Category: Top Stories

LanzaTech holds lead in Hot 50 in last week of voting; Novozymes, Amyris, DuPont, DSM, REG, BASF, POET, Algenol and Genomatica in the hunt. 

LanzaTech holds lead in Hot 50 in last week of voting; Novozymes, Amyris, DuPont, DSM, REG, BASF, POET, Algenol and Genomatica in the hunt. 

January 12, 2016 |

In Florida, early voting rankings were released today for 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, representing roughly 90% of the overall subscriber vote expected. Subscriber voting ends Friday, January 15 at 5pm ET. The Hot 50 rankings will be announced live at ABLC 2016 in Washington DC at 6pm on February 17, 2016. Below, we’ve […]

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Stora Enso, Amyris, LanzaTech, Novozymes, REG create winning Photo Votes for January 12, 2016 – The 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy

Stora Enso, Amyris, LanzaTech, Novozymes, REG create winning Photo Votes for January 12, 2016 – The 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy

January 12, 2016 |

Here are the winning Photo Votes for this week in the 2016 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy competition. Amyris, REG (3 winners), Stora Enso, LanzaTech (4 winners) and Novozymes took home the winning bonus votes this week. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company,” said Digest editor […]

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Pushmi-pullyu: How do carbon prices and fuel mandates work together in breaking through a fossil fuel monopoly? Or, do they?

Pushmi-pullyu: How do carbon prices and fuel mandates work together in breaking through a fossil fuel monopoly? Or, do they?

January 11, 2016 |

Sometimes, the set-up of the transition from fossil fuels is as pretty and impractical as Dr. Doolittle’s Pushmi-Pullyu. The Digest investigates. As you may have noticed in the stories around the launch of the Great Green Fleet, it is a complex maze of relationships when it comes to a technology benefitting from mandates like the […]

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E Pluribus, Unum: LanzaTech, Global Bioenergies demonstrate The Biotechnology App Store

E Pluribus, Unum: LanzaTech, Global Bioenergies demonstrate The Biotechnology App Store

January 10, 2016 |

As Global Bioenergies, LanzaTech tighten isobutene partnership, the era of “swap-in, swap out” biorefining microbes comes clearer, closer In France, Global Bioenergies  and LanzaTech signed a new collaboration agreement to broaden the feedstock flexibility of Global Bioenergies’ Isobutene process and the product-portfolio of LanzaTech’s carbon capture technology.  The news illustrates a new trend in the […]

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Navy to launch Great Green Fleet with 77 million gallon buy of cost-competitive, non-food advanced biofuels blends

Navy to launch Great Green Fleet with 77 million gallon buy of cost-competitive, non-food advanced biofuels blends

January 7, 2016 |

They’re here. $2.05 per gallon, at-scale, domestically produced advanced renewable fuels — utilizing non-food feedstocks and based on next-generation technology. The Navy’s 7-year quest to diversify its fuel supply without paying more or changing its fuel spec reaches a key milestone. In Washington, The Department of the Navy has obtained 77.66 million gallons of cost-competitive, […]

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Great Green Fleet: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to the US Navy’s transition to renewable fuels

Great Green Fleet: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to the US Navy’s transition to renewable fuels

January 7, 2016 |

The Department of the Navy is now buying advanced, drop-in, cost-competitive, next gen renewable fuels. The biofuels sought can be blended in a range of 10 to 50 percent with conventional petroleum products and must meet all military fuel specification properties which make handling requirements and performance indiscernible to the end user. Currently, two biofuels pathways […]

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Short on sustainable hydrogen? Here comes new water-splitting tech to save the day

Short on sustainable hydrogen? Here comes new water-splitting tech to save the day

January 6, 2016 |

You may not know it, but you are short on hydrogen. Right now. We live in a hydrogen-starved world, and it’s expensive to make. And most of what we make is unsustainable, produced from fossil sources. All that might be ready to change. The Digest investigates. Making syngas for efficient production of fuels? Need hydrogen. Fuel-cell […]

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IH2 deep-dive: breakthrough technology has commercial-scale in sight

IH2 deep-dive: breakthrough technology has commercial-scale in sight

January 5, 2016 |

$2.25 per gallon hydrocarbon fuels from biomass, unsubsidized? CRI moves to second-stage towards a commercial-scale deployment of its high-yield, low-cost drop-in fuel technology. And residence time may be the key. This week, a cryptic but tasty news kernel has emerged from CRI, that they have entered into a Front End Loading (FEL-2) evaluation package license […]

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The 30 Hottest Molecules of 2016: sneak preview

The 30 Hottest Molecules of 2016: sneak preview

January 4, 2016 |

Last week, we asked the readers to participate in our 30 Hottest Molecules survey, which you can take here (and the supplementary Survey, which you can see here) if you haven’t yet completed. Thank you to the hundreds of readers who took time to consider the nominees. We were astonished by the range of suggestions […]

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Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2016

Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2016

January 3, 2016 |

  Who mandates what in biofuels? 64 countries have targets or mandates — but how much where, and when, and what? In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 64 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come […]

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