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Living robots, fungus homes, biobased aquaculture ropes, biopolymer food films, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 23rd

Living robots, fungus homes, biobased aquaculture ropes, biopolymer food films, and more: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of January 23rd

January 22, 2020 |

It was a week of lots of deal-making, like edible straw startup Loliware’s raising of $5.9 million to scale production, and deal-breaking, like Itaconix and Nouryon’s break-up over biobased chelating agents for detergent applications. But it was also a week of innovating like the development of biobased food packaging films made from biopolymers based on […]

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The Democratic Party’s Choice for President: The Digest’s endorsement

The Democratic Party’s Choice for President: The Digest’s endorsement

January 22, 2020 |

The first votes of the 2020 Presidential election season are due to be cast in Iowa in less than two weeks, and it is fitting that this farm state is where the journey towards Decision 2020 begins. Iowa touches all of us, as the epicenter of the world’s bioeconomy. The bioeconomy is the source of […]

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Dept. of Energy’s View on Transportation and National Energy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Transportation

Dept. of Energy’s View on Transportation and National Energy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Transportation

January 22, 2020 |

With 3 trillion vehicle miles in the U.S. and 11 billion freight tons, transportation is key to our way of life, and the Department of Energy realizes it hits our national energy usage in many ways. That’s why they are researching it all levels from components and fuels, vehicles and transportation systems. Michael Berube, Acting Deputy […]

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Brazil’s Federal Program in Force Now: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to RenovaBio & Brazil’s Carbon Reduction

Brazil’s Federal Program in Force Now: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to RenovaBio & Brazil’s Carbon Reduction

January 22, 2020 |

Working as an M&A and capital market counsel focused on the biofuels sector, Oswaldo Dalla Torre has been monitoring the developments of the Brazilian Renovabio program, which has just entered into force. RenovaBio is Brazil’s federal program aimed to curb carbon emissions by 10% in 2028, in line with the UN Paris Agreement on climate change. […]

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Heard on the Floor: Alleluias and Vision 2020 at the National Biodiesel Conference

Heard on the Floor: Alleluias and Vision 2020 at the National Biodiesel Conference

January 22, 2020 |

I thought I would never hear concentrated joy as at the evangelical churches of my childhood, on Easter morning, when the faithful sang “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” — and then I arrived at the 2020 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo.  This year’s conference theme was simple and bold enough, Vision 2020. But it could […]

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Sustainable Chemistry Commercialization: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sylvatex’s Nanoparticle Chemistry

Sustainable Chemistry Commercialization: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sylvatex’s Nanoparticle Chemistry

January 21, 2020 |

Fuel enhancement, cathode benefits, efficient synthesis process – those are all things we want, right? Sylvatex’s CEO Virginia Irwin Klausmeier gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francscio that covers how Sylvatex is working on this with their nanoparticle chemistry platform, the plant-based MicroX blending that enables global scale-up and flexible production, how […]

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Cellulosic Mixotrophy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novel Platform for Algal Biomass

Cellulosic Mixotrophy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novel Platform for Algal Biomass

January 21, 2020 |

There’s a lot of flat, dry land in the U.S. but researchers at Arizona State University and others are looking at how that land could support biofuel production. How about evaporation-resistant reactors coupled with thermotolerant, high-productivity mixotrophic algae? Check out this Slide-Guide from P.I. Peter Lammers from Arizona State University’s BETO Project Peer Review to get […]

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The Letters of (Low Carbon) Transit: business aviation and World Energy pard’ner up, via book & claim

The Letters of (Low Carbon) Transit: business aviation and World Energy pard’ner up, via book & claim

January 20, 2020 |

From Houston and elsewhere, Davos-attenders and others news has arrived that World Fuel Services and World Energy have a World Economic Forum Sustainable Aviation Fuel Program designed to increase SAF availability and supply chain efficiency within the industry. The program will be available in time for business jets traveling to the 50th Annual Meeting of […]

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Clean Conscience AND Clean Clothes: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sironix Renewables’

Clean Conscience AND Clean Clothes: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sironix Renewables’

January 20, 2020 |

Time to air out the dirty laundry and see what nasty ingredients are hiding in your detergents. This Slide Guide from Sironix’s ABLC NEXT presentation in San Francisco focuses on the facts of their Eosix Surfactants which are 100% bio-renewable and 100x improved hard water performance. And with a huge chunk of regions across the U.S. […]

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Let’s Get Real with Anaerobic Digestion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Design Realities for Anaerobic Digestion Systems

Let’s Get Real with Anaerobic Digestion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Design Realities for Anaerobic Digestion Systems

January 20, 2020 |

Reality bites sometimes but John Forcier from Forcier Consulting Engineers and Lee Enterprises gives some good advice for dealing with anaerobic digestion reality like sand and grit removal, foaming, heating and insultation, corrosion protection, and – a’hem – odor control and gas cleaning. Check this out and more.

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