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Energy-Dense Liquids, Drop-in Fuels: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

Energy-Dense Liquids, Drop-in Fuels: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

January 26, 2021 |

Tying in with today’s top story, this is one slide guide you don’t want to miss from Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO who recently shared this with investors. From the latest in market traction and demand for Gevo fuels, their first world scale project in South Dakota, the Net-Zero 1 Project, using renewable carbon to defossilize, […]

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Developing Hype-Cycle Resilience to Accelerate Advanced Biofuel Technology

Developing Hype-Cycle Resilience to Accelerate Advanced Biofuel Technology

January 25, 2021 |

By Ross Mazur, Graduate Student, Colorado State University Impact MBA, Business Development & Project Engineer, Sustainable Fuels Consulting LLC Special to The Digest Hype, the ephemeral group discourse surrounding topics and ideas, is becoming more pervasive in our increasingly digital world. Although hype cycles, the temporal trends in societal perception of a specific technology or […]

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C02 as Feedstock!: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon to Value Initiative

C02 as Feedstock!: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon to Value Initiative

January 25, 2021 |

Carbontech—technologies that capture and convert CO2 into valuable end products or services is hot right now in attempts to make the planet not so hot with climate change. If you missed last week’s DigestConnect, check out this slide guide from the Carbon to Value Initiative, a multi-year multi-stakeholder program to rapidly commercialize innovation and which […]

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Hydrogen Cost, Production, Applications and Implications: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogen Competitiveness

Hydrogen Cost, Production, Applications and Implications: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Hydrogen Competitiveness

January 24, 2021 |

Full decarbonisation requires a multidimensional strategy, which has spurred renewed interest in hydrogen and technological advances and early demonstration projects have significantly lowered the cost of many hydrogen applications. The Digest culled the best visuals and graphs from The Hydrogen Council’s report, “Path to hydrogen competitiveness” that provides an evidence base on the path to […]

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3 Wednesdays in January: Can biotechnology heal the divide?

3 Wednesdays in January: Can biotechnology heal the divide?

January 21, 2021 |

We’ve had three Wednesdays in January so far this year, and none of us will ever forget them.  On January 6th, a mob of insurrectionists attacked the citadel of Liberty, the United States Capitol. On January 13th, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Donald J. Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’. On January 20th, […]

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MARAD and META Biofuel Opportunities: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Maritime Biofuels

MARAD and META Biofuel Opportunities: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Maritime Biofuels

January 21, 2021 |

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD)’s Maritime Environmental and Technical Assistance (META) Program promotes the research, demonstration, and development of emerging technologies, practices, and processes that improve maritime industrial environmental sustainability with a focus on reduction in vessel and port air emissions. One way to do this is through biofuels and this illuminating […]

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A Muted Year for Biofuels M&A Activity: 2020 Review and Outlook

A Muted Year for Biofuels M&A Activity: 2020 Review and Outlook

January 20, 2021 |

by Bruce Comer, Founder, Managing Partner and Frank Kim, Director, Ocean Park Advisors Special to The Digest COVID-19 further plagues the already challenged North American biofuels M&A market, while capital investments thrive. Biofuels merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in North America remained sluggish in 2020. For the second consecutive year, no large-scale, operating biofuels plant […]

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USDA’s Support for Rural Growth: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Rural Business-Cooperative Service

USDA’s Support for Rural Growth: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Rural Business-Cooperative Service

January 20, 2021 |

Mark Brodziski, Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC 2020 about how the USDA’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service offers programs to support rural business growth across markets in the bioeconomy like biofuels, renewable chemicals and biobased products like the 9003 Program, Ag Innovation Agenda, and more.

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Top 10 Bioeconomy Must-Knows in the Biden Transition

Top 10 Bioeconomy Must-Knows in the Biden Transition

January 19, 2021 |

Who are the key bioeconomy players in the new Biden Administration? What recent moves by the outgoing Trump Administration and Congress will set their budget and regulatory framework for 2021. What will the new Administration do, right away and this year? 1. New faces Here are the key bioeconomy players, as nominated and as-yet unconfirmed, […]

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From Waste to Profits and Products: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sierra Energy

From Waste to Profits and Products: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sierra Energy

January 19, 2021 |

How do you recycle mixed and complex waste? What about waste that can’t be recycled? These are the questions that Mike Hart, CEO of Sierra Energy tackles in this illuminating slide guide that looks at waste generation by region, zero waste goals, FastOx gasification as the future of waste to energy, their facility in California, […]

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