I plan to attend the last day (Wednesday, March 28th) of the 10th Cleantech Forum, to be held in San Francisco. The show does a great job in pulling together cleantech innovators, investors, corporate leaders and policy-makers from around the …
Tag: biofuels
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
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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We Hail from a Long Line of Alternative Fueled Vehicles
A quick reminder that we come from a long line of alternative fueled vehicles: It’s the 116th anniversary of the first automobile race in the United States. 89 had entered, but only six actually started, of which half were electric …
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Arundo Donax – One of the Diverse Feedstocks Used To Create Biofuels
A reader wrote in with a question about his plans to get in the ethanol business, using a certain feedstock in which he’s an expert. Indeed, one of the most interesting things about biofuels is the enormous diversity of feedstocks. …
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Looking for a Pragmatic Discussion of Biofuels? Check Out the BioEnergy Deployment Consortium
Ben Thorp is one of the true gentlemen in the biofuels industry, humbly but energetically chairing the non-profit BioEnergy Deployment Consortium. Retired from business after an enviable lifetime of successful engagements, he’s dedicated himself to the proposition that biomass needs …
No Romance in Renewables
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 …
BioFuels Offer Great Promise, Vicious Complexity
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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Can Algae Move the Needle in Biofuels?
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 …
GreenTechMedia’s Michael Kanellos — Celebrating Gevo’s IPO
When I was in San Francisco last week I dropped by to see GreenTechMedia’s Michael Kanellos, one of my favorite personalities in cleantech. Michael always seems to have a reason to smile, even when the rest of the world (me …
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