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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy Integration in Renewable Energy Systems

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioenergy Integration in Renewable Energy Systems

August 27, 2025 |

Integrating bioenergy is essential for flexible renewable energy systems, addressing increasing demands for short- and long-term flexibility, electrification support, and carbon management. Flexible bioenergy helps resolve intraday and seasonal electricity mismatches by producing storable fuels like methane or LNG. It also valorizes hydrogen, supports defossilization by creating fuels and chemicals, and enables negative emissions via […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Understanding Uncertainty in Biofuel ILUC

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Understanding Uncertainty in Biofuel ILUC

August 26, 2025 |

IIASA’s GLOBIOM model simulates global land-use change across agriculture, bioenergy, and forestry to understand market-mediated responses. Research analyzed uncertainty in Induced Land-Use Change (ILUC) emissions from increased US soy-biodiesel demand using One-at-a-time and Monte Carlo simulations. Results show ILUC estimates are highly sensitive to economic and biophysical parameters, with oil palm expansion in Southeast Asia […]

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SAF’s a Baldwin! Hello! We clue you in on why we’re totally following UFT’s Flexforming SAF tech and its progress 

SAF’s a Baldwin! Hello! We clue you in on why we’re totally following UFT’s Flexforming SAF tech and its progress 

August 26, 2025 |

I read earlier today an assertion that SAF costs seven times as much as jet fuel, and it reminds me the world is still pretty clueless about SAF’s progress. As if the U.S. Navy’s $2.18-per-gallon order with AltAir back in 2016 didn’t happen. Now, with new technologies like Universal Fuel Technologies’ fascinating Flexiforming process making […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Land Use for Bioenergy: Synergies and Trade-offs

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Land Use for Bioenergy: Synergies and Trade-offs

August 25, 2025 |

Bioenergy is crucial for GHG reduction but raises sustainability concerns, particularly with dedicated energy crops. Research identified 427 observations of synergies, trade-offs, or no effect, with context-specific factors like previous land use and feedstock influencing outcomes. Most synergies occur with perennial crops on marginal land, while trade-offs arise from using natural areas. Maximizing sustainability requires […]

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Cryobiology and Carbon Dioxide

Cryobiology and Carbon Dioxide

August 25, 2025 |

By Sam A. Rushing, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd., www.carbondioxideconsultants.com Special to The Digest The science of life at low temperatures, literally referring to cryobiology, has a number of applicable areas when considering carbon dioxide as a merchant gas. Often, this product would be sought as a USP (United States Pharmacopeia), which is a very small percentage […]

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CORSIA, Upgraded: A Flyer’s Guide to SAF & LCAF (with Real Perks)

CORSIA, Upgraded: A Flyer’s Guide to SAF & LCAF (with Real Perks)

August 25, 2025 |

Welcome aboard Flight CORSIA 101, non-stop from Fossilville to SAFtown. We’re routing you through three ICAO manuals (sustainability criteria, default LCE values, and actual LCE methodology) that arrived in their shiny 2025 versions, and we’ll get you there without a missed connection. Think of this as your business-class upgrade: same destination (credible emissions cuts), much […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to New Zealand’s Bioenergy Policy Dynamics

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to New Zealand’s Bioenergy Policy Dynamics

August 21, 2025 |

New Zealand, despite a “policy-lite” government, is experiencing a “perfect storm” for bioenergy due to high carbon prices and global mandates. This has spurred a focus on hard-to-abate sectors like aviation and marine, with newsworthy initiatives including testing imported Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) supply chains and exploring domestic SAF production. This proactive, market-driven response, influenced […]

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Mission to Mars (Materials): The Long Walk to Fossil Freedom

Mission to Mars (Materials): The Long Walk to Fossil Freedom

August 21, 2025 |

Three years ago, at ABLC 2022 Mars Materials CEO Aaron Fitzgerald arrived on stage for his ABLC debut with the kind of conviction that can only come from founders staring into the abyss and seeing an opening instead of a wall. Not many had heard of the company then. Lot more now, with the news […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Policy for a Circular Bioeconomy

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Policy for a Circular Bioeconomy

August 20, 2025 |

Policies are critical for deploying sustainable bioenergy effectively within a circular bioeconomy, a newsworthy concept combining regulatory and promotional elements across sectors. The core innovation lies in smartly integrating biomass with wind and solar, using biomass more circularly to yield “more with the same”. Bioenergy from by-products and waste is presented as a key enabler […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to International Bioeconomy Coordination

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to International Bioeconomy Coordination

August 19, 2025 |

The Biofuture Platform, a multi-stakeholder initiative, pioneers international coordination for a sustainable bioeconomy. Its innovative focus is evidence-based analysis, including a Global Biomass Resource Assessment and common criteria for sustainable fuels. Newsworthy outcomes include G20 consensus on harmonizing GHG emission assessment methodologies and transparent lifecycle carbon accounting standards. The initiative advocates for performance-based, technology-neutral, and […]

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