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Get Together:Sasol, Topsoe ink MOU for JV to build, own, operate SAF plants

Get Together:Sasol, Topsoe ink MOU for JV to build, own, operate SAF plants

February 27, 2023 |

For today’s storyline, I do suggest you play the Youngbloods 1960s hit Get Together on your device of choice. Whenever I read of a potential game-changing JV in the bioeconomy, I think how hard JVs are, and my mind drifts hopefully to the Youngbloods singing the chorus, “Come on, people now/Smile on your brother/Everybody get […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Efforts in Support of the Bioeconomy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Efforts in Support of the Bioeconomy

February 23, 2023 |

The Inflation Reduction Act provides nearly $40 billion for USDA over the next 10 years to improve life and livelihoods in rural communities. Specific investments include: $19.3 billion for climate-smart agriculture on farms, ranches, and forests; $13.4 billion to lower costs for families and support goodpaying clean energy jobs in rural communities; and $5 billion […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA Western Regional Research Center

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA Western Regional Research Center

February 23, 2023 |

The USDA Western Regional Research Center has ~350 people, ~45 in bioproducts & biofuels. It’s part of the Agricultural Research Service, the ARS is the in-house research arm of the USDA. They partner with companies and industry groups to take bioproducts to market. According to the WRRC, “we can invent our way to an environmentally […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service

February 22, 2023 |

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 […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to taking hot projects from vision to reality

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to taking hot projects from vision to reality

February 21, 2023 |

Renewable projects have a disaggregated value chain, competing and new stakeholders, and a complex technology selection process. Project risk can be reduced, and ROI maximized with accurate project definition, compressed delivery schedules, and expert management. Mickey Reeves of Triten IAG presented these slides at ABLC Next.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Bioeconomy Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Bioeconomy Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture

February 20, 2023 |

The DIgest completed the 7 week series of ABLC CONNECT events in which ABLC delegates join in a Zoom-based pre-networking session with this look at the world of Bioeconomy Feedstocks and Advanced Agriculture and  — markets, players, technologies, policy and more. Digest editor Jim Lane presented these State of the Sector slides as part of […]

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First in technology, first in commercialization, first in the hearts of the bioeconomy: a Presidents’ Day Look at LanzaTech

First in technology, first in commercialization, first in the hearts of the bioeconomy: a Presidents’ Day Look at LanzaTech

February 20, 2023 |

It’s been so many years since Amyris last knocked LanzaTech off its accustomed perch atop the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy rankings. I’ve begun to think that LanzaTech ought to follow in the wake of its technology partner Twelve and simply rename themselves Number One, like a character out of a James Bond novel. […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Camelina and Sustainable Oils

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Camelina and Sustainable Oils

February 16, 2023 |

Sustainable Oils Camelina has emerged as the crop feedstock of choice for renewable diesel production. Renewable diesel made from Sustainable Oils Camelina is a high-demand drop-in fuel that meets all specifications for today’s engines, on par with diesel produced from petroleum. Sustainable Oils Camelina varieties are the only camelina approved for the California LCFS. Sustainable […]

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The Promise of Advancing Biomanufacturing Innovation

The Promise of Advancing Biomanufacturing Innovation

February 16, 2023 |

On September 12, 2022, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order to Advance Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation to support solutions in health, climate change, energy, food security, agriculture, supply chain resilience, and national and economic security. This declaration could not come too soon as rapid population growth and climatic instability in particular pose major existential […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to T2C Energy

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to T2C Energy

February 16, 2023 |

T2C-Energy is a clean energy technology provider specializing in the conversion of  biogas from landfills and anaerobic digesters into drop-in, renewable jet and diesel fuels. The patented TRIFTS® process is a synergistic combination of chemical reactions which transforms crude biogas, composed of methane and carbon dioxide into a high grade synthesis gas.  The synthesis gas […]

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