Late in the season, under a slate Oklahoma sky, CVR Energy looked at its cards, and folded. Like a gambler with a hand gone wrong, the company announced it would stop making renewable diesel at its Wynnewood refinery — “unfavorable economics of the renewables business,” they said — and switch back to petroleum. Eighty million […]
The VTO drives applied R&D to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in transportation by 2050, focusing on the gap between basic science and commercial development. Key priorities include accelerating battery technology, optimizing vehicle/grid integration, and developing modal decarbonization plans. Technical advances involve coordinating partnerships across major sectors and implementing the Petroleum Equivalency Factor (PEF) Final Rule. […]
Ariel Green offers specialized Technology Performance Insurance (TPI) for clean energy projects, focused on the transition to Net Zero. TPI is an investment-grade policy offering capacity up to $200 million per risk. This financial technology backstops warranties, validates complex technology risk, and provides long-term output cover. TPI accelerates project financing by mitigating intrinsic, contractual, and […]
The house lights dimmed and the chatter softened, the way it does when the next card might decide everything. In place of tuxedos: blazers. In place of martinis: macchiatos. Yet it had all the tension of James Bond playing Le Chiffre for every chip in Casino Royale. It’s ABLC Next, and the bioeconomy stands at […]
The DORMA program focuses R&D on efficient utilization of renewable fuels, hydrogen, and e-fuels to achieve deep GHG emission cuts across multiple heavy-duty sectors. Technology accomplishments include demonstrating 95% ammonia substitution in marine engines, yielding an 85% CO2 eq reduction. Future work is heavily focused on increasing R&D for Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines (H2ICE), advancing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
