Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Rural Business – Cooperatives Service

April 12, 2023 | Jim Lane

USDA’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service offers loan guarantees, grants, and technical assistance support of the bioeconomy and access to capital for Commercialization of emerging technologies; Production of biofuels and renewable chemicals and manufacturing of biobased products; Service, supply, and marketing industries; Infrastructure; and, USDA’s BioPreferred® program supports the marketing of biobased products. USDA RBCS Deputy Administration […]

Axens acquires stake in BioTFuel renewable fuels project

April 12, 2023 | Jim Lane

In France, Axens has acquired a stake in the BioTJet project, which will build and operate the largest European SAF production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process, relying on the BioTfueL technology. This unit will be built in France and will be started up by 2027. BioTfueL is an advanced biofuel production technology using the thermochemical route, […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Fidelis New Energy & Grön Fuels

April 11, 2023 | Jim Lane

Fidelis New Energy is a decarbonization enterprise developing and operating multiple synergistic infrastructure GigaSystems that generate climate-positive, stable, and predictable EBITDA in the following global growth sectors: Renewable Transport Fuels; Carbon Management; Carbon Negative Power and Clean Hydrogen and Hydrogen Derivatives. Fidelis New Energy’s Gardner Boulmay presented these slides at ABLC 2023..

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to OMC Hydrogen

April 10, 2023 | Jim Lane

Hydrogen is widely used throughout major industries such as petroleum and biofuels refining, ammonia production, and many other processes. When produced cleanly, hydrogen has the ability to help decarbonize these and other industries such as transportation and steelmaking. Accordingly, green hydrogen production has become a global priority with a projected market in excess of 600bn […]

Growing In Iowa: The Future of Food and Farming

April 10, 2023 | Jim Lane

Pivot Bio improves grower access to a dependable nitrogen source From his time at the University of Iowa to the first startup he founded with support from the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, Karsten Temme, Ph.D., credits much of his accomplishments as Pivot Bio CEO and co-founder to the invaluable insight he gained in Iowa. Pivot […]

B-Harmony: Creating Happy Bacterial Colonies and ridding the world of its methane malaise, the Windfall Bio way

April 9, 2023 | Jim Lane

Our tale today will take us to the avant-garde of biology, and methane is at the heart of it. Ah. methane, scourge of climate lovers, the “dry gas” disdained by ethane and propane lovers, citizen of the Land of Misfit Molecules, yet it is the Food of Life, or rather perhaps the food that gave […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

April 6, 2023 | Jim Lane

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 […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Oberon Fuels

April 6, 2023 | Jim Lane

What is a renewable DME company like Oberon Fuels doing with propane and hydrogen industries? Well, first they harvest waste via renewable methanol or biogas to make their rDME, which can then be blended with propane, setting the stage for widespread hydrogen transport and leveraging existing distribution. Get all the latest on how rDME solves […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Stantec

April 5, 2023 | Jim Lane

Carbon Impact Team Services, the Hydrogen Value Chain and the Building of a Decarbonization Strategy were highlights of this presentation given by Stantec’s Bill Birney at ABLC 2023.

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE Transportation Energy Goals & Milestones

April 4, 2023 | Jim Lane

DOE’s execution of its multi-year strategy, bioenergy as an essential part of the comprehensive transportation decarbonization strategy, heavy investment in the scale-up of biorefineries, aggressive biofuel targets and increasing the number of viable commercial SAF pathways were highlights of the presentation at ABLC 2023 by Michael Berube, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation at the US […]

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