Good-bye ARPA-E, DOE, Loan Guarantee program, Energy Star, OPIC, USTDA, NEA, and the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. Even Big Bird gets the guillotine. In Washington, the White House released its budget requests for 2018, a high-level, 62-page overview of President Trump’s strategy for “Making America Great Again”. Departmental impact In order of percentage impact, […]
In Ottawa, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, pledged a $13M non-repayable contribution through Sustainable Development Technology Canada that will enable Canfor to further develop and demonstrate Licella’s technology — it will take what is a currently a waste product from its production processes and develop it into a low-cost biofuels […]
The High Lords of Pyrolysis travel under the unlikely cover identities of “George Huber” and “Robert Brown” — but we know them in their true superhero identities of “The Catalyst” and “The Godfatha”. Of late, they have assembled what might be best described as the Justice League of Pyromaniax — although the various superheroes prefer […]
“One thought only preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids […]
By Gretchen Miller Special to The Digest Meghan Pawlowski crawled through the tall, dense sugarcane jungle, glass vials in hand, searching for her next sample site while she kept her eye out for the scurry of cane spiders. Up to four inches across, these usually harmless creatures are nonetheless an unpleasant one-on-one encounter while tangling in […]
In Iowa, the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition sent a letter to President Trump asking him to support several initiatives to expand the states’ biofuel production and to help the states “harvest its economic and environmental benefits.” The governors also wrote to President Trump shortly after he was elected. “We write on behalf of governors from states […]
In Germany, export figures from the German Federal Statistical Office show a growing interest in biodiesel from Germany. Especially in the US, demand increased substantially. German biodiesel exports amounted to around 1.54 million tonnes in 2016. This translates to a 3.4 per cent rise year-on-year. Nevertheless, exports fell short of the 2014 record. EU member […]
In a recent publication, researchers from the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, present the findings of a global survey on Jatropha cultivation conducted in 2011. Their main findings show that of the 1.04 million ha cultivated with Jatropha in 2011, 26% was established on land previously used for crop production or animal husbandry, 34% on previously […]
In South Dakota, the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) sent letters to the House and Senate thanking Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Reps. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) and David Loebsack (D-Iowa) for their leadership and support by introducing the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (S. 517, H.R. 1311). […]
In Washington, according to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association, US ethanol production averaged 1.022 million barrels per day (b/d)—or 42.92 million gallons daily, on par with the prior week. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 1.033 million b/d for an annualized rate of 15.84 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol […]
