Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'waste'
ST1 has a plan for decentralised ethanol production
ST1 has an animation about its plans for decentralised ethanol production integrated with the existing gasoline distribution network. Looks interesting. Thanks to Hugh Baker...
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...
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...
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...
Catalyst break through for biofuels
The Ames Laboratory (at the US Department of Energy) and Iowa State University recently published a press release claiming that it should be possible to produce ethanol from all types of carbon-based biomass. This is reported on Senter Novem. The...
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...
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...
What to do with leftovers
With Thanksgiving just behind us in the US and Chrismass on the horizon, now could be a good time to think about what to do with the excess food we're going to try to consume in the richer parts of...
The sweet smell of selfsufficiency
The sweet smell of self sufficiency and profit wafted over the office after I read about a Thai pig farmer who is harnessing methane from his drove/farrow/litter/doylt/sounder or herd of pigs to make electricity, also in Planet Ark today. I...
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...
Food vs Fuel: the International Herald Tribue speaks
The International Herald Tribune has an opinion piece about biofuels today by Eric Holt-Giménez executive director of the Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. It is interesting because while it makes valid points about the proportion of income that...
Food, waste food and biofuels
Are biofuels going to be a drain on world food resources? Not necessarily was the message at the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group meeting held in London yesterday.One of the arguments put forward is that there is...
Biofuel and elephants
Biofuel could get a boost from elephants according to stuff.co.nz. The discovery was made by Scientists in the Netherlands who have been examining elephant dung... well it's a living, I guess....
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