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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to using TEA and LCA as a strategic tool

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to using TEA and LCA as a strategic tool

April 17, 2024 |

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic evaluation of the environmental impact of a product through its entire life cycle. Many cleantech startups and companies cannot afford the time and cost that is required for an ISO-compliant LCA. Boundless Impact follows ISO standards, but completes reports in 4-8 weeks, translating the Life Cycle Assessment into […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Current and Future Availability of Sustainable Biomass

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Current and Future Availability of Sustainable Biomass

April 16, 2024 |

Oak Ridge National Lab, in partnership with the US Department of Energy, aims to collect, review, and distribute the best available and citable global data on current biomass uses, and potential future availability as consistent as possible; at the same time, developing effective methods for systematizing, cataloging and harmonizing inventory data from varying sources and […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Circular Carbon Economy

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the Circular Carbon Economy

April 15, 2024 |

Carbon is the foundation of our material world, says LanzaTech CTO Rob Conrado in these slides presented at ABLC 2024. It’s in the products we use, the planes we fly, the clothes we wear. Where our carbon comes from will define our climate future. Good news, the world has enough carbon above ground to make […]

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Get Funded! Avoid the Top 3 Mistakes in Raising Bioeconomy Capital

Get Funded! Avoid the Top 3 Mistakes in Raising Bioeconomy Capital

April 15, 2024 |

By Steve Weiss, co-founder of Grey Heron, and long-time member of the Due Diligence Wolfpack* Capital is the fuel for building your business – and you can get it, just like you keep achieving milestones and adding partners. But fundraising is often harder, longer and more uncertain than you’d like – and you don’t want […]

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More to do on Methane

More to do on Methane

April 13, 2024 |

By Patrick Serfass and Adam Comora Special to The Digest A recent study released by the journal Science supported by research conducted by Carbon Mapper and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealed that methane emissions from landfills are greater than previously thought – but also that their abatement represents a significant opportunity in our fight […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels and DME

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Futuria Fuels and DME

April 11, 2024 |

Dimethyl-ether is a single molecule that can be produced from a wide range of renewable feedstocks. It can be blended with LPG and used in existing applications. It is chemically similar to propane and butane, and is a gas at room temperature and pressure. Like LPG it is easily transported as a liquid in pressurized […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the global policy context for BIO-LPG

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the global policy context for BIO-LPG

April 11, 2024 |

A decarbonization path for the LPG sector continues to increase in importance as a response to political forces which affect regulatory survivability and access to capital. Global North LPG marketers are responding to the lack of green LPG by getting involved in upstream green supply development. Global South countries are looking for ways to unlock […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels’ St. James SAF project

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels’ St. James SAF project

April 10, 2024 |

DG Fuels is an emerging leader in renewable hydrogen and biogenic based, synthetic low emissions aviation and diesel fuel, and this deck looks at their second-generation cellulosic biofuel and their market expansion plans, whose hydrogen content is derived from water electrolysis and uses a Fischer Tropsch based process with 96% carbon feedstock conversion efficiency and […]

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US Coast Guard to transition USGA Aviation Training Center to SAF, drops big RFP

US Coast Guard to transition USGA Aviation Training Center to SAF, drops big RFP

April 10, 2024 |

In Washington, news arrived that the Defense Logistics Agency Energy seeks to award a contract to supply an estimated annual requirement of 876,000 US gallons of sustainable aviation fuel to the U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama. The fuel must be blended from conventional jet fuel and one of three approved synthetic […]

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DGF picks Johnson Matthey, bp tech for massive SAF plant in Louisiana

DGF picks Johnson Matthey, bp tech for massive SAF plant in Louisiana

April 10, 2024 |

In Louisana, we see that DG Fuels has chosen Johnson Matthey and bp’s co-developed Fischer Tropsch CANS technology for its first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant. Located in Louisiana, USA, it would be the largest announced FT SAF production facility in the world, with a planned capacity of 13,000 barrels per day – capable, after […]

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