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Cow Power: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

Cow Power: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Ag-Grid Energy

March 18, 2018 |

Ag-Grid Energy has a vision to convert agricultural and organic waste into renewable energy, compost and support local area practices that lead us towards a sustainable environment. The company intends to finance, build, own (jointly), operate the waste to energy conversion facilities in US, and has four projects underway in New England. Ag -Grid Energy […]

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The Digest’s 2018 Visual Guide to the economics, politics of renewable fuels

The Digest’s 2018 Visual Guide to the economics, politics of renewable fuels

March 15, 2018 |

If you’ve ever wondered why corn farmers march, organize and generally are adamant about the Renewable Fuel Standard, this chart will help. It will also explain why you almost never see Wall Street activists pounding the pavement for the RFS. In this illuminating graphic from the Center for Agricultural & Rural Development at Iowa State, […]

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Algility: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to algae as a new crop and technology platform

Algility: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to algae as a new crop and technology platform

March 15, 2018 |

Algae has been reinvented in recent years as a Sustainable New Crop for Food, Feed, Fuel and other products. Part of an international effort to expand Agricultural Production and productive land, and keeping key nutrients on the farm while restoring soil, algae is seen as a technology platform leading to job creation, benefits for the rural economy […]

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Crack that Whip! Modern Meadow, Evonik partner to take vegan leather to world-scale

Crack that Whip! Modern Meadow, Evonik partner to take vegan leather to world-scale

March 14, 2018 |

News has arrived from the US East Coast that Evonik will be Modern Meadow’s worldwide development partner to industrialize and scale-up collagen production for use in the company’s bioleather materials technology. The long-term partnership was just announced, and ends a short but intense period of wondering for Modern Meadow’s many fans – who propelled the […]

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The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR)

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR)

March 14, 2018 |

Sustainable Bioeconomy for Arid Regions (SBAR) is a multi-level research project that will cultivate two desert-dwelling crops, guayule and guar, for a sustainable bioeconomy. Combined, guayule (perennial) and guar (annual) feedstocks can provide biomass year round for biofuel production. Both crops are drought and heat tolerant, grow on marginal lands, and provide economic returns. Scale […]

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Harmonizing a Three-Headed Regulatory Monster

Harmonizing a Three-Headed Regulatory Monster

March 13, 2018 |

By Graham Noyes, Low Carbon Fuels Coalition, and Doug Durante, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest Widely considered to be Godzilla‘s arch-nemesis, King Ghidorah (キングギドラ) is a three-headed dragon kaiju that first faced Godzilla in the 1964 Godzilla film,  Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. While not as entertaining to watch as a Godzilla film with a three-headed flying monster, the current regulatory struggle over national auto […]

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The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2018 Bioeconomy Business Outlook

The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the 2018 Bioeconomy Business Outlook

March 13, 2018 |

In Florida, The Digest reports that 72 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic about their organization’s prospects for growth and 68 percent about industry growth, than 12 months ago. The findings were among the highlights of the 2018 Bioenergy Business Outlook Survey conducted by the publication. Below are the highlights from the results.

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Bioeconomy execs bullish on 2018, 74% of companies expect revenue growth, 62 percent expect jobs increase; 48% seeking finance

Bioeconomy execs bullish on 2018, 74% of companies expect revenue growth, 62 percent expect jobs increase; 48% seeking finance

March 13, 2018 |

In Florida, The Digest reports that 72 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic about their organization’s prospects for growth and 68 percent about industry growth, than 12 months ago. The findings were among the highlights of the 2018 Bioenergy Business Outlook Survey conducted by the publication. Respondents also named the EU, US, South East […]

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Leveraging the Power of Algae: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Algenol

Leveraging the Power of Algae: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Algenol

March 12, 2018 |

Algenol is a global, industrial biotechnology company that is commercializing its patented algae technology platform for production of ethanol and other biofuels, chemicals and biobased materials. Formed in 2006, and headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida with an R&D facility in Berlin, the company operates in multiple sectors: AgTech, natural food colorants, biofertilizer biostimulants, human and animal food […]

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What happened? Pyrolysis breakthrough could cut drop-in biofuels cost to $2.58 per gallon

What happened? Pyrolysis breakthrough could cut drop-in biofuels cost to $2.58 per gallon

March 12, 2018 |

We have a breakthrough in pyrolysis to report today that could reduce the estimated cost of producing fuel from $3.27 per gallon to $2.58 per gallon. And no one quite understands how the new process works — but it works. “What we have achieved is process intensification – multi-fold increases in biomass throughput for a […]

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