Author Archive: Jim Lane

rss feed

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Methane Pyrolysis and Turquoise Hydrogen

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Methane Pyrolysis and Turquoise Hydrogen

July 23, 2024 |

Turquoise hydrogen is made by the process of decomposing methane (methane pyrolysis), which can be either fossil or biological in origin. Turquoise hydrogen is considered low carbon because it creates a solid carbon (carbon black) that can easily be separated from the process. Since the carbon falls out in a solid form, there is no […]

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals and Materials

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Chemicals and Materials

July 22, 2024 |

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced in the transition to biobased chemicals and materials. We look at the molecules getting traction, market prices, new process technologies, the policy environment, carbon prices or the lack thereof and much more, including how stakeholders and finance are coming together to support the build-out. The Digest’s Jim […]

Read More

1968: Are we back there again? Can the bioeconomy help?

1968: Are we back there again? Can the bioeconomy help?

July 22, 2024 |

Some days, it feels like 1968 all over again. Crisis in the Middle East, a Robert F. Kennedy running for president, assassins in the news, political upheaval in France. Russian tanks rolling in Eastern Europe. An American president eligible for re-election deciding belatedly and under pressure not to run, a VP running after not being […]

Read More

What’s the time? It’s Diaper-time! So let’s make them sustainable

What’s the time? It’s Diaper-time! So let’s make them sustainable

July 21, 2024 |

The industry newsdiaper is so SAFturated with jet fuel stories, you might have forgotten that renewable chemicals exist, and that some of them do super-absorbent things. And it’s good news that super-duper absorbents are in the news, for those of you around the world who have friends currently soiling themselves as their political leaders of […]

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation

July 18, 2024 |

BioMADE is securing America’s future through biomanufacturing innovation, education, and collaboration It is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a Public-private partnership, with over 280 members, spanning large industry, innovative start-ups, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and more BioMADE’s Jack Starr presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to International Partnerships and Trends

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to International Partnerships and Trends

July 17, 2024 |

There are so many International Organizations and Partnerships, what do they do, who are they, how do they work together? There are Country-led initiatives on Technology, Policy, Sustainability, Finance. There’s UN, FAO, OECD, G20 activities plus multi-stakeholder groups wuch as IEA Bioenergy, To help sort it out, DOE’s Jim Spaeth presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing Technologies

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing Technologies

July 16, 2024 |

SixRing, a chemical technology company, uses patented modified acids to produce high purity cellulose, biogenic acetic acid, and low viscosity biocrude from lignocellulosic biomass at ambient pressure and temperature. Not a typical start-up, SixRing’s product development plan is to “shine lights down these high value pathways so that our licensees can generate the most value […]

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Green Hydrogen

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Green Hydrogen

July 15, 2024 |

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global hydrogen producers in shifting towards low carbon hydrogen — new technologies for green hydrogen, new carbon capture opportunities to make blue hydrogen, and much more, including how policy and finance are coming together to support the build-out. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides as […]

Read More

New Targets for Pesticide Discovery: Protein-Protein Interactions

New Targets for Pesticide Discovery: Protein-Protein Interactions

July 14, 2024 |

By Jonathan Gressel, LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting), Weizmann Institute of Science and HiCap Formulations (Israel) Ltd. Special to The Digest Modern pesticides provide a healthy, safe food supply. The twentieth-century discovery of small organic molecule pesticides revolutionized agriculture and food production. Pesticides such as herbicides replaced manual and mechanical cultivation, while fungicides and […]

Read More

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to BDO Zones

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to BDO Zones

July 12, 2024 |

BDO Zone ratings are powerful market signals of regional readiness for bio-manufacturing.  Ratings undergo rigorous due diligence using a standardized framework of over 100 risk indicators.  Jordan Solomon, CEO of Ecostrat, presented these slides for ABLC 2024.

Read More

}