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Hydrogen is Hot in Australia! ARENA’s Funding for Hydrogen Continues: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Hydrogen Deployment

Hydrogen is Hot in Australia! ARENA’s Funding for Hydrogen Continues: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Renewable Hydrogen Deployment

May 26, 2020 |

Australian Renewable Energy Agency, or ARENA, has invested $1.48 billion in 513 projects since 2012, and of those approximately $50 million are across 28 hydrogen projects. A pathway to a renewable hydrogen industry has many benefits but there are still several key issues like barriers to large scale deployment, demand drivers that are still evolving, and […]

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3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

3 Things that Need to Happen for Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Take Off

May 25, 2020 |

By Lloyd Ritter, Esq., Director, Green Capitol LLC Special to The Digest A timely new report came out recently on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), “Ready for Takeoff: Aviation Biofuels Past, Present, and Future,” written by the Atlantic Council (herein AC).  The key takeaways are three-fold. First, aviation emissions are one of the most recognizable sources […]

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Strong Q1 but 2020 Outlook Suspended: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’s Latest Results, Equity Story

Strong Q1 but 2020 Outlook Suspended: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novozymes’s Latest Results, Equity Story

May 25, 2020 |

COVID-19 has put the world on hold and Novozymes is no different in terms of suspending their 2020 outlook. Why? Because none of us have a crystal ball and how can you predict the future now, especially concerning U.S. ethanol demand and stockpiling effects? Novozymes is an agile organization, however, and was able to meet demand despite […]

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BD Zones and BDO Zones: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Weaponizing Biomass for a Bio-fueled Recovery

BD Zones and BDO Zones: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Weaponizing Biomass for a Bio-fueled Recovery

May 24, 2020 |

If you missed last week’s DigestConnect webinar, you can catch up on what exactly a Bioeconomy Development (BD) Zone is vs. a Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone and why you should care about both. Think about a certified investment-ready industrial site program but to drive bioeconomy development – a BD Zone – and what it can mean […]

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Wearing Sustainability and Innovation on Your Sleeve: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Emerging Materials for Apparel

Wearing Sustainability and Innovation on Your Sleeve: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Emerging Materials for Apparel

May 21, 2020 |

With some places starting to open up again, maybe you are looking at shopping for clothes – thanks to some quarantine weight gain or weight lost – so let’s talk about some new threads today. What are the latest innovations with apparel materials? We’ve read about mushroom shirts and algae dresses, but here’s a quick summary from […]

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BD Zones and BDO Zones: Weaponizing Biomass to support a Bio-Fueled Economic Recovery

BD Zones and BDO Zones: Weaponizing Biomass to support a Bio-Fueled Economic Recovery

May 20, 2020 |

By Jordan Solomon, President, Ecostrat Inc. Special to The Digest The US has over a billion tons of biomass which can be used as a key lever to drive economic recovery. USDA estimates that 3.4 million jobs and nearly $660 billion of economic benefits would be created by using biomass to manufacture alternative fuels, renewable […]

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Scrap to Wrap, a new app? NOVA, Enerkem set sights on garbage-to-ethylene, and how, and why

Scrap to Wrap, a new app? NOVA, Enerkem set sights on garbage-to-ethylene, and how, and why

May 20, 2020 |

From Canada comes news that NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem entered into a joint development agreement to explore turning non-recyclable and non-compostable municipal waste into ethylene, a basic building block of plastics. NOVA Chemicals has committed to enabling 100 percent of plastics packaging is recyclable or recoverable by 2030; and 100 percent of plastics packaging is […]

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Clean Beauty, Flavors and Fragrances, Alternative Sweeteners: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris’s Synthetic Biology in a COVID-19 World

Clean Beauty, Flavors and Fragrances, Alternative Sweeteners: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Amyris’s Synthetic Biology in a COVID-19 World

May 20, 2020 |

Even with everything going on, Amyris reports strong growth prospects driven by consumer megatrends and underpinned by proprietary science in their latest May 2020 investor presentation. With sales growth of 140% between FY 2018 and 2019, and a 56% 2019 gross margin, Amyris continues to grow in key industries like consumer beauty productions, natural flavors and fragrances, […]

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Protected: Biobased technologies, companies, partners and models of interest

Protected: Biobased technologies, companies, partners and models of interest

May 20, 2020 |

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New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project

May 18, 2020 |

In Brussels, the European Investment Bank, with the support of the European Commission, has granted a EUR 75 million (nearly $82 million USD) loan to ArcelorMittal for Steelanol, the EUR 165 million ($180 million USD) industrial-scale demonstration plant based on LanzaTech’s process, capturing waste gases from the blast furnace and biologically convert them into recycled-carbon […]

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