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Glycon Garcia

Bioenergy and the paper industry | reegle Blog - 0 views

  • The global pulp and paper industry has substantially increased its use of woody biomass for energy in recent years, and was able to reduce its demand for fossil energy. The increased use of bioenergy by the pulp and paper industry now accounts for 18% of the total energy consumption by this industry sector.
Infogreen Global

First Waste to Bioenergy Facility in Florida - 1 views

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    The BioEnergy Center will generate eight million gallons of third-generation bioethanol each year from renewable biomass including yard, wood, agricultural and vegetative wastes. The Center will also generate six megawatts of renewable electricity. The facility will be the first to use INEOS Bio's advanced BioEnergy technology, the world's leading feedstock flexible technology for advanced biofuels. The technology breaks the link between food crops and ethanol production. At the heart of the INEOS Bio technology is a patented anaerobic fermentation step, through which naturally occurring bacteria convert gases derived directly from biomass into bioethanol.
Arabica Robusta

Biofuels and Food Security should be a very important aspect of this group - 154 views

I agree that biofuel is a dead end, and in fact is perhaps worse than the disease. I will cross-post some recent articles I have found on biofuels and the scramble for African land (and land elsew...

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Hans De Keulenaer

Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa - 0 views

  • Tonight Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, will present his annual report to the General Assembly in New York. In it, he will call for a 5-year moratorium on the production of liquid biofuels made from food crops such as corn, wheat, palm oil and rapeseed.
Hans De Keulenaer

Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa - 0 views

  • However, imported biomass is not automatically a sustainable energy source.
Hans De Keulenaer

Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks - Environmen... - 0 views

  • Algae are an attractive source of biomass energy since they do not compete with food crops and have higher energy yields per area than terrestrial crops. In spite of these advantages, algae cultivation has not yet been compared with conventional crops from a life cycle perspective. In this work, the impacts associated with algae production were determined using a stochastic life cycle model and compared with switchgrass, canola, and corn farming. The results indicate that these conventional crops have lower environmental impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location. Only in total land use and eutrophication potential do algae perform favorably. The large environmental footprint of algae cultivation is driven predominantly by upstream impacts, such as the demand for CO2 and fertilizer. To reduce these impacts, flue gas and, to a greater extent, wastewater could be used to offset most of the environmental burdens associated with algae. To demonstrate the benefits of algae production coupled with wastewater treatment, the model was expanded to include three different municipal wastewater effluents as sources of nitrogen and phosphorus. Each provided a significant reduction in the burdens of algae cultivation, and the use of source-separated urine was found to make algae more environmentally beneficial than the terrestrial crops.
Hans De Keulenaer

WHISKY POWER: New Company Celtic Renewables Turns Whisky Byproducts into Biofuel | Inha... - 0 views

  • Edinburgh Napier University transformed pott ale and draff from the making of whisky into fuel to run a vehicle, and now the university has turned that process into a business called Celtic Renewables Ltd.!
Ihering Alcoforado

How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates - Harvard - Belfe... - 0 views

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    "How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates" Discussion Paper September 2010 Author: Robert Lawrence, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Belfer Center Discussion Papers Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Environment and Natural Resources
Phil Slade

MSU News Service - MSU: Baking soda dramatically boosts oil production in algae - 1 views

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    "When added at a particular time in the growing cycle, baking soda more than doubled the amount of oil produced in half the time in three different types of algae."
Ihering Alcoforado

ScienceDirect - Biomass and Bioenergy : Environmental assessment of biofuels for transp... - 0 views

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    Early comprehensive life cycle assessments (LCA's) that compared biofuels with fossil fuels already appeared in the beginning of the eighties. Since then the public, scientific and political interest in biofuels has continuously grown and the number of biofuels and assessed parameters has increased.At the same time, the methodology for this type of assessment has improved with certain aspects of the approach having come up by and by a process which still continues today. Several issues related to the land use currently stand in the centre of expert discussions. Keywords: Environmental assessment; Biofuels; Transport; Land use assessment; Fossil fuels Article Outline 1. Objective, scope and background 2. Procedure 3. Results: comparison of biofuels and fossil fuels 3.1. Biofuels from agriculture compared to fossil fuels and against each other 3.2. Biofuels from residues compared to fossil fuels and against each other 4. Results: land use aspects 5. Conclusions and outlook 5.1. Competing land use 5.2. Competing biomass usages
Colin Bennett

8% World Energy Needs Can Be Found in Abandoned Land | EcoGeek - 0 views

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    Their study, the Global Limits of Biomass Energy, sought to utilize satellite imagery, reports, productivity models and other data to estimate the amounts of energy that could be produced from these derelict plots of earth.
Energy Net

Waste-to-Resources: the ultimate sustainable industry? | celsias° - 0 views

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    There have been major strides in producing everything from sandals to military hardware in more eco-friendly ways. Likewise, the reduction of waste has also been improved, through both new technology and behavioral changes. But perhaps the most intriguing sector of the "sustainability industry" is the one populated by companies and organizations capturing waste and converting it into useful, carbon-neutral resources.
Pannir selvam

pannirbr's public notebook: Efluente - 0 views

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Pannir selvam

1. Biodigestor rural vinil biogás lona biofertilizante adubo liquido - 0 views

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    1. Biodigestor rural vinil biogás lona biofertilizante adubo liquido
Hans De Keulenaer

UK Starts World's Largest Algae Biofuel Initiative : Gas 2.0 - 0 views

  • While food-based biofuels are taking the heat for rising food prices, other solutions - like algae - are gaining a more serious following. For example, the UK’s Carbon Trust has announced plans for a project to make algae bio-fuels a commercial reality by the year 2020
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    By 2020, algae-based biofuels may be 'a commercial reality', but not to the extent to make a difference within this timeframe.
Colin Bennett

Algae Biomass Summit 2008 in Seattle | Cleantech.com - 0 views

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    A second annual Algae Biomass Summit intends to explore and discuss the use of algae as a feedstock for biofuels and other sustainable commodities.
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    Another cry wolf story, that is not for the near future, but one that could reframe the whole energy debate if it ever materialises.
Colin Bennett

Energy Biosciences Institute - Press Release 5-5-08 - 0 views

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    BERKELEY, CA - The Energy Biosciences Institute, the world's largest public/private consortium dedicated to the application of biosciences to the energy sector, has announced an initial set of 49 research projects for funding during the first year of EBI's 10-year program
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