With Net Zero Pledges, there are projects, projects everywhere to ensure the world meets its carbon reduction goals through new fuels & energy, or carbon capture & sequestration. Check out this slide guide from DigestConnect with Dave Collings, Senior Technical Advisory Consultant at 1898 & Co. and explore the technologies, policies, geographies, options, and pathways […]
Hot off the press this morning is news that Aemetis signed a 10-year offtake agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, for 450 million gallons, or 45 million per year, from the Aemetis Riverbank Carbon Zero 1 project in California which will begin producing in 2024. The deal is expected to generate as much as $3.1B […]
Zara clothing made from steel factory waste emissions thanks to LanzaTech, adidas and Allbirds scaling up their low-carbon footwear, Canadian brand launches apple leather handbags, new fruit-based glitter for your holiday festivities, and the largest cultured steak “printed” to date. In today’s Digest, those fascinating innovations and a few not so fun ones like a […]
In California, Mote announced its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO2 emissions from the process. Mote expects to produce approximately seven million kilograms of carbon-negative hydrogen and remove 150,000 metric tons of CO2 from the air annually. Mote expects to start hydrogen production starting as soon […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC and the “Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest No, I’m not repeating here the usual biting critique from anti-biofuels advocates about an industry always promising a better mañana, but never delivering today. Instead, this title summarizes my historical perspective as a veteran of decades of the bio-wars, taking […]
The entire world is aligned and charging forward on plastics, if you only consider the first two letters. REcycle, REplace, REuse, REduce. In other words, no one agrees on anything except the need for change. What’s been missing is the REsource option — changing the way we make plastics, instead of trying to live in […]
In Belgium, Reuters reports that EU antitrust regulators fined Spain’s Abengoa 20 million euros ($22.5 million) on Friday for rigging ethanol benchmarks as part of a crackdown on such practices while investigations into two other companies continue. The European Commission has levied billion-euro fines in recent years, with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic […]
In Finland, Neste Corporation’s President and CEO Peter Vanacker has given notice of his resignation from the company. He will leave his position at Neste at the latest in June 2022. The search for Vanacker’s successor starts immediately. “I warmly thank Peter for his great work in accelerating Neste’s transformation into a global leader in […]
In the United Kingdom, SGN, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group and Esso Petroleum Company, Limited (an ExxonMobil affiliate) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the use of hydrogen and carbon capture to help reduce emissions in the Southampton industrial cluster. Southampton has one of the largest industrial sectors in the United Kingdom, and is both […]
In Minnesota, Calyxt, Inc., a plant-based synthetic biotechnology company, completed a key milestone in its lab-scale BioFactory manufacturing system with results through the Company’s metabolomics analyses indicating over 15,000 chemical signatures, including both known and as-yet-uncharacterized molecules and building block precursors, chemical compounds involved in chemical reactions that produce other compounds. These chemical signatures form […]
