4: Biofuels and Blockchain: Beyond the World of Fossil Fuels (feat. Karen O'Brien)

How do we power transportation sustainably? It’s a tough question driving many exciting innovations all over the industry.

 

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In today’s episode Punith and Tom talk with Karen O’Brien, a Sustainability Engineering Manager at Gevo Inc., about the prospect of using biofuels to tackle this grand challenge of the 21st century.

 

Our topics in today’s episode include:

• The motivation for developing biofuel technologies
• Using biofuels in commercial aviation
• Using life-cycle analysis to produce biofuels sustainably
• The dramatic benefits of biofuels compared to fossil fuels
• Where additional growth can be seen in the bioenergy space
• Carbon pricing paradigms
• And much more!

 

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