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"Amazing" - the year that was, in biomass terms

Jan 5th 2007 4:46PM - 0 Comments

2006 was a year that saw "amazing strides" in the biomass industry, says Jetta Wong, agriculture and energy policy analyst with the EESI's Agriculture and Renewable Energy program (why, with a name like that, could she not have been an auto industry ...

Another car that is made from biomass ... wood

Jul 29th 2007 8:39PM - 3 Comments

This is the second vehicle that we've shown you which is made almost entirely of biomass. The first one was undoubtedly cool and used hemp materials for the bodywork. That car ran on ethanol and would be a first class ride for the right person, and ...

The stuff of nightmares: Biomass-fueled autonomous robot

Jan 29th 2009 7:05PM - 15 Comments

Cyclone Power Technologies, which we've previously featured for its engine that runs on waste heat, has recently been awarded a contract to build the first stages of an Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (seriously, eater?) for a project ...

Making biofuels with small, fast reactors located close to biomass sources

Aug 11th 2007 12:37PM - 0 Comments

Researchers at the University of Minnesota are working on a new method to create syngas from biomass which can then be burned directly to make electricity or converted to many different liquid fuels that we use today. There are already processes ...

Union of Concerned Scientists give a detailed primer on biomass

May 27th 2006 2:28PM - 0 Comments

A small-town paper near where I grew up in Michigan recently published a long and detailed explanation on biomass energy. I poked around online a bit and found out it was taken from the Union of Concerned Scientists and, since the entire thing is ...

Aussie conference questions biomass / food trade-off

Jan 16th 2007 6:37PM - 1 Comment

Bioenergy Australia, a government-industry forum to foster and facilitate the development of biomass for energy, liquid fuels, and other value-added bio-based products recently put on The Bioenergy Australia 2006 – A Growth Opportunity for ...

Study: better to burn biomass to power electric cars than to make ethanol

May 8th 2009 11:54AM - 33 Comments

Corn ethanol promoters, get out your keyboards. You've got another dragon to slay. A new study has found that it is more efficient to straight-up burn plant material to generate electricity and then charge up electric vehicles than to make ethanol ...

New chemical process could reduce the cost of producing fuels from biomass

May 21st 2007 5:49PM - 0 Comments

Finding a way to reduce the cost of effectively and cheaply producing fuels from biomass waste is what some consider something of a "holy grail" when it comes to biofuels. If there was a fuel that was cheaper than petroleum-based fuel that people ...

USDA grants $4.2 million to turn biomass into fuel, reduce fire hazard

Apr 25th 2006 3:34PM - 0 Comments

In a good news, bad news sort of story, the USDA announced yesterday that they awarded almost $4.2 million worth of grants to companies who are working to turn woody biomass into affordable, useable fuel. The USDA defines woody biomass as ...

Ethanol's new biomass: watermelons

Sep 20th 2006 8:45AM - 0 Comments

Ok, we know that technically any plant product can be made into ethanol. But the list of plant biomass that researchers are actively working on converting to ethanol is getting pretty long as well. We have the obvious ones - corn and soybeans - but ...

Mazda working on cellulosic biomass based plastic

Jun 15th 2008 8:26AM - 2 Comments

Ford has been developing lots of different materials from renewable sources including the soyfoam that they introduced in the Mustang seats for 2008. Now Ford's Japanese affiliate Mazda has kicked off a new research program with hometown school ...

Australian Biodiesel Group suffering production, biomass shortages

Oct 11th 2006 7:40PM - 0 Comments

A drought in Australia will have dire consequences soon for Australian Biodiesel Group, which is predicting a net loss of AU$10.8 million. The drought is affecting the availability of canola and other oils. Combine this drop in supply with a fall in ...

Wheat straw biomass for ethanol looks to be cost effective

Oct 29th 2006 11:42AM - 4 Comments

Wheat straw is the next target for ethanol biomass for some researchers (behind some of our other quirky favorites like watermelon and poplar trees) and it appears to be economical. Researchers at North Dakota State University, collaborating with a ...

Cellulosic biomass ethanol is coming soon, report says

Nov 1st 2006 6:15PM - 0 Comments

While no one has yet figured out how to successfully make commercial cellulosic biomass ethanol (i.e., ethanol from varied plant parts, not just corn or soybeans), MRG and Fuji-Keizai have released a report on the future of commercial ethanol ...

USDA and DOE award $17.5 million to biomass and biofuels projects

Oct 15th 2006 10:56AM - 0 Comments

It almost seems that biofuels are getting so many millions from the U.S. Government that that guy in the green dollar sign suit from late night TV should be driving around in a Jetta TDI with a "Biodiesel: No War Required" sticker on it. This past ...

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