In New York, Ronald F. Cascone died on Friday, March 5th from complications of COVID and after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was 77. Cascone was known around the world as one of the foremost authorities on the advanced bioeconomy, an acerbic critic of cant, pettifoggery and hype and a champion of emerging […]
Amyris just had their 2020 earnings call and here are the highlights! From 47% of their sales revenue coming from ingredients like alternative sweeteners, flavors & fragrances, clean beauty ingredients and 40% from consumer products like their Biossance, Pipette and Purecane products, check out how Amyris did in 2020 AND their 2021 full year outlook.
Canadian-based Zeton is now the largest designer and builder of pilot plants in the world. Find out what ethanol, biomass gasification, food, pharma and other plants they have worked on from their six fabrication bays ranging from modular plants at lab, pilot, demonstration, and production scales, and more.
One more company to focus on in our tour of CO2 usage. It’s another electrofuels play called Prometheus Fuels using atmospheric CO2 using water, electricity, and nanotube membranes to produce commercially viable fuels. The project was one of two selected for investment in March of 2019 by Y Combinator, a prominent Silicon Valley business incubator, […]
Hydrogen, ammonia, synthetic hydrocarbon fuels, and biofuels can provide greenhouse gas emissions reduction for difficult-to-decarbonize sectors when produced via low-carbon means—from clean electricity, renewable feedstocks, or fossil resources with carbon capture, utilization, and storage, says this Low-Carbon Resources Initiative white paper that looks at production, transport, storage, and use of these low-carbon fuels, and more.
In California, CO2Concrete changed its name to CarbonBuilt to better align with its mission to store significant amounts of carbon dioxide in concrete used for the built environment. The company also announced the appointment of climate-tech veteran Rahul Shendure as Chief Executive Officer, known throughout the industry for his work in pre-IPO days at Amyris […]
Aemetis just unveiled a five-year plan targeting $1 billion of revenue by 2025 and we’ve got the presentation with the details. Eric McAfee, Aemetis Chairman/CEO shares how they are replacing high carbon intensity petroleum products with “Below Zero” renewable fuels and byproducts, the latest RNG, renewable diesel, biofuels projects, how they plan on getting to […]
In the last week of October 2020, Chemtex published and distributed a video presentation titled “DigestConnect 30 – Cellulosics!”, available on BioChannel.TV. Further to the publication, Versalis S.p.A. (“Versalis”), a company fully owned by Eni S.p.A. (“Eni”), realized that certain information provided by Chemtex, specifically in the slide shown between minute 26.12 and minute 27.21, […]
What is it? The Infinium Electrofuels process converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses this green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide to produce net-zero carbon fuels. These fuels may be used in today’s plane, ship and truck fleets without changes in infrastructure. Nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions stem from the transportation sector, […]
Today we look at paths to leverage your next project using USDA programs and funds, with former acting USDA Undersecretary Bill Hagy, No Project will be Left Behind! Check out this illuminating slide guide covering 4 key federal commercial scale development programs supporting biofuels, biopower, biochemical & biobased products.
