By Jeff Passmore, Founder and Chair of Scaling Up Special to The Digest Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the industrial bioeconomy, and it’s a strategy that can bring Ottawa […]
By Ronald Cascone, Principal, Nexant, Inc. Special to The Digest Love-hate Most people love plastics. Most people hate plastics. Similarly, most people love nature (sunsets, the beach, walks or drives through the woods, especially for leaf peeping, flowers, furry animals, etc.), but also hate nature (hurricanes, tornados, jellyfish, biting insects, spiders, snakes, skunks, ragweed, fallen […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President – Advanced Cryogenics Special to The Digest BACKGROUND The CO2 industry expands organically, say 3% annually in some markets. The best way to grow more rapidly in the industry, is via the development and implementation of new and unique applications in a wide variety of markets. CO2 applications, of a […]
By Don Siefkes, Executive Director, E100 Ethanol Group Special to The Digest Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky’s process of direct carbon capture is technically elegant, but there is a lot simpler, lower cost and faster way to halt global warming that will ensure the future of the biofuel industry. Gasoline is the single largest emitter by far […]
By Michael Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest 2018 saw the shipping industry take its first steps towards addressing the challenge of climate change when, at its 72nd session in April, IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted an initial strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping by […]
By Philipp Stratmann, VP Biofuels, Velocys Special to The Digest At this year’s ABLC Next Conference in San Francisco Velocys presented on the opportunity to produce negative emission fuels at our planned Bayou Fuels facility in Natchez, Mississippi. Whilst we were not the only company presenting on advanced biofuel products at the conference, our integration […]
By Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky, co-founder and CEO of Global Thermostat and co-author of Reversing Climate Change, and Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University. Special to The Digest The pace of global climate change is accelerating. So is our understanding of what it takes to avert catastrophic climate change. The world’s power plant […]
By Zoltan Kish, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest The increasing amount of waste is one of the most challenging problems facing the World, which creates enormous environmental problems. According to the World Bank, Canada produces the most waste per capita in the world. Additionally, Canada recycles just 9 percent of its […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Energy Consulting Services and Executive Director, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition Special to The Digest Let’s be honest. It doesn’t matter how revolutionary or good your technology or product is if you cannot secure the funding for it. FEDERAL FUNDING There is more than $54 billion available in funding […]
Challenges and Opportunities in Biofuels By Steve Hartig, Former VP of Technology Development at ICM Special to The Digest The North American biofuels market can be split into three main segments all of which have major dynamics. What I would like to do is give a high-level overview of what I see as some of […]
