A new interactive media experience, free from Biofuels Digest

I’ve been meaning for some time to organize a comprehensive look at the turbulent journey towards cleaner fuels and the clean economy – something dramatically more dynamic, visual, and comprehensive than we’ve ever done.

Today, Wipe Me Daddy, I’m Dirty: the Turbulent Journey Towards Cleaner Fuels debuts at biofuelsdigest.com.

What’s it about? It’s about you – your fears, promise, promises, milestones, hopes, visions, triumphs, technologies, failures, finances, allies, competitors, and predators.

It’s about the rise and fall of companies, commodities, policies and strategies. And about the future.

An electronic iBook experience

Designed for the desktop, iPad or iPhone – and unlike anything we’ve previously published. It has embedded video and sound, and extensive hyperlinks.

You can flip from any page to any page in an instant, search the entire contents by keyword just like Google, and you can also add and save notes as you read. 

In all, it covers 100+ companies and technologies  – and some 100 different topics. The book has 221 pictures, charts and videos to go with the 59 different essays, organized into 10 chapters by topic.

Plus, the complete “A Day in the Life of Biofuels” photo essay — a day in the life of this industry as recorded by you and organized by The Digest — and the best of the hilarious and inventive photo votes for the Hot 30 and Hot 50 competitions.

Highlighting and Note-taking

Use a finger as a highlighter when reading any textbook in iBooks. Just swipe over any text and it’s highlighted. Tap a highlighted section and a palette appears. Change colors, switch to underlining, or add a note instantly.

Then switch to the Notes view to see all your notes and highlights organized in one place, making it easy to search or go back to the highlighted sections of the book.

Sharing

You can share a phrase directly from the page onto your Facebook wall or Twitter feed. You can also share a snippet via text or email.

Searching and Surfing

You can flip through a book by simply sliding a finger along the bottom of the screen. Highlighting text, taking notes, or searching for content is just as easy.

The book is free through April 20th, right before ABLC 2014, when we debut our next-generation conference experience in DC.

Through April 20th, right up until ABLC 2014, Digest subscribers can download the book for free — passwords and download links are published in The Digest daily newsletter. After downloading, you can upload right into the iTunes interface — and enjoy the experience via your desktop, iPad or iPhone.

If you would like to subscribe, it’s free. Just visit here.

And you’ll see even more from our new interactive platform, live at ABLC 2014.

Partial list of organizations covered

Abengoa, ABO, Accelergy, Aemetis, AES, Agilyx, Agrivida, AHLTech, Algae.Tec, Algenol, Amyris, Anellotech, Aquaflow Bionomic, ARA, ARPA-E, Aurora Algae, Avantium, Avello, Badger State Ethanol, Bard Holdings, BASF, BECON, Beta Renewables, BioFuelBox, BioGasol, BioSolar, Blue Marble Biomaterials, Bluefire, Butamax, Calysta Energy, Case Western, Cellana, Cobalt , Coca-Cola, Codexis, Cool Planet, Coskata, CRI, Diamond Green Diesel, DOE, Dow, DuPont, Dyadic, Dynamic Fuels, Dynamotive, ECR  Renewable Fuels, Eco2Capture, Elevance Renewable Sciences, ENEnergy, Enerkem, Envergent, EPA, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Genera Energy, Genomatica, Gevo, Global Bioenergies, Glori Energy, GranBio, Great Plains, Green Fuel Nordic, GTI, Heliae, Honeywell’s UOP, Ignite Energy, INEOS Bio, Iowa State University, JBEI, Joule, KiOR, LanzaTech, LBNL, Licella, LLNL, LS9, Mars Inc, Mascoma, MBD Energy, Midori Renewables, Monsanto, Muradel, Murdoch University, Myriant, Naturally Scientific, NBB, Neste Oil, New Energy Farms, NexSteppe, Novozymes, Oak Bio, OpenAlgae, OPX Bio, OriginOil, ORNL, Pacific Pyrolysis, PetroAlgae, Phycal, POET, Pond Biofuels, Process Line Energy, Propel Fuels, Proterro, Purdue, Qteros, Range Fuels, Range Fuels, Renewable Energy Group, Renewable Oil Group, Renmatix, Rentech, Rincon Pharmaceuticals, Sandia National Lab, Sapphire Energy, Scripps Institute, SFN BioSystems, Siluria, SK Innovation, Solazyme, Solix, Sundrop Fuels, Sweetwater Energy, Syngenta, Terrabon, Texas A&M, Total, TRI, Triton Algae, U of Calgary, U of California, U of Delaware, U of Florida, U of Illinois, U of Wisconsin, U of York, UC Davis, UCSD, UMass-Amherst, University of Louisiana, USDA, Valero, Virent, VoltGasVolt, Waste Management, Western Plains Energy, ZeaChem

Partial list of topics

4-carbon platforms, Algae, Archaea, Artificial life, Bakken shale, Benemann’s Law, Billion Ton Study, Biological warfare, Bioterrorism, Bolt-ons vs greenfields, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Commodity markets, Continuous harvest, Corn, Cyanobacteria, Directed evolution, Drop-in fuels, E85, Energy freedom, EU protectionism, Extreme energy, Extremophiles, Financing paradoxes, Fracking and horizontal drilling, Fluidized-bed catalytic converters, GMO, Government as investor, Grants & incentives, Green-black technologies, Guayule, Hacking, Hybridization, Hydrolysis, Hype, Industrial Symbiosis, Infrastructure, Intercropping, Investment Tax Credits, Jatropha, Land-use change, Lewinsky Dress Syndrome, Lobbying, Low Carbon Fuel Standards, Magnetic fields, Market makers, Moneymicrobes, Municipal solid waste, No-kill farming, Novel vs drop-in, Oswald’s Law, Peak Oil, Peak Phosphorus, Peak Whale, Policy stability, Production Tax Credits, Pyrolysis, Remembering September 11, Renewable sugars, Residues, RFS2, RINs, Risk management, Robot insects, SARA, Scale up, Second harvest, Shale Gas & Tight oil, Solar-bio convergence, Soybeans,Sugarcane, The Bioenergy Project of the Future, The Great Green Fleet, The Inverse Law of Knowledge, The Jesus Molecule, The Natural Gas Revolution, The Neolithic Revolution, The Olive Economy, The Supercritical boundary,Tipping Fees, Tragedy of the Commons, US vs Brazil, US vs China, War, Weismann’s Law, XTL, Zero cost emissions