By Michael Goldsworthy, VP, Climate Impact at Elimini Special to The Digest For many years now, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has led the way in setting the standard for corporate climate commitments. At the heart of SBTi is a simple ethos: follow the science. This ethos has played a large part in the […]
By: Sam A. Rushing, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd, www.CO2consultant.us Special to The Digest CO2 lasers were one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed. The development occurred in 1964 by Bell Labs, and remains one of today’s most useful lasers; which some claim to be one of the most powerful continuous lasers available as of […]
By General Jim “Jayhawker” Lane Special to The Digest I am a fighting man, and I mean to fight for freedom. You remember me as General Jim Lane, the Jayhawker — we were the ones who raided the border, broke the chains, and made Kansas free soil. I wore the name gladly. Freedom wasn’t just […]
By Sam A. Rushing, president – Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest Despite announcements whereby the EPA will no longer consider CO2 a hazardous gas; the end result from this is devastating to the environment, our economy, and our lives. On the other hand, whether or not this occurs, there remains a greater […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest By far, cryogenic freezing of food products is the hallmark of low temperature applications for the commodity. My personal experience with respect to low temperature applications for the commodity have been the lion’s share of the merchant work, in the past with the […]
Green hydrogen stands at a crossroads—hailed as a linchpin of the low-carbon future, yet caught in a double bind between stunning technical progress and the stubborn realities of implementation. Shanghai Electric just delivered its first barrels of green methanol at a wind-and-biomass facility hailed as a world first. Envision Energy is ramping up to 320,000 […]
In the old story, a scrawny farm boy traded the family cow for a handful of magic beans—and woke to find a beanstalk clawing at the clouds. In the modern version, those beans are billions of dollars in SAF investments, audacious policy mandates, and blockchain platforms curling skyward in defiance of gravity. But the giant—the […]
By Dr. Qi Chen, Pete Rocha, LEC Partners Special to The Digest While the electrification of many industrial sectors is accelerating the energy transition, it is not a silver bullet that will get us to net-zero economies. From aviation to cement, industries reliant on fossil based-carbon need a sustainable substitute—not just to meet climate targets […]
If you had the keys to America’s first commercial SAF refinery, how would you play it? Welcome, new Sheriff in town. You’re not just acquiring some sleepy old plant. You’re stepping into the long, layered saga of the Paramount Sustainable Fuels Facility—a place whose ownership story is less a deed than a palimpsest. In 2018, […]
If there’s one refrain running through this week’s sustainable aviation fuel headlines, it’s that Rudy Clark had it right all along in Got My Mind Set on You, which most of us remember from the George Harrison cover version: It’s gonna take timeWhole lot of precious timeIt’s gonna take patience and time, mmmTo do it, […]
