Which microbes achieve a better, faster, cheaper transformation of the world around us? OK, so you’ve just counted “one, methanogens, two, methanotrophs, three, acetogens, four, knallgas bacteria.” Three Microbeteers?! Lookee, Mom, at those morons at The Digest! They can’t even count to four! So, grasshopper, explain to me Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan as the Three […]
Heard dire comments like “POET expects to stop all future U.S. cellulosic investments if EPA’s proposed base renewable fuel requirements are not strengthened.” Want to understand the substantive concerns on the Renewable Fuel Standard, but lack the time to read the thousands of pages of commentary? Here’s our Digested version of the key comments. In […]
Is there anyone left on Planet Earth not making biobased succinic acid, or running for the US Republican presidential nomination? In succinic, though, there might be several winners. Reverdia CEO Marcel Lubben helps us to understand the broad applications and markets in an exclusive interview with The Digest. Ah, grashopper, you might have thought that “Seeking success […]
Who will be #1 – who will get your vote? Photo Voting expanded – special bonus votes for most original artwork. In Florida, The Digest announced the official opening of nominations for the 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy and the 40 Hottest Small Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Voting Rules Voting will be open […]
As hairdressers are to the stars, so is UOP to the refining industry — or, just maybe, the industry’s Intel Inside, and a good source of insight about where the renewable fuels and chemicals industry is going. Let’s see. Trouble is, we’re so used to hearing about projects that we don’t always hear about the magic […]
Here are the 50 most-read stories, out of the 3,400 we covered last year in The Digest. 1 Where are we with algae biofuels? The page view champ this year, clocking in at 17,821 reads — though the “algae fuels” story is starting to look like a verse out of the song “In the year 2525”. […]
8 years ago, The Digest debuted with two subscribers and an idea. On July 27th, The Digest turns eight, putting us somewhere around the third grade. Which is how we feel when confronted with the complexity and creativity of industrial biotechnology and the advanced bioeconomy: The awe of youth, and a near-constant desire to hit the books and […]
Already, biogas as a renewable fuel is accounting for 90% of all cellulosic RIN production under the Renewable Fuel Standard. Food and paper manufacturers, ethanol & biodiesel plants, cities, landfill operators, and animal feeding operations stand to benefit. How does it work? We spoke with EcoEngineers CEO, Shashi Menon. It’s the “quiet monster” that’s turning […]
In Massachusetts, Ginkgo Bioworks has raised $45 million in an oversubscribed Series B round. Viking Global, a firm managing more than $30 billion in capital, led the round along with previous investors including OS Fund, Y Combinator and Felicis Ventures. The new funds will be used to expand into new categories such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and probiotics, as […]
Iogen’s technology at commercial-scale, and officially open for business. In Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff launched Iogen Energy’s cellulosic ethanol technology at the official opening of Raízen`s newly expanded Costa Pinto sugar cane mill in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil on July 22, 2015. Iogen, a leading developer of cellulosic biofuel technology, and Raízen, one of the […]
