The news has been sizzling since last week that VTT is spinning out Olefy technology in October – with a process that can convert most of the world’s waste plastics back to usable virgin grade materials an infinite number of times, and VTT adds, “affordably”, though we are still looking for detail on the Affordably-to-USD […]
Many countries are now active with Sustainable Aviation Fuel — but how much where, and when, and what? The bulk of activity continues to come from the US — however, the EU has been gaining momentum, and Asia of late has been highly active. Several technologies have been in the news. What we might now […]
Happy news has arrived from Pearl River, New York and the R&D team at Anellotech. It’s not so long ago that we were hailing the Pearl River development of a COVID vaccine by the Pfizer-BioNTech collab. Seems like we may need to re-name this part of the world “Happy River”. This latest discovery from Anellotech […]
Note to readers: A more timely piece could not be written. With the industry awash as never before with opportunity, the skills of gaining attention from the right people in the right way has never been more in demand. Here, from the Zen Master of Gaining and Maintaining Attention through Very Big Ideas that Come […]
From Washington comes news that the U.S. Department of Energy will make more than $540 million in awards for university- and National Laboratory-led research into clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing. The goals Earlier this year, the DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announced its interest in receiving new applications from single principal […]
News is swirling around the bioeconomy this week on all fronts, but front and center I think we need to highlight that the Big V, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, highlighted that the Department is accepting applications for $100 million in grants to increase the sale and use of biofuels derived from U.S. agricultural products. […]
What in the World is up with World Energy? News has arrived of two massive storylines in the same week from World Energy, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pay a congratulatory visit and inspiring the Digest to wonder what vitamins are in the water. First, the breaking hydrogen news is that German Chancellor […]
For the past couple of minutes I have been racking my brain trying to recall when I first had Steven Long on stage with me, and I first learned about RIPE, which stands for Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency and I find myself rueing that in my case it stands for Recall Is Poorly Engineered. Some […]
OK, let’s talk openly and honestly about syngas and biochar and whole darn thing. Grab some wood waste, somethin’ to whittle with, pull up a cha’r, and let’s have some plain speaking. Here in Digestville, we’ve had quite a few years and quite a few companies educating us on how wonderful and attractive and lucrative […]
Here in Digestville we have dubbed 2022 the Year of Methane as companies seeking sufficient feedstock to meet net zero goals are turning to methane as a fuel, and as a transportable, affordable intermediate to facilitate the conversion of affordable stocks of solid biomass into liquid fuels and power. The methane momentum can be seen […]
