“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going.” John 3:8 Lately there has emerged a worship of cleaner ammonia as a hydrogen carrier and for use in fertilizers and industry, so we might as well revive the […]
The dugout is so old as technology goes, it predates agriculture, fermentation, currency, the wheel, writing, travel by horseback, almost everything except cooking, pottery, and quite a few hunting and skinning tools. Back then, we were tied to the campfire and the kill — then came the dugout, and that was the beginning of shipping, […]
What’s up with the Wonder from Down Under? Licella’s Cat-HTR decarbonization platform could help customers meet their net-zero carbon commitments. How do they use water as the agent of change and turn biomass and mixed plastics into low CI biocrude? What is their multi-year path to commercial readiness? What about their work with Shell, Arbios, […]
Here’s a short and sweet slide guide from DG Fuels on their second-generation cellulosic biofuel and their market expansion plans, whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and 3% carbon mineralization. DG Fuels CEO Michael Darcy presented these slides at ABLC […]
In Alberta, Steeper Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Invest Alberta Corporation (Invest Alberta) to commercialize Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology within Alberta, aligning with Alberta’s broader goal of becoming Canada’s cleantech leader. The MOU formalizes the intent of Invest Alberta and Steeper to realize the development of a first-of-its-kind Hydrofaction commercial plant in […]
The state of Oregon is bigger than most people realize, the road from Clatskanie along the Columbia River to Lake County in the south-central valley that adjoins the Fremont National Forest is a 590 mile journey through an America that is worth seeing, though not many have time to make the effort. I suspect that […]
The Global LPG Partnership is a United Nations-backed, non-profit Public-Private Partnership formed in 2012, under the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative. Its remit is to assist developing countries and their stakeholders to plan, finance and implement the appropriate, evidence-based, national-scale availability and use of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas—both propane and butane), produced from renewable […]
For many years I knew that when we saw the first signs for Lumberton, when traveling north on Interstate 95, having passed into North Carolina, that it was time to seek the weatern turn onto Highway 74 and make the pilgrimage to Pinehurst, where the pine-scented air and the puzzles of a Donald Ross golf […]
The Energy Independence and Security Act is sixteen years old this year, going on seventeen, and when I think the industry that has sprung up to deliver the advanced fuels contemplated by the Bush Administration, I think of the old lyric from The Sound of Music: You are sixteen going on seventeen Baby, it’s time […]
It’s Friday and you’re ready for the weekend so here’s a short and sweet slide guide from DG Fuels on their second-generation cellulosic biofuel whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and 3% carbon mineralization. DG’s Chris Chaput presented these slides […]
