Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'grass'
The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009
The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...
Switchgrass is sustainable and energetically favourable
Switchgrass is sustainable and energetically favourable, according to a story in Technocrat, reporting on the Science Now magazine article Biofuels on a Big Scale....
Energy Crops crunching the numbers
Researchers in Belgium have looked at the energy that can be released from grass and maize by anerobic digestion (that's letting things rot down, to you and me). According to the research published in Environmental Research Web, energetically this way...
A more sustainable switchgrass?
Natural US prairie looks like being a more potent biofuel source than switchgrass, according to researchers in the Midwest, quoted on Treehugger.com. The researchers are based at the Tallgrass Prairie Center, the Treehugger reports says: in addition to producing more...
Elephant Grass to electrical power
Elephant grass is to be used to generate electrical power in Bahia at a plant built by a company called Dendi, in Sao Paulo state, Brazil. according to the Temas blog. There is something clear and obvious about what you...
BP is crossing the oil bio divide
BP is crossing the oil bio divide, according to an interesting post on Biopact about BP and Mendel collaborating on rapid growing grasses for cellulosic biofuels....
Switchgrass and domestic heating
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Lets talk trees
Lets talk trees for a bit. There is a growing realisation that diverting corn or other food sources into fuel is likely to have severe impacts on the world's ability to feed itself, or at least that the price of food...
US Farm Bill 2007
The US Farm Bill 2007 will underpin quite a lot of US agriculture through subsidies and price supports -- which make it hard for non US farmers to compete in that market. It must be one of the largest pieces...
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