Biomass News

Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.

The Mountain State is the third-most forested state in the U.S. and some say it could be a prime source of energy.

New Delhi, Nov 20 A technology that converts rice husk into electricity is gaining ground in Bihar.

Honeywell today announced a $79-million renewable energy and building retrofit program with Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill.

These are the blooms of a flax plant. Credit: Johnathan J. Stegeman and Tom Hilton /SINC. Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata , a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol.

East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced today that it will receive $65 million in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds to help fund construction of the Lake Livingston Hydroelectric Project, and to assist in the construction of a biomass plant in Woodville, Texas.

One of the gasses causing the greenhouse effect is carbon dioxide, or CO2. USDA Agircultural Research Service soil scientists Drs.

"Right here's the nuclear power plant from the river," Mark Clements says. Mark runs a boat across the Mississippi River many times a day.

This region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of the biggest deserts in China, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see.

The Ordos region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of Chinaa s biggest deserts, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see.

A new paper just published in Global Change Biology examines the potential of a REDD mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits.

Devon County Council's Renewable Energy for Devon has won a top green prize from Regen South West, along with other environmental wins in the county at the South West Green Energy Awards .

The Air Force Research Laboratory and University of Dayton Research Institute are stepping up efforts to develop and test alternative fuels, derived from coal and biomass sources, that could help the Air Force reduce its massive dependence on petroleum-based aviation fuels.

MARGARET Thatcher was an unlikely hero for a climate change movement that's sometimes accused of left-wing, quasi-religious crusading.

Legislation unveiled last week by six U.S. Senators, including Michigan's Stabenow and Montana's Baucus, seeks to clarify the opportunities for agriculture and forestry sectors in a climate change regulatory system.

11, 2009 - Net returns for virtually all major crops are positive under a properly constructed cap-and-trade program, according to a University of Tennessee study released today by 25x'25 . However, the study goes on to show that if carbon emissions are regulated by EPA as prescribed under a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, net farm income is projected ...

The Analysis of the Implications of Climate Change and Energy Legislation to the Agricultural Sector, the long-awaited and comprehensive assessment by the University of Tennessee's Bio-Based Energy Analysis Group , says that an operationally efficient cap-and-trade program that allows multiple offsets, including those for bioenergy crop production, ...

Researchers from Michigan State and Michigan Technological universities are seeking to ensure a steady and sustainable supply of material for the state's first wood-based ethanol plant.

Company and government officials are celebrating the launch of a carbon capture project at American Electric Power's Mountaineer Plant in New Haven.

" Genencor, a division of Danisco, has won the national "Sustainable Energy Award" from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for its Accellerase family of enzymes for cellulosic ethanol.