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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Apartment Building in Germany Produces Energy from Algae
Tagged with: 2GreenEnergy Associate Dr. Peter Lilienthal, apartment building in Germany, energy from algae, energy pragmatism
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
Introductory Paper on Biomass
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.
Animal Waste-to-Energy Projects
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,…
Tagged with: biofertilzer, biogas, British Columbia, buffalo in Southern Pakistan, fish-waste, millions of minks slaughtered, waste-to-energy
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
Genifuel — Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification
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…
Tagged with: AD, anaerobic digestion, biomass, catalytic hydrothermal gasification, chicken manure, gasification, Genifuel, methane, pyrolysis, sludge, thermochemical processes
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
Coal Won't Be Easy To Replace
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…
Tagged with: biomass, coal industry, coal-fired power plants, environment, private equity, sustainability, wood pellets
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
June's Webinar – Waste to Energy
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…
Cellulosic Ethanol (and Most Other Biomass Projects) Can't Scale
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;…
Tagged with: biomass-to-energy, cellulosic ethanol, manure to energy, municipal solid waste, Renewable Energy, Robert Rapier, Thermodynamics, waste tires to energy, waste wood
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
Biomass Project in Southern Pakistan
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…
Tagged with: bio-energy, biofertilizer, biomass, buffalo dung, environment, environmental ruin, Southern Pakistan
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
From Guest Blogger Alia Haley: Algae–Can It Become the Renewable Energy Source of the Future?
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…
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