Category: 8-Slide Guide

Two Airlines Working Towards Sustainable Aviation Fuel: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Alaska Airlines and United Airlines’s Aviation Biofuels

January 29, 2020 | Jim Lane

Alaska Airlines and United Airlines are on board with sustainable aviation fuel, and both airlines gave these short but sweet presentations at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco outlining their aviation biofuel activities to date as well as their future plans. First, check out United’s presentation on incentives to drive aviation biofuel investment, their plan to […]

Interfacing with R&D and Industry: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to BETO’s Advanced Development & Optimization

January 28, 2020 | Jim Lane

We are always trying to optimize – optimize processes, efficiencies, cost, value, and more, but did you know that the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office has a program just for this sort of thing? The ADO or Advanced Development and Optimization program has several goals including selecting three or more drop-in jet and/or […]

#1 Biggest Barrier to Bioeconomy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Bottlenecks

January 27, 2020 | Jim Lane

What are the bottlenecks that prevent technologies from fueling the bioeconomy? Is it government? Is it lack of public acceptance or perception? Is it lack of access to capital? How about lack of market pull? Find out what THE top bottleneck is, according to Roger Wyse, Managing Partner at Spruce Capital Partners in his presentation […]

The New Carbon Economy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Waste Carbon Utilization and Management

January 26, 2020 | Jim Lane

Electrification and batteries can’t remove the need for carbon, and a more sustainable economy is not a low-carbon economy as much as it will be a renewable carbon based economy, according to Ian Rowe, Technology Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office. Check out his illuminating presentation from BETO’s Peer Review where […]

Flying High on Biobased Waste Oils: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to SkyNRG’s SAF

January 23, 2020 | Jim Lane

SkyNRG recently announced the first dedicated European SAF production unit, but how do we accelerate market growth for sustainable aviation fuel? That’s a question SkyNRG is tackling by talking about challenges with scaling up and how to meet those challenges head on. Check out Misha Valk, Head of Future Fuels at SkyNRG, presentation from ABLC NEXT […]

How Plastic Can Fit in a Circular Carbon Economy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Recycling and Upcycling Plastics

January 23, 2020 | Jim Lane

We’ve seen the staggering numbers, 78 million tons of annual plastics production, 98% virgin feedstock, and only 14% gets collected for recycling. So what do we do about it? Jay Fitzgerald from the Bioenergy technologies Office (BETO) office gave this engaging presentation that will get your brain thinking about how a circular carbon economy ties […]

Dept. of Energy’s View on Transportation and National Energy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Transportation

January 22, 2020 | Jim Lane

With 3 trillion vehicle miles in the U.S. and 11 billion freight tons, transportation is key to our way of life, and the Department of Energy realizes it hits our national energy usage in many ways. That’s why they are researching it all levels from components and fuels, vehicles and transportation systems. Michael Berube, Acting Deputy […]

Brazil’s Federal Program in Force Now: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to RenovaBio & Brazil’s Carbon Reduction

January 22, 2020 | Jim Lane

Working as an M&A and capital market counsel focused on the biofuels sector, Oswaldo Dalla Torre has been monitoring the developments of the Brazilian Renovabio program, which has just entered into force. RenovaBio is Brazil’s federal program aimed to curb carbon emissions by 10% in 2028, in line with the UN Paris Agreement on climate change. […]

Sustainable Chemistry Commercialization: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Sylvatex’s Nanoparticle Chemistry

January 21, 2020 | Jim Lane

Fuel enhancement, cathode benefits, efficient synthesis process – those are all things we want, right? Sylvatex’s CEO Virginia Irwin Klausmeier gave this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francscio that covers how Sylvatex is working on this with their nanoparticle chemistry platform, the plant-based MicroX blending that enables global scale-up and flexible production, how […]

Cellulosic Mixotrophy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Novel Platform for Algal Biomass