Posts from November 2009
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November 30, 2009
Today the petrochemical industry manufactures products from fossil fuels: plastics, chemicals, and other products. Scientists tell us that nearly all of these products can be made from renewable, carbon neutral biomass. The processes are similar. The petrochemical industry…
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November 20, 2009
Biofuels are defined as solid, liquid or gaseous fuels derived from relatively recently dead biological material. They are distinguished from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material. Theoretically, biofuels can be produced from any biological…
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November 16, 2009
Biomass power technologies include direct firing, cofiring, gasification, anaerobic digestion and other technologies. Although many current biomass power plants are small, industrial cogeneration or heating applications, utility-scale plants with capacities in excess of 80 megawatts have been commissioned.…
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November 12, 2009
The opinion page of the Wall Street Journal recently claimed that “unconventional natural gas” may well revolutionize the challenges and opportunities for alternative energy. The natural gas previously locked in impermeable shale around the nation is now becoming…
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November 5, 2009
Yesterday’s AWEA conference in Detroit was very interesting. It was primarily focused on small wind turbines, and there certainly are a great number of them in production. There are a multitude of designs, from all over the world. …
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