Category: Top Stories

World Energy Secures Permits; Will Completely Convert Its Southern Calif. Refinery to Create North America’s Largest SAF Hub

April 24, 2022 | admin

In a sweet SAF switcheroo, huge news arrived from California-based World Energy, a carbon-net-zero solutions provider, that it secured the critical permits required to completely convert and increase output by 700 percent at its Southern California renewable fuels production facility, the world’s first and North America’s only commercial-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel production site. World Energy […]

Competitive Edge: Algae for Future

April 21, 2022 | Jim Lane

On this Earth Day, we highlight a very green organization – literally green – Algae for Future. This Portugal-based biotech company has the world’s largest algae cascade raceway and is designing, building, and operating commercial-scale microalgae production facilities. In today’s Digest, an exclusive Digest Q&A with Algae for Future, a peek behind the tech, what […]

Are you a biohacker? Bioplastic encapsulated chips in your body, lab-grown caviar and oysters, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 21st

April 20, 2022 | admin

Imagine embedding a chip encapsulated in bioplastic in your hand that allows you to pay for things, open your door, and other daily tasks without fumbling for your phone, keys, or wallet anymore…that’s exactly what ‘biohackers’ are now doing. If that’s too off the wall for you, perhaps lab-grown caviar or lab-grown oysters are more […]

On the Move – Neste, Agribusiness Association of Iowa, USGC, DMC, ExxonMobil, and more

April 19, 2022 | Jim Lane

April showers bring May flowers and apparently lots of changes with personnel moves in the bioeconomy. From Neste’s new President & CEO, a new CEO for Agribusiness Association of Iowa as well as Azelio, U.S. Grains Council new VP and COO of Ethanol Export Development, ExxonMobil’s new President of Low Carbon Solutions, and more, it’s […]

E15 Summer Waiver: Key Questions About the Market

April 18, 2022 | Jim Lane

By John Eichberger, Executive Director, Fuels Institute Special to The Digest Last week, the Biden Administration announced its intention to use emergency waiver authority to allow for the summer-time sale of the fuel E15, a mixture of gasoline and up to 15% ethanol. The sale of E15 during the summer months is currently prohibited due […]

Enerkem, Nova chart new path from waste plastic to Circularity

April 15, 2022 | Jim Lane

There’s Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Tech, Big Pharma there’s the Big Apple, the Big Easy, and now that Enerkem is joining the ranks of the ever-mightier with news of its latest $255 million capital raise, we better think of a category and Big SynGas might do the trick. The Canadian firm has attracted admirers […]

Rules Brittania: the UK’s new Energy Security Strategy, and the bioeconomy

April 14, 2022 | Jim Lane

In the UK, the British Government announced its Energy Security Strategy to create a ‘flow of energy that is affordable, clean and above all secure. We need a power supply that’s made in Britain, for Britain – and that’s what this plan is all about.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson observed, “for most of the industrial […]

The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Disputation: Bioeconomy and the Scoring of Carbon

April 13, 2022 | Jim Lane

Last week, players teed off in The Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia, and Scottie Scheffler emerged as champion because in golf, lowest score wins. You’d think it would be the same in the world of carbon emissions — lowest carbon score wins. In golf, one often hears the phrase “the scorecard has no pictures”, yet […]

The Bioeconomy’s Big Bang: The When, Where, Who, What and How of the sector’s expansion dissected in an interview with the Lee Enterprises Consulting team

April 12, 2022 | Jim Lane

Just before ABLC 2022 convened, I had an opportunity to visit with four leaders of the bioeconomy, now working together at Lee Enterprises Consulting, as to how the bioeconomy is evolving and how the industry is re-shaping and expanding to meet new needs. In today’s column and roundtable discussion, we explore the what, where and […]

The Banana Problem: A new report from Fuels Institute tackles the complex defossilization of medium to heavy duty transport

April 11, 2022 | Jim Lane

In the world of freight, how you look at the time-energy-emissions equation kinds depends on what you’re hauling. It’s the banana problem. Taking 20+ days to sail from Jamaica to Florida is a great example of low-energy, low-emission travel, but it doesn’t work for bananas unless you have refrigeration on board, which defeats the point. […]

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