In California, the Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Projects & Technologies, ABLC NEXT 2023, will take place at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, October 18-20, 2023, as the industry undertakes more Networking for Net Zero. More than 600 delegates and 100 speakers are expected from more than 400 companies […]
By Charles Forsberg (cforsber@mit.edu) and Bruce Dale (bdale@egr.msu.edu) Special to The Digest In the United States, crude oil products provide 48% of the total energy to the final customer: residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. Replacement of crude oil products (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, chemical feed stocks, etc.) made from non-fossil-fuel carbon sources, principally products made […]
We love polyester, the magic molecule, the bane of wrinkled or torn shirts, friend of moisture resistance. We just can’t stand the way it’s made. In some ways, right up there with hot dogs. Why throw out the molecule? Why not make the carbon we love from the carbon we disdain — like carbon dioxide […]
Australia will be exposed to environmental, economic and energy security risks if governments fail to foster a domestic renewable fuels sector, says a new report by Deloitte and commissioned by Bioenergy Australia. The report is titled Transitioning Australia’s Liquid Fuel Sector: The Role of Renewable Fuels – which addresses decarbonization of Australia’s economy: Especially, it […]
Depending on your newsfeed keywords, you might be confused about the trends for the bioeconomy summer. If you’ve popped “SAF” into your news mix, the flow of announcements has been so heavy, you may be wondering if SAF is running for President. Yet, if you’ve been monitoring the circuit of industry events, you might think […]
By Mauricio Villegas, Manager of Business Development, Koch Modular Process Systems Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continue to increase globally, but the degree of growth is starting to tapper off. In 2021 the IEA reported that CO2 levels increased by 6% from the prior year, partly due to the significant decline during the […]
The birds are singing at dawn, across the forest of Compiègne, and it is morning in the bioeconomy here in the heart of agricultural France. The rapeseed is in its flashing golden bloom to the east of the forest, next to the green shoots of the sugarbeets now just emerging from the soil, and small […]
The mention of Montana tends to conjure up visions of the episodes of Yellowstone, or roughnecks and cattle ranchers, chants of “drill, baby, drill” and an epic disdain for vegan cuisine. You wouldn’t likely have pegged Montana as home, just now, of the largest SAF producer in North America. Doesn’t sound like Houston when it […]
By Shrikant Rathi, Executive Director, Praj Americas Special to The Digest Ethanol worldwide has played a vital role in replacing fossil fuels in ground transportation. The drive for decarbonization has driven consideration of low carbon bioethanol as a feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and bio-products due to its potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions […]
Lately I have been comparing in my mind the situation of the oil & gas industry today and the facts that faced the German High Command in the late autumn of 1944. Today, it’s a two-front war, EVs on the Eastern Front now winning titanic policy battles of encirclement and annihilation, while the numerically smaller […]
