Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Canada'
Toronto looks hard at biofuels for busses
Rising prices and minimal benefts mean that Toronto's public transport commission will be looking hard at sticking with biofuels with its bus fleet in a meeting scheduled on 27 August, according to the Globe and Mail. ...
A call to use waste for biofuels
There's a long reasoned piece of work by Biodiversist in Gristmill, which is worth looking at. The pay off for me is in the last line of the story... now don't just scroll down, read some on the way....
The end of the free for all...
Kevin Downing on the MaRS blog thinks that it is going to get harder to fund new ethanol plants. I think that he's right, not only because the regulatory framework that biofuels plants will operate in is likely to change...
Syntic buys catalyst technology to convert biomass to ethanol
I came across this over on Envirofuel, a company called Syntic Biofuel has got hold of some catalyst technology to convert biomass into ethanol at a cost of around US 37 cents when operating at This is the kind of...
More on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process
There's more detail on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process on Environmental Resarch web. This is fast pyrolysis which is pretty much a continuous process, by the looks of things. The plant in Guelph will process 66,000 dry tonnes of biomass each...
Quebec bans further corn ethanol plants
The Government of Quebec has decided it will not allow any more biofuel plants to be built on its territory, according to Francois Cardinal, writing in La Presse. The ban is coming into force because the government of Quebec does...
Biofuels close a fish-waste circle
Biofuels are being used to minimise the amount of fish waste in a number of Pacific fisheries based around the US and Canada, according to World Changing which discusses using fish for fuel. I can't see any problems with this(beyond...
Dynamotive gets equity boost
Canada's Dynamotive has been given an extra $10m from equity investors to help the business grow. The firm is working towards biomass to fuel/power plants in Argentina....
Canadian's use farm waste for biofuels
Canada's Shane and Evan Chrapko who made a packet in dot.coms and got out while the getting was good, have followed Vindod Kohlsa another web entrepeneur into biofuels, using a surprisingly similar approach. According to Blognation's the two are bankrolling...
Canada's ecoENERGY for biofuels
Canada is pushing a four part plan called EcoENERGY for Biofuels and will see the government investing C$1.5bn ($1.4) over nine years to boost biofuels production in the country. These are the key points * Applicable to eligible production between...
Switchgrass and domestic heating
Check this out...
Celulose, ethanol and corn
The current drive into corn-based ethanol, its limitations and the potential for celulosic ethanol is explored thoroughly in this piece by Tyler Hamilton in the Toronto Star....
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