If you’ve not heard, NuGenTec is looking for Distillers to help supply Ethanol for Hand Sanitizers in California! We have two automated bottling lines waiting for ethanol to produce 8oz and 16oz gel type hand sanitizers, they write. You can learn more here. And as we reported this morning, Aemetis is one of those companies […]
Since 2006, there has been an incredible rise of investment in the agtech sector and more recently in the foodtech sector. This 4th annual edition of the Finistere PitchBook AgriFood Tech Investment Review takes a look at how 2019’s investment metrics tie into a deeper trend of transformation and disruption being driven through agriculture and food. […]
ZwitterCo’s patented membrane chemistry and filtration is opening opportunities in applications that have never before been economical, including wastewater treatment in difficult, high fouling waste streams; in-process membrane separation of fine insolubles, proteins, and fats/oils; and partial or total replacement of primary WWTP for discharge to municipal WWTP. Find out how in this illuminating presentation.
There are several federal R&D programs out there supporting biofuels, biopower, biochemcials and biobased products. If you don’t know what they are, check out this slide guide from Bill Hagy at Lee Enterprises Consulting and who has 45 years of experience at USDA and as a consultant, where he shares details about the Biomass Research […]
During the week of March 16-20, 2020, The Digest surveyed its readers on how they were impacted by the Coronavirus health & economic crisis, and how they were responding. The bioeconomy’s pioneers are an optimistic bunch, and generally are far more optimistic than pessimistic about the next 12 months. That’s changed. Now, 70 percent are pessimists about 2020-21, relative […]
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? Vertimass seeks to commercialize novel catalytic technology for low cost conversion of ethanol into hydrocarbon fuels to overcome obstacles that […]
In New York, crude oil prices plummeted to $22.78 (West Texas Intermediate) and $28.12 (Brent Crude), the lowest prices seen since 2002 for WTI, as world commodity, debt equity markets reeled from the expected economic impact of coronavirus safety measures. Natural gas prices closed at $1.68, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 6.30 percent […]
Xcel Energy is aiming for an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, but how do they plan to achieve this? Check out this slide-guide from Frank Novachek, Manager of Planning and Technology Assessment at Xcel Energy to see how they see a plan to increase renewables, how to attack the challenge to incremental renewables, […]
Earlier this week, we focused in on technologies around messenger RNA, or mRNA, as key players in the search for a coronavirus vaccine. More news on that front. In Massachusetts, Moderna disclosed that the first participant has been dosed in the Phase 1 study of the Company’s mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). […]
