Functional Fungus, Amyris’s Secret New Nutritional Ingredient, Bioplastics for Auto Applications, First-ever Hydrogen Powered Train and More: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the Week of November 22nd

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November 22, 2019

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Christmas decorations are showing up in all the stores already so The Digest figures it’s not too early to talk about the holidays…so forget about the coal powered Polar Express this winter, as the first-ever contract in the U.S. to supply a hydrogen-powered train is actually happening! Also, what’s Packman got to do with this week’s Top 10 Innovations? Packman Packaging of course, which is using corn-based bags to help fight Southeast Asia’s plastics waste crisis. And mycelium from fungus is being used for furniture to lamp shades now, making us look at fungi in a whole new light. If you are up for some mystery, Amyris submitted regulatory review for an undisclosed nutritional ingredient…hmmm, what could it be? Get these and more innovations for the week of November 22nd.

In today’s Digest, functional fungus, Amyris’s secret new nutritional ingredient, bioplastics for auto applications, first-ever hydrogen powered train and more — ready for you now at The Digest online. READ MORE

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#9 Raven SR and Zanker Recycling have signed a letter of intent to produce hydrogen from waste plastic

In Wyoming, Zanker Recycling has signed a letter of intent with Raven SR, a renewable fuels company, to provide the site and feedstock for Raven SR’s first commercial renewable hydrogen production facility. Raven SR’s non-combustion, multi-patented, Steam/CO2 reforming process converts mixed feedstock (biogenic and non-biogenic) into renewable fuel products such as hydrogen, diesel, methane and Fischer-Tropsch fuels. The CEO of Raven SR emphasized the importance of the partnership by stating that this acts as an “important first step in bringing green, renewable hydrogen to the northern California market to help meet the California Energy Commission’s goal that transportation hydrogen be at least 33% renewable and have a carbon intensity of 30 or less. Our fuels meet and exceed that requirement…”
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