By Shalini Nagar Special to The Digest DMFCs utilize methanol, a liquid fuel which, unlike hydrogen, can be placed directly into a fuel cell. Methanol is also more efficient than many traditional combustion processes and has the potential to reduce emissions by up to 80%. Methanol fuel cells are also much less expensive than hydrogen […]
“In a very short timeframe over several months back in 2012 for a series of completely disassociated reasons – I had a whole bunch of folks coming to me and talking about anaerobic digestion.” So begins John Hanselman in telling the 10-year evolution of Vanguard Renewables, which has become an anaerobic digestion industry leader and […]
By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition and Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest Here are some talking points to help the Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition (AFCC) create a $500 million development capital grant program in the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Loan Programs Office (LPO) and obtain more funding […]
By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition & Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest You can make a difference. You can raise your voice and make your voice heard … you can help create a grant program within the federal government to provide development capital … and you can help […]
My old mate, the mysteriously well-informed Dr. Brian Westlake, called me from the mangy old desk he keeps on the verandah at his home and laboratory, Wambangalong, a large station along the Bindiwarra River in the west central of Queensland, by Ininagai country. On this occasion the semi-annual flooding of the local billabong had cut […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Enterprises, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals coalition Special to The Daily Digest What Can You Do to Expand Access to Development Capital? A lot. It is neither too late nor too early to begin advocating for federal financing to expedite the development and deployment of projects that will […]
The great songwriter Sammy Cahn was often asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music? And Sammy would answer, the phone call. Which is to say, first there is the project, and later the magic happens. As for music, films, plays, ballets, so it is for the bioeconomy. Long before there is a technology […]
The term advanced biofuels more or less originated as a catch all in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, for the fuels that were not biodiesel, corn ethanol or cellulosic ethanol. At the time, it primarily referred to Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. Soon the term changed. corn ethanol had become big business, highly successful and […]
If you’ve been around the renewable fuels movement, lately the renewable fuels industry, for any length of time, you’ve seen quite a few advocates and champions debunking what they contend are untrue urban legends. Indirect Land Use Change, ethanol’s return on energy invested, claims of engine damage from use of renewables, the list is long […]
News has arrived from North Carolina that Honeywell UOP is deploying a new ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology that allows producers to convert corn-based, cellulosic, or sugar-based ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel. Depending on the type of ethanol feedstock used, jet fuel produced from Honeywell’s ethanol-to-jet fuel process can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% […]
