In aviation fuels as elsewhere in life, it’s sustainable, affordable, available, pick two out of three. You can find affordable SAF, but not in big volumes. You can find as much unaffordable SAF as you like. as we know, there’s plenty of petroleum-based jet fuel and the carbon numbers are astronomical (a case of “off […]
It’s probably not well known that Chevron’s original name was Standard Oil of Iowa, you’d be 116 years old this week if you were around back then to notice it. Congratulations on your longevity. This summer, the Iowa-Chevron tie has been revived with Chevron’s acquisition of Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group, which now becomes Chevron Renewable […]
There’s euphoria in the EU and Canada over expanded opportunities for SAF and transport fuels, and especially from those engaged int he world of e-fuels. We reported earlier this month from Canada of the approval and release of the rules for the Clean Fuels Standard, and from Europe we see this update from the European […]
By Jason Wallace, Head of North American Operations for Hydron, special to The Digest While we can thank the trucking industry for the packages that arrive at our doors in what seems like mere minutes after we’ve ordered them, there is no denying that long-haul freight transportation still faces many challenges. Today, the logistics industry […]
The Algae Biomass Organization has some new faces on the board – Dr. Martin Gross of Gross-Wen Technologies is the new Board Chair, Mike LaMont of Heliae Development becomes Vice Chair and there are several other new or re-elected board members from companies you’ll recognize like Neste, MicroBio Engineering, Cyanotech, and others. BASF has a […]
A biodegradable debit card partially made of sea salt, a sea snail holding the key to biodegradable bullet-proof vests, Pirelli adding lignin as reinforcing filler in tires – some perfect summer time innovations. In today’s Digest, check out these bioinnovations as well as updates from Biosyntia’s biobased biotin, Evolved By Nature’s silk proteins, DIC Corporation’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Be the best version of yourself’ – It’s great advice and I’ve tried to live it during my 7 years with The Digest. Since 2016, I’ve been honored to work with Jim Lane and his team as Managing Editor and Writer – synthesizing thousands of press releases and news, conducting fascinating interviews with CEOs, […]
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 […]
