Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'methane'
A Short Essay on Biofuels and Related Matters
This is a guest post from Professor David B. Benson (retired), who is a regular commenter on The Big Biofuels Blog.David's contact details: dbenson@eecs.wsu.edu Biofuel------- Photosynthesis uses only a very small fraction of the available sunlight. This means that growing...
The power of left-over food in Japan
The power wasted in left-over food is outlined in this story on Far East Gizmos, a number of Tokyo's schools will be using waste food to generate power... Perhaps we could do the same with waste from supermarkets over the...
Vinod Khosla: A biofuels bet on Wired
People interested in biofuels should try to get get hold of a hard copy of this month's wired magazine, or better still, 'cos its free, should go to Wired's online archive Vinod Khosla (he co-founded Sun Microsystems and is linked...
Biofuels: its not just Bullocks
Biomethane from cows. It had to happen, according to Planet Ark Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday it will purchase natural gas from cow manure produced at dairy farms in California to fuel power plants. The utility, a subsidiary...
Landfill helps Soya
Biofuel from rotting domestic waste is being used to help Solea reduce the impact of its plant in Memphis, Tennessee. The company's manufacturing site...
Biofuels: Paradox 1
After reading a post on GristmilI it strikes me that people who are pro-biofuels have a couple of paradoxes to overcome. Firstly, I am not sure about their long term sustainability, there is a need for fossil fuels to make...
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