Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Europe is Using Wood from U.S. Forests to Replace Fossil Fuels
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

European Union nations are consuming wood, or “biomass,” to meet their obligations under the Paris climate agreement. In 2009, the… The post Europe is Using Wood from U.S. Forests to Replace Fossil ...

2. Solar-Induced Hybrid Fuel Cell Produces Electricity Directly from Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of ...

3. Rocky Mountain Power to Test Biomass That May Cut Coal Use
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Rocky Mountain Power, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will test a new biomass fuel that may reduce the amount of coal being burned by power plants.   ...

4. Unraveling the Science Behind Biomass Breakdown
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Lignocellulosic biomass—plant matter such as cornstalks, straw, and woody plants—is a sustainable source for production of bio-based fuels and chemicals. However, the deconstruction of biomass ...

5. MEGA-BIO and the Three Amigos: DOE Hands Out $11.3M — Who for, and Whyfor?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $11.3 million for three projects that support the development of biomass-to-hydrocarbon biofuels conversion pathways that, as the DOE remarked, ...

6. UK’s Biggest Coal Station Now Runs Mainly on Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

What was once Britain’s biggest coal station is now powered mainly by wood pellets and its owner, Drax Group Plc, will learn in the next few months if can complete the conversion of another unit to run ...

7. ARPA-E Announces 18 New Residential Heat and Bioenergy Crop Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... from biomass. ...

8. Solar-Induced Hybrid Fuel Cell Produces Electricity Directly from Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of ...

9. Scientific Research Crucial to Success of New Biofuels Plants
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... turn biomass into clean transportation fuels. ...

10. New process turns biomass 'waste' into chemical products
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

A new catalytic process is able to convert what was once considered biomass waste into lucrative chemical products that can be used in fragrances, flavorings or to create high-octane fuel for racecars ...

11. Energy Department Announces $13 Million to Develop Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... biomass. ...

12. Fantasy Becomes Real: First Commercial Cellulosic Biofuel Plant Opens in US
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

“Once, we all lived off the land, sun, wind and water and it provided everything we needed,” said DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma, surveying a crowd of more than 2,000 crowding a biomass storage facility in Emmetsburg, ...

13. Biomass Fueling America’s Growing Clean Energy Economy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The current bioeconomy employs close to 500,000 people in the United States, and the potential exists to triple this figure in the next 15 years.

14. From Grass in the Field to Fuel in the Hopper: On-Farm Grass Energy is an Opportunity for Farmers
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Farmers and landowners want to lower fuel and feed costs, explore feed and fertilizer co-products, be more self-sufficient, and rely less of fossil fuels. Biomass grass crops can be established on marginal ...

15. Solar Fuels: How Close, How Real?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

There’s a class of fuels that don’t use an intervening biomass to make a fuel — so, though they use biology or waste carbon, they’ve bristled at being called “biofuels." Instead, the technologies that ...

16. Unzipping Poplars' Biofuel Potential
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

What began 20 years ago as an innovation to improve paper industry processes and dairy forage digestibility may now open the door to a much more energy- and cost-efficient way to convert biomass into ...

17. Biomass Electric Power Generation Dirtier than Coal? Not Possible
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As an Adjunct professor teaching two unique interdisciplinary courses on sustainable energy at The George Washington University, I read the article that biomass power plants are more polluting than coal ...

18. Solar-Induced Hybrid Fuel Cell Produces Electricity Directly from Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of ...

19. Energy Department Announces $10 Million for Biofuels Technologies
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The Energy Department announced up to $10 million in funding to advance the production of advanced biofuels and bioproducts made from renewable, non-food-based biomass. ...

20. Solar-induced hybrid fuel cell produces electricity directly from biomass
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

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21. Biomass Outlook 2014: Is Biomass About To Go Bang?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Traditional biomass accounts for some 9 percent of the world’s total energy requirements, still more than is provided by modern renewables collectively. Nonetheless, modern renewables, and modern biomass ...

22. Fire at UK Biomass Power Plant triggered by a single spark
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Fire investigators believe a spark from machinery triggered the huge fire that swept through Europe's biggest biomass power plant yesterday. Firefighters ...

23. Cellulosic Biomass is the only large-scale sustainable resource for producing alternative liquid fuels
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

24. Chestnuts Roasting By An Open Fire: Eco-Friendly Or Health Threat?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... washes those particles away. Even some of our local experts see wood as a future fuel, a serious source of biomass energy. As University of Washington air-pollution researcher Michael Yost told KCTS 9, ...

25. Financial Trends: Evaluating Investments in Advanced Biofuels Projects in the U.S.
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The recent passage of Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2) by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has increased interest in deploying advanced biofuels projects, including biomass-based diesel ...

26. Policy Outlook 2012: Don't Expect Much From Washington
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... is poised to impact debates on the set-to-expire 1603 cash grant and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for the wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass industries. ...

27. Biomass Industry Outlook 2012: Cautiously Optimistic
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The long-awaited construction of four major biomass plants will make 2012 pivotal in the expansion of the wood-fired power industry. Coal-to-biomass plant conversions awaiting permits in Virginia could ...

28. Producing Clean, Renewable Diesel from Biomass
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE partner ThermoChem Recovery International has validated a process that converts wood waste to renewable fuel, and the company can now move to commercialize the process.

29. The Chevrolet Carbon Stories, Part 3 Metrolina Greenhouse
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... to grow plants. That's a lot of energy expended. But what if we can substitute fossil fuel for biomass, especially waste wood or tree trimmings / waste from forests in place of fossil fuels?  ...

30. The Chevrolet Carbon Stories, Part 3 Metrolina Greenhouse
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... to grow plants. That's a lot of energy expended. But what if we can substitute fossil fuel for biomass, especially waste wood or tree trimmings / waste from forests in place of fossil fuels?  ...