Biomass News

Biomass feedstock nitrogen study compares four grasses; switchgrass is most efficient.

A team of pioneering South Korean scientists have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals.

ALTHOUGH THE very term "accounting rules'' may cause most people to turn the page, the financial crisis has shown that when rules allow businesses to claim profits from what are actually losses, they distort economic incentives at our peril.

As the pressure mounts to find alternative energy sources, Anglesey biomass projects may be one solution to the effort to reduce our continual dependence on major fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.

The Mountain State is the third-most forested state in the U.S. and some say it could be a prime source of energy.

New Delhi, Nov 20 A technology that converts rice husk into electricity is gaining ground in Bihar.

Honeywell today announced a $79-million renewable energy and building retrofit program with Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill.

These are the blooms of a flax plant. Credit: Johnathan J. Stegeman and Tom Hilton /SINC. Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata , a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol.

East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced today that it will receive $65 million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds to help fund construction of the Lake Livingston Hydroelectric Project, and to assist in the construction of a biomass plant in Woodville, Texas.

One of the gasses causing the greenhouse effect is carbon dioxide, or CO2. USDA Agircultural Research Service soil scientists Drs.

"Right here's the nuclear power plant from the river," Mark Clements says. Mark runs a boat across the Mississippi River many times a day.

This region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of the biggest deserts in China, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see.

The Ordos region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of Chinaa s biggest deserts, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see.

A new paper just published in Global Change Biology examines the potential of a REDD mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits.

Devon County Council's Renewable Energy for Devon has won a top green prize from Regen South West, along with other environmental wins in the county at the South West Green Energy Awards .

The Air Force Research Laboratory and University of Dayton Research Institute are stepping up efforts to develop and test alternative fuels, derived from coal and biomass sources, that could help the Air Force reduce its massive dependence on petroleum-based aviation fuels.

MARGARET Thatcher was an unlikely hero for a climate change movement that's sometimes accused of left-wing, quasi-religious crusading.

Legislation unveiled last week by six U.S. Senators, including Michigan's Stabenow and Montana's Baucus, seeks to clarify the opportunities for agriculture and forestry sectors in a climate change regulatory system.

11, 2009 - Net returns for virtually all major crops are positive under a properly constructed cap-and-trade program, according to a University of Tennessee study released today by 25x'25 . However, the study goes on to show that if carbon emissions are regulated by EPA as prescribed under a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, net farm income is projected ...