It occured to me that, at the end of a hard and bitter summer, with interest rates high, policy unstable, loan guarantees in the first circle of hell known as limbo, projects moving like glaciers instead of rockets, lip service everywhere you look, that it might be worth having a look forward at the world […]
The urgency of climate change mitigation and the need to meet the global obligation for a net-zero world have made it imperative to explore every way possible to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One of the ways is to change how we produce energy, with a focus on decarbonization across heavy industries, the transport sector, […]
The new Bioeconomy Risk Indexes are out from the Daily Digest, they are free and here. https://bit.ly/4dqr58U. This week we are reporting notable shifts in risk relating to hydrogen, SAF, ammonia, RNG, FOG, food waste and MSW. The risk picture. President Lula in Brazil sanctioned legal frameworks and the Special Incentive Regime for Low Carbon […]
In my travels, I made a friend in Matthew Lesko, and you won;t know the name, but if you had a sleepless night or two in the heydey of infomercials, you might remember a guy in a question mark suit, talking about all the free money you could get just by taking advantage of government […]
By Gregory T. Benz LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting) and Benz Technology International, Inc. Special to The Digest A recent article in Ethanol Producer Magazine (1) highlighted the potential for growth in the ethanol industry, noting that Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) can be produced from ethanol, which is predominantly made from corn in the […]
In Florida, Digest Data launched the BRISKIs, the Bioeconomy Risk Indexes, tracking risk for 30 bioeconomy fuels and chemical molecules, and 60 feedstocks. They are free, and here. The purpose The BRISKIs offer insight for decision makers, at a time in the bioeconomy when the industry turns from development to deployment, and risks are a […]
If you’ve been hiding amongst the outer planets in recent months and years, you’ll not have heard of the increasing alarm over microplastics — these almost microscopic-sized bits of hydrocarbon that are piling up in our bodies, in our food, and everywhere. Dire predictions there have been about the risks, and solutions generally have been […]
I have good news to share today, from Ensyn; also, from a company called Matereal that’s been bubbling below the surface for some time and is now emerged from stealth. Finally, from a worthy group called Change Chemistry that is co-organizing a meeting of interest this week with DOE leaders. I suppose that, in our […]
Some days, it feels like 1968 all over again. Crisis in the Middle East, a Robert F. Kennedy running for president, assassins in the news, political upheaval in France. Russian tanks rolling in Eastern Europe. An American president eligible for re-election deciding belatedly and under pressure not to run, a VP running after not being […]
The industry newsdiaper is so SAFturated with jet fuel stories, you might have forgotten that renewable chemicals exist, and that some of them do super-absorbent things. And it’s good news that super-duper absorbents are in the news, for those of you around the world who have friends currently soiling themselves as their political leaders of […]
