By Gerard J. Ostheimer, PhD and Douglas L. Faulkner “The Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest GOOD NEWS Steady growth of the African bioeconomy is a “good news” story hiding in plain sight. Recent commercial successes combined with ambitious investments are helping to bring a vision for Africa’s bioeconomy into focus: Growth of the African […]
The Digest received the following statement from Alder Fuels on the company’s current status and direction for the near future, which we have decided to share in its entirety and without editing or comment at this time. Building on our recent announcements regarding the appointment of Tim Obitts as Acting CEO of Alder Fuels and […]
Directly converting waste CO2 emissions via microbial photosynthesis into industrial biochemicals, without the need for expensive carbon capture or separation, that are low cost and carbon-negative. That’s the promise of Phytonix solar chemicals. Company CEO Bruce Dannenberg presented these slides at ABLC Next 2022.
It’s been 11 years since we had the very first presenter on the ABLC stage to highlight these technologies, first up was electrofuels. We’ve been covering hydrogen since 2010, solar fuels since the same year, renewable DME since the days of Chemrec in 2011. In many ways, this is their hour. The drive is on […]
In Florida, The Daily Digest announced the Bioeconomy 500 for 2023, which recognizes individuals for their leadership contributions to the bioeconomy’s development and project deployment. The 500 honors scientists, engineers, policy makers, financiers, project developers, feedstock pioneers, offtakers, advocates and supply-chain and distribution partners. All Digest subscribers were eligible to nominate and vote for candidates […]
News has arrived from Yield10 Bioscience and Mitsubishi that they are noodling over a partnership to supply, offtake and market Camelina as a low-carbon feedstock oil for biofuels; the two companies have now progressed to a memorandum of understanding of a deal which would ultimately be aimed at supporting Mitsubishi’s stated goal o mass produce […]
In Arkansas, Lee Enterprises Consulting added Ryan Lee as a Partner in the firm. For the past 15 years, Mr. Lee has worked for Tyson Foods. Prior to his time at Tyson, he also worked for both General Electric and Walmart. He has spent most of his 20+ year career leading sales teams, cultivating strategic relationships […]
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 […]
By John Kirkwood and Jason Deppen and Virginia Speck, FaegreDrinker Special to The Digest On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “Act”), which extends and expands existing tax credits and adds several new energy tax credits to encourage the production of clean energy and reduce carbon […]
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 […]
