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Velocys and Yield10 need financing fast

Fayaz Mahessar

24 Nov 23

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Everyone agrees that demand for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is strong. But two companies involved in the SAF production chain have said they will run…

SAF’s Invisible Hand

Oscar Henderson

17 Nov 23

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SAF’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,…

Down but not out, Velocys eyes fresh funds as CLN falls through

Fayaz Mahessar

2 Nov 23

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It has been a bad week for Velocys – the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) technology company. On Tuesday, it announced that it had failed to…

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Oscar Henderson

27 Oct 23

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The 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…

SAF Investor: Pathways, regulations towards SAF adoption

Fayaz Mahessar

16 Oct 23

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The recent EURefuel Initiative was discussed at length during the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) day at the Argus Biofuels Europe Conference in London last week.…

Studying sogo shosha

Alasdair Whyte

28 Sep 23

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Nike’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…

DG Fuels – the first $30m is the hardest

Alasdair Whyte

12 Aug 23

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Christopher 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…

How SAF prizes can speed up innovation

Alasdair Whyte

12 Jun 23

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In 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…

Chicken-feed(stock)

Alasdair Whyte

16 May 23

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They 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…

Alder Fuels: introducing pioneer and full-time skid operations

CJI Team

9 May 23

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This 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…

Getting ReFuelEU ready to fry

Alasdair Whyte

3 May 23

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Laws 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…

How SAF feedstocks and production technologies can play a role in decarbonising aviation

CJI Team

3 May 23

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), hydrogen and electric propulsion all have a role to play in decarbonising aviation, writes Andreea Moyes, director, Global Aviation Sustainability, Air…

LanzaJet’s Samartzis: “I don’t think demand is ever going to be an issue”

CJI Team

25 Apr 23

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Jimmy 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…

UK industry is supporting SAF, but needs to speed up

Alasdair Whyte

19 Apr 23

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) dominated a lot of the discussions at the excellent Sustainable Skies Summit that took place in Farnborough this week. An RAF…

Viridos keeps algae alive

CJI Team

3 Apr 23

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“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?…

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