By Mauricio Villegas, Manager of Business Development, Koch Modular Process Systems Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continue to increase globally, but the degree of growth is starting to tapper off. In 2021 the IEA reported that CO2 levels increased by 6% from the prior year, partly due to the significant decline during the […]
The birds are singing at dawn, across the forest of Compiègne, and it is morning in the bioeconomy here in the heart of agricultural France. The rapeseed is in its flashing golden bloom to the east of the forest, next to the green shoots of the sugarbeets now just emerging from the soil, and small […]
The mention of Montana tends to conjure up visions of the episodes of Yellowstone, or roughnecks and cattle ranchers, chants of “drill, baby, drill” and an epic disdain for vegan cuisine. You wouldn’t likely have pegged Montana as home, just now, of the largest SAF producer in North America. Doesn’t sound like Houston when it […]
By Shrikant Rathi, Executive Director, Praj Americas Special to The Digest Ethanol worldwide has played a vital role in replacing fossil fuels in ground transportation. The drive for decarbonization has driven consideration of low carbon bioethanol as a feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and bio-products due to its potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions […]
Lately I have been comparing in my mind the situation of the oil & gas industry today and the facts that faced the German High Command in the late autumn of 1944. Today, it’s a two-front war, EVs on the Eastern Front now winning titanic policy battles of encirclement and annihilation, while the numerically smaller […]
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going.” John 3:8 Lately there has emerged a worship of cleaner ammonia as a hydrogen carrier and for use in fertilizers and industry, so we might as well revive the […]
The dugout is so old as technology goes, it predates agriculture, fermentation, currency, the wheel, writing, travel by horseback, almost everything except cooking, pottery, and quite a few hunting and skinning tools. Back then, we were tied to the campfire and the kill — then came the dugout, and that was the beginning of shipping, […]
The state of Oregon is bigger than most people realize, the road from Clatskanie along the Columbia River to Lake County in the south-central valley that adjoins the Fremont National Forest is a 590 mile journey through an America that is worth seeing, though not many have time to make the effort. I suspect that […]
For many years I knew that when we saw the first signs for Lumberton, when traveling north on Interstate 95, having passed into North Carolina, that it was time to seek the weatern turn onto Highway 74 and make the pilgrimage to Pinehurst, where the pine-scented air and the puzzles of a Donald Ross golf […]
The Energy Independence and Security Act is sixteen years old this year, going on seventeen, and when I think the industry that has sprung up to deliver the advanced fuels contemplated by the Bush Administration, I think of the old lyric from The Sound of Music: You are sixteen going on seventeen Baby, it’s time […]
