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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Pathways to eFuels: CO2 Capture and Conversion to Liquid Products

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Pathways to eFuels: CO2 Capture and Conversion to Liquid Products

February 28, 2024 |

CO2, the final frontier. We have, famously, too much of it, and can do too little with us for too high a cost. Yet, researchers are teasing out exciting new applications, such as a pathway to liquid fuels, using CO2 and *usually) water as feedstock for eFuels. Axens’ Mukund Yallambalse presented these slides at ABLC […]

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Unveiling Excellence: Extract Talent Is Your Path to Elite Recruitment

Unveiling Excellence: Extract Talent Is Your Path to Elite Recruitment

February 28, 2024 |

By Nancy Newman, CEO, Extract Talent Special to The Digest In the quest for talent, discerning businesses seek partners who transcend the conventional and perceive recruitment not as a transactional endeavor but as a transformative journey. Enter Extract Talent, an emblem of distinction in recruitment agencies. With a legacy spanning over three decades, Extract Talent […]

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Investing in Top Talent is a Profit Center for the Oil, Gas and Renewables Industry

Investing in Top Talent is a Profit Center for the Oil, Gas and Renewables Industry

February 28, 2024 |

By Nancy Newman, CEO, Extract Talent Special to The Digest The ability to innovate, adapt, and efficiently manage resources can significantly differentiate leaders from the rest. A critical factor underpinning these capabilities is the quality of the talent within an organization. Contrary to the traditional view of hiring top talent as a cost center, there […]

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International Airlines Group inks 14-year Twelve eSAF deal, jumpstarting era of fuels made from CO2, water

International Airlines Group inks 14-year Twelve eSAF deal, jumpstarting era of fuels made from CO2, water

February 28, 2024 |

International Airlines Group announced a fourteen-year contract with Twelve to supply IAG with 785,000 tonnes* of e-SAF, made from made from CO2, water and renewable energy, to support five European airlines — British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL. The next-generation fuel will reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% versus conventional […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Kore Infrastructure

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Kore Infrastructure

February 27, 2024 |

Kore’s carbon negative pyrolysis process represents a paradigm shift, offering businesses an environmentally and economically sustainable way to convert organic waste into renewable energy. This means more incentives to decarbonize, fewer landfills and incinerators, permanent carbon sequestration, and measurable environmental impact in our lifetime. Kore’s Steve Wirtel presented these slides at ABLC Next 2023.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Natural Gas and Biogas

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to the State of Renewable Natural Gas and Biogas

February 26, 2024 |

In this presentation, we explored the challenges faced by global RNG and biogas producers in shifting energy towards low carbon alternatives — new processes, advances in AD yields, new feedstocks, the role of low carbon standards,the impact of rising interest rates and more. The Digest’s Jim Lane presented these slides at ABLC Connect.

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Development Capital & Unsolicited Proposal Talking Points

Development Capital & Unsolicited Proposal Talking Points

February 26, 2024 |

By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition and Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest Here are some talking points to help the  Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition (AFCC) create a $500 million development capital grant program in the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Loan Programs Office (LPO) and obtain more funding […]

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You Can Help Expand Access to Development Capital & Federal Funding to Advance Game-Changing Bioeconomy Projects, … and mitigate the climate crisis

You Can Help Expand Access to Development Capital & Federal Funding to Advance Game-Changing Bioeconomy Projects, … and mitigate the climate crisis

February 26, 2024 |

By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition & Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest You can make a difference. You can raise your voice and make your voice heard … you can help create a grant program within the federal government to provide development capital … and you can help […]

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Unsolicited Proposals, Needed: More Access, More Flexibility, More Funding to Advance Game-Changing Projects

Unsolicited Proposals, Needed: More Access, More Flexibility, More Funding to Advance Game-Changing Projects

February 25, 2024 |

By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition & Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest Time is of the Essence in Addressing the Climate Crisis… every technology and innovation that can help needs to be deployed as rapidly as possible. Unfortunately, five obstacles stand in the way of advancing MUCH NEEDED […]

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Going for the Benjamins: Here’s How Access to Development Capital Can be Improved

Going for the Benjamins: Here’s How Access to Development Capital Can be Improved

February 25, 2024 |

By CJ Evans, Co-Founder, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition & Managing Director, Project Financing Assistance Special to The Digest The Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition (AFCC) has drafted legislation to create a $500 million development capital grant program in the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Loan Programs Office (LPO). You can help AFCC push this request […]

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