Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'UK'
Times twigs that biofuel policies have environmental impacts too
This article in the Sunday edition of the Times understands that there are environmental costs to biofuel policies. ...
UK has enough land for non-food biofuels -- study
A study in the Journal of Applied Ecology says that there is enough land in the UK for non-food biofuels. The abstract, which is copied on envirolation.org says that there is 3.1m Ha of acceptable land in the UK, that's...
UK buries biomass will miss target
The UK is not doing enough to turn waste biomass into fuel, says the Guardian. Key passage:"Of an estimated 7.5m tonnes of domestic wood waste, much from construction and demolition, some 80% goes to landfill. Only some 4% becomes sustainable...
Digesters and waste food, a proposal
Interesting article on Report Buyer which says electricity could be generated from waste food about using localised digesters to convert food waste into biofuels.Digesters are one part of the answer perhaps. Another useful part could be the use of pyrolysis...
UK algae biofuels challenge
The UK's Carbon Trust has launched the Algae Biofuel Challenge to try and flush some good ideas for biofuels from algae off the top of the pond and closer to commercialisation. Worth applying. ...
Distillers grains and cattle.
OK this is slightly off beam, but a lot of people are very keen of feeding distillers grains to cattle. For some ethanol plants it is the most profitable part of the business. Animal husbandry is not an area that...
UK grants for clean vehicles
The UK has £100m (around $175m-200m) in grants for vehicles powered by biofuel and other cleantechnologies. According to Cleantech The U.K. Regional Development Agency One NorthEast is taking applications for its recently-launched £100 million ($173 million USD) Low Carbon Vehicle...
ICIS bioresources summit
ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in bio-engineering and their impact on biofuels, bio-polymers...
Independent Newspaper in biofuels debate
The UK's Independent Newspaper has started a debate about biofuels. There are some forums where you can comment. It's quite lively....
BioEnergy Africa to list on the UK Alternative Investment Market today.
BioEnergy Africa is scheduled to list on the UK Alternative Investment Market today. The firm has a number of projects in Mozambique, according to the Independent Newspaper. ...
Biofuels subsidies at root of carbon dioxide problem
Subsidies for biofuels in the UK could be much better spent in environmental terms by helping the developing world cut back on the generation of carbon dioxide from deforestation and using unsustainable fuels such as peat, according to the Policy...
E.ON responds to "green" to ship trees post
I've just had an email from Emily at E.ON about the wood burning power plant it wants to build near Bristol, UK. It set some of my worries to rest. Some specifics would be nice, but I guess it is...
19% of UK biofuel meets ethical standards -- RFA
The UK Renewable Fuel Agency says that 19% of biofuel used in the UK under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation conformed to environmntal standards between April and May this year. During that timeBiofuels accounted for 2.14% of UK fuel automotive...
Now its "green" to ship trees to power stations
Now it is "green" to ship trees to power stations and burn them, according to E.ON in this report from Cleantech. E.ON, which is planning a timber fired electricity generation station in the Port of Bristol. Is it sustainable? What...
Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste
Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste. The process looks interesting and I've asked them some questions. How do you separate chlorinated and non chlorinated plastics? Have you considered converting some of the plastics stream in...
Inside Ineos' waste to ethanol plant
And finally, is usually a piece about a skate-boarding duck used to round off a news show of unremitting depression. This is at least optimistic, its about Ineos' plans to use waste to develop gas that will be fed to...
Corrected: Ineos to use municpal waste and algae to make ethanol
Corrected:This article originally appeared with the headline Ineos goes down the Fischer Tropsch route to ethanol from municipal waste. The process will use algae to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethanol not a chemical catalyst. This has been corrected...
Gallagher: the direction of biofuel policy in the UK
Gallagher has some thoughts on the direction of biofuel policy in the UK. I've left this to the last because, although it is the most interesting and proposes significant divergency from the EU position, I am not certain that the...
Second generation biofuels and Gallagher
The Gallagher review has this to say on second generation biofuels they are immature, they could produce greenhouse gas savings, but only if they're not grown on land currently used for agriculture and that they need significant incentives and support...
Sustainable biofuels are possible says Gallagher report
The Ed Gallagher, chair of the UK's Renewable Fuels Agency says that sustainable biofuels are possible but:We cannot afford to abandon biofuels as part of a low carbon transport future. Equally, we cannot continue producing biofuels which are ultimately more...
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