In California, Mote announced its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO2 emissions from the process. Mote expects to produce approximately seven million kilograms of carbon-negative hydrogen and remove 150,000 metric tons of CO2 from the air annually. Mote expects to start hydrogen production starting as soon […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC and the “Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest No, I’m not repeating here the usual biting critique from anti-biofuels advocates about an industry always promising a better mañana, but never delivering today. Instead, this title summarizes my historical perspective as a veteran of decades of the bio-wars, taking […]
The entire world is aligned and charging forward on plastics, if you only consider the first two letters. REcycle, REplace, REuse, REduce. In other words, no one agrees on anything except the need for change. What’s been missing is the REsource option — changing the way we make plastics, instead of trying to live in […]
Not a topic The Digest usually covers, but let’s talk about sex like Salt-N-Pepa with the latest news that robots reproduced for the first time, thanks in part by the tiny organisms’ Pac-Man-like shape. Not only that, but news came in about the development of “the world’s most sustainable bioplastic” using “natural DNA” sourced by […]
Is there a Green premium? For those shielded from the decades-long debate, on account of youth or a long residency on the International Space Station, the idea is this: consumers will pay more for sustainable products than fossil-based products. Some say yes, some say no, some say heck no. About the Green Premium Dooma Wendschuh, […]
In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2021 and 2022, and a retroactive action on 2020 volumes that has the ethanol industry up in arms. Advanced biofuels producers were cautiously optimistic, biogas producers took a more positive view, noting that cellulosic volumes would increase 51% between 2020 and […]
By Bob Kozak, President, Atlantic Biomass, LLC, Co-founder and Treasurer of Advanced Biofuels USA Special to The Digest As we enjoy this contemplative, introspective, thanks giving time of year, it’s time to think what can be done to revive a stagnant US biofuel industry. The Thanksgiving Turkey is a good place to start. I hope […]
Today, a hot update from the pioneering ‘Emission and Climate Impact of Alternative Fuels’ (ECLIF3) project from Airbus, German research center DLR, Rolls-Royce and SAF producer Neste that looks into the effects of 100% SAF on aircraft emissions and performance. The initial findings from this world-first study of the impact of 100% sustainable aviation fuel […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? There was no existing way to produce Hydrogen that was simultaneously renewable (no CO2 emissions) and price-competitive with fossil (Steam […]
By Sulzer Chemtech Special to The Digest A broad range of Sulzer’s leading separation technologies are playing a key role in the EU funded project IMPRESS (Integration of efficient downstreaM PRocessEs for Sugars and Sugar alcohols). This aims to deliver a novel biorefinery concept, which enables the production of important base chemicals from plant-based resources. […]
