Author Archive: Jim Lane

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation

July 18, 2024 | Jim Lane

BioMADE is securing America’s future through biomanufacturing innovation, education, and collaboration It is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a Public-private partnership, with over 280 members, spanning large industry, innovative start-ups, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and more BioMADE’s Jack Starr presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to International Partnerships and Trends

July 17, 2024 | Jim Lane

There are so many International Organizations and Partnerships, what do they do, who are they, how do they work together? There are Country-led initiatives on Technology, Policy, Sustainability, Finance. There’s UN, FAO, OECD, G20 activities plus multi-stakeholder groups wuch as IEA Bioenergy, To help sort it out, DOE’s Jim Spaeth presented these slides at ABLC 2024.

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SixRing Technologies

July 16, 2024 | Jim Lane

SixRing, a chemical technology company, uses patented modified acids to produce high purity cellulose, biogenic acetic acid, and low viscosity biocrude from lignocellulosic biomass at ambient pressure and temperature. Not a typical start-up, SixRing’s product development plan is to “shine lights down these high value pathways so that our licensees can generate the most value […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Green Hydrogen

July 15, 2024 | Jim Lane

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global hydrogen producers in shifting towards low carbon hydrogen — new technologies for green hydrogen, new carbon capture opportunities to make blue hydrogen, and much more, including how policy and finance are coming together to support the build-out. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides as […]

New Targets for Pesticide Discovery: Protein-Protein Interactions

July 14, 2024 | Jim Lane

By Jonathan Gressel, LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting), Weizmann Institute of Science and HiCap Formulations (Israel) Ltd. Special to The Digest Modern pesticides provide a healthy, safe food supply. The twentieth-century discovery of small organic molecule pesticides revolutionized agriculture and food production. Pesticides such as herbicides replaced manual and mechanical cultivation, while fungicides and […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to BDO Zones

July 12, 2024 | Jim Lane

BDO Zone ratings are powerful market signals of regional readiness for bio-manufacturing. Ratings undergo rigorous due diligence using a standardized framework of over 100 risk indicators. Jordan Solomon, CEO of Ecostrat, presented these slides for ABLC 2024.

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to SAF Policy Horizons

July 11, 2024 | Jim Lane

How can the commercial aviation industry, fuels industry, and public policymakers work together best to accelerate commercial SAF development and use? This was the theme of this SAF policy session at ABLC 2024 organized with Boeing and major industry organizations.

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Yield10

July 10, 2024 | Jim Lane

Lanzajet says we are at an inflection point for the sustainable aviation industry. Why? How? What’s LanzaJet’s role in it all? How are they driving innovation and accelerating deployment of SAF? What’s the status of their plants and projects? LJ CEO Jimmy Samartzis gave this illuminating update on the company’s progress and prospects at ABLC […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to California Ethanol + Power

July 9, 2024 | Jim Lane

The mission of California Ethanol & Power, LLC (“CE+P”) is to produce sustainable renewable low-carbon energy in California from the right renewable resource – sugarcane. CE&P’s experienced team is completing the development of and intends to project finance, construct using proven technologies, own and operate a facility in California’s Imperial Valley. CEO Dave Rubenstein presented […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Sarnia-Lambton

July 8, 2024 | Jim Lane

26 Workstreams, 140 Activities and with 2030 & 2030-2050 impact timeframes — The SAF Grand Challenge is ambitious and detailed, with many US Federal agencies and one aggressive goal. In this deck, the deed for policy certainty, the need for expanded data and analysis and improved models, the expanded purpose grown feedstocks, the need for […]

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