By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO, QuantaVision I have been working with Section 9003 since it was written into the 2008 Farm Bill — not as a policy observer, but as someone who has sat with developers at the application table, worked alongside lenders trying to underwrite these projects, and watched technologies with real commercial […]
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO, QuantaVision Special to The Digest I think about a developer I watched a few years ago. The technology was real. The team was real. The feedstock was locked. They did the work most people never do — and the project still didn’t get built. When it stalled, the program […]
By Sam A. Rushing, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd.— www.carbondioxideconsultants.com Special to The Digest For the average citizen, Algae is often viewed as a problematic growth, sometimes found in backyard swimming pools and in-home fish tanks. These environments are constantly trying to eliminate and prevent algae formation. On the other hand, algae today in greenhouse gas emissions […]
By Moji Karimi and Marcio Silva, Cemvita Special to The Digest How the waste-to-energy industry is evolving from single-molecule outputs to intelligent carbon optimization The Carbon Value Problem Nobody Talks About For more than a decade, the waste-to-energy industry has operated from a remarkably consistent playbook: take organic waste, feed it into an anaerobic digester, […]
Topsoe’s integrated hydroprocessing and hydrogen technologies HydroFlex® and H2bridge™ offer fuel producers a pathway to lower emissions, reduced costs and greater feedstock flexibility By Milica Folić, Director for Clean Fuels and Chemicals, Topsoe Special to the Digest Securing bankability and strong economics in renewable fuel production projects are of primary importance. Producers must manage production […]
By Sam Rushing Special to The Digest When producing and using CO2 in the almost endless number of applications, we should first consider the safety requirements and hazardous effects of the product; whether this is a liquid, vapor, or ice. Liquid and vapor represent a large share of the merchant market, in terms of applications […]
By M. Uzair Shah and Nourredine Abdoulmoumine Special to The Digest The hidden gap between modeled feasibility and real-world deployment — and how integrated decision-making can close it What looked feasible in pieces becomes fragile as a whole. That is the single most consequential sentence in the advanced bioeconomy right now — and it is […]
Growth in renewable fuels is offering refineries and new entrant producers opportunities with significant potential. Incentivization, mandates and regulations, from the EU’s ReFuelEU Aviation regulations to the US Renewable Fuel Standard developments, are creating an expanding market – and early movers can take full advantage. But the clock is already ticking when it comes to […]
At the world’s tightest energy chokepoints — from the Strait of Hormuz to the policy corridors of Washington — the conversation has already shifted. The question is no longer “How green is it?” It’s “Will it hold?” In a recent TechTransfer discussion hosted by Digesterati Cameron Begley with the Digest’s Jim Lane as guest we explored […]
By Oliver Booth Special to the Digest On March 2, 2026, the global energy landscape was thrust into chaos when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officially declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, threatening to target any vessel attempting to transit. The closure followed US-Israeli military strikes on Iran that began on February 28. By […]
