Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to National Impacts of Community-Level Strategies to Decarbonize and Improve Convenience of Mobility

October 28, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project links the POLARIS, GTT, and TEMPO national modeling tools to assess the national impacts of community-level, convenience-focused decarbonization strategies. This strategic connection extends high-fidelity regional analysis to the nationwide county level. The resulting quantitative insights help communities optimize investments in highly-ranked strategies like Land Use and Travel Demand Management. This informs multi-objective decisions […]

Target opportunities for valuable CO2 revenues from today’s ethanol and allied CO2-emitting projects

October 28, 2025 | Jim Lane

By Sam A. Rushing, president, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest At one time, from a few primary sources of raw by-product CO2 which are refined and liquefied for the merchant CO2 industry, the primary source of commodity chemical manufactured with a CO2 by-product was anhydrous ammonia. The lion’s share of […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to PATHWAYS TO NET ZERO MOBILITY

October 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project develops “Pathways to Net Zero Mobility” by creating computational models (e.g., Shared Automated Vehicle, SAV) to evaluate system-level impacts of decarbonization strategies across connectivity, electrification, and multimodal operations. Utilizing the POLARIS framework, the research informs regional planning and policy. Analysis shows transit is critical to mobility, with service removal causing substantial economic and […]

Hype’s Natural Predator: The Due Diligence Wolfpack howls on the ABLC Floor

October 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

Comedy, Chemistry, and the Art of Realism at ABLC “There is a beautiful valley, where companies live on hype, all you need is a dream and a Series A. This…is not that place.” Laughter ripples through the crowd and builds as the opening credits roll: animated wolves skiing while talking on the phone, flying from […]

Protected: ABLC Next 2025 Presentations

October 26, 2025 | Jim Lane

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Improving Network-Wide Fuel Economy and Enabling Traffic Signal Optimization Using Infrastructure and Vehicle-Based Sensing and Connectivity

October 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project advances traffic management by developing novel sensor fusion techniques, combining radar and camera data to track vehicles through corridors. Optimization methods, constrained by NEMA logic, utilize factors like Truck Speed Priority (TSP). Simulation demonstrates significant fuel consumption reductions, achieving 14.8% improvement over coordinated fixed-time signals. The ultimate goal is to validate a ≥20% […]

Heard on the Floor at ABLC: The Economics of Urgency

October 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

The hallways at ABLC Next ring like a refinery at shift change — loud, hot, and running on caffeine. Policy hawks, tech dreamers, financiers, and feedstock wranglers crowd the lobby, swapping figures and phone numbers. Everyone agrees on one thing: time’s running out. The bioeconomy has grown, but the world hasn’t. We’re short on energy, […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to OPTIMIZING DRONE DEPLOYMENT FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

October 22, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project optimizes drone deployment for microfreight using an improved optimization model (OMDD) that provides near-optimal fleet solutions in seconds (e.g., 0.01 seconds), greatly enhancing practicality. The public tools, including an Energy Calculator, support industry deployment and awareness. Analysis of mixed fleets (drones and ground vehicles) reveals that optimizing ground vehicle circuits significantly reduces energy […]

Heard on the Floor at ABLC: DigestAI debuts – the most powerful, affordable bioeconomy information tool ever developed?

October 22, 2025 | Jim Lane

Today, the Digest is announcing that after 12 months of development, DigestAI has arrived and was demonstrated live on stage at ABLC Next in San Francisco. It’s a place where a researcher or investor can start with a rough question — “What are the latest advances in pyrolysis?” — and, through dialogue, refine it into […]

Thailand’s excess ethanol due to EV transition could mean ATJ exports

October 21, 2025 | Jim Lane

In Thailand, the Nation newspaper reports the government plans to start requiring 1% sustainable aviation fuel blending from next year which will ramp up to 8% over the following decade. By 2037, demand is expected to reach 675 million liters of SAF annually. With the road fleet transition to electric vehicles, domestic ethanol production is […]

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