When the news scroll fills with flashy deals and billion-dollar headlines, it’s easy to overlook the most powerful stories—the ones that deliver sturdy companies and technologies for the long-haul. The Uptime technologies, the -we-found-a-way companies, the sustainable and affordable feedstocks. Entropy? Chaos in the market. They fold entropy into structure, convert symbolic weight into trust. […]
Some times, the rain comes down so hard, it’s hard to see the road. I’ve been driving American highways for years, I’ve seen the fall rain in Pennsylvania forcing trucks off the road, spring fog in Oregon so think you can’t see the headlights from the oncoming cars, the summer winds in the Carolinas sweep […]
By Mark Warner, CEO, Liberation Labs Special to the Digest On April 10, 2025 in Washington, the NSCEB released its final report to Congress and hosted a day-long convening of leaders from industry, government, and academia. I was there, and the mood was a mix of excitement and realism: bold ideas—like $15B in proposed funding—were […]
This past week, we reported that Manus and Inscripta have announced a strategic merger to establish an end-to-end platform for scalable development, biomanufacturing, and commercialization of bioalternative products. In our report, we noted the public rationale: by combining Inscripta’s whole-genome engineering technologies with Manus’ cell factory engineering platform, biomanufacturing expertise, and commercialization capabilities, the merged […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest The long term sustainability of first generation ethanol facilities, through advanced biofuels plants, is realized by making money from all the by-products; and of course, CO2 is one of the leading components of this by-product list. There are many variables associated the feasibility […]
By Gerard J. Ostheimer, PhD and Douglas L. Faulkner “The Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest The East African Corn Belt runs from South Africa, north and east through Zambia, Tanzania and into Kenya and Ethiopia (see map). We believe that this area is poised to become a thriving hub of innovation and production of […]
By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition and Doug Sombke, President, South Dakota Farmers Union Special to The Digest As usual there is a lot of angst in middle America these days with uncertainty over RFS volumes, small refinery waivers, bird flu, budget cuts, and looming trade wars. But the greatest threat is […]
By Altain J. Chombe Special to The Digest A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs On a crisp autumn morning in 1995, two ambitious young professionals began their first day at a great Fortune 100 oil company. Both were filled with determination, eager to carve out a future in the evolving world of energy. One saw opportunity […]
By Jordan Solomon, President, Ecostrat Special to The Digest We all watched as Los Angeles burned, destroying homes, businesses and lives. The total economic impact of the Los Angeles wildfires is staggering, with estimates ranging from $135 billion to over $250 billion. No one should have been surprised. In 2024, the town of Jasper, Alberta […]
By Sam Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. Special to The Digest The average person on the street often would see CO2 today as an agent for beverage carbonation, a gaseous agent in the atmosphere which is a normal part of many biological processes; plus today it is now viewed strongly as a major greenhouse gas. […]
