Biomass News

Production foreman Ron Toly visually inspects the carbon capturing research facility near Redwater, Alta., on June 26.

The tour ended in a century-old building stuffed with gauges, heat-exchangers, compressors, catalytic reactors, motors, and at least one large engine purchased on eBay then reconditioned.

The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages.

Seattle? Nuclear energy? We think of Seattle - and Washington state -as hydro, wind, perhaps coffee - but not really nuclear.

With Oregon's Legislature drawing to a close, Oregon environmental groups gained ground on some of their remaining top priorities over the weekend, including bills designed to attack invasive species, limit coal power and provide loans for energy efficiency improvements in homes and small businesses.

The theory is simple, the debate divisive: To survive global warming, simply insert billions of dollars, suck, and blow.

PUPILS at a Westcountry school will learn about renewable energy every time they attend classes.

Rentech Inc. said Wednesday that it agreed to sell $6.4 million worth of stock to some current institutional shareholders.

Washington - US environmentalists welcomed passage Friday by the House of Representatives of historic legislation to cut pollution blamed for global warming while business groups warned of skyrocketing energy costs.

China-Research, has shown the enhanced cellulose-hydrogen production from bio-pretreated corn stalk by mixed culture in batch tests and a 5 L bioreactor, respectively.

In the waning, let's-make-a-deal days of the 2009 Oregon Legislature, clean-energy advocates, utilities and industry trade groups have been wrangling over three bills that could significantly modify renewable energy legislation implemented just two years ago.

The PDU transforms biomass into a synthetic gas or "syngas," which is catalytically converted to produce liquid fuels and other bio-based chemicals.

Biomass in the form of wood chips is piled high at the D.R. Johnson Company timber operation in Prairie City.

Climate Bill Analysis Part 18: Understanding EPA's Analysis of the ACES Renewable Electricity Standard The U.S. EPA projects renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biomass will generate just 9% of U.S. electricity by 2020 under the Waxman-Markey renewable electricity standard.

The climate bill advancing in the U.S. House of Representatives will reward farmers who plant trees or take other steps to control greenhouse gases, and remove for five years an obstacle to corn-based ethanol, farm-panel Chairman Collin Peterson said on Wednesday.

About 30 percent of woody biomass power station operators have suspended or reduced operations due to a shortage of thinned wood and wood chips used for generating power, according to a recent survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Rentech, Inc. announced today that it has completed two investment agreements with biomass gasification technology companies.

Brian Baird is up to his usual Brian Bairdness: From Brad Shannon at The Olympian: H.R. 2454, also known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, is a sweeping measure that puts a cap on carbon-fuel emissions, something the state Legislature couldna t muster this year.

A trade union leader has called on the Government to reignite the economy by focusing on green industries.

Courage, Vision, and the Beating Heart of the Green Revolution Chuck Sheketoff In his January a oeState of the Statea address , Oregon Governor Kulongoski warned that complacency threatens Oregona s leadership in moving toward energy independence: There is a green revolution stirring in America, and Oregon is the beating heart of that revolution.