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The Case for E-fuels Use in Aviation

The Case for E-fuels Use in Aviation

May 5, 2024 |

By Pete Rocha, LEC Partners Special to The Digest The aviation industry produces 2-3% of all CO2 emissions globally. This percentage will likely grow over time as the developing world becomes richer and the demand for air transportation increases. In the graphic below, we see that in passenger travel demand is expected to increase by […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Cemvita

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Cemvita

May 2, 2024 |

We’ve engineered microbes that turn the waste such as CO2 into helpful compounds, therefore closing the carbon/waste loop and address those recovery and production processes that, in current heavy industry, creates waste and emission outputs. Cemvita’s Pedro Barcia presented these slides on the company’s production of SAF feedstocks at ABLC 2024.

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to NEXT Renewables

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to NEXT Renewables

May 1, 2024 |

Haffner Energy’s expertise has been forged over more than 30 years of experience. 30 years’ experience designing, developing and bringing to market a pioneering, patented technology that produces clean fuels with a neutral-to-negative carbon footprint: biomass thermolysis. Company president Marcella Francho presented these slides at ABLC 2024 on the company’s technology journey and future prospects.

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Semi-Sweet on GREET Street: US decision on SAF tax credits is bold for residues; tepid for grains, oilseeds

Semi-Sweet on GREET Street: US decision on SAF tax credits is bold for residues; tepid for grains, oilseeds

April 30, 2024 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released guidance on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The Treasury Department’s guidance provides important clarity around eligibility for the SAF Credit. The credit incentivizes the production of SAF that achieves a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions reduction of […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Change, the Worley view

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Sustainable Change, the Worley view

April 30, 2024 |

Worley’s come a long way from its origins in Sydney in the 1970s, a major player on the global energy scene now for nearly 30 years, and moving sharply into de-fossilized and de-carbonized strategies and projects in recent years. Tom Foster, CEO of Worley Consulting, gave an address at ABLC 2024 and presented these slides […]

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ABLC Next 2024 announced: themes, topics, dates, sectors

ABLC Next 2024 announced: themes, topics, dates, sectors

April 30, 2024 |

In Florida,  the Daily Digest announced that the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Projects & Technologies,  ABLC NEXT 2024, will take place at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, October 23-25, 2024, as the industry undertakes more Networking for Net Zero. More than 600 delegates and 100 speakers are expected from more than 400 […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to DG Fuels

April 29, 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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The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels – the background

The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels – the background

April 29, 2024 |

The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels has now been released, and is here. WHAT THE TURIN JOINT STATEMENT (TJS) IS The Turin Joint Statement seeks to focus attention on G7 Ministers (and be extension heads of state) regarding the need for sustainable biofuels to achieve climate goals such as Net Zero by 2050. The […]

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The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels – the complete text

The Turin Joint Statement on Sustainable Biofuels – the complete text

April 29, 2024 |

Turin, Italy — 28 April 2024 To Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA, and European Commission We the undersigned, noting that, despite efforts to diversify energy sources, fossil fuels still meet 95% of the overall energy needs of the transport sector, which currently accounts for 26% of global final energy consumption and […]

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For SAF’s Take-off, look to India’s policies

For SAF’s Take-off, look to India’s policies

April 28, 2024 |

By Eric McAfee, CEO, Aemetis Special to The Digest The political question is simple: Is fighting climate change a war?  Or is appearing to “fight” climate change, improve air quality and create domestic jobs merely a way to raise some campaign funding from major oil companies in exchange for doing nothing? We win wars by […]

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