Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'wood'
Two Michigan Universities gain grants to study sustainable biofuel from trees
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...
Michigan state in big cellulosic ethanol drive
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...
Belgium and Netherlands may grow GM poplars for biofuels
Belgium and the Netherlands may find themselves in a race to grow the first GM poplars for biofuels. According to a story in Nature Biotechnology and quoted by Biofuel Watch in an email, the Dutch Government may approve the planting...
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...
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...
Fischer-Tropsch online resource
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...
Biofuels from timber, perhaps you should be in Vienna now
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...
Just how much forest waste is there?
Thinking about my response to the earlier post in Huffington post about using food crops to make biofuels, I started looking at the amount of fuel that could be generated from existing forest materials such as brush wood. There's a...
Dynamotive builds wood chip to biofuel plant in Missouri
Dynamotive is building a wood chip to biofuel plant in Willow Springs, Missouri. The plan will cost around $24m and will use fast pyrolysis to convert wood waste into bioOil. It will be capable of converting 200 tons per day...
More on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process
There's more detail on Dyanmotive's fast pyrolysis process on Environmental Resarch web. This is fast pyrolysis which is pretty much a continuous process, by the looks of things. The plant in Guelph will process 66,000 dry tonnes of biomass each...
Waste not wood not
A swiss view of biopower using wood (hooray)....
Ethanol is niether the perfect nor permanent answer to our energy challenge
But the truth is, corn ethanol is neither the perfect nor the permanent answer to our energy challenge. There are legitimate economic and ecological concerns about an over-reliance on corn-based ethanol. And even if we double or triple its production,...
Wood processing waste is a biofuel source
Wood processing waste is a biofuel source, accordding to the Energy blog which says Adding a little coal and processing the papermaking industry's black liquor waste into synthesis gas is a better choice than burning it for heat, improves the...
Japan's disposable chopstics are potential biofuel
Japan's government is encouraging people to dispose of their disposable chopsticks carefully, sot that they can be collected and used as biofuel, according to Tree Hugger.com. which says. Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is looking to introduce recycling...
Some economics on wood as biofuel
I've come across some economics about using wood biomas as energy on a US forest products document. The document by the USDA's Forest Products Laboratories pretty pro wood, but that said, the economics of using wood to generate energy seem...
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...
More biofuels from tree waste
Neste Oil and Stora Enso agreed on 16 March to develop a technology producing biofuels from wood residues and invest €14m ($18.4m) in a pilot plant, according to ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Stora Enso, an...
Syngas from wood
If you're interested in using wood products such as shavings and chips to make useful biofuels, check out this woodfuel site. Instead of converting resin to hooch and thence to heat, these fellows recommend heating the wood up to very...
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