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Pre-Commercial Programs Supporting Biofuels, Biopower, Biochem: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Federal Programs Supporting Demonstration of Concept

Pre-Commercial Programs Supporting Biofuels, Biopower, Biochem: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Federal Programs Supporting Demonstration of Concept

March 30, 2020 |

Last week we shared the latest federal programs in the R&D space and this week we focus on the federal pre-commercial programs supporting biofuels, biopower, biochemcials and biobased products. Check out this slide guide from Bill Hagy at Lee Enterprises Consulting, for details on the National Science Foundation I-Corp Program (ICAP), the DOE Advanced Research Projects […]

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Path to Plant: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium’s Renewable Chemistries

Path to Plant: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Avantium’s Renewable Chemistries

March 30, 2020 |

Avantium’s Dawn Technology is the future of biorefining, according to this illuminating slide guide from Zanna McFerson, Managing Director at Avantium. Get the details on the current status of their Dawn tech as well as their MEKONG technology that is transforming the materials industry with their demo plant launched in Q42019, how their partnership and […]

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Focus Forward from Challenge to Opportunity: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to RFA’s 2020 Ethanol Industry Outlook

Focus Forward from Challenge to Opportunity: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to RFA’s 2020 Ethanol Industry Outlook

March 29, 2020 |

The Renewable Fuels Association released its 2020 Ethanol Industry Outlook, an annual publication that provides policymakers, regulators, consumers, the media, and renewable fuel advocates with key statistics, trends, insight, and analysis on the latest developments in the U.S. renewable fuels industry, as well as commentary on what to expect in 2020. The publication also features a detailed listing […]

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Will I get sick, will I die? Surprises in the COVID-19 hard data on infections, mortality, as the April 6th witching hour nears

Will I get sick, will I die? Surprises in the COVID-19 hard data on infections, mortality, as the April 6th witching hour nears

March 29, 2020 |

Stunned viewers of CNN’s State of the Union program on Sunday morning heard Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases say that “projections showed the (COVOD-19) disease would kill between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans and infect far more,” and predicted “millions of cases” while warning that the projections and […]

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Competitive Edge: Fluid Quip Technologies

Competitive Edge: Fluid Quip Technologies

March 26, 2020 |

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? Re-applying Wet Mill Separation Technologies into the Dry Grind Ethanol Industry, providing Ethanol Producers the opportunity to diversify into: – […]

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 Where’s Biodiesel At? Fuel Specs, Legislative Impacts, Fleet Support and more: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to the National Biodiesel Board’s Biodiesel Industry – Part 3

 Where’s Biodiesel At? Fuel Specs, Legislative Impacts, Fleet Support and more: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to the National Biodiesel Board’s Biodiesel Industry – Part 3

March 26, 2020 |

Check out Part 3 of the National Biodiesel Board’s slide guide that delves into ASTM fuel specifications for biodiesel and fuel quality, biodiesel standards like BQ-9000, legislative updates impacting biodiesel demand and state policies, latest on OEM and fleet support for biodiesel.

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Looking Beyond the Headlines during COVID-19 Pandemic

Looking Beyond the Headlines during COVID-19 Pandemic

March 25, 2020 |

Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D., Managing Director, below50 and Douglas L. Faulkner, “the Clean Tech Conservative” & President, Leatherstocking LLC Special to The Digest One can be forgiven these days for thinking the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have saddled up. Global deaths from COVID-19 are rising fast; Stock markets entered bear market territory; Oil prices […]

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The Best Places to Work 2020

The Best Places to Work 2020

March 25, 2020 |

In Florida, The Digest announced the 100 Best Places to Work in the Advanced Bioeconomy, as voted by the Digest’s readers. All organizations engaged in the advanced bioeconomy were eligible — producers, R&D institutions, labs, suppliers, growers, distributors, investors and partner, excepting academic or teaching institutions. In all, 297 different organizations received votes from readers in the […]

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Biodiesel’s Green Footprint for Fleets: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to the National Biodiesel Board’s Biodiesel Industry – Part 2

Biodiesel’s Green Footprint for Fleets: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to the National Biodiesel Board’s Biodiesel Industry – Part 2

March 25, 2020 |

Check out Part 2 of the National Biodiesel Board’s slide guide that focuses on biodiesel’s on-road heavy-duty emission benefits, why they consider biodiesel as “liquid solar energy”, how 3 billion gallons of biodiesel used in the U.S. would reduce carbon emissions by more than 25 Million Metric Tons, and more.

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Fewer Wizards, Bigger Castles: As Zymergen acquires EnEvolv, the tension builds between Open Innovation and closed circles of high-end design and optimization

Fewer Wizards, Bigger Castles: As Zymergen acquires EnEvolv, the tension builds between Open Innovation and closed circles of high-end design and optimization

March 24, 2020 |

From San Francisco and Boston — peeking out from their shelters in place — news arrived Zymergen has acquired EnEvolv at the customary price of “terms were not disclosed”. There are a couple of streams to note here, within this storyline. The technical storyline. As the always quotable Kiwi Collin South puts it: “This partnership […]

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