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Biobased Gucci for pets, mushroom guitars, bubble bioplastic car, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of July 7th

Biobased Gucci for pets, mushroom guitars, bubble bioplastic car, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of July 7th

July 6, 2022 |

It’s a great time to have a pet these days with Gucci’s new luxury line for pampered pooches using renewable raw materials and Manhatten fur babies can now frolic on soy-based artificial grass. For those musically inclined, there’s a new line of instruments using biobased materials like eggshells, mushrooms and honeycomb. In today’s Digest, check […]

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Victor private jets now offering Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel globally

Victor private jets now offering Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel globally

July 3, 2022 |

In Finland, Neste and Fly Victor, the on-demand private jet company, are partnering up so Victor members can purchase Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) for every private jet booking globally. This enables private jet charterers to reduce the carbon footprint of their private air travel in a credible and measurable way. Victor’s private and […]

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Embraer and Pratt & Whitney complete 100% SAF flight testing in Florida

Embraer and Pratt & Whitney complete 100% SAF flight testing in Florida

July 3, 2022 |

In Florida, Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and Pratt & Whitney tested a GTF-powered E195-E2 aircraft on 100% sustainable aviation fuel. The test, with one engine running on 100% SAF, validated that GTF engines and the E-Jets E2 family can fly on both engines with blends of up to 100% SAF without any compromise to safety […]

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CMA CGM, ENGIE unveil initiative to produce second-generation biomethane

CMA CGM, ENGIE unveil initiative to produce second-generation biomethane

July 3, 2022 |

In France, CMA CGM Group and ENGIE will co-invest in the Salamander project, an industrial and commercial unit for second-generation biomethane production and they aim to produce up to 200,000 tons of renewable gas annually worldwide by 2028. Majority-owned by ENGIE and the CMA CGM Group, the production facility is being considered to be located […]

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South Korea’s Dansuk completes first shipment of sustainable marine fuel to Europe

South Korea’s Dansuk completes first shipment of sustainable marine fuel to Europe

July 3, 2022 |

In South Korea, Argus reports that South Korean biodiesel producer Dansuk Industrial shipped 3,000 tons of sustainable marine fuel to the Netherlands in June, the company’s first export to Europe. Dansuk produces 50,000 tons of ISCC-certified sustainable marine fuel per year at its manufacturing facilities in Pyeongtaek and Siheung, in Gyeonggi province from a blend […]

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Farnborough Airport will offer SAF at same price as standard jet A1 fuel

Farnborough Airport will offer SAF at same price as standard jet A1 fuel

July 3, 2022 |

In the UK, Farnborough Airport launched its Net Zero roadmap with the aim of becoming Net Zero across its controllable emissions by 2030 or sooner and will be the first airport in the world to offer sustainable aviation fuel at the same price as standard Jet A1 fuel for a trial period. The airport’s Net […]

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Petrobras inks deal with Vallourec to analyse potential production of bio-oil

Petrobras inks deal with Vallourec to analyse potential production of bio-oil

July 3, 2022 |

In Brazil, Petronoticias reports that Petrobras and Vallourec signed an agreement to evaluate opportunities for technological cooperation involving the production and use of bio-oil made from the condensation of gases produced during the transformation of Eucalyptus wood into charcoal. Petrobras said that the testing phase of this initiative is being carried out at Petrobras’ Research […]

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President Biden, EPA, renewable leaders call Supreme Court decision step backwards

President Biden, EPA, renewable leaders call Supreme Court decision step backwards

July 3, 2022 |

In Washington, D.C., President Biden, the EPA and renewable energy leaders are disappointed in the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA that curtails the EPA’s ability to limit emissions from the energy sector and making it harder than ever for the EPA to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants as well as […]

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Bacteria for blastoff: using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel

Bacteria for blastoff: using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel

July 3, 2022 |

In California, biofuel scientists used an oddball molecule made by bacteria to develop a new class of biofuels predicted to have greater energy density than any petroleum product, including the leading aviation and rocket fuels, JetA and RP-1. “This biosynthetic pathway provides a clean route to highly energy-dense fuels that, prior to this work could […]

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Ag Residues to the Rescue: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to PacificAg

Ag Residues to the Rescue: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to PacificAg

July 3, 2022 |

Agricultural residues are highly abundant especially with all the corn stover and wheat straw out there that farmers have to dispose of after every harvest. But PacificAg has found a way to turn this waste into a winner – into feedlots, mushroom growers, renewable natural gas, biopolymers, textiles, and more. They also are expanding and […]

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