA’s Sarah McKay have the answers, based on work recently appearing in Industrial Biotechnology.
