Every March, the sports world waits for the same thing: the Cinderella run. The improbable team that survives the early rounds and suddenly finds itself under the brightest lights of the tournament. This year, the bioeconomy has two. In one bracket, SunGas Renewables is advancing with a technology that turns forestry residues—sawdust, bark, and wood […]
Editor’s Note: For quite a number of years, we have been pleased to collaborate with our friends at Ocean Park Advisors to bring you an annual report for Biofuels Mergers and Acquisition activity during the year — and the trends and takeaways therefrom. Here is this year’s edition. By Ocean Park Advisors Special to The […]
Every March, we look for a Cinderella. The underdog that survives the early rounds and suddenly finds itself under the brightest lights in the tournament. This year, energy has not one Cinderella story — but two sets of twins. The first pair are technological underdogs. On one side, containerized “fuel swarms” that can manufacture jet […]
At 6:14 a.m., Susan Daniels’ alarm vibrates against the composite nightstand she ordered online last fall. The mattress foam beneath her shoulder was engineered by microbes. The carpet under her feet began life as plant sugars. The wrinkle-free blouse she pulls from the closet owes its finish to enzyme chemistry perfected in an industrial fermenter. […]
The halls of the 2026 National Ethanol Conference (NEC) were charged with a unique mix of triumphant optimism and palpable frustration at some delays, particuarly on nationwide all-year E15. By the numbers, the U.S. ethanol industry is a titan: a record 16.4 billion gallons of renewable fuel produced last year , with exports shattering records […]
When Biology Becomes Form — and Form Becomes Programmable 6:00 a.m. A windowless room in an undisclosed location, sixty feet underground. Concrete, steel, filtered air, no windows and no exterior vents large enough for a sparrow—only a corridor of security checkpoints between this room and daylight. Six people sit around a matte-black table. High clearances. […]
In the winter of 2004, shortwave operators across America began hearing something strange. Seven seconds after the top of the hour — precisely seven seconds — a burst of digital static tore across the desert bands. A sharp 0.8 seconds of data. Then a voice. A furious outlaw with a red mustache and two loaded […]
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes, Watson.” Sherlock Holmes leaned over the laboratory bench, examining a wisp of switchgrass beneath the lens. Outside, the fog hung low — the sort that obscures moors and markets alike when a mystery refuses to yield. “I observe only this,” Watson […]
A man stands in the mansion of a zillionaire explaining how his rug has been unmistakably peed on — and how the zillionaire is responsible. “Well, sir, it’s this rug I have. It really tied the room together. They were looking for you… these two guys… they tried to— well, they tried to pee on […]
In the Imperial Valley, the wind carries two kinds of dust. One is literal — sun-scorched soil lifting off 48,000 acres of irrigated farmland near Brawley, California. The other is political — immigration headlines, ICE raids, unemployment charts, and the lingering ache left behind when the Spreckels sugar plant shuttered in 2025. What left with […]
