[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzoBcEzi8rk&w=420&h=345] Here’s a short discussion of a business plan that contemplates the processing of enormous quantities of construction and demolition waste, and the generation of clean energy from the wood and other biomass it contains. I’ve spent some time …
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I just spoke with Sean O’Hanlon, leader of the American Biofuels Council, a national institute for biofuel research, analysis, development, and education in the United States. Sean impressed me as a doer rather than a talker; the emphasis of his …
I just had a fascinating call with Jim Lane, editor and publisher of Miami, FL-based BioFuelsDigest.com, a group that provides information products and a series of top-flight industry conferences to more than 14,000 organizations worldwide. When I happened to mention …
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Brazil aims to triple its renewable energy use by 2020, according to the new national plan. Wind energy has a strong place in the plans, along with small hydropower. Brazil has already reached 1 GW from wind energy alone this year – …
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When I was lucky enough to meet the eminent Bulgarian scientist Dr. Boris Monahov at the Energy Storage conference last week, we spoke about the advanced battery solutions he and his team are developing. But Dr. Monahov is also a …
2GreenEnergy Business Director George Alger sent me this interview in which Bill Gates speaks on renewable energy. George: Yes, he makes some good points, and he’s a fan (as am I) of Donald Sadoway’s work at MIT. But as you …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94CSE4IQEA&w=425&h=349] In this episode of the 2GreenEnergy Video Report, I discuss one of the dozens of different kinds of biomass to energy technologies — in this case, processing chicken manure.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2S-lpnZVi4&w=480&h=390] Here, I discuss a unique renewable energy business concept in the biomass to energy arena, involving construction and demolition waste.
Question: The dozens of flavors of biomass technologies are all rooted in making use of the chemical energy stored in the bonds of complex, organic molecules, which, in some processes, is released to reform biofuels, normally in the form of …
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A Canadian research council has backed plans for a 50,000 liter algae-based biofuel plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a C$5 million grant. The biofuel project aims to identify strains of algae that are already acclimatised to the local environment, …
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