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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to NextantECA’s Key Trends in Green Hydrogen

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to NextantECA’s Key Trends in Green Hydrogen

August 29, 2022 |

Hydrogen it’s humming, and NexantECA has the scoop. They’ve been advising companies for eons on how to address trends, here’s a big one, and they have not disappointed, What are hydrogen’s prospects in stationary power, mobility and above all industrials? What are the biomass and electrolysis technologies, the pathways of interest? Here are the markets, […]

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Felix T-Cat: Anellotech reaches into its bag of tricks to produce a plastic-to-plastic fix

Felix T-Cat: Anellotech reaches into its bag of tricks to produce a plastic-to-plastic fix

August 29, 2022 |

Happy news has arrived from Pearl River, New York and the R&D team at Anellotech. It’s not so long ago that we were hailing the Pearl River development of a COVID vaccine by the Pfizer-BioNTech collab. Seems like we may need to re-name this part of the world “Happy River”. This latest discovery from Anellotech […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Ginkgo BioWorks

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Ginkgo BioWorks

August 25, 2022 |

The company is famous in synbio circles as the Organism Company, which is a commanding position to hold, if you can keep it. How Ginkgo goes about the business of transforming production organisms for industrial biotech, health, food, pharma and beyond, that’s all here in this presentation. Here are the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, […]

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How to Make Attention and Influence Strategics: User’s Guide to Your Opening Line

How to Make Attention and Influence Strategics: User’s Guide to Your Opening Line

August 25, 2022 |

Note to readers: A more timely piece could not be written. With the industry awash as never before with opportunity, the skills of gaining attention from the right people in the right way has never been more in demand. Here, from the Zen Master of Gaining and Maintaining Attention through Very Big Ideas that Come […]

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The Digest’s 2022 State of Hydrogen presentation

The Digest’s 2022 State of Hydrogen presentation

August 25, 2022 |

Hydrogen is hot and temperature has nothing to do with it, it’s a momentum story. The world has discovered the hydrogen is dirty, we use it in many everyday applications, it can be decarbonized with technologies like electrolysis to split water. Here we look at the world of Hydrogen – markets, players, technologies, policy, including: […]

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DOE announces $540 million for research activities into clean energy technologies

DOE announces $540 million for research activities into clean energy technologies

August 25, 2022 |

From Washington  comes news that the U.S. Department of Energy will make more than $540 million in awards for university- and National Laboratory-led research into clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing.  The goals Earlier this year, the DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announced its interest in receiving new applications from single principal […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Green Plains

August 24, 2022 |

The company has moved past an ethanol and protein positioning to “a leading agri-tech company committed to transforming our platform to process annually renewable crops into more sustainable, high-value ingredients” High-value they are — but also of great value are the underlying ethanol assets and how the company has relentlessly pursued improvement of the strategic […]

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You’ve Got a Friend in Me: USDA makes $100M available for Biofuel Infrastructure Grants

You’ve Got a Friend in Me: USDA makes $100M available for Biofuel Infrastructure Grants

August 24, 2022 |

News is swirling around the bioeconomy this week on all fronts, but front and center I think we need to highlight that the Big V, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, highlighted that the Department is accepting applications for $100 million in grants to increase the sale and use of biofuels derived from U.S. agricultural products. […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo

August 23, 2022 |

Net Zer0 1 – sound exciting., And it is! A company that remade itself as it saw the decisive shift in biofuels from lower carbon light duty to super low carbon heavy duty. They’re thought of everything to get the carbon score lower and are signing offtake agreements at high speed. This up to date […]

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Birth of the Post Fossil Industry: World Energy grabs the reins in SAF, renewable diesel and hydrogen

Birth of the Post Fossil Industry: World Energy grabs the reins in SAF, renewable diesel and hydrogen

August 23, 2022 |

What in the World is up with World Energy? News has arrived of two massive storylines in the same week from World Energy, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pay a congratulatory visit and inspiring the Digest to wonder what vitamins are in the water. First, the breaking hydrogen news is that German Chancellor […]

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