New biomass plant in works near Marquette

A company has announced plans to manufacture biomass energy cubes at a technology park near Marquette.

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Thune: Plant that converts wood chips in program

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says Western Biomass Energy, which converts wood chips from the Black Hills into renewable fuels, has been selected to take part in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

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Wis. PSC approves utility's biomass plan

A northern Wisconsin utility's latest plan to replace coal with logging waste and dead trees as its primary fuel to generate electricity has been approved by the state Public Service Commission.

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Wis. regulators approve utility's biomass plan

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has approved a utility's latest plan to replace coal and use logging residue and dead trees as the primary fuel to generate electricity.

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Agco seeks to use gov't grant for biomass project

Farm equipment manufacturer Agco Corp. said Wednesday it wants to use an Energy Department grant of up to $5 million for a project focused on the efficient collection and transportation of biomass to production plants for processing.

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New program pays biomass plant suppliers

Suppliers of wood fuel for a biomass electric plant in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will get a federal subsidy under an agreement signed Wednesday.

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The unit, called the Biochar 1000, is designed to convert woody biomass, such as agricultural or forestry waste, into biochar, a black, porous, and fine-grained charcoal that can be used as a fertilizer.

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Officials with the U.S. Dept.

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Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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North Carolina State University Extension Forestry's NC Woody Biomass Initiative was recently honored as the North Carolina recipient of the 2009 Innovator Award from the Southern Growth Policies Board.

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Two tech companies grapple with this challenge as they develop an autonomous hybrid vehicle that can feed itself

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WASHINGTON — U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources.

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Scientists have managed to make extra-strength spider silk—already notable for having a tensile strength higher than many alloys of steel, even though its comprised entirely of proteins [Ars Technica]—by incorporating small amounts of metal into it.

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March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain's experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.

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Millions in government grants go to start the state's first commercial refinery for ethanol made from cobs and grasses

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Researchers have developed the first-ever biogas plant to run purely on waste instead of edible raw materials -- transforming waste into valuable material. The plant generates 30 percent more biogas than its predecessors. A fuel cell efficiently converts the gas into electricity.

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Each week Sainsbury's will send 42 tonnes of wasted food from its 28 stores in Scotland to a biomass electric plant in Motherwell. Each tonne of food waste is is expected to be able to generate enough power for 500 homes.

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Scottish authorities have given planning permission for a consortium of distillers to build a biomass-fueled combined heat and power plant near the heart of the whisky industry in Speyside.

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Latest news on the clean energy world.

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Are there really plenty of fish in the sea? University of British Columbia fisheries researcher Villy Christensen gives the first-ever estimate of total fish biomass in our oceans: Two billion tonnes.

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One example of Co-Generation, using by-product to produce electricity, can be found in a Florida sugar mill. They produce enough power to run the sugar mill and refinery and 58,000 homes.

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This is a report by a climate and energy policy group. The report presents many of the ideas that are discussed in the energy and climate debate and provides hard numbers concerning the number of dollars, jobs, tons of CO2 emitted, etc. of all of them.

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Agricultural articles and environmental articles

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Hempseed contains 30% (by volume) oil. This oil has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel oil and aircraft engine and precision machine oil. Throughout history, hempseed oil was used for lighting in oil lamps.

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Last week Dutch agriculture minister Gerda Verburