Category: Top Stories

The Fast-Breaking, Full-Court Pressing, Outside-Shooting Bioeconomy

The Fast-Breaking, Full-Court Pressing, Outside-Shooting Bioeconomy

October 2, 2025 |

Once upon a time, the biofuels game was all about the Big Dude in the low post. Rotterdam was his home court, and the rules were simple: park yourself near the basket, take the handouts, and drop in the easy points — mandates, subsidies, credits, waivers. Year after year, the same towering franchises dominated the […]

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The Bioeconomy 500 for 2025 – outstanding leaders of the bioeconomy’s development and deployment

The Bioeconomy 500 for 2025 – outstanding leaders of the bioeconomy’s development and deployment

September 30, 2025 |

In Florida, The Daily Digest announced the Bioeconomy 500 for 2025, which recognizes individuals for their leadership contributions to the bioeconomy’s development and project deployment. The Bioeconomy 500 honors scientists, engineers, policy makers, financiers, project developers, feedstock pioneers, offtakers, advocates and supply-chain and distribution partners. All Digest subscribers were eligible to nominate candidates of their […]

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The Pyran Packers: The Monomers of the Midway Plan a Season of Biotransformation

The Pyran Packers: The Monomers of the Midway Plan a Season of Biotransformation

September 29, 2025 |

In August 1919, Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun met above a Green Bay newspaper office. They didn’t have a stadium, or money, or even uniforms. What they had was persistence — and a sponsor from Indian Packing, whose name stuck. Nobody expected much. Yet from that hat-passing start, the Packers became the only small-town team […]

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Skill Baby Skill: The world’s top bio Sherpas advise on bio-Extraction and bio-Innovation 

Skill Baby Skill: The world’s top bio Sherpas advise on bio-Extraction and bio-Innovation 

September 24, 2025 |

The wind is rising on the South Col. Nepalese prayer flags snap in the gale, storm clouds boil above the ridgeline, and avalanches echo down the Lhotse face. Above Camp Four, climbers are stalled—tents battered, oxygen running low, radios crackling. Is there a climbing window or not? Which rope teams are pairing, and which are […]

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Cutting Through Oil? Amogy Says: Put Some Ammonia on It

Cutting Through Oil? Amogy Says: Put Some Ammonia on It

September 23, 2025 |

For a golden stretch of the 20th century, petroleum was the wonder cure. It solved the whale oil crisis, freed us from the limits of horse-based transport, filled our vehicles with clean power and our homes with cheap light. “Sweet as a honeybee.” The Four Tops had it right in 1965 in The Same Old […]

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How POET’s Practical Innovations Are Redefining the Ethanol Market

How POET’s Practical Innovations Are Redefining the Ethanol Market

September 22, 2025 |

Once upon a cornfield morning, a hare boasted that he would electrify the world before lunch. EVs for all, he cried! Electrify everything! Decarbonize the plant by suppertime!. Reporters scribbled. Investors nodded. The hare sprinted to the next podium, promising leaps no tortoise could match. The tortoise said nothing. He tightened his harness and got […]

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Here Be Dragons: Catalyxx and the Quest for Higher Alcohols

Here Be Dragons: Catalyxx and the Quest for Higher Alcohols

September 18, 2025 |

The old maps warned of it. Beyond the edge of the known, in the deep mist of the sealung fog — too thick to breathe, too thin to swim — cartographers scrawled a warning: Here Be Dragons. It was not certainty, but dread: the edge of the world, where only the purest of heart, armed […]

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Aloha SAF or Mahalo for the Money?: Hawaiʻi at the Crossroads of Aviation’s Future

Aloha SAF or Mahalo for the Money?: Hawaiʻi at the Crossroads of Aviation’s Future

September 17, 2025 |

The trade winds move softly through the palms. In the upland valleys, rain feeds taro terraces. On the shore, fishermen cast nets where their grandparents once stood. This is aloha ʻāina—not just love of the land, but a covenant with it, a rhythm of care and reciprocity. Then came the jets. First as a marvel, […]

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Who’s the Fairest Surfactant of All? The Ruby Bio Story, and the Science of Suds

Who’s the Fairest Surfactant of All? The Ruby Bio Story, and the Science of Suds

September 15, 2025 |

Queen Business-as-Usual loved her mirror. It gleamed, polished to perfection with petrochemical surfactants. She had a clean fetish, and this mirror was her pride — her proof that no molecule could be fairer than hers. Every morning she would ask: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest surfactant of all?” And every morning the mirror […]

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The Carbon Black Caper: Ecolomondo’s Tire-to-Treasure Story

The Carbon Black Caper: Ecolomondo’s Tire-to-Treasure Story

September 8, 2025 |

The velvet rope parts, the crowd presses in. Today, the master cutter will make his move. Somewhere behind us, Inspector Clouseau barges forward, notebook at the ready. “Zis is ze original cutting of ze Pink Panther, yes? I must investigate ze el sceno de crimo!” The guard frowns. The cover is lifted… and instead of […]

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