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  • Bioenergy Corporation to Cut and Burn Public Forests in Washington

    - by Kate Prenga­man, Octo­ber 29, 2014 Yaki­ma Herald-Republic Sci­en­tists are search­ing for the fuels of the future in high-tech lab­o­ra­to­ries around the world, but last week one research team debuted its new tech­nol­o­gy at a wood-chip­ping plant tucked in the for­est out­side Cle Elum. That’s because their tech­nol­o­gy runs on wood chips. Roast­ing the wood, which might…

  • 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…

  • Biomass Industry Needs to Prepare for Water Constraints

    - by Phil Cicio­ra, March 5, 2014. Source: Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois News Office Debates sur­round­ing the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of bioen­er­gy have emerged in recent years relat­ing to water qual­i­ty and quan­ti­ty, and those debates will only grow loud­er as big urban areas in the U.S. start run­ning out of water and envi­ron­men­tal groups and the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion…

  • 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…