by Pete Rocha, LEC Project Director and Low Carbon Hydrogen Center of Excellence leader Aviation is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, and it is growing! The aviation industry produces 2-3% of all CO2 emissions…
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Turning Up The Heat: How Food & Beverage Electrification Can Unlock Competitive Advantage
In 2023, Jean-Etienne Gourgues, Chairman and CEO of Chivas Brothers, set an ambitious goal: Chivas would implement carbon neutral distillation by 2026. Gourgues wasn’t making a hollow sustainability pledge. Today, Chivas’ Glentauchers distillery has proved…
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New Targets for Pesticide Discovery: Protein-Protein Interactions
By Jonathan Gressel, LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting) & Weizmann Institute of Science and HiCap Formulations (Israel) Ltd. Modern pesticides provide a healthy, safe food supply The twentieth-century discovery of small organic molecule pesticides revolutionized…
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Bioeconomy Expert Witnesses: The Person You Hope to Never Need
By Wayne Lee and Dr. Doug Rivers, LEC Partners (formerly Lee Enterprises Consulting) A Prudent Investment vs. An Unwanted Resolution In bioeconomy-related projects, two distinct scenarios emerge concerning the expert. On the one hand, there’s…
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Federal Funding for Your Commercial Scale Bioeconomy Project
By Bill Hagy, Project Director, LEC Partners (Lee Enterprises Consulting) Things to Know There are numerous federal funding resources available to support commercial-scale bioeconomy projects. The following items should be considered when identifying federal funding…
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Hydrogen From Biomass: An Agitation Perspective
By Gregory T. Benz, LEC Partners There are many ways to produce hydrogen: electrolysis, catalytic methods on alkane gasses, pyrolysis or organic matter and “wet” processing of biomass, usually converting to sugars before conversion to…
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Decarbonizing the Shipping Industry
By Wily Salim, Lee Enterprises Consulting Historical Background Approximately 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, which makes shipping a vital mode of transportation. The earliest known seafaring can be traced back to 6,000…
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USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) Classic for Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2024
OPPORTUNITY: The RCPP Classic and Alternative Funding Arrangement (AFA) FY 2024 notices of funding opportunity (NFO) will run concurrently. The RCPP promotes the coordination of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) conservation activities with partners…
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AI is Accelerating Materials Science Discovery and Synthesis Exponentially
by Kent Goeking, Managing Director Introduction One of the key barriers to the economic and technical success of many advanced energy technologies is the sub-optimum performance of critical inorganic materials used as catalysts, electrodes, dielectrics,…
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Production of Hydrogen at Industrial Scale
State of the Art and Future Prospects Qi Chen, Lee Enterprises Consulting Introduction In the quest for a sustainable energy future, hydrogen has been recognized as a key, offering versatile applications across industries. It…
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