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IUT Singapore researchers win ASEAN Award for food-waste to energy project
In Singapore, researchers at IUT Singapore won an ASEAN Energy Award for their waste-to-energy project. The researchers developed a technology to burn food waste to generate renewable energy while producing electricity to power both the plant itself and supply excess electricity to Singapore’s power grid.
The plant, located in Tuas, is able to recycle over half [...]
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CleanTech Biofuels given patent for Biomass Recovery Process
In the US, a patent was given to CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. for its Biomass Recovery Process. CleanTech Biofuels Ltd. is St. Louis, Missouri based company that produces cellulosic biomass feedstock derived from municipal solid waste (MSW) for renewable energy and bio-based chemical production.
The Biomass Recovery Process uses an angled reaction vessel with steam and pressure [...]
Project launched to determine if Ontario’s energy can be produced via biomass
In Canada, several Guelph-based organizations are participating in a $2.3 million project to determine if Ontario’s coal energy production can be replaced by biomass. Nanticoke and Lambton power generating stations in southern Ontario will be weaned off coal by the end of 2014.
While small-scale biomass power projects have so far been successful in the province, [...]
Ceres develops salt-tolerant trait: may open 15M US acres to energy crop cultivation
In California, Ceres announced that it has developed a plant trait that could bring new life to millions of acres of abandoned or marginal cropland damaged by salts. Results in several crops, including switchgrass, have shown levels of salt tolerance not seen before. Ceres reported that its researchers tested the effects of very high salt [...]
China needs $60b in biomass investment to harness rural potential
In China, the Asian Development Bank has released a study that says the country needs $60 billion in biomass investment by 2020 in order to harness the potential of the sector in rural areas. That investment would provide electricity for 30 million people, with 76% used for helping rural households, 20% for power generation and [...]
Biomass better than coal? War over carbon accounting erupts
In Washington, the Environment Working Group has released a study that claims the impacts of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA)—which has already passed the House of Representatives—would require the equivalent of cutting between 18 and 30 million acres by 2025, and up to 50 million acres by 2030.
“From Maine to Washington state, [...]
US can eliminate coal-fired emissions by 2030 with geo, wind, solar, biomass and CC&S: report
A report in Environmental Science & Technology concludes that the US could eliminate coal-fired electric power CO2 emissions by 2030, using a combination of wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and carbon capture & storage technologies.
The research, from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University Earth Institute, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and 2030 Inc./Architecture 2030, [...]
Lignin: make less, or make more of it, a Digest special report
“Lignin is nature’s plastic and any organism that wants to get to the sugars in a plant has to be able to get past this protective barrier,” professor Ming Tien of Penn State.
There’s lignin, lignin everywhere. Next to cellulose, it is the second most abundant organic material on Earth, representing 24-35 percent of softwood weight and [...]
Massachusetts study: biomass fired power worse than coal
In Massachusetts, the results of a study commissioned by the state’s environmental officials shows that biomass-fired electricity is more harmful to the environment than coal-fired. The study found that by 2050, emissions from biomass would increase 3% compared to coal.
The study looked at the ‘carbon debt’ of harvesting trees for biomass power versus the carbon [...]
