Author Archive: Jim Lane

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The Strongest Thing Nature ever made, coming to a Store near You?

The Strongest Thing Nature ever made, coming to a Store near You?

July 12, 2022 |

It may have escaped general attention that the strongest-known materials in the living world are the teeth of tiny limpets that the mollusks use to scrape food off rocks.  There was a report out on the subject in 2015 but I think more attention was being given at the time to fracking, $15 oil, and […]

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Carbon Capture Use and Storage: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Radicle

Carbon Capture Use and Storage: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Radicle

July 12, 2022 |

Radicle’s Director of Biofuels, Brad Neff, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC on how they support global companies in reducing and removing GHG emissions. Find out what they are doing in low carbon fuel markets, compliance carbon markets, and voluntary carbon markets, the various CCS monetization pathways available, 3 ways to generate LCFS credits, […]

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Badass POP missile fuel arrives from Berkeley’s labs: Will America keep a hold of them?

Badass POP missile fuel arrives from Berkeley’s labs: Will America keep a hold of them?

July 11, 2022 |

News has arrived out of Berkeley of an advanced biofuel so powerful and transformative that we suspect it may never reach consumer markets. These are POP fuels, and you can’t have them. Simulation data from Sandia suggests “that POP fuel candidates are safe and stable at room temperature and will have energy density values of […]

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Decarbonizing Aviation with SAF: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to SkyNRG

Decarbonizing Aviation with SAF: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to SkyNRG

July 11, 2022 |

Over 30 supply chain projects across the globe have been completed by SkyNRG, with over 40 airlines and cargo operators supplied SAF by SkyNRG. But that’s just the beginning! SkyNRG finds that 350-400 SAF facilities could be developed in the U.S. alone. Pipeline details, partners in North America, their focus on sustainability as a key […]

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Powering Progress Towards Net-Zero Emissions: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Shell Aviation

Powering Progress Towards Net-Zero Emissions: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Shell Aviation

July 10, 2022 |

Shell’s focus on low carbon fuels for aviation is apparent and progress is being made towards more sustainable skies as Shell reaches key milestones and has plans for even bigger ones by 2030. Find out how Shell is investing in technology and innovation to produce 2 million tons of SAF by 2025, their work with […]

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On the Move – Neste US, Greenlane Renewables, NREL, Petrobras, and more

On the Move – Neste US, Greenlane Renewables, NREL, Petrobras, and more

July 7, 2022 |

You may know Chris Cooper as VP Americas of Neste Renewable Aviation, but he is now the President of Neste US. Canada-based RNG and biogas company Greenlane Renewables has a new CFO. Petrobras in Brazil has a new CEO. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) named Jennifer Logan as chief financial […]

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Designing to Carbon Intensity Score: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Merrick & Company

Designing to Carbon Intensity Score: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Merrick & Company

July 7, 2022 |

What are the challenges and tradeoffs of Carbon Intensity Scores? How does new applications of technologies affect risk management? What about heat integration? Project execution? Find out what Merrick & Company has to say about Carbon Intensity Scores.

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Leap for LEEP – Low Energy Ethanol Process: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to RCM Engineering

Leap for LEEP – Low Energy Ethanol Process: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to RCM Engineering

July 6, 2022 |

Here’s a look at 2nd generation ethanol from RCM Engineering and how LEEP – Low Energy Ethanol Process – can help with energy savings, steam savings, efficiency and more. Also take a look at Calgren Renewable Fuels in Pixley, California which RCM declares the most steam efficient ethanol plant in the U.S.

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The Sieve: AgCertain, Maytag Dairy Farms and the re-making of Iowa’s bioeconomy

The Sieve: AgCertain, Maytag Dairy Farms and the re-making of Iowa’s bioeconomy

July 5, 2022 |

News arrives from one of the great small towns in America — Newton, Iowa — that Ames-based AgCertain Industries has acquired Maytag Dairy Farms, the manufacturer and marketer of the world-famous Maytag Blue Cheese as well as other specialty artisanal food and beverage products, from Midwest Growth Partners, the private equity fund. AgCertain, located in […]

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Hot Hydrofaction: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Steeper Energy

Hot Hydrofaction: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Steeper Energy

July 5, 2022 |

Steeper Energy’s President, Perry Toms, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC on how hydrofaction – a proven thermochemical is advancing biofuels commercial acceptance. From milestones to commercialization partners, get all the details on how Steeper Energy is building an advanced biofuels future through hydrofaction, and more.

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