Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to ISO 14064 and Corporate Carbon Claims

July 22, 2026 | Jim Lane

Corporate buyers rely on ISO 14064 to verify sustainable fuel commitments, but deployment-era complexities are fracturing consistency. Divergent interpretations of novel claims, biogenic accounting, and decoupled attributes often lead to qualified assurance opinions, undermining buyer confidence. Furthermore, overlapping accounting rules between corporate and regulatory frameworks create conflicting seams. To secure claim usability, companies must build […]

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to 45Z Compliance LCA

July 21, 2026 | Jim Lane

Section 45Z allows producers to claim site-specific, actual carbon intensity (CI) values for higher credits, but this demands extensive data collection and verification. These substantiation costs create a fixed overhead that disproportionately burdens smaller projects, often forcing them to use less lucrative default CI values. Claiming actual values requires robust, scalable data infrastructure across the […]

Voyages Around the Cape: Setting sail with Direct Ocean Capture, Power-from-coal without combustion, CO2 storage

July 21, 2026 | Jim Lane

How the next generation of climate technology is discovering another passage through physics That’s me, parked in Simon’s Town not far from the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa. The tourists are watching the penguins, and I should too. Quite right, too—they are delightful little creatures, solemn, argumentative, and impeccably dressed in black and […]

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Book-and-Claim Registry Integrity

July 20, 2026 | Jim Lane

Single-registry advancements have improved tracking, but a lack of cross-registry interoperability creates massive double-counting risks at deployment scales. Because registries lack shared identifiers and common metadata schemas, manual reconciliation is error-prone and unsustainable. To prevent double claiming, the industry must proactively build interoperable digital infrastructure using unified identifiers, machine-readable retirement APIs, and batch-level serialization. Establishing […]

CO2 as a versatile laser gas

July 20, 2026 | Jim Lane

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; some claim to be one of the most powerful continuous lasers available as of late. […]

Bioeconomy Bonking: The Tour de France and how Itaconix and Ag-Grid Energy chose the right moment to attack

July 20, 2026 | Jim Lane

The peloton is stretched thin across a narrow French road as a relentless crosswind blows for nearly an hour. What began as a compact pack has fractured into nervous diagonal lines called echelons. Riders who looked perfectly comfortable only minutes ago are suddenly twenty bike lengths behind, desperately trying to close a gap that widens […]

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Prequalification

July 16, 2026 | Jim Lane

Fragmented global certification regimes demand multiple redundant audits for a single feedstock, multiplying administrative burdens without delivering incremental environmental benefits. Because verification costs are fixed per audit rather than volume-based, this fragmentation disproportionately burdens small and mid-size producers, creating regressive barriers to market entry. To solve this, the industry must prioritize mutual recognition agreements between […]

Mahalo! Hawaii’s Clean Fuel Standard Becomes Law

July 16, 2026 | Jim Lane

I was topping off the rental car at an Aloha gas station near Honolulu Airport when the pump thanked me. Mahalo. It’s such a small thing that most visitors probably don’t even notice anymore. You replace the nozzle, glance at the receipt, and there it is on the screen: Mahalo. Thank you. It may be […]

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Marine Fuel Quality

July 15, 2026 | Jim Lane

The petroleum-centric ISO 8217 standard dangerously lags behind the realities of modern low-carbon marine fuels. While bio-blends introduce unaddressed risks like microbial contamination and cold-flow limitations, emerging fuels like methanol and ammonia demand entirely distinct, specialized handling categories rather than being treated as simple hydrocarbon variants. Even chemically fungible FT diesel presents hidden lubricity challenges. […]

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF Book-and-Claim Integrity

July 14, 2026 | Jim Lane

Book-and-claim systems critically decouple sustainable aviation fuel attributes from physical delivery, allowing corporate demand to scale globally. However, the current landscape of fragmented, independent registries lacks shared certificate identifiers, common metadata schemas, and cross-system retirement visibility. This structural blindness creates a “seam” where the identical environmental attribute can be double-counted by both regulators and corporate […]

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Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to ISO 14064 and Corporate Carbon Claims

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to 45Z Compliance LCA

Voyages Around the Cape: Setting sail with Direct Ocean Capture, Power-from-coal without combustion, CO2 storage

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Book-and-Claim Registry Integrity

CO2 as a versatile laser gas

Bioeconomy Bonking: The Tour de France and how Itaconix and Ag-Grid Energy chose the right moment to attack

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Prequalification

Mahalo! Hawaii’s Clean Fuel Standard Becomes Law

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Marine Fuel Quality

The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF Book-and-Claim Integrity