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Coimbatore municipal corporation to install first waste to energy plant

Coimbatore municipal corporation to install first waste to energy plant

December 2, 2013 |

In India, the city municipal corporation for Coimbatore has selected a private firm based in Pune to set up a bio methanation plant with a capacity to process 5 tonnes of vegetable and other organic waste. The plant will use the resulting biogas for use by local community kitchens and to power street lights. According […]

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Why Waste? 10 Hot waste-to-fuels projects (print friendly)

Why Waste? 10 Hot waste-to-fuels projects (print friendly)

August 5, 2013 |

Today, we look at the 10 Hottest Waste to fuels companies, their prospects and their projects.  So you’ve heard the bad news: climate change is here. The economy is too weak to do anything about it, they say. Natural gas is transformationally cheap, but try filling your car with it. Meanwhile, temperatures are rising, storms […]

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Why Waste? 10 Hot waste-to-fuels projects

Why Waste? 10 Hot waste-to-fuels projects

August 5, 2013 |

Today, we look at the 10 Hottest Waste to fuels companies, their prospects and their projects.  So you’ve heard the bad news: climate change is here. The economy is too weak to do anything about it, they say. Natural gas is transformationally cheap, but try filling your car with it. Meanwhile, temperatures are rising, storms […]

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INEOS Bio produces cellulosic ethanol from waste, at commercial scale – print-friendly

INEOS Bio produces cellulosic ethanol from waste, at commercial scale – print-friendly

August 1, 2013 |

Cash from Trash: The Heroes from Vero are making renewable fuel in commercial quantities from ag waste and MSW in South Florida. The Digest speaks with INEOS Bio CEO Peter WIlliams and COO Mark Niederschulte about the world’s first  facility to convert waste to fuel and electricity. In Florida, INEOS Bio announced that its Indian […]

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INEOS Bio produces cellulosic ethanol from waste, at commercial scale

INEOS Bio produces cellulosic ethanol from waste, at commercial scale

August 1, 2013 |

Cash from Trash: The Heroes from Vero are making renewable fuel in commercial quantities from ag waste and MSW in South Florida. The Digest speaks with INEOS Bio CEO Peter WIlliams and COO Mark Niederschulte about the world’s first  facility to convert waste to fuel and electricity. In Florida, INEOS Bio announced that its Indian […]

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“Is the future of biofuels a pond of algae in every backyard?”

“Is the future of biofuels a pond of algae in every backyard?”

June 18, 2013 |

Today on Twitter: guardianscience Is the future of biofuels a pond of algae in every backyard? | Lou del Bello Green_Europe Civil Society open letter signed by 112 organisations worldwide condemns #EU #biofuels policy Sean_OHanlon #Algae to #Biofuels from Dairy waste being explored in New Mexico

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Waste Lines: The hottest trends with bio’s coolest feedstock

Waste Lines: The hottest trends with bio’s coolest feedstock

May 22, 2012 |

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 […]

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Home-biodiesel maker fined for dumping wastes

Home-biodiesel maker fined for dumping wastes

March 15, 2012 |

In Louisiana, a backyard biodiesel maker has pleaded guilty to charges of illegally dumping wastes, glycerin and grease in the canal behind his home by the state’s department of environmental quality. He’s being forced to pay the $2,500 fine and reimburse the DEQ $2,700 for the expenses related to the investigation of the April 2010 […]

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$800K in bioenergy grants for UC Riverside for gasification, food waste projects

$800K in bioenergy grants for UC Riverside for gasification, food waste projects

September 15, 2011 |

In California, Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) received a $650,000 grant from the California Energy Commission, extending its commitment to $2 million to CERT for its patented steam hydrogasification reaction, which can turn any carbonaceous material – including waste from food, yards, sewage treatment facilities – […]

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Biofuels developers get a taste for waste

Biofuels developers get a taste for waste

[ 0 ] January 4, 2011 |

Yesterday’s story on the partnership between Solena and Qantas — which will investigate the prospects for a waste-based Fischer-Tropsch processing plant in Australia to produce aviation jet fuel — elicited a lot of strong commentary from the readership on the potential for Fischer-Tropsch technologies. And brought out some very strong feelings about waste. On F-T, […]

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