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Are We On the Right Road to the Energy Transition? Problems with the Current Path and a Possible Viable Roadmap to Slay the Energy Beast

Are We On the Right Road to the Energy Transition? Problems with the Current Path and a Possible Viable Roadmap to Slay the Energy Beast

February 12, 2026 |

By Steven Slome, FGE NexantECA Special to The Digest To date, efforts on energy transition have been characterized by an “all of the above” approach, with a wide range of feedstocks and technologies seeking to decarbonize a wide range of different fossil fuel end-uses. This approach is hampered mainly by insufficient renewable power, insufficient biomass feedstock, high costs for many “end-use” […]

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Tropicalizing the Transition: Radix, Cemvita, and the Engineering of a Circular Bioeconomy

Tropicalizing the Transition: Radix, Cemvita, and the Engineering of a Circular Bioeconomy

February 10, 2026 |

It’s 6 o’clock at the Digest editorial desk, and screens have given way to sunscreen. We’re scanning the day’s headlines from the shade, a glass of something red-amber in hand — the Diablito, a Florida Keys invention of rum, blood orange, lime, and a hint of trouble. In the late light, it looks suspiciously like […]

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The Starting Gate: Europe’s Biofuel Sprint to 2030

The Starting Gate: Europe’s Biofuel Sprint to 2030

February 9, 2026 |

The cold mountain air of the Milano Cortina Winter Games cuts like glass, but for a Giant Slalom skier crouched in the starting gate at Tofane, the world has narrowed to a single thing: the line. Five seconds. Beep… beep… beep… heart rate up, muscles coiled, then green. Attack. That’s where Europe’s advanced biofuels sector […]

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The Password is Swordfish: The Digest’s Guide to getting Money via 45Z tax credits

The Password is Swordfish: The Digest’s Guide to getting Money via 45Z tax credits

February 4, 2026 |

Groucho Marx once wrote Many Happy Returns, a tongue-in-cheek tax guide. If he were here for Section 45Z, he might add a subtitle: 
“Provided You Registered Before the IRS Looked.” The good news: Treasury has — wait for it — released the proposed regulations for the 45Z clean fuel production credit. The document contains proposed […]

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Marching as One: How C1 Molecules Are Rewriting the Rules of Fuels and Chemicals

Marching as One: How C1 Molecules Are Rewriting the Rules of Fuels and Chemicals

February 3, 2026 |

It’s Oh-dark-thirty at Fort Methanol. Reveille has sounded. Intake complete. Heads shaved. Civilian clothes gone. Racks made. Fall in! “I don’t care where you came from,” the drill instructor shouts. “Corn stover. Landfill gas. Forest residues. Steel mill exhaust. Direct air capture. Doesn’t matter. I’m going to run you through heat, pressure, and current until […]

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Resilience Is the New Carbon: Khaki Is the New Green

Resilience Is the New Carbon: Khaki Is the New Green

February 2, 2026 |

Ten years ago, Visolis entered the federal innovation pipeline through Cyclotron Road—the DOE-backed fellowship that helped define the climate-tech generation. Founder Deepak Dugar was part of a wave of scientists trying to turn low-carbon chemistry into real industry. Today, Visolis is winning scale-up funding from the Department of Defense. Same company. Same core science. Different […]

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The Long Work: The People Who Stay

The Long Work: The People Who Stay

January 29, 2026 |

There’s a quiet bond among people who choose this work, the bioeconomy. You don’t end up here because it’s easy. If easy were the goal, there are cleaner career paths, simpler markets, less friction. Heck, go get rich working on petroleum. Here, progress comes with resistance. Every gain seems to arrive with a counterforce — […]

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FOAKBall: Creating First-of-a-Kind Projects that succeed, a new paradigm

FOAKBall: Creating First-of-a-Kind Projects that succeed, a new paradigm

January 27, 2026 |

The spreadsheet worked. The chemistry was sound. The model penciled. And yet the project stalled, downsized, or died somewhere between final investment decision and steel in the ground. If you’ve worked on a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) project in the bioeconomy, this story will feel familiar. The usual explanations follow: demand softness, policy uncertainty, buyer hesitation, macro […]

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The Supreme Trial of the Bioeconomy is Here

The Supreme Trial of the Bioeconomy is Here

January 26, 2026 |

In today’s bioeconomy, the theoretical has no value. Only the tangible survives. The Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference convenes in March not as a symposium but as an operational summit in the middle of policy crossfire, capital hesitation, and supply chain fragility. 
The era of “design, build, test, learn” has given way to something more blunt: […]

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Gentle Rain or Sky River: Will the expected surge in corn supply bring E15 or a deluge?

Gentle Rain or Sky River: Will the expected surge in corn supply bring E15 or a deluge?

January 22, 2026 |

If you’re looking for a clean signal in the bioeconomy this week, you won’t find one. What you will find is pressure—steady, measurable, and building across the Corn Belt. U.S. corn yields continue to climb, driven by better genetics, better agronomy, and relentless improvements in logistics. This is not speculative supply. It is science doing […]

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