Thought you knew everything there was to know about some of biofuels’ favorite feedstocks? Here are 18 free reports that may dampen or re-ignite your enthusiasm. Just about anything important these days in biofuels starts with an F — though whether your current favorite F-word is feedstock, finance, feasibility, or FUBAR will depend a great […]
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 […]
Could biomass briquette mills and improved cook stoves undermine the Taliban — for one percent of what the US now spends? From time to time, we report on correspondence exchanged with our veterans and serving men and women in the field, on the subject of the strategic and tactical opportunities in biofuels and bioenergy. This […]
In Utah, Washakie Renewable Energy, a US-based biodiesel producer, has started operations at its new 10-million gallon per year biodiesel production facility in Plymouth. The plant will use feedstocks including yellow grease, brown grease and tallow, which will be sourced from grease and tallow processing facilities located within 500 miles of the plant. The company […]
In Washington state, microbiologist Hal Collins and agronomist Rick Boydston, of the ARS Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Laboratory in Prosser, report that it could take anywhere from 50 to 70 acres for a farmer with 1,000 acres and an onsite crusher and biodiesel facility to grow enough canola to produce the fuel needed to […]
In Afghanistan, biodiesel production is seen as a way to introduce a green economy to the country with the US military the most likely customer. Discussions are underway to use opium poppies as the biofuel feedstock, thereby helping to keep farming families from losing their market while at the same time fighting one of the […]
