This past spring on the ABLC stage, a parade of senior US government officials — led by Arati Prabhakar, Science Advisor to the President, and including representatives from USDA, DOE, Defense, Commerce, the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation — unveiled the Biden Administration’s Bold Goals for the deployment of the bioeconomy […]
In Illinois, World Grain reports that a new Rabobank study shows sustainable aviation fuel production in the US could reach 2.2 billion gallons by 2026, up from just 25 million gallons right now, and grow to up to 34 billion gallons by 2050. Rabobank expects SAFs, 40% of which are currently produced from ethanol, will […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). If we seek to make the carbon we need from the carbon we have, what do we have? […]
To understand today’s SAF and Renewable Diesel markets, techs and projects, we turned to our long-time DIgest commentator and sector guru Will Thumond to help us sort out how the irresistible object of sustainable demand meets the immovable force of supply-chain constraints and business as usual thinking. What is going to happen — where, when, […]
In Israel, startup MadeRight has raised $2 million in seed funding to drive biodegradable packaging made from fungi. Founded in 2022, MadeRight is using fermentation to cultivate fungi grown on organic industrial waste such as wood chips to produce biodegradable packaging materials. When mixed with bioplastics, the material can be pelletized and used within existing […]
By James Cogan EU Government Affairs, Industry & Policy Director, ClonBio Special to The Digest In an amazing turn of events, on August 16 the European Commission launched an investigation[1] into possible large scale violations in the used cooking oil, palm oil and biodiesel supply chains from South East Asia to Europe. The amounts are […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). BETO works with a broad spectrum of government, industrial, academic, agricultural, and nonprofit partners across the United States […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (establishes partnerships with key public and private stakeholders to develop technologies for producing cost-competitive advanced biofuels from non-food biomass resources, including cellulosic biomass, algae, and wet waste (e.g., biosolids). If we seek to make the carbon we need from the carbon we have, what do we have? […]
Back when, we observed in The Digest: “The predictable result of a tsunami of new companies formed and no new manufacturing at scale built? The fermentation Squeeze.” It arrived, and it’s been rough. Good news has arrived from upstate New York that LiDestri Foods and Fermentum, Inc.have revealed a joint venture and a 500,000 liter […]
In Israel, industrial design student Avia Revivi has created toilet paper infused with seeds after a hiking trip left her contemplating the environmental impact of what she left behind. Dubbed O-SOW, the concept leverages swift decomposition of organic elements and the presence of active E. coli bacteria found in human waste to create TP that […]
