Tag: MSW
Fulcrum demonstrate new MSW drop-in fuel process for jet and diesel
Tweet In North Carolina, Fulcrum BioEnergy has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) into jet and diesel fuels.This demonstrated process adds fuel diversity to Fulcrum’s products and complements its previously demonstrated MSW to ethanol process. Fulcrum’s ability to produce drop-in fuels from MSW opens up an 80 billion gallon-per-year fuel market and [...]
Iowa City to investigate MSW-to-biofuel options
Tweet In Iowa, Iowa City officials are expected to open a call for consultants by summer to explore options for MSW-to-biofuel in an attempt to reduce the city’s landfill. The City Council expects to spend up to $50,000 on the consultant whose responsibility will be to vet various technologies. Last year Fiberight met with city [...]
Despite Urban Migration, Scale Elusive for MSW-to-Fuels
Tweet By Mackinnon Lawrence There are few topics that get the clean technology sector excited less than trash. Meanwhile, the news is littered with stories discussing municipal areas from Zimbabwe to Los Angeles and Mumbai to Moscow struggling to implement long-term strategies for dealing with municipal solid waste (MSW). Even as intellectual capital is thrown [...]
Fulcrum BioEnergy secures $175M in financing commitments for 1st MSW-to-biofuels project
Tweet First commercial project in Nevada scheduled for completion in 2015; dramatic drop in operating expense. In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy announced that it has successfully secured commitments and is proceeding toward closing $175 million in financing to fund construction of its first municipal solid waste to low-carbon fuels plant, the Sierra BioFuels Plant and to [...]
There’s gold in them thar hills, er, I mean landfills
Tweet Where’s the future? Well, as John D. Rockefeller discovered, it’s in waste. As elections loom, who’s got vision, who’s got game? You might have noticed that the weather has been changing. Or, rather, that the usual weather is happening in unusual places. Frankenstorms, droughts — the water hasn’t been arriving where it is supposed [...]
Running from the bear: Making biofuels from municipal solid waste
Tweet By Ed Hamrick Remember the one about the two guys in the woods who are seen by a hungry bear? They start running from the bear, and one guy says to the other guy “Why are we running? Everyone knows you can’t outrun a bear”. The other guy says “I don’t need to outrun [...]
The Trash Spread: Enerkem heads for scale, with advanced biofuels from MSW
Tweet Breakthroughs in making consistent syngas from negative-cost municipal solid waste spells “big prospects” for Enerkem in biobased fuels and chemicals. “A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” Ralph Waldo Emerson In oil we have the crack spread, corn ethanol and soy-based biodiesel we have the crush spread; with municipal [...]
SynGas and the front-end problem of biofuels
Tweet Making good, affordable syngas from municipal solid waste to unlock 9 billion gallons of low-cost fuel? Covanta’s hot new gasification technology makes a big dent in the big challenge. Just after mealtimes, in the hours after mail delivery, and occasionally when the world’s youth resolve certain unhygienic conditions prevalent in the science experiments known [...]
Value creation, value unlocking, value add
Tweet Companies creating opportunities in feedstocks are getting lots of love from investors, and giant downstream partners like BP and Shell. What’s up in the new upstream? It has not escaped the attention of investors that Renewable Energy Group’s IPO resulted in a $262 million valuation for a company actively earning $2.11 per share through [...]
The Garbage Anomaly: What is a Dirty Murf and what can you do about it?
Tweet MSW is an obvious kick-off feedstock for the emerging bioenergy industry, but its numerous advantages remain largely overlooked. by David Bransby, Professor, Energy Crops and Bioenergy, Auburn University, USA There is widespread disappointment in the rate of progress towards commercialization of cellulosic biofuels, and industry is lagging substantially behind RFS2 annual targets. Feedstock limitations [...]
