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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Cyclotron Road

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Cyclotron Road

January 22, 2025 |

This presentation deck details the Cyclotron Road program, a fellowship program designed to bridge the gap between scientific research and real-world applications. Founded by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Cyclotron Road aims to empower scientists to translate their research into viable products and companies, tackling global challenges like climate change. The program offers fellows […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Global Transition to SAF

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to the Global Transition to SAF

January 21, 2025 |

This source is a  presentation about Topsoe’s role in the global transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). The presentation highlights Topsoe’s commitment to developing and providing technologies for producing SAF, emphasizing their 80-year history of innovation and leadership in the chemical industry. The key themes are Topsoe’s commitment to a net-zero future, their SAF pathways […]

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I’ll be there for you: The Farm to Fly Act returns courtesy of the six bioeconomy Friends

I’ll be there for you: The Farm to Fly Act returns courtesy of the six bioeconomy Friends

January 21, 2025 |

Back in the 1990s, it was Central Perk, and Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, Rachel and Monica. Today it’s probably something like a hot dish potluck in a cosy living room with Chuck, Pete, Jerry, Joni, Amy and Tammy — someone always remembers the bacon-wrapped corn dogs, and it’s all Midwestern nice, even though we’re somewhere […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Synpet

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Synpet

January 20, 2025 |

This presentation deck is a presentation for SynPet, a company that has developed a unique thermal conversion process (TCP) to recycle mixed plastic waste, including PVC, into valuable products like circular naphtha, renewable natural gas, electricity, steam, biochar, and liquid fertilizer. The presentation highlights the shortcomings of existing waste management solutions, such as incineration, landfill, […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels

January 16, 2025 |

This  presentation deck by Futuria Fuels discusses the company’s efforts to develop renewable propane, a clean alternative fuel. The presentation deck highlights the importance of biopropane as a by-product of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and emphasizes the shared ambition of these two industries to decarbonize. It then introduces SHV Energy, a major player in […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Jupeng Bio

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Jupeng Bio

January 15, 2025 |

This presentation deck is an overview of Jupeng Bio, a company specializing in biomass gasification and syngas fermentation to produce sustainable biofuels and other valuable products. The text traces the company’s history from its roots in 1984 to its current third-generation syngas fermentation process demonstrated in 2023. Jupeng Bio utilizes a proprietary technology to convert […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to RavenSR

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to RavenSR

January 14, 2025 |

This presentation deck is a technical overview of Raven SR, a company focused on using patented technology to convert waste into low-cost, low-carbon fuels. The presentation deck highlights Raven SR’s mission, technology, and commercial readiness. The first section emphasizes the company’s commitment to sustainability, using a process with negative carbon intensity to produce fuels cleaner […]

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to New West Genetics

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to New West Genetics

January 13, 2025 |

This presentation deck offers an overview of New West Genetics’”AMPLIFY” hybrid industrial hemp as a sustainable and economically viable fuel feedstock. It highlights the plant’s superior carbon sequestration capabilities compared to other oilseeds like soy and canola due to its deep root structure, lower water and nitrogen requirements, and reduced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. NWG […]

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Propellant: DOE’s $23 million new investment into Renewable Chemicals and biofuels

Propellant: DOE’s $23 million new investment into Renewable Chemicals and biofuels

January 13, 2025 |

In Washington, the US  Bioenergy Technologies Office announced up to $23 million in funding to support domestic chemicals and fuels from biomass and waste resources. The opportunity is called Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC). The SPARC notice of funding opportunity supports R&D of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. […]

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The Year of Deploying Dangerously: Bioeconomy Opportunities for 2025

The Year of Deploying Dangerously: Bioeconomy Opportunities for 2025

January 10, 2025 |

The holiday baubles are now put away, January is upon us. The cold flowing out of Washington DC in the form of chilly 45Z tax credit guidance is matched only by the heavy Eastern snows.  Fires rage in Los Angeles fueled by two wet winters, the US is trolling Denmark over Greenland because, presumably, new […]

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