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Biobased smart bombs for pests: two new strategic investments in biopesticides from TechAccel

Biobased smart bombs for pests: two new strategic investments in biopesticides from TechAccel

February 6, 2019 |

If you’ve seen many World War Two thrillers about strategic bombing, you’ll know that precision, precision, precision is the goal, and smart bombs as a military technology have been in the public imagination since their first successes in Afghanistan and later in the first Gulf War, and ever since. Think on an incredibly small nanoscale […]

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Better Policy for Better Fuels: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to SE4All and below50

Better Policy for Better Fuels: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to SE4All and below50

February 6, 2019 |

Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) was created to drive the energy transition, particularly in developing countries and below50 is committed to growing the demand for sustainable alternative fuels that reduce emissions by more than 50% relative to fossil. Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D., Global Lead of Bioenergy Accelerator for SE4ALL and Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of […]

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Consumer Values Drive Demand for the Bioeconomy Specialty Chemicals

Consumer Values Drive Demand for the Bioeconomy Specialty Chemicals

February 5, 2019 |

By Bogdan Comanita, PhD/MBA, Principal MarketChemica Inc.[1] and member of Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest Abstract VIRIDISOL®, ecoXTRACT® and GreenFlame® are examples of B2B brands launched in 2018 that support the use of new biobased products in large B2C markets. All these B2B brands are in perfect alignment with powerful B2C brands […]

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Fuel & Engine Co-Optimization: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to NREL

Fuel & Engine Co-Optimization: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to NREL

February 5, 2019 |

National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) is working to address key questions like what fuels engines really want, what fuels work best and what will work in the real world. John Farrell from NREL gave this illuminating overview of their work thus far on answering those questions, their work on Co-Optima research and analysis, and more […]

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Almond Joy: CEC poised to award $10 million to advance Aemetis, West Coast nut waste-to-fuels commercial projects

Almond Joy: CEC poised to award $10 million to advance Aemetis, West Coast nut waste-to-fuels commercial projects

February 4, 2019 |

In California, the California Energy Commission has issued a Notice of Proposed Award (NOPA) for a $5 million grant to the Aemetis Riverbank cellulosic ethanol biorefinery, and $5 million for West Coast Waste Co., to assist in the development of its innovative commercial-scale, low-carbon biorefinery, known as Madera Renewable Energy One (MADRE I) project. The […]

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Global Action: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy

Global Action: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to IEA Bioenergy

February 4, 2019 |

IEA Bioenergy has several new tasks moving forward including Flexible Bioenergy and System Integration, climate and sustainability effects of bioenergy within the broader bioeconomy (broadening of Task 38), and the deployment of biobased value chains (broadening of Task 40), and several new proposed intertask projects. Jim Spaeth, Chair of IEA Bioenergy’s Executive Committee, gave this […]

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No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

No Carbon Left Behind: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

February 3, 2019 |

LanzaTech has over 20 years experience sourcing and supplying over 5 million tons of wood fiber and organic feedstock in markets across North America. They offer biomass feedstock supply and analytics to understand and minimize supply chain risk. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech gave this illuminating overview of how all carbon is precious, LanzaTech’s technology, […]

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Transport bursts onto global decarbonisation map

Transport bursts onto global decarbonisation map

January 31, 2019 |

By Matthew Stone, Managing Director of PRIMA Special to The Digest Transport has long been recognised as the hardest part of the global economy to decarbonise. Sitting outside the remit of schemes such as the EU’s carbon Emissions Trading Scheme, the road sector has traditionally depended on biofuel mandates to reduce its carbon footprint in […]

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QuantaVision: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Biofuture Solutions

QuantaVision: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Biofuture Solutions

January 31, 2019 |

Global Biofuture Solutions have a team of global consultants that help guide legislators and regulators as they develop the policies and approaches to realize new investment in the global bioeconomy, evaluate, share and promote sustainable best practices for the entire bio-project value chain, and use the QuantaVision Risk Management System to measure, manage and mitigate […]

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Nouryon partners with Unilever, investment companies and startup networks to accelerate innovation in chemistry

Nouryon partners with Unilever, investment companies and startup networks to accelerate innovation in chemistry

January 30, 2019 |

In the Netherlands, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has officially launched the third edition of its Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge. Through this program, the company invites startups, scale-ups, university spin-outs, and other potential partners to tackle chemistry-related challenges and uncover new ways to create value for customers. Unilever on board this year To increase […]

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