Velocys and Yield10 need financing fastopinion Fayaz Mahessar 24 Nov 23 0Everyone agrees that demand for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is strong. But two companies involved in the SAF production chain have said they will run… Read more
SAF’s Invisible Handopinion Oscar Henderson 17 Nov 23 0SAF’s Invisible Hand The ‘invisible hand’ concept first appeared in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and became a defining concept of free market economics. Simply put,… Read more
Down but not out, Velocys eyes fresh funds as CLN falls throughopinion Fayaz Mahessar 2 Nov 23 0It has been a bad week for Velocys – the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology company. On Tuesday, it announced that it had failed to… Read more
Everything, Everywhere, All at Onceopinion Oscar Henderson 27 Oct 23 0The global Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry currently does not have adequate supply to meet demand. It needs Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. The 2022 sci-fi… Read more
SAF Investor: Pathways, regulations towards SAF adoptionopinion Fayaz Mahessar 16 Oct 23 0The recent EURefuel Initiative was discussed at length during the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) day at the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference in London last week.… Read more
Studying sogo shoshaopinion Alasdair Whyte 28 Sep 23 0Nike’s Worldwide Headquarters in Portland Oregon is not just a place to work. It also tells the history of the company. There are buildings named… Read more
DG Fuels – the first $30m is the hardestopinion Alasdair Whyte 12 Aug 23 0Christopher Chaput ended up in Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) almost by accident. A veteran banker, he started advising his friend Michael Darcy, the CEO and founder… Read more
How SAF prizes can speed up innovationopinion Alasdair Whyte 12 Jun 23 0In May 1919, Raymond Orteig, a French American hotelier in New York, wrote a letter to the Aero Club of America offering $25,000 to the… Read more
Chicken-feed(stock)opinion Alasdair Whyte 16 May 23 0They eat a lot of chicken in Mississippi. Mississippi State University says the poultry market is worth $3.8bn – making it the state’s most important… Read more
Alder Fuels: introducing pioneer and full-time skid operationsopinion CJI Team 9 May 23 0This week, Alder Fuels reached a key milestone in the scale-up of Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) production by commissioning a pilot skid at the National… Read more
Getting ReFuelEU ready to fryopinion Alasdair Whyte 3 May 23 0Laws are like sausages. It is best not to see them being made,” is a quote often attributed to Otto von Bismarck. But it is worth looking… Read more
How SAF feedstocks and production technologies can play a role in decarbonising aviationopinion CJI Team 3 May 23 0Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), hydrogen and electric propulsion all have a role to play in decarbonising aviation, writes Andreea Moyes, director, Global Aviation Sustainability, Air… Read more
LanzaJet’s Samartzis: “I don’t think demand is ever going to be an issue”opinion CJI Team 25 Apr 23 0Jimmy Samartzis the CEO of LanzaJet is in a hurry. Last week LanzaJet completed the final modules of its 10-plus storey alcohol-to-jet Freedom Pines Sustainable… Read more
UK industry is supporting SAF, but needs to speed upopinion Alasdair Whyte 19 Apr 23 0Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) dominated a lot of the discussions at the excellent Sustainable Skies Summit that took place in Farnborough this week. An RAF… Read more
Viridos keeps algae aliveopinion CJI Team 3 Apr 23 0“Algae,” said the Boeing executive in 2009. “You know the scene in Mrs Robinson where everyone is advising Dustin Hoffman on what industry he should go into?… Read more