By Helena Tavares Kennedy, Digest senior editor Have you ever seen a keynote speaker answer their cell phone in the middle of giving a speech? And seen it lead to a loud round of applause and a standing ovation? Yes, it really happened, only at today’s ABLC 2018. Find out who, why and what happened […]
By Charles Loos, PE Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest From an operations standpoint, a wood-fired power plant can be described as a fuel handling system first, and a power plant second. The biggest challenges stem from the fuel itself – procurement, supply, handling and combustion. By contrast, the steam turbine and power cycle […]
In Illinois, Envergent Technologies, a joint venture of Honeywell UOP and Ensyn, has begun construction on a renewable fuels facility in Port Cartier, Quebec. When the facility in Port Cartier, Quebec, is completed late next year, it will convert 65,000 dry metric tons per year of forest residues to approximately 10 million gallons — or […]
Tired of corn, corn, corn or cane, cane, cane? There are 101 feedstocks in the biofuels canon. Here’s what’s up with each of them, and all of them. In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its annual Guide to biofuels feedstocks, tracking 10,658 items published in the Digest in the past 48 months on 101 feedstocks for […]
There’s nothing growing faster in the bio-based world than waste-based projects. Or, rather, is there any disappearing faster than the concept of waste, as bioenergy projects show us how to re-use and re-use and re-use? There are some names that have gone wrong – badly wrong – in bioenergy feedstocks. For example, vomit nut doesn’t […]
The Bioenergy Deployment Consortium identifies the four deciding factors in a company’s success or failure. Do you have the right stuff for bioenergy? A few days ago, three respected members of the community approached the Digest with a working paper on the “four critical success factors for bioenergy”. Would we publish it? Would be publish […]
BIO says that up to 800,000 direct and indirect jobs could be created in advanced biofuels by 2022. What jobs are there for you? Recently, former LA Mayor Richard Riordan outlined the priorities. “Let’s look at the future. Whatever solution we have for our economy, the basic thing is jobs, jobs, jobs.” One of the […]
In a two-part series, we look at the new DC in a $14 trillion debt environment: what’s up with loan guarantees, tax policy, the Renewable Fuel Standard, and the Defense Production Act. In part I we looked at the latest on loan guarantees and at the Klobuchar-Thune-Feinstein compromise on ethanol tax policy. Today, in part […]
In our new three-part series, we look at attitudinal changes powering the huge growth in Brazilian renewable energy. In part 3, we look at 12 companies and compare and contrast the Brazilian and US paths to advanced biofuels. Does Brazil have a “must emulate” model? As BP Biofuels chief Phil New put it, “People frequently […]
In Washington state, Washington State Department of Natural Resources signed a letter of intent with Myno Carbon Corp. to collaborate on a two-pronged strategy for using biochar – a carbon-rich product created from slash and other byproducts of forest restoration treatments and timber harvests – to sequester carbon and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires […]
