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Less Than Zero: Camelina Co., Praj, LanzaTech, Northwestern, GCH, Yale, NREL launch new centers of excellence to advance feedstocks, cell‐free systems, genome engineering for carbon-negative manufacturing

Less Than Zero: Camelina Co., Praj, LanzaTech, Northwestern, GCH, Yale, NREL launch new centers of excellence to advance feedstocks, cell‐free systems, genome engineering for carbon-negative manufacturing

October 6, 2022 |

When in doubt, start a Center. That’s been an academic formula for a long time, but there are good reasons for doubt in the presence of so much biological innovation. How to best optimize feedstocks, how to best design biomanufacturing, how to select the best molecules to make. The world is hurtling towards Net Zero, […]

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Raven Tales: Raven SR, EFT launch new pathway to SAF, renewable diesel from waste biomass

Raven Tales: Raven SR, EFT launch new pathway to SAF, renewable diesel from waste biomass

October 5, 2022 |

From the wilds of southwestern Wyoming and Oklahoma comes welcome news. As we reported last week, Raven SR and Emerging Fuels Technology signed a landmark MOU to integrate their respective technologies into an advanced system for producing sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Let’s look at it in more detail today. The platform combines Raven […]

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Goodbye To All That (Palm): Kao joins, Unilever, Geno in post-palm oil development

Goodbye To All That (Palm): Kao joins, Unilever, Geno in post-palm oil development

October 3, 2022 |

News arrives from California that global consumer products giant Kao has joined a venture to scale and commercialize plant-based alternatives to palm kernel oil, alongside Genomatica and Unilever. The company’s exact investment was undisclosed — the initial announce was the $120M Unilever and Genomatica announce —we understand that Kao’s invest is additive to that amount. […]

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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Much More Modest Challenge Roadmap

September 29, 2022 |

As the authors of an impressive 126-page study on a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Roadmap that leads the Digest coverage today note in their opening remarks: “The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of […]

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The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge Roadmap

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge Roadmap

September 29, 2022 |

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge is a U.S. government-wide approach to work with industry to reduce cost, enhance sustainability, and expand production to achieve 3 billion gallons per year of domestic sustainable aviation fuel production that achieve a minimum of a 50% reduction in life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) compared to conventional fuel […]

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Sorting It Out: Fashion for Good, Circle Economy say we can recirculate 74% of clothing fiber back into the supply-chain

Sorting It Out: Fashion for Good, Circle Economy say we can recirculate 74% of clothing fiber back into the supply-chain

September 29, 2022 |

From the Netherlands comes news that the Sorting for Circularity Europe project has released its report after 16 months in their conclave. The white smoke has emerged from the chimney, habemus papam, and the news is that 74% of low-value, post-consumer textiles is readily available for fibre-to-fibre recycling in six European countries. That’s a total […]

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MetGen’s Acceleration: A hat-trick of deals put the lignin pioneer on a new trajectory

MetGen’s Acceleration: A hat-trick of deals put the lignin pioneer on a new trajectory

September 28, 2022 |

From MetGen in Finland comes not one story but three, a hat-trick. First, a commercial license for biorefineries with Futurity in New Zealand; second, a partnership with Ivy Farms to develop an industrial process for bioactive molecules they use in their cultivated meat technology; third, a partnership with Technip Energies for the industrialization of MetGen’s […]

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Fulcrum’s near, Ensyn’s back: Hopeful Hours in the Big Heavy

Fulcrum’s near, Ensyn’s back: Hopeful Hours in the Big Heavy

September 27, 2022 |

If the bioeconomy were a galaxy and the heavy-duty fuels were the constellation Big Heavy, two of the brightest and longest-lived stars would be Fulcrum BioEnergy and Ensyn Fuels. Of late, attention has been steering towards newcomers such as Alder Fuels, T2C Energy, and a host of new projects getting off the ground — DG […]

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Ready Mobile One: Siemens jumps on the peace train with Ballard fuel cell technology

Ready Mobile One: Siemens jumps on the peace train with Ballard fuel cell technology

September 26, 2022 |

The latest news from Germany concerns a technology that just can’t get enough attention, that’s the Siemens Mobility’s Mireo Plus H passenger trains.  Ballard Power Systems picked up an order for 14 x 200 kW fuel cell modules from Siemens to power a fleet of seven Mireo Plus H passenger trains. Delivery of the 14 […]

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eFuels, by land and sea, get their grips on the ships, road trips

eFuels, by land and sea, get their grips on the ships, road trips

September 22, 2022 |

For more than a decade we have been covering the emergence of e-Fuels — renewable fuels made from (usually waste) CO2 and green hydrogen, the latter conventionally obtained by splitting water using spare, intermittent renewable power. It’s been a story of a fuel defeated by policy. Simply put, most early-day carbon thresholds were so low, […]

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