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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Aemetis

August 15, 2022 |

Just out with its most recent earnings showing strong revenue growth, Aemetis is probably the Father of the Complex Advanced Biorefinery, owning a diverse set of technologies deployed at scale including ethanol, biogas, biodiesel, and now moving decisively into SAF and renewable diesel. Here are the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.

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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Additional Funding for the DOE Loan Program Office to Support U.S. Energy Infrastructure, Vehicle, and Mass Transit Development

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: Additional Funding for the DOE Loan Program Office to Support U.S. Energy Infrastructure, Vehicle, and Mass Transit Development

August 14, 2022 |

By Mark J. Riedy, John C. F. Loving, Stephen M. Anstey and Patrick McShane On July 27, 2022, Senator Manchin (D-WV) and Senator Schumer (D-NY) announced new draft reconciliation legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The IRA would provide $433 billion in total investments, with $369 billion for “Energy Security and Climate Change” […]

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“The Roof is lifting” – the United States to inject $800 billion into climate, energy sectors as IRA 2022 passes to Biden for signing

“The Roof is lifting” – the United States to inject $800 billion into climate, energy sectors as IRA 2022 passes to Biden for signing

August 14, 2022 |

Huge and positive news arrives from Washington, the US House passed the Inflation Reduction Act and it now crosses to the White House for President Biden’s signature, which is a foregone conclusion. One of the Digesterati described the shift in momentum: “The roof is lifting off the renewable energy industry broadly with the IRA and […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Dyadic

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Dyadic

August 11, 2022 |

One of the most interesting journeys in all of biotech — from jeans to jeans, and from cellulosic fuels over to pharma. Welcome to the story of Dyadic. Here are the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business — launch-stage, growth-stage, maturity and end of life.

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LCFC recommends the California Air Resources Board to recognize relevance of climate smart agriculture

LCFC recommends the California Air Resources Board to recognize relevance of climate smart agriculture

August 11, 2022 |

In California, the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to recommend the body to recognize farming practices and other methods of climate smart agriculture (CSA) into the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Rulemaking. “By quantifying CSA in CA-GREET and in LCFS pathways, CARB would take a leading […]

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Quest for Feedstock: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of SAF

Quest for Feedstock: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of SAF

August 11, 2022 |

This week on ABLC CONNECT, we networked and exchanged information about the world of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and as part of the proceedings, we had the State of Sustainable Aviation Fuel presentation. The slides are here.

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Farm Animals, the Looming Unemployment Crisis: Woolly mammoth burgers, honey without the bees, milk without the cow, leather without the skin

Farm Animals, the Looming Unemployment Crisis: Woolly mammoth burgers, honey without the bees, milk without the cow, leather without the skin

August 11, 2022 |

Years ago, a guy named Art Baker hosted a show called You Asked for it, readers would write in from all over the country asking for things they wanted to see re-created on television. I’m pretty sure no one ever asked Art for a woolly mammoth burger. Ah, the times we live in. It’s coming […]

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The Big Launch: PM Modi inaugurates India’s first 2G ethanol project, using Praj technology

The Big Launch: PM Modi inaugurates India’s first 2G ethanol project, using Praj technology

August 11, 2022 |

In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the country’s first 2G cellulosic ethanol biorefinery, the Indian Oil project at Panipat, Haryana. This 100 KLPD Project is based on Praj’s proprietary technology processing Rice Straw as feedstock for production of Ethanol. Praj is the Technology Licensor and EPCM Consultant to IOCL This is the first but […]

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The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM

The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM

August 10, 2022 |

The company touts its bright science and bright it is — deeply engaged in health, nutrition and speciality materials — a new presentation covers the new lines of business and old — all the markets, technologies, sources of revenues, trends, lines of business.

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No Animal was Killed in the Creation of this Lab-Grown Steak

No Animal was Killed in the Creation of this Lab-Grown Steak

August 10, 2022 |

By Rahim Rajwani, special to The Digest Cultured meat is no longer the stuff of science-fiction novels. Labs like mine, Atelier Meats, are already producing high-quality meat that looks and tastes just like the real thing. In fact, it is the real thing — it just doesn’t require the sacrifice of an animal. Lab-grown meat […]

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