Two universities in Michigan have won grants to study how to use the state's forests sustainably to make biofuels.Hopefully it will add some clarity to the current concern in the state about there being enough suitable timber in the forests...
The Michigan Messenger has a story about converting 375,000 chords of timber into 40m gal ethanol for biofuel. I think that this may be the start of a concerted campaign by environmental groups to stop or modify the plan. I...
I've just come across a resource on line for people who are interested in gas to liquids technology developed by Fischer and Tropsch . You might like it if you're into pyrolysis as a first step to produce gas from...
Oh the things you find out too late to do much about. That's what comes of thinking strategically of other things. Anyway. It's European Forest week at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. NOW. The website saysEuropean Forest...
A swiss view of biopower using wood (hooray)....
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