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Irish Bioeconomy Foundation receives EUR4.3 million grant for innovation and piloting facility

Irish Bioeconomy Foundation receives EUR4.3 million grant for innovation and piloting facility

January 1, 2018 |

In Ireland, Lisheen Task Force and the Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF) welcomed the announcement by Minister Heather Humphreys of EUR4.3 million of financial support through Enterprise Irelands’ Regional Economic Development Fund for the establishment of a Bioeconomy innovation and piloting facility at Lisheen Co. Tipperary. The facility will enable industry, entrepreneurs and researchers to scale […]

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A New Years Resolution for EPA: Do Your Job!

A New Years Resolution for EPA: Do Your Job!

January 1, 2018 |

By Doug Sombke, South  Dakota Farmers Union Special to The Digest This time of year many of us wrestle with New Years Resolutions–what can we do that we did not do last year? What can we do better? How can we improve ourselves and maybe in the process make the world a better place? Well, for […]

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Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2018

Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2018

January 1, 2018 |

In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) once specified a 10 percent renewable content by 2020 but has been […]

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Top Cat: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio

Top Cat: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to ChemCatBio

January 1, 2018 |

ChemCatBio is a research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes. Led by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, we work with industry to rapidly transition R&D discoveries into commercial processes and grow the bioeconomy in the United States. Current research encompasses the following five themes: Upgrading […]

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U Can’t Have Enuf H2: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to renewable hydrogen via pyrolysis

U Can’t Have Enuf H2: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to renewable hydrogen via pyrolysis

December 31, 2017 |

Hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen — the most abundant element in the universe, but the advanced bioeconomy can never seem to get enough of it, and finding ways to produce renewable, affordable hydrogen — well, that’s real gold. A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Abhijeet Borole and including a number of ORNL colleagues and also […]

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In for a Penny, In for a Pound: The Advanced Bioeconomy and all the pivots

In for a Penny, In for a Pound: The Advanced Bioeconomy and all the pivots

December 28, 2017 |

It’s been such a busy cycle in the bioeconomy that we are well overdue for a shout-out to a pal of the Digest, Henry Threadgill, for winning a Pulitzer Prize for his landmark composition, In for a Penny, In for a Pound. Threadgill’s masterpiece (which you can experience here) comes to mind as news arrives […]

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Top Trends in 7 Key Latin America Hotspots

Top Trends in 7 Key Latin America Hotspots

December 27, 2017 |

In a striking pledge made in the latter part of 2016. 20 Latin American countries promised to promote biofuel production and use, with the support of development finance institutions. http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2016/08/08/20-latin-american-countries-pitch-for-biofuels/ That was then, this is now. What’s happening towards the development of domestic biofuels and chemicals in Latin America, and the development of market programs […]

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Bioeconomy Curves and Slides, Snakes and Ladders

Bioeconomy Curves and Slides, Snakes and Ladders

December 26, 2017 |

Over the years we’ve all seen a lot of curveballs in the advanced bioeconomy. You see companies like Valero, which lobby the United States Congress with unbridled intensity to get rid of the Renewable Fuel Standard, on the verge of becoming the single-biggest producer of RINs in the United States (with news that they might […]

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Top 10 Asia Bioeconomy Trends

Top 10 Asia Bioeconomy Trends

December 24, 2017 |

With apologies to every other region around the world. we continue to see Asia as the epicenter of the biobased revolution over the next 20 years. The reasons are three and relatively straightforward: 1. Continued and robust economic growth. 2. Massive biomass resource. 3. Lack of fossil energy reserves. Among Asia-watchers we are far less […]

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Nutrition, Energy from Methane: The Digest’s 2017 Muti-Slide Guide to Calysta

Nutrition, Energy from Methane: The Digest’s 2017 Muti-Slide Guide to Calysta

December 24, 2017 |

In December, we reported that Cargill and Calysta will co-create the world’s largest gas fermentation facility in Memphis, Tennessee to produce Calysta’s FeedKind protein, a family of sustainable, traceable nutritional ingredients for fish, livestock and pets. Start-up is expected in late 2018. Amidst a flurry of development announcements, Calysta CEO Alan Shaw gave this illuminating overview of […]

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