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Biobased smartphone chargers, biocomposite boats, smart fields, smart farms, surgery-scale biomaterials: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of September 13th

Biobased smartphone chargers, biocomposite boats, smart fields, smart farms, surgery-scale biomaterials: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of September 13th

September 10, 2018 |

Here are the top innovations for the week of September 13th — another illuminating set of advances. This week, we’re seeing biobased smartphone chargers, biocomposite boats, smart fields and smart farms, surgery-scale biomaterial scaffolding, biobased pet caskets, biobased synlawns, and fashion biomaterials — and more. #1 New funding for MyAgData expands geospatial data collection on […]

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Energy security: a bipartisan issue in a partisan year

Energy security: a bipartisan issue in a partisan year

September 9, 2018 |

Former President Obama gave a widely-reported speech in Illinois last week which was long on rhetoric about the purpose of democracy and short of hard detail about what issues can unite the fractured American democracy. He said: In order to move this country forward, to actually solve problems and make people’s lives better, we need […]

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The Idaho team that lopped $1 a gallon off the cost of fuel, and how they did it

The Idaho team that lopped $1 a gallon off the cost of fuel, and how they did it

September 9, 2018 |

In Idaho, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have have cut the modeled cost of harvesting, storing, transporting, and preprocessing biomass from $149.58/dry ton to $82.86/dry ton.   As INL’s Kevin Kenney explained, “when applying least-cost formulation and blending strategies in an analysis of data from DOE’s 2016 Billion-Ton Report, INL researchers achieved a 46% reduction […]

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Any alcohol into any drop-in fuel: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Byogy Renewables

Any alcohol into any drop-in fuel: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Byogy Renewables

September 8, 2018 |

Byogy has developed a catalytic platform that converts any source of ethanol, butanol, mixed alcohols, or related olefins, into full replacement, and cost competitive biofuels including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Byogy’s jet fuel is not an additive, but instead, a full replacement standalone fuel, and hence can be used at any blend ratio up […]

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Advancing energy independence: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas and the Global Methane Initiative

Advancing energy independence: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas and the Global Methane Initiative

September 8, 2018 |

Why consider biogas to Renewable Natural Gas (RNG)? First, there’s the momentum nationally and internationally on RNG (aka, biomethane, R-gas, green gas, renewable gas). Plus, biomethane is a flexible renewable fuel; and can be used in vehicle fuel, electricity, thermal, CHP, bio-product feedstock. Moreover, we can use the existing natural gas grid and fueling infrastructure, […]

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Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ARPA-E’s MARINER program

Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ARPA-E’s MARINER program

September 8, 2018 |

The projects that comprise ARPA-E’s MARINER (Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources) program seek to develop the tools to enable the United States to become a global leader in the production of marine biomass. Presently, macroalgae, or seaweed, is primarily used as food for human consumption, but there is a growing opportunity for the production […]

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Strategic Transformation: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to UPM, the Biofore company

Strategic Transformation: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to UPM, the Biofore company

September 8, 2018 |

UPM is going through a transformation to ensure sustainable value creation in the long term. The aim is to improve profitability, generate growth and increase the value of the company’s business portfolio. UPM has been transforming its business model, business portfolio and business performance. UPM consists of six separate business areas. The business areas are […]

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Pain-relieving yarns, dissolvable plastic made out of algae, probiotic nutrition from soy waste, squid-inspired smart materials. Illinois okays hemp cultivation: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of September 5th

Pain-relieving yarns, dissolvable plastic made out of algae, probiotic nutrition from soy waste, squid-inspired smart materials. Illinois okays hemp cultivation: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of September 5th

September 5, 2018 |

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of significant product and service advances. For now, we’re going to be tracking these on a weekly basis to keep pace with the changes. Here are the top innovations for the week […]

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Strategic Direction: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to BASF

Strategic Direction: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to BASF

September 5, 2018 |

What are the strategic plans, progress and future milestones of BASF, a major stakeholder in the Advanced Bioeconomy? In this slide deck, BASF gets into technologies, results, horizons, timelines, direct investments, partnerships and alliances with companies both heralded and unknown. BASF presented these slides as a part of its Q2 2018 earnings reporting package.

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DOE invests $80M to accelerate bioenergy R&D, 36 projects picked: the complete details

DOE invests $80M to accelerate bioenergy R&D, 36 projects picked: the complete details

September 4, 2018 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of 36 projects totaling $80 million to support early-stage bioenergy research and development. It’s one of the largest group announces of projects in a long time from the BioEnergy technologies Office, with individual federal shares of up to $5 million. 19 academic and research institutes […]

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