Editor’s Note: This is part I of a four-part series on the Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator and opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. Part II is here:Beat Crude with Altitude: Why Cascadia Needs a Place Where SAF Risk Can Clear. Part III is here: Speed, Baby, Speed: How Washington State’s Cascadia Accelerator Turned a Launch into […]
Hollywood figured this out a century ago. They don’t sell celluloid — they sell star power. If you have an established icon like Clara Bow, you sell It: allure, magnetism, and the special sparkle that turns a performer into a phenomenon. If you have a rising force like Ann Sheridan, you sell Oomph: that impossible-to-bottle […]
November 20, 1982. The Play. Four seconds left. Stanford has the lead. The entire 1980s college era of order and structure says: Game over. The formality of a final Stanford squib kickoff comes. Then, Cal comes alive. A lateral keeps the game alive. Then another, and it looks like the player’s downed — Stanford players […]
In Florida, the Daily Digest today released its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. Get the latest up to the minute new information on the New Mexico and Canada Clean Fuels Standard as well as a section on SAF mandates in […]
Night has fallen on the most consequential race humanity has ever run. The pit lane glows under floodlights as engines scream into view — and with them come the hopes we’ve placed on sustainable fuels to save the world. First over the line: Team Road Mode. A diesel-class endurance machine: scarred by two centuries of […]
’Twas the week before Christmas, and ’cross all the States, Not a refinery building, despite carbon tax rates. The bankers lay nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of bioprojects danced out of their heads. Two centuries ago, when Clement Clarke Moore wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas at his Chelsea estate on the […]
Why venture capital’s winning doctrine for software breaks at the factory gate—and why China’s phase-based approach is scaling the bioeconomy while the U.S. struggles. Stand at the gate of the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park and the argument makes itself. The scale is difficult to absorb all at once. Miles of pipe rack. Integrated utilities. On-site […]
The good news first. Aether Fuels is moving forward with a new project in Singapore, extending its footprint in one of the world’s most strategically important aviation hubs. For a company focused on scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from waste carbon streams, Singapore is not just another site — it is a signal. It suggests […]
After years of Pat Gruber standing on ABLC stages and pointing out the big problems the industry could—and should—solve, here’s the latest one: he’s announced his impending retirement as Chief Executive Officer of Gevo, planned for April 2026. At first glance, the instinctive reaction is the familiar one: uh oh. After all, Gruber has been […]
This is 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 1999. This is Y2K. Around the world, the largest millennium celebration in human history is poised to begin. Fireworks are wired and rehearsed. Broadcast feeds are cued. City centers wait to erupt in light. But beneath the celebration, the world holds its breath. In a control room in […]
