I mentioned a few months ago that I’m making real progress towards putting together a fairly large (nine-figure) waste-to-energy deal in a developing but extremely stable and business-friendly country in Central America. My trip back East enabled me to have …
Category: Biomass
New Pyrolysis Project: MSW to Electricity
I’ll soon be updating our list of renewable energy investment opportunities, as I’ve come across a few more that I think are excellent. One is a municipal solid waste (MSW) to electricity via pyrolysis project in a small, stable, but …
From Guest Blogger Cass: Renewable Heat Initiative to Pump Money into Green Households
Good news for householders: the Government’s Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) is being extended to residential properties. This means that green homeowners could be paid hundreds of pounds a year for generating heat by solar thermal panels, biomass boilers and heat …
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Renewable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
As I mentioned in a recent article, what we normally call “biomass,” while it’s technically renewable energy, is nowhere near an ideal energy source; most of it is really just deforestation, the cutting and incineration of wood for cooking, lighting, …
Apartment Building in Germany Produces Energy from Algae
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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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.
Tagged with: biomass
Biomass Waste-To-Energy Solutions in France
Late last night I was on a Skype call with a friend, a clean energy aficionado based in Central France. He went on at length about some of the projects he’s pursuing, several of which are various types of pyrolysis …
Tagged with: Central France, chilling solar panels, clean energy, clean energy aficionado, consumption of fossil fuels, dying pines trees, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, gasification, global climate change, global warming, miscanthus, pyrolysis, Renewable Energy, Skype, sustainability, world energy consumption
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, …
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 …
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
