Here’s a story about an apartment building in Germany that produces more energy than it consumes – at least partially from algae. Neat story, but the issue here, as always, isn’t, “Is it possible?” but, “Is it anywhere near cost-effective?”…
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Here’s a story about an apartment building in Germany that produces more energy than it consumes – at least partially from algae. Neat story, but the issue here, as always, isn’t, “Is it possible?” but, “Is it anywhere near cost-effective?”…
A young Frenchman, Antoine Godart, volunteered to create an introductory paper on biomass for 2GreenEnergy readers. It’s linked above, for anyone who may be interested. Thanks for your work, Antoine.
Some of the waste-to-energy concepts I’ve come across recently should not be discussed over dinner. One contemplates fish-waste in British Columbia that comes from the significant percentage of the fish that is unusable: the head, tail, guts, and spine. Currently,…
For quite a while, I helped to promote a client back east and their solution to processing the manure that comes from our nation’s 7.6 billion chickens. The problem I had, in retrospect, was the technology, which was garden-variety (pardon…
I just had a very interesting call with a private equity company that I thought I’d share, as it illustrates what we’re up against when it comes to energy. When I asked about the firm’s energy practice, he said, “We…
Our guest for this month’s webinar is Robert Orr of Manchester, England, who will tell us about his quest to build a facility to turn buffalo dung in Southern Pakistan into fertilizer and energy. We are talking about a huge…
When I first got into the renewable energy space, Robert Rapier was one of the first people to whom I reached out, as he’s been around this industry quite a while. I recall that he was quite gracious with me;…
I’m happy to report that it appears I’m making progress in arranging funding for a facility to turn buffalo dung in Southern Pakistan into fertilizer and energy. As you’re reading this, there are 400,000 dairy buffaloes standing in an area…
The scientists at Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia have collected the draft genome of a marine algae sequence to support the researchers all over the United States in a project which aspires to find out the best algae species for creating…