Author Archive: Jim Lane

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The Making of a Monster: the Greasezilla, BP story

The Making of a Monster: the Greasezilla, BP story

November 10, 2024 |

Imagine if you will a gigantic beast made entirely from trap grease, woken from its slumber by climate change, who wreaks vengeance on the wasteful wasters of western civilization. I can hear its terrible, terrifying cries: I ZAP your waste grease. I POWER the world on your leave-behinds. Your trash is my UNSTOPPABLE ENERGY SOURCE. […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to USA BioEnergy

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to USA BioEnergy

November 7, 2024 |

This presentation deck by USA BioEnergy, a company focused on developing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other biofuels from woody biomass, outlines their plan to build a series of 12 advanced biorefineries across the United States, emphasizing their commitment to using proven technologies, ensuring performance guarantees, and securing funding through debt, equity, and development capital. […]

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Election reflection: Bioeconomy Buys, Sells and Holds for the next four years

Election reflection: Bioeconomy Buys, Sells and Holds for the next four years

November 7, 2024 |

Time for some US election reflection. It’s a consequential election for the United States, and also for the developed world. We’ve asked around and here’s what we’ve heard. Sell this stock. Ukraine, the SAF Grand Challenge, EV mandates; swim lanes across the Rio Grande; rapprochement with the EU; diversity, equity and inclusion offices in federal […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to BioVeritas

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to BioVeritas

November 6, 2024 |

This presentation deck highlights BioVeritas’s innovative approach to producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) using a bio-based process called the BioVeritas Process™. The presentation deck emphasizes BioVeritas’s commitment to unlocking a wide range of feedstocks for SAF production, utilizing a mixed-culture fermentation process, and leveraging a proprietary, low-energy acid recovery (LEAR) system to minimize energy consumption […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to GreenStar BCS

November 5, 2024 |

This  presentation delivered at the ABLC Conference in 2024 highlights Green Star BCS’s expertise in the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) sector. The company, with a global team of “Molecule Managers,” provides consulting services focused on techno-economic solutions and insights for a low-carbon future. The presentation deck outlines the global jet fuel consumption, SAF capacity, and […]

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Challenges and opportunities ahead for the Cannabis industry

Challenges and opportunities ahead for the Cannabis industry

November 4, 2024 |

By: Sam A. Rushing, President – Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd – www.carbondioxideconsultants.com Special to The Digest For the last few years, there has been a great deal of excitement surrounding medically available options from the cannabis industry. Further, it becomes more obvious and impressive to find the number of locations where legal cannabis products are offered, […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to MicroBio Engineering

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to MicroBio Engineering

November 4, 2024 |

This presentation deck reports on the use of algae in wastewater treatment and the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by MicroBio Engineering Inc., a company based in California and British Columbia. The report highlights the work of CEO John Benemann and other researchers, including those affiliated with Cal Poly. The presentation deck also mentions […]

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Avantium, Carbios, Cellana: Three Underdogs take great leaps forward

Avantium, Carbios, Cellana: Three Underdogs take great leaps forward

November 3, 2024 |

Some say that companies like Avantium, Cellana and Carbios can be safely ignored, the hill is too tough to climb, the technology too ambitious, the markets served too uncaring, the development and deployment costs too high, the returns too minuscule to care. Others say: When in this world the headlines read Of those whose hearts […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet SAF

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaJet SAF

November 1, 2024 |

This presentation by LanzaJet, a company specializing in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), highlights the company’s Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology as a key driver for the next generation of SAF. They advocate for the use of ethanol as a feedstock, particularly highlighting the existing supply of ethanol and the potential to create new sources from agricultural waste, […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Boundless Impact lifecycle assessment

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Boundless Impact lifecycle assessment

October 31, 2024 |

This presentation by Michele Demers of Boundless Impact outlines the company’s approach to using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) to evaluate clean technologies for investors. Boundless offers “Baseline LCAs” and “Full LCAs” that analyze the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle. They also conduct “Techno-Economic Analysis” which assesses the […]

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