Treasury charts biofuel flight path to claiming SAF credits
The biofuel industry said it is ready for full-throttle production of low-carbon fuel for airplanes, now that the Biden administration has released guidelines for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), potentially a 36 billion-gallon-a-year market. The guidelines allow tax credits of up to $1.75 a gallon, expected to be a powerful inducement for production of cleaner-burning fuels.
Chemist who developed artificial photosynthesis gets ‘genius’ grant
Plants convert energy from the sun into chemical energy through photosynthesis. Chemist Peidong Yang, of U-California, spent about 10 years accomplishing "a similar feat with the help of semiconductor nanowires and bacteria," says the Los Angeles Times.