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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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Feast of the Assumptions: ADM, OCOchem, and the Right Form for biobased innovation

Feast of the Assumptions: ADM, OCOchem, and the Right Form for biobased innovation

August 19, 2025 |

August 15 on the calendar marks the Feast of the Assumption. But in the bioeconomy, we’re forever caught in what I’d call the Feast of the Assumptions. Assumptions that persistence will eventually pay off.Assumptions that subsidies will close the cost gap.Assumptions that CO₂ isn’t waste but feedstock.Assumptions that this partnership will be the one that […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing’s Biomass Deconstruction Breakthrough

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing’s Biomass Deconstruction Breakthrough

August 18, 2025 |

SixRing unveils a patented, ambient pressure/temperature technology for biomass deconstruction, a newsworthy departure from energy-intensive methods. This innovative approach enables economic operation without subsidies, offers high yields, and reduces carbon intensity. A key advantage is flexible product allocation, including SAF via HEFA and ATJ pathways from non-food biomass, addressing “food vs. fuel” concerns. With TRL […]

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CO2 as a Laser Gas

CO2 as a Laser Gas

August 18, 2025 |

By: Sam A. Rushing, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd, www.CO2consultant.us Special to The Digest CO2 lasers were one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed. The development occurred in 1964 by Bell Labs, and remains one of today’s most useful lasers; which some claim to be one of the most powerful continuous lasers available as of […]

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Common Sense Ain’t Common: Will Rogers tips his hat to Bill Bivin’s NetZero City

Common Sense Ain’t Common: Will Rogers tips his hat to Bill Bivin’s NetZero City

August 18, 2025 |

Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. I gave him a run for his money when I was writing my novel When Heat Comes. He wasn’t crazy about the way I put him in there — he told me I made him sound too much like a preacher and not […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Sustainable Aviation Fuel Development and Challenges

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Sustainable Aviation Fuel Development and Challenges

August 14, 2025 |

The evolving regulatory landscape, including global SAF mandates (e.g., India’s 1% by 2025, UK’s 10% by 2030), is driving SAF development. Key challenges are high cost (1.5-6x conventional fuel), scaling production, infrastructure, and sustainable feedstock. ICARUS evaluates promising pathways like Biocrude Oils to SAF (HTL), Alcohols to SAF (ATJ), and Syngas to SAF (FT), noting […]

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Liberal, Kansas and the fight conservatives are waging for energy freedom

Liberal, Kansas and the fight conservatives are waging for energy freedom

August 14, 2025 |

By General Jim “Jayhawker” Lane Special to The Digest I am a fighting man, and I mean to fight for freedom. You remember me as General Jim Lane, the Jayhawker — we were the ones who raided the border, broke the chains, and made Kansas free soil. I wore the name gladly. Freedom wasn’t just […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to International SAF Policy Landscape and Investment Hurdles

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to International SAF Policy Landscape and Investment Hurdles

August 13, 2025 |

International SAF markets are heavily reliant on HEFA (85% future volume), but need diversification due to feedstock limits. Strong global policies and mandates are emerging (e.g., EU’s ReFuelEU, UK’s 10% by 2030, US’s 3 billion gallons by 2030). Despite this, investor hesitation persists due to past failures and differing sustainability criteria between regions, indicating a […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Brazilian Innovations in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Brazilian Innovations in Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

August 12, 2025 |

Brazil is emerging as a significant SAF producer, leveraging its abundant renewable resources through a strong government-university-industry synergy. The SENAI Innovation Institute for Renewable Energies (ISI-ER) is a key player, focusing on scaling up SAF production via Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis and HEFA pathways. ISI-ER boasts substantial infrastructure, including experimental hydrotreatment and distillation units, actively contributing […]

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Beyond Broken Eggs: Fixing the SAF Machine

Beyond Broken Eggs: Fixing the SAF Machine

August 12, 2025 |

Yesterday, we talked about two broken eggs — the MAHA Commission’s push to reduce seed oils in the food system and the renewable fuels sector’s chronic shortage of affordable plant oils — and how, combined, they might make a better omelette for both public health and decarbonization. Today, there’s a third egg on the counter: […]

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