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Splitting the Molecule to Power the World: Hydrogen Digest’s Guide to Renewable Hydrogen sources, production and uses

Splitting the Molecule to Power the World: Hydrogen Digest’s Guide to Renewable Hydrogen sources, production and uses

October 23, 2019 |

As the International Renewable Energy Agency observed of the next decades, “transport and industry will still require combustible fuels for many purposes,” and those “needs could be met with hydrogen, which itself can be produced using renewable power.” The opportunity is threefold, IRENA predicts:  Industry for replacing high-emission applications; Buildings and power; and Transport, where […]

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Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Pivot Bio

Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Pivot Bio

October 22, 2019 |

Today, we’re looking again at 50 Companies to Disrupt the World, and the disruption in particular is the potential to supply nitrogen to corn through microorganisms that fix N from the air, instead of from fertilizer. Soybeans get it that way, so it’s tough science but not impossible. Has Pivot cracked it? Pivot Bio offers […]

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Green Shoots: After a sluggish decade, is the bioenergy tide turning?

Green Shoots: After a sluggish decade, is the bioenergy tide turning?

October 22, 2019 |

By Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D. (Managing Director, below50)  and Douglas L. Faulkner (“the Clean Tech Conservative” & President, Leatherstocking LLC) Special to The Digest Is the tide starting to turn in favor once again of biofuels and biobased products?  It can certainly still seem that the opposite is true, after a sluggish decade for these […]

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Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Evolva

Next 50 Companies to Disrupt the World: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Evolva

October 21, 2019 |

Today, we’re looking at the new generation of sweeteners. And Evolva’s got an interesting technology in nootkatone, and resveratrol Evolva solves the supply chain issues of nature through a 21st century mix of biotechnology and fermentation. We develop, make and sell ingredients that provide significant health, wellness and nutrition benefits to people in their daily […]

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Provivi raises a sizzling $85 million for the Loneliest Technology in the World

Provivi raises a sizzling $85 million for the Loneliest Technology in the World

October 21, 2019 |

In California, Provivi has completed a monster $85 million Series C financing. If you know the company, you wouldn’t be all that surprised, the buzz is strong, but if you’re not acquainted, welcome to this late October online meeting of the “WHO THE **** ARE THESE GUYS (and how the *** did they raise this […]

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Turn! Turn! Turn!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste and its transformation

Turn! Turn! Turn!: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Neste and its transformation

October 20, 2019 |

To everything there is a season, goes the old Pete Seeger lyric, and the Book of Ecclesiastes, come to think of it, and they must be reading their Bibles closely at Neste. Once into petroleum as the original Finnish oil refiner, then turning to renewable diesel and getting caught in all the flack over palm […]

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50 million bucks says landfill is a viable energy source: Suncor doubles down on Enerkem

50 million bucks says landfill is a viable energy source: Suncor doubles down on Enerkem

October 20, 2019 |

In Canada, news arrived late last week Enerkem closed a $50 million equity investment from Suncor. What does it mean? Today’s let’s explore that. As Canada’s leading integrated energy company, Suncor first participated in the ownership of Enerkem in April 2019 as part of a $76.3 million equity financing alongside Enerkem’s existing shareholders. With this […]

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Sustainable Technology Corp acquires DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol technology 

Sustainable Technology Corp acquires DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol technology 

October 20, 2019 |

In New Jersey, Sustainable Technology Corporation, a subsidiary of Petron Scientech, Inc., acquired the complete assets for the second-generation technology developed and demonstrated by DuPont, capable of commercially producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass. The acquired assets include all associated intellectual property and patents including that for process design and the zymomonas ethanologens. The acquisition of […]

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Indonesian biodiesel demand to jump 45% in 2020 as B30 blends take hold

Indonesian biodiesel demand to jump 45% in 2020 as B30 blends take hold

October 20, 2019 |

In Indonesia, Reuters is reporting that the Indonesia energy ministry has boosted biodiesel blending mandates by 45 percent for 2020 compared to 2019. The ministry has announced a blending allocation of 9.59 million kilolitres of unblended biodiesel. Last year, the ministry ordered blending at a 6.63 million KL level. The move follows a commitment by […]

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2019 EU sunflower crop falls  short of 2018 levels

2019 EU sunflower crop falls  short of 2018 levels

October 20, 2019 |

In Germany, UFOP reports that the yield forecast for the EU-28 is an average of 22.9 decitonnes per hectare, a drop of 5 percent or1.3 decitonnes per hectare below 2019 levels. Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft reports that Slovenia, Romania and Spain are projected to see the sharpest decline in yield, of 12 per cent on average. Nevertheless, […]

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