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Assistant Professor @NCState_BAE | Bioprocess Innovation | Climate Tech | Views my own

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Corinne Scown @cdscown.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Looking to do a PhD? Check out this great opportunity to work w/ my colleague @joesagues.bsky.social
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry is facing headwinds. I’m hopeful it can overcome them, but I wonder when carbon removal (e.g. biomass burial) might become more attractive (1/2). finance.yahoo.com/news/airline...
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The airline industry's dirty secret: Clean jet fuel failures
PARAMOUNT, California (Reuters) -In 2019, Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, hailed its new contract with green jet fuel producer World Energy as an example for the aviation industry...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Busy day in the BUS Lab as we prepare bioreactors for anaerobic digestion experiments.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Globally, sustainable aviation fuel is expected to increase to 0.7% from 0.3% of aviation fuel this year. But the International Air Transport Assn. expects air travel to climb 6%, causing another jump in emissions.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Airlines face climate reality check with green jet fuel
U.S. airline efforts to address climate change were eclipsed by those of European airlines last year, but even the Europeans aren't making a dent because of the increase in air travel.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Y Combinator, one of the most influential startup accelerators in the world, is going all-in on AI agents, making up nearly 50% of their latest cohort of startups. How do people think AI agents will disrupt academia? pitchbook.com/news/article...
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Y Combinator is going all-in on AI agents, making up nearly 50% of latest batch - PitchBook
Of the 144 startups featured in YC's first Spring 2025 batch, 67 of them, or 46%, were AI agent companies.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Can a bioeconomy take root in Europe? A flurry of projects is underway, but history suggests success won’t be easy cen.acs.org/environment/...
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What will it take to build a bioeconomy in Europe?
A flurry of projects is underway, but history suggests success won’t be easy
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Very excited to share new research out of the Biocarbon Utilization & Sequestration (BUS) Lab: "Techno-Economic Assessment of Atmospheric Carbon Removal via Industrial Composting of Biomass Waste with CO2 Capture" published in ACS Omega. 🧵1/4 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Techno-Economic Assessment of Atmospheric Carbon Removal via Industrial Composting of Biomass Waste with CO2 Capture
The techno-economic feasibility of removing atmospheric CO2 via industrial composting of high-moisture, heterogeneous biomass waste with CO2 capture is assessed. The novel composting process generates...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🌲 Did you know over 13 million metric tons of biogenic CO₂ are mineralized into carbonates each year in U.S. pulp mills — but then released back into the atmosphere? Our new study shows how we can capture that CO₂ instead — at low cost. 🧵 1/5
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Let’s build this little guy a planet that lasts. Climate tech isn’t just innovation — it’s love in action.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Slate Auto, a firm backed in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is unveiling a low-cost electric truck that can also change into an SUV. Its starting price point: $20,000 after federal EV incentives. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Bezos-backed Slate Auto unveils affordable EV truck
One outlet has called it the "anti-Tesla," referring to its simple, minimalist stature.
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years.
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Computer models have been accurately predicting climate change for 50 years » Yale Climate Connections
A research scientist found that many 1970s-era models were ‘pretty much spot-on.’ Today’s models are far more advanced.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧵Graphite is a strategic and critical material for electric vehicles, as it forms nearly 100% of the anode in lithium-ion batteries. 1/n www.axios.com/2025/04/15/c...
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China trade war risks stifling America's electric car movement
Efforts to seed a domestic supply chain, which began under the Biden administration, need more time to mature.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The pulp and paper industry continues to make its case for atmospheric carbon removal, as I explain in the article published by Trellis Group today. trellis.net/article/micr...
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Microsoft’s big buy shows decarbonization potential of paper mills
In a deal that shows the potential of carbon capture at paper mills, Microsoft has signed on for 3.7 million removal credits over 12 years.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🌍 Excited to share our new research on carbon-negative bioplastics—now published in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews! We assessed the techno-economic potential for atmospheric CO2 removal via industrial-scale fermentation of lignocellulose into bioplastics 🌱 🧪 . 1/n
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨 April 15 Deadline! 🚨 Got a game-changing idea in bioprocessing? Enter the ASABE Bioprocess Startup Student Competition! Link here for details: asabe.org/bioprocess
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Feeling incredibly proud of the amazing work the BUS lab has done over the past few years. This group has put in a lot of effort and supported one another — it’s been a pleasure to work alongside them. Here’s to continuing the momentum in the year ahead! 💪📚🔬
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🔋 🔬 🌿 🧪 I'm proud to share our latest work from the BUS Lab. Led by PhD student Lillian Lower, our team published an innovative process to convert biorefinery residues into sustainable graphite for lithium-ion batteries and jet fuel. 1/n doi.org/10.1002/cssc...
