NXTClean Fuels and the Cascadia SAF Accelerator are collaborating to lead aviation decarbonization, centered on the Columbia River Hub in Oregon. The ambitious plan calls for an Ultra-low fossil HEFA Refinery with a world-scale production capacity of 540 MM GPY. A key novel finding is the design basis for hydrogen production using Auto-Thermal Reforming (ATR) […]
By Sam A. Rushing, president, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide has been on the forefront of much of today’s media as a major greenhouse gas which will be an extraordinary challenge to manage in the future. The greenhouse effect, that being rise in global temperatures, sea levels, and other catastrophic effects […]
Ariel Green offers compelling Technology Performance Insurance (TPI), a novel financial tool designed to de-risk complex clean energy projects. TPI policies are customized to cover technology-specific Named Perils, like defective engineering or insufficient processes. This insurance upgrades warranties to investment grade, ensuring financiers and owners have improved project risk profiles. Ambitious coverage includes Long-term Output […]
It’s the universe’s most abundant element—and yet maddeningly scarce in usable form here on Earth. It slips through steel, leaks from tanks, embrittles pipelines, and ignites at the faintest spark. You can’t ship it easily. You can’t bottle it cheaply. It hides in plain sight. Hydrogen, hydrogen everywhere—and not a drop to use. We dug […]
BioVeritas introduces the BVK Process to produce “SAF. Unconstrained,” ambitiously aiming to unlock over 100 billion gallons of SAF supply by 2050 from non-traditional wastes and cellulosics. Their key finding is the successful 45,000x scale-up and one year of continuous fermentation of their process. The resulting KEYtones are an advantaged HEFA feedstock, requiring <45% less […]
At the Anonymous Bar in Prague, the cocktails come from a masked bartender, and the motto is “the impossible is possible”. On nights where absinthe swirls with the ghosts of the Velvet Revolution—ethanol isn’t just a drink, it’s rebellion in a glass. Freedom gained. Futures rewritten. A reminder that in 1989, impossibility cracked, toppled, and […]
Terragia harnesses “better biology” to produce low-carbon ethanol from cellulosic biomass, aiming for a cost below petroleum-based fuels. Their novel finding is engineering thermophilic anaerobic bacteria which demonstrate superior fiber deconstruction capability, solubilizing 95% of corn fiber without requiring thermochemical pretreatment. This consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) approach ambitiously enables new biological pathways that can generate up […]
OMC introduces a compelling, next-generation technology providing low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen and fuels designed for industrial scale. Their core innovation is a highly durable, multi-functional oxygen carrier that achieves over 90% balance of plant energy efficiency. This process is ambitiously positioned to outperform electrolysis in cost and scale for green H2. Notably, OMC can uniquely utilize […]
The house lights dim. Conversations soften to a hum. In a ballroom a few blocks from the Capitol, the people who move the bioeconomy—scientists, financiers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs—lean forward. This is ABLC 2026, the long-anticipated turning point from development to deployment, when feedstocks, finance, and technology finally converge in one room and on one timeline. […]
Oberon Fuels’ compelling approach prioritizes feedstock flexibility to build sustainable enterprises, focusing on renewable DME and methanol. Their Brawley, CA facility, the Maverick Innovation Center, is the first in the U.S. producing renewable DME. DME is produced via catalytic distillation of methanol recovered from Kraft Pulp Process waste. Their ambitious Project Titania will convert animal […]
