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Is there money for renewable fuels? Latest perspectives on financing renewable fuel projects

Is there money for renewable fuels? Latest perspectives on financing renewable fuel projects

October 12, 2020 |

By Mike Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest Connecting people from renewable fuels companies with projects they want to finance to the people who can finance them was a key goal for Parhelion Underwriting’s recent virtual roundtable. The finance panel included Justin Goldstein from Goldman Sachs, John May from Hamilton […]

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Renewable DME Fuels for Heavy Transport: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

Renewable DME Fuels for Heavy Transport: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

October 12, 2020 |

f you missed the recent DigestConnect webinar on DME fuels, then here is your chance to check out the latest slide guide from Rebecca Boudreaux, CEO of Oberon Fuels. Sourced locally from waste and stranded resources, converted into a low-carbon heavy transport fuel used locally to minimize carbon intensity and create a circular economy, that’s the […]

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Protein-Based Biocontrols: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biotalys

Protein-Based Biocontrols: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biotalys

October 11, 2020 |

Biotalys is transforming food protection with unique protein-based biocontrol solutions, tackling two birds with one stone – reducing food waste and driving the sustainability of food production.  But how? By creating nature-based protein products that protect our food and ensuring a safe, sustainable food supply and reducing food waste. From their biocontrol fungicide for controlling Botrytis cinerea […]

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Latest Hot Tech for Bulk-Solids Handling: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium

Latest Hot Tech for Bulk-Solids Handling: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium

October 8, 2020 |

At ABLC 2020, Troy Semelsberger from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carrie Hartford from Jenike & Johanson shared this illuminating slide guide on the Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium’s latest work on acoustic sensors for the real-time monitoring of plug-screw feeder wear and erosion, moisture, and “smart” transfer chutes coupled with acoustic moisture sensors, and more.

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The Drive to Decarbonize Shipping: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Shell

The Drive to Decarbonize Shipping: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Shell

October 7, 2020 |

Shell is working with customers and partners in the shipping industry to help accelerate decarbonisation towards a net-zero emissions future for shipping. ‘ ‘All Hands on Deck’ is a joint report with Deloitte that outlines industry perspectives of how to accelerate decarbonization of the shipping sector. ‘All Hands on Deck’ presents 12 recommendations for action, drawn from […]

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The Road to Hydrogen: Coalition launches Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy , tips 17 million ton demand by 2030

The Road to Hydrogen: Coalition launches Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy , tips 17 million ton demand by 2030

October 7, 2020 |

In Washington, a coalition of major oil & gas, power, automotive, fuel cell, and hydrogen companies have come together to develop a Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy. In the most ambitious scenario, the authors concluded that hydrogen demand potential across all these applications could reach 17 million metric tons by 2030 and 63 […]

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U.S. Department of Energy Report Looks at Best SAF Pathways: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Aviation Fuel

U.S. Department of Energy Report Looks at Best SAF Pathways: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Aviation Fuel

October 6, 2020 |

The 106-billion-gallon global (21-billion-gallon domestic) commercial jet fuel market is projected to grow to over 230 billion gallons by 2050. Cost-competitive sustainable alternative jet fuels for aviation are needed to decouple carbon growth from market growth. With this in mind, the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) just released a report, “Sustainable Aviation Fuel: […]

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Top 5 Things Any Biofuel Company Should Be Doing to Protect its IP

Top 5 Things Any Biofuel Company Should Be Doing to Protect its IP

October 5, 2020 |

By David B. Fournier, Partner and Firmwide Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Counseling Practice at Perkins Coie LLC and Linda Falcon, Associate attorney at Perkins Coie LLC Special to The Digest The global biofuels market size is in excess of $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate […]

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Biogenic Carbon & Recycled Carbon: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Genomatica

Biogenic Carbon & Recycled Carbon: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Genomatica

October 5, 2020 |

Addressing today’s problems like our huge, linear consumption of carbon, our fossil-based carbon emissions, deforestation, land use, waste generation, could seem overwhelming, but not for Genomatica. Find out how Genomatica is tackling these global issues in this ABLC Digital slide guide from Christophe Schilling, CEO and Co-founder of Genomatica, which covers all you need to know about […]

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25 Years in the Bioeconomy: A Journey Still Exciting, An Adventure Still Rewarding

25 Years in the Bioeconomy: A Journey Still Exciting, An Adventure Still Rewarding

October 5, 2020 |

by Wayne Lee, CEO, Lee Enterprises Consulting Editor’s note to readers: Lee Enterprises Consulting celebrates its 25th anniversary on October 4th — having grown from a boutique biodiesel consulting firm to the world’s largest bioeconomy consulting collective.  Today, the bioeconomy is a worldwide business encompassing fuels, advanced agriculture, renewable chemicals, vegan foods, nutraceuticals, cannabis, and lots […]

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