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Sustainable Graphite and Jet Fuel from Biorefinery Residue
This study explores the novel conversion of bio-oil from benzene-toluene-xylene (BTX) production into biographite and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). By replicating synthetic graphite production thr...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Avoid accumulating plastic in your brain by using all natural bioproducts (e.g. cotton) where possible. Article: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine
Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found ...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Writing a review paper for publication was once an intimidating task, but AI has transformed the process entirely.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Dear US Bioeconomy, hang in there 🙏
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Corinne Scown @cdscown.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@joesagues.bsky.social is hiring a grad student on this super cool project w/ real-world impact. Cannot promise free designer handbags w/ this research position. Direct all swag questions to Joe. I'm just the messenger.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited to share a new article from the BUS Lab. Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Yaojing Qiu, led the study titled "Impacts of Municipal and Industrial Organic Waste Components on the Kinetics and Potentials of Biomethane Production via Anaerobic Digestion". link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Impacts of Municipal and Industrial Organic Waste Components on the Kinetics and Potentials of Biomethane Production via Anaerobic Digestion - Waste and Biomass Valorization
Extensive biomass characterization, biomethane potential reactions, and kinetic modeling was performed on a variety of municipal and industrial organic wastes, including household, grocery and commerc...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A Montana refinery for sustainable aviation fuel will now get $1.44 billion in financing that had been previously approved by the Loan Programs Office under Biden. www.canarymedia.com/articles/air...
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Trump DOE OKs first LPO disbursement — after GOP senator voices…
A Montana refinery for sustainable aviation fuel will now get $1.44 billion in financing that had been previously approved by the Loan Programs Office…
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
A line graph depicting global CO2 emissions from energy and industrial processes, along with projections from 2000 to 2100. The y-axis represents CO2 emissions in gigatons (Gt), while the x-axis marks the years. A highlighted target to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C in 2100 is at 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2030. Also show is a line showing decrease in emissions equivalent to what occurred during the pandemic. The line misses the target by about 8 GtCO₂/yr in 2030.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
AI tools like chat gpt are very helpful for back-of-the-envelope techno-economic and life cycle assessments. Material costs, global and regional capacities, process efficiencies, emissions factors, & unit conversions are a few things that can be obtained much more quickly via AI.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Leaf pick up in front of my house. Great opportunity for biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS).
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤔"Whatever happened to cellulosic ethanol? Regulatory uncertainty, overoptimistic investors, technological immaturity, and falling oil prices are blamed for the failure of a promising biofuel technology to perform as hoped." pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
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Whatever happened to cellulosic ethanol?
Technological immaturity, falling oil prices, overoptimistic investors, and regulatory uncertainty are blamed for the failure of a promising biofuel technology
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Dan Sanchez @danlsanchez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Have you ever wanted to systematically compare the performance of engineered carbon removal technologies? Excited to have a new, open-access paper doing just that.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/01/2025
It is both the case that the 2% of the planet that is it United States is remarkably frigid at the moment, and that the world as a whole is at record-warm levels for this day of the year:
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Dan Sanchez @danlsanchez.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Some (small) positive news this week: President Biden's 2025 Economic Report of the President contains an exciting chapter on "Achieving a Net Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions Economy in the United States" 👓 🧵
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Appreciation post to the authors of the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Primer, a free online textbook introducing the most important elements of CDR. I am using the textbook for a course at NC State, which has 37 students enrolled! cdrprimer.org
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Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer
A new resource on the fundamentals of carbon dioxide removal and its role in addressing the climate crisis.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Happy New Year! In 2025, I’m excited to continue advancing the bioeconomy via innovation in climate and energy solutions. Specifically, I’m excited to apply lessons learned over the past decade to optimize my performance and impact while maintaining work-life balance.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm so curious to see the impacts of AI assisted writing in research over the coming years. Will researchers who learned how to write the hard way be advantaged? My guess is that old school researchers will have more intuition and a better ability to connect dots. Time will tell.
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Today is a glorious day. The Biological & Agricultrual Engineering Department at NC State finally has compost service!
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
💡 📚 🔬 🎓 The NC State Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering is seeking a new department head! As a faculty member in the department, I can assure you it's an incredible place to work! Link to the position: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/210...
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Department Head - Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) invites applications for the position of Head of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering...
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Joe Sagues @joesagues.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ok I’m here to remove carbon from the blue sky
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