In Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Donald “DJ” LaVoy and U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes today announced a Memorandum of Understanding between the two departments to promote rural energy and the development of technologies that will support and advance rural and agricultural communities and domestic manufacturing. […]
Today we want to look at a major disruptor working on industrial chemicals made from every day plants. SIRONIX Renewables is a seed-stage company developing environmentally friendly and safe chemicals from plants to be used for industrial consumer products.
This week we lead with an artificial leaf, which kinda sorta goes with plant-based shopping bags — seems as if we’re going one way, then the other, as The Pretenders once sang. Also in the news this week are renewable fabric, a hydrogen-based truck as Renault and Hyundai made big announces in the fuel cell […]
As the International Renewable Energy Agency observed of the next decades, “transport and industry will still require combustible fuels for many purposes,” and those “needs could be met with hydrogen, which itself can be produced using renewable power.” The opportunity is threefold, IRENA predicts: Industry for replacing high-emission applications; Buildings and power; and Transport, where […]
Today, we’re looking again at 50 Companies to Disrupt the World, and the disruption in particular is the potential to supply nitrogen to corn through microorganisms that fix N from the air, instead of from fertilizer. Soybeans get it that way, so it’s tough science but not impossible. Has Pivot cracked it? Pivot Bio offers […]
By Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D. (Managing Director, below50) and Douglas L. Faulkner (“the Clean Tech Conservative” & President, Leatherstocking LLC) Special to The Digest Is the tide starting to turn in favor once again of biofuels and biobased products? It can certainly still seem that the opposite is true, after a sluggish decade for these […]
Today, we’re looking at the new generation of sweeteners. And Evolva’s got an interesting technology in nootkatone, and resveratrol Evolva solves the supply chain issues of nature through a 21st century mix of biotechnology and fermentation. We develop, make and sell ingredients that provide significant health, wellness and nutrition benefits to people in their daily […]
In California, Provivi has completed a monster $85 million Series C financing. If you know the company, you wouldn’t be all that surprised, the buzz is strong, but if you’re not acquainted, welcome to this late October online meeting of the “WHO THE **** ARE THESE GUYS (and how the *** did they raise this […]
To everything there is a season, goes the old Pete Seeger lyric, and the Book of Ecclesiastes, come to think of it, and they must be reading their Bibles closely at Neste. Once into petroleum as the original Finnish oil refiner, then turning to renewable diesel and getting caught in all the flack over palm […]
In Canada, news arrived late last week Enerkem closed a $50 million equity investment from Suncor. What does it mean? Today’s let’s explore that. As Canada’s leading integrated energy company, Suncor first participated in the ownership of Enerkem in April 2019 as part of a $76.3 million equity financing alongside Enerkem’s existing shareholders. With this […]
