Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. I gave him a run for his money when I was writing my novel When Heat Comes. He wasn’t crazy about the way I put him in there — he told me I made him sound too much like a preacher and not […]
By General Jim “Jayhawker” Lane Special to The Digest I am a fighting man, and I mean to fight for freedom. You remember me as General Jim Lane, the Jayhawker — we were the ones who raided the border, broke the chains, and made Kansas free soil. I wore the name gladly. Freedom wasn’t just […]
Yesterday, we talked about two broken eggs — the MAHA Commission’s push to reduce seed oils in the food system and the renewable fuels sector’s chronic shortage of affordable plant oils — and how, combined, they might make a better omelette for both public health and decarbonization. Today, there’s a third egg on the counter: […]
The MAHA Commission has cracked a few eggs. Its recent report calls for sweeping changes in the U.S. diet, including a reduced role for widely used seed oils in the food system. Industry reaction has been swift and sharp — with oilseed processors, farmers, and nutrition scientists warning of market disruption, higher costs, and questionable […]
I confess at the outset that the morning’s post left me in a fog. The hearth was banked low at 221B, the London light was the colour of dishwater, and the breakfast table groaned under the weight of newspaper reports, addressed, “John H. Watson, MD, 221B Baker Street, London,” from Texas, Egypt, China, Cornwall, Oman, […]
The conversation about Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) has long been about altitude — bold goals, lofty aspirations, and the race to climb as fast as possible. But in aviation, pilots know that altitude isn’t enough. Attitude — the orientation of the aircraft, the crew’s mindset, the instruments in front of them — determines whether you’re […]
Today, Digest AI is announcing that its new tool for predicting economic shock events — those that imperil or foster bioeconomy projects — has passed two major backtests, and will now commence its real-time beta-test. The Hybrid Hazard Index successfully “signaled” the shocks of the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID‑19 economic panic far earlier […]
Hydrogen is supposed to be smooth. At least, that’s how the national roadmaps and investor decks present it—neatly distributed pipelines, symmetric electrolyzers, clean blue curves of growth. But step inside the real hydrogen economy, and it looks nothing like that. It’s jagged. It’s fractal. It’s a collection of breakthroughs, retreats, and strange alliances—exactly what you’d […]
They aren’t huddled over Enigma machines in a wartime hut — but today’s codebreakers are in refineries, labs, and government offices, puzzling out how to make Sustainable Aviation Fuel affordable, abundant, and everywhere. From hydrocracker hacks in Croatia to post‑Brexit fuel moonshots in the UK, from Hawaii’s island‑energy puzzle to solar‑made jet fuel in Switzerland, […]
By Huckleberry Finn (mostly) Special to The Digest You don’t know about me, Huck Finn, without you have read The Digest or Mr. Mark Twain before, but that ain’t no matter. Mr. Jim started the Digest 18 years ago today with not much more’n two readers and a notion about that folks could use a […]
