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  • EPA Seeks Comments on “Repowering America’s Land Initiative”

    [Con­tact the EPA at cleanenergy@epa.gov by May 30 and urge them NOT to include bio­mass ener­gy in their plans. ‑Ed.]  - Erin Voegele, May 8, 2014, Source: Bio­mass Magazine The U.S. EPA is seek­ing pub­lic com­ments on its new draft action plant for the RE-Pow­er­ing America’s Land Ini­tia­tive. The pro­gram pro­motes renew­able ener­gy devel­op­ment on cur­rent and for­mer­ly con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed lands,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • The Height of Stupidity? Jet Fuel from Trees

    [Yet anoth­er bad idea fueled by the fan­ta­sy of infi­nite growth. ‑Ed.] - May 9, 2014,  Source: Phys Org A key chal­lenge in the bio­fu­els land­scape is to get more advanced biofuels—fuels oth­er than corn ethanol and veg­etable oil-based biodiesel—into the trans­porta­tion pool. Uti­liza­tion of advanced bio­fu­els is stip­u­lat­ed by the Ener­gy Inde­pen­dence and Secu­ri­ty Act; how­ev­er,…

  • Bioenergy Pipelines?

    - August 14, 2014, Waste Man­age­ment World [The lat­est bad idea com­ing out of the pol­lut­ing bioen­er­gy industry.] A sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta, Cana­da is research to deter­mine whether it’s effec­tive to use pipelines to trans­port agri­cul­tur­al waste used in biofuels. Accord­ing to the uni­ver­si­ty, Mah­di Vaezi, a PhD stu­dent in the Fac­ul­ty of Engi­neer­ing, is…

  • Some Biofuel Feedstock Estimates ‘Overstating’ Yields

    - March 4, 2014. Source: Envi­ron­men­tal Leader Esti­mates for poten­tial bio­fu­el feed­stock crop yields from some wide­ly cit­ed research stud­ies may over­state those yields by as much as 100 per­cent, accord­ing to research by the Inter­na­tion­al Coun­cil on Clean Transportation. One key fac­tor in devel­op­ing a sus­tain­able bio­fu­els pol­i­cy is to real­is­ti­cal­ly esti­mate the amount of bio­mass that can…

  • Biofuel Producer Warns of Default, Bankruptcy

    - by Christo­pher Mar­tin, March 18, 2014. Source: Bloomberg Busi­ness­week [Read more about Khosla: Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand ‑Ed.] Kior Inc. (KIOR:US), the Vin­od Khosla-backed oper­a­tor of the first U.S. com­mer­cial-scale cel­lu­losic bio­fu­el plant, fell the most on record after man­age­ment told reg­u­la­tors they have seri­ous doubts about stay­ing in business. Kior declined 41 per­cent to 63 cents…

  • Genetically Engineered Trees as Biofuel Feedstock

    [Now that corn ethanol has fall­en out of favor polit­i­cal­ly, the bioen­er­gy indus­try will be focus­ing more and more on forests.] - by Alex Mara­gos, Novem­ber 28, 2014, WLFI Ethanol made from corn already pow­ers mil­lions of cars and trucks on the road, but a group of researchers at Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty wants to make bio­fu­el bet­ter.…

  • UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass

    UK bio­mass project halt­ed, devel­op­er blames “ero­sion of sup­port” for biomass – by Nina Chest­ney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renew­able ener­gy devel­op­er RES has stopped a 300-mil­lion-pound ($500 mil­lion) project to build a bio­mass plant in Northum­ber­land, north­east Eng­land, due to what it called incon­sis­tent gov­ern­ment subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was sched­uled to be…

  • UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass

    UK bio­mass project halt­ed, devel­op­er blames “ero­sion of sup­port” for biomass – by Nina Chest­ney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renew­able ener­gy devel­op­er RES has stopped a 300-mil­lion-pound ($500 mil­lion) project to build a bio­mass plant in Northum­ber­land, north­east Eng­land, due to what it called incon­sis­tent gov­ern­ment subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was sched­uled to be…