They have discovered that in carbon as in cholesterol, lower is better, less is more, and I might add that God is in the details. Always in the bioeconomy as in the game of CLUE, when someone murders the carbon intensity, everyone’s next question is Whodunnit? In this case, you needn’t look for Miss Scarlet […]
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, special to The Digest August is usually a pretty sleepy month in Washington and business in general. In baseball parlance, the “dog days of August” is a term to convey the slow grind of a long season. But not this year. Between the drama of politics […]
In recent weeks we’ve seen transformation after transformation in Brazil. Certainly, though the biggest news is yet to come, because we do not know yet who will own the BP Bunge ethanol assets, which are up for sale. We reported last week that “UAE state investor Mubadala Investment Co and Raizen are the final bidders […]
News arrived from Washington that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $46 million for 22 projects to decarbonize the transportation and power generation sectors. The projects will develop waste conversion and carbon capture technologies to produce fuels from biomass and waste streams, and enable algal systems to capture carbon and turn it into alternative clean […]
The news has been sizzling since last week that VTT is spinning out Olefy technology in October – with a process that can convert most of the world’s waste plastics back to usable virgin grade materials an infinite number of times, and VTT adds, “affordably”, though we are still looking for detail on the Affordably-to-USD […]
Many countries are now active with Sustainable Aviation Fuel — but how much where, and when, and what? The bulk of activity continues to come from the US — however, the EU has been gaining momentum, and Asia of late has been highly active. Several technologies have been in the news. What we might now […]
Happy news has arrived from Pearl River, New York and the R&D team at Anellotech. It’s not so long ago that we were hailing the Pearl River development of a COVID vaccine by the Pfizer-BioNTech collab. Seems like we may need to re-name this part of the world “Happy River”. This latest discovery from Anellotech […]
Note to readers: A more timely piece could not be written. With the industry awash as never before with opportunity, the skills of gaining attention from the right people in the right way has never been more in demand. Here, from the Zen Master of Gaining and Maintaining Attention through Very Big Ideas that Come […]
From Washington comes news that the U.S. Department of Energy will make more than $540 million in awards for university- and National Laboratory-led research into clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. The goals Earlier this year, the DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announced its interest in receiving new applications from single principal […]
