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 …
Category: Biomass
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; …
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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
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 …
Turning Buffalo Dung into Fertilizer and Energy
I’m going to be helping my new-found friend, Robert Orr of Manchester, England in his quest to build a facility to turn buffalo dung in Southern Pakistan into fertilizer and energy. How much dung are we talking about? It’s hard …
Video: The Pros and Cons of Biomass
Here’s another part of our series for newcomers to the subject of renewable energy — this one on biomass. I provide a few thoughts on how it offers the potential to provide carbon-neutral renewable energy and biofuels. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdDZuAe6Qc]
Tagged with: alternative energy, biofuels, biomass, carbon-neutral energy, clean energy, green energy, Renewable Energy, video
Do Biofuels Hold the Promise They Claim?
I’m one of these people who essentially runs his life off his “to-do” list — a list of incomplete actions in a Word file that is always open, to which I’m constantly adding, deleting, and reprioritizing. Here’s something I’ve looked …
Tagged with: Algenol, alternative energy, biofuels contaminants in our rivers, biofuels higher food prices, clean energy, Cobalt Technologies, Coskata, efficiency of biofuels, Enerkem, Genomatica, green energy, Joule Unlimited, LanzaTech, Mascoma, Renewable Energy, Sapphire Energy, SG Biofuels, Terrabon, Virent Energy Systems, ZeaChem
Jack McMullen To Play Key Role in Waste-To-Energy Project
During my trip back East last week I had the honor of meeting Jack McMullen in his office in Cambridge, MA. If you want to see an interesting and multi-varied bio, you may want to check this out. I’m happy …
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From Guest-Blogger Joshua Okomo: Fuel Farming Is a Global Reality
Farming energy is a global reality. While biomass fuel wood is still the energy of peasants, used by nearly 2 billion people living on the planet earth, biological fuel is rapidly becoming popular in the developed countries. Modern agriculture is …
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An Efficient and Sustainable Use of Biomass for Heat and Power
I’m delighted that Ben Thorp has become friendly with us here at 2GreenEnergy. Here’s a guy who’s forgotten more about biomass than 99% of professionals in this arena know, and who frequently sends me scholarly papers he’s penned on the …
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