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High-throughput thermal conversion: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to EnerSysNet

High-throughput thermal conversion: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to EnerSysNet

July 27, 2018 |

EnerSysNet Canada Inc.’s mission is to develop modular systems that enable the forest residuals to hydrocarbon economy. Oxygen-free, liquid hydrocarbons would be produced from sustainably managed timber reserves by a distributed network of small, self-contained biorefineries that literally take the factory to the forest. The companies “ablative” conversion technology transforms woody biomass from harvest and mill […]

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The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 27th

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of July 27th

July 26, 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 […]

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When Markets Misbehave, Send the Marines! (World governments get a case of bioeconomy interventionitis)

When Markets Misbehave, Send the Marines! (World governments get a case of bioeconomy interventionitis)

July 25, 2018 |

The European Court of Justice has ruled that organisms altered via genome editing are GMOs and subject to GMO regulation in Europe, including warning labels for foods.   And in the US, President Trump announced $12 billion in relief for farmers impacted by the Administration’s trade policies in a move that was sharply criticized by […]

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$200 oil in 2020? The impending energy crisis and biofuels’ role in relieving the refining capacity crunch

$200 oil in 2020? The impending energy crisis and biofuels’ role in relieving the refining capacity crunch

July 24, 2018 |

“The global economy likely faces an economic crash of horrible proportions in 2020, not for want of a nail but want of low-sulfur diesel fuel,” writes renowned energy analyst Phil Verleger in a note this month titled “$200 Crude, the Economic Crisis of 2020, and Policies to Prevent Catastrophe”. Not good timing for a White House […]

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Biomass, biomass and more biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report, Vol. 1

Biomass, biomass and more biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report, Vol. 1

July 23, 2018 |

The US Department of Energy’s Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy says that 1.2 billion tons of biomass would be available at $40 or less per ton by 2040, and 1 billion tons would be available by 2030, for conversion into biofuels. Compared to the original Billion Ton Report in 2011,  the focus has […]

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Deeper into the biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report, Vol. 2

Deeper into the biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report, Vol. 2

July 23, 2018 |

The US Department of Energy’s Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy says that 1.2 billion tons of biomass would be available at $40 or less per ton by 2040, and 1 billion tons would be available by 2030, for conversion into biofuels. Compared to the original Billion Ton Report in 20111,  the focus has […]

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A billion tons of biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report

A billion tons of biomass: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the DOE’s Billion Ton Report

July 23, 2018 |

The US Department of Energy’s Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy says that 1.2 billion tons of biomass would be available at $40 or less per ton by 2040, and 1 billion tons would be available by 2030, for conversion into biofuels. Compared to the original Billion Ton Report in 2011,  the focus has […]

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Biofuels: a straightforward fix for US farmers’ tariff exposure to China?

Biofuels: a straightforward fix for US farmers’ tariff exposure to China?

July 23, 2018 |

This is the first of a two-part series in which we look at strategic shifts in global commodity prices and policies that could dramatically impact the outlook for biofuels, In this part, we look at grain markets and the em,erging US-China trade war. As most know by now, the US and China have fired opening […]

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Gevo & Butamax – Remind Me Why I Care

Gevo & Butamax – Remind Me Why I Care

July 23, 2018 |

By Sam Nejame, Special to The Digest Here in Cambridge it’s humid and the spritely Liz Warren will soon be seen power walking in a straw hat through my neighborhood again. Amidst the brimstone of the ongoing blue/red culture war, it is useful to consider that even the less than conscientious former EPA chief Scott Pruitt […]

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An emerging alternative marine fuel: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Methanol

An emerging alternative marine fuel: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Methanol

July 23, 2018 |

The marine sector consumes 370 million metric tonnes of bunker fuel per year, and stakeholders desire a viable pathway to low- & no-carbon marine fuels. The fuels need to be price competitive with current bunker fuels and other alternatives such as LNG. Fuel needs to be available globally. And, ship operators need to be assured of […]

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