Author Archive: Jim Lane

rss feed

Embracing the Potential of Carbon Capture and Utilization as an Essential Strategy for Decarbonizing the Power Sector

Embracing the Potential of Carbon Capture and Utilization as an Essential Strategy for Decarbonizing the Power Sector

May 16, 2022 |

By Anna Douglas, Co-Founder and CEO, SkyNano Technologies Special to The Digest In early April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third part of its sixth climate assessment report, outlining actions that can be taken to mitigate climate change. One of the report’s top recommendations is to replace fossil fuels with renewables. […]

Read More

Russia’s Impact on Biomaterials: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Stora Enso

Russia’s Impact on Biomaterials: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Stora Enso

May 16, 2022 |

What does President and CEO Annica Bresky of Store Enso have to say about today’s turbulent environment and Stora Enso’s performance, purpose, and plans? Check out this illuminating slide guide to how they are finding solutions for their Russian operations and sourcing, the latest on their renewable products, divestment of paper assets to make room […]

Read More

Breakthrough for cows: NovoNutrients achieves “beef-quality” protein from CO2 instead of cattle

Breakthrough for cows: NovoNutrients achieves “beef-quality” protein from CO2 instead of cattle

May 16, 2022 |

Outperforms plant proteins, on path to deliver beef-level nutrition at soy cost From California comes hard data on protein made from thin air, which is to say CO2 emissions. The good news, the quality is virtually identical to beef –  it’s “beef-quality protein, without the cow,” the company states. NovoNutrients announced successful production of protein […]

Read More

Competitive Edge: Amogy’s Ammonia

Competitive Edge: Amogy’s Ammonia

May 12, 2022 |

Ammonia (NH3) is the second most produced chemical in the world, with high energy density and practicability – but can we use ammonia as a low emission or even zero emission fuel? Amogy says we can, with their technology that enables emission-free high performance mobility using ammonia as a fuel. In today’s Digest, how Amogy […]

Read More

Accelerating Bioenergy: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Department of Energy’s EERE

Accelerating Bioenergy: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Department of Energy’s EERE

May 12, 2022 |

Michael Berube, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Transportation at the Department of Energy shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC on what the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE)’s goal is with bioenergy, biomass in sustainable transportation including sustainable aviation fuel, and more.

Read More

Waste to Green Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Element 1

Waste to Green Hydrogen: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Element 1

May 11, 2022 |

From renewable methanol to green hydrogen for both mobility and stationary applications, Element 1 is proving hydrogen can be made at a scalable size with attractive economics. Find out why methanol is a precursor to hydrogen, why it’s a superior hydrogen carrier, why this matters for the future of hydrogen, and more.

Read More

The Dawn of Greater Energy Independence – Why Europe also needs to count on sustainable bioenergy

The Dawn of Greater Energy Independence – Why Europe also needs to count on sustainable bioenergy

May 10, 2022 |

By Paul Bennett, Chair, IEA Bioenergy Special to The Digest The Ukraine war has exposed Europe’s critical dependence on fossil fuel imports, so EU Member States are discussing the required steps to break away from their dependence on fossil fuels. Meanwhile in its latest Assessment Report the IPCC also calls for rapid action to move […]

Read More

Circular Sourcing for Materials Transition: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Genomatica

Circular Sourcing for Materials Transition: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Genomatica

May 10, 2022 |

With over 2,000 issued and pending patents/applications, Genomatica is on a role with a pipeline with $30 billion direct TAM, according to their recent ABLC presentation. From commercial-scale bio-butanediol to renewable nylon, and HMDA, find out how Genomatica is partnering with Cargill, Covestro, lululemon, and others to make a drive the materials transition, and more.

Read More

Bunge, CoverCress, Chevron taking us into the future and into the past

Bunge, CoverCress, Chevron taking us into the future and into the past

May 9, 2022 |

The arrival of revolutionary cover crops and use cases recall the days of the Neolithic. When news arrived that Bunge and CoverCress signed commercial partnership to support the expansion of CCI’s CoverCress technology, a new winter oilseed crop, and that Bunge Ventures recently increased its stake in CCI through a Series C-1 round, we were […]

Read More

Biosolutions for the Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes

Biosolutions for the Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes

May 9, 2022 |

Things are looking good for Novozymes this year with 10% organic sales growth, two new product launches in the first quarter including HiPhorious – a phytase solution for improved phosphate uptake – in animal nutrition, the construction of production line for Advanced Protein Solutions in Blair, Nebraska, progressing according to plan, and more.

Read More