Part 1 of a Digest series on India’s projects, progress and emerging bioeconomy leadership. By car, motorcycle, auto-rickshaw, truck, tractor, bus, train, camel, elephant, or on foot, India is on the move. From the effervescent hornblowing of the traffic that pours through its cities and interconnecting highways like a hot magma, to the trumpets of […]
In Switzerland, Metafuels announced its first institutional funding round—led by prominent climate VCs Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and Contrarian Ventures. Metafuels focuses on sustainable aviation fuel made using renewable electricity (eSAF)—a further environmentally-refined version of what has emerged as the leading long-term strategy to decarbonize air travel. It does not require the re-engineering or re-purchase […]
In New York, Reuters reported that the US Government expects the Treasury to release guidance by the end of this week on whether to make it easier for sustainable aviation fuel made from corn-based ethanol to qualify for subsidies. Corn-based ethanol producers see sustainable aviation fuel as one of the only ways to grow their […]
In Copenhagen, Natural Material Studio has converted spent grain from beer production into indoor design panels for the city’s ÅBEN brewery. Spent grain—also known as mask—is left over from the brewing process. Natural Material Studio’s Bonnie Hvillum tells dezeen the panels’ attractive swirly pattern is natural to the material. “The smaller particles, in powder form, […]
In the long term, the bioeconomy needs hydrocarbon feedstocks at 28 cents a pound or less — that’s not the raw cost of the biomass, that’s the finished cost of the hydrocarbons after excess oxygen has been blown off and the solids have been converted into workable, homogenous condition and possibly into liquids or gases. […]
In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi Aviation (ADA) and Leonardo announced that ADA’s AW139 intermediate twin-engine helicopter accomplished two flights powered by aviation fuel blended with SAF in Abu Dhabi last month. These flights using SAF on an ADA commercial helicopter marked a first in the UAE and Middle East, Leonardo said. Nader […]
What’s up with the Wonder from Down Under? Licella’s Cat-HTR decarbonization platform could help customers meet their net-zero carbon commitments. How do they use water as the agent of change and turn biomass and mixed plastics into low CI biocrude? What is their multi-year path to commercial readiness? What about their work with Shell, Arbios, […]
In Washington, the Engine Technology Forum stated in a post that “The possibility for a new energy economy built on renewable electric power and new fuels like hydrogen holds equally great potential and uncertainty of success. There is an increasing, and shared, recognition that such a shift to a new energy economy will be uneven […]
In Texas, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst is making a $75 million project equity investment commitment to support Infinium’s Project Roadrunner, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions. Project Roadrunner will convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low-carbon fuels. This first-of-a-kind commercial-scale Power-to-Liquids (PtL) eFuels facility is […]
In Ottawa, on the sidelines of the SCALING UP meeting, a coalition of the willing called the Bold Goals Action Group refined and amended a series of 37 Bold Actions that must be taken by industry and government in order to achieve the global timelines for Net Zero economies that address climate change and the […]
