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Former US Vice President Al Gore has arrived in the UK to address how the perils of climate change can be overcome as he promotes his new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The film is a follow-up to his blockbuster 2006 global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. It was a massive box office hit. His new film hammers home the same message as his first film. He was Vice President…
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The Almond Alliance of California has called for increased funding from the Farm Bill in order to help develop bioenergy outlets for almond biomass and byproducts in the state. Kelly Covello, president of the Almond Alliance of California, explained to a Farm Bill listening session in Modesto that the legislation was important to the almond industry in the areas of trade, conservation, bioenergy,…
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A combined solar and methane power plant is set to commence operations in southern Australia. The facility, built on a landfill site, is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia. The new project will generate approximately 2000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity each year, enough to power more than 345 homes in the local area. Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority (NAWMA), in…
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EnviTec Biogas Service UK has strengthened its offer across the UK under a landmark agreement with diesel engine specialist MAN Rollo. The new union sees EnviTec Biogas Service UK developing a service package for MAN Rollo – a global supplier of MAN engines. Signed at the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birmingham recently, the agreement will lead to EnviTec Biogas Service…
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The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The…
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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s technology innovation provider for process manufacturing, announced that the SeaGas collaboration has successfully harvested a 20-tonne batch of seaweed, the largest harvest of farmed seaweed in the UK to date. The SeaGas project, funded jointly between Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is…
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The Straus Family Creamery in Marin County, California, has announced the launch of the ‘first’ full-scale electric truck powered by biomethane created from cow manure. California dairy farmer Straus Family is a pioneer in organic dairy and sustainable agriculture. The new truck is the next step in the dairy’s quest to show that it can be carbon positive, using agriculture as a…
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New insights have been gained into a unique system some fungi use to digest and recycle wood. Remarkably, a new study suggests that this unusual mechanism does not involve the use of enzymes, the usual accelerators of chemical reactions. Microbiologist Barry Goodell first discovered the unique system twenty years ago. However, although three orders of ‘brown rot’ fungi have since been…
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As the primary component of natural gas, methane is a common, problematic by product of oil drilling. A greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century, methane is a costly challenge for the energy industry. Piping it from remote areas is expensive, so companies burn off about a third of the gas they produce in bright flares that can be seen from space. In…
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The “first” pan-African expert network on food and non-food biomass has been launched by African and German researchers. BiomassNet aims to ensure that food security and environmental sustainability are not compromised in the development of new biomass uses. The scheme’s developers claim this will help to strengthen the emerging African bioeconomies. The scheme was launched by…
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Nine EU Member States have asked the European Commission (EC) for permission to pollute above national limits set in EU law, according to the European Environmental Bureau (EBB). Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland and Luxembourg have all asked for the limits that should have been met in 2015 to be raised so that they no longer appear to have breached them. The…
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Bioenergy can play a role in reducing the risk of forest fires, according to a video recently published on the European Forest Institute’s website. Across the world, forest fires devastate large areas of forest every year. In 2017, the tragic trend has been seen in forest fires in France, the USA and Portugal. In its new video, the EFI looks at the factors behind increased forest fire risks…
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The Canadian government is set to invest $2.6 million (€1.8 million) into Sustane, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based waste-to-energy company. Sustane claims to have developed a new process which converts municipal solid waste into clean burning fuel and other recycled products. The investment will be used to scale up Sustane’s technology, supporting the creation of a demonstration facility…
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A Californian biomass plant is at the heart of the launch of the ‘first’ software-defined network for critical infrastructure. Dispersive Technologies new Internet-based, software-defined network for use by California’s energy grid operator to connect entities using real-time devices to the grid’s energy management system, has now gone live. Humboldt Redwood…
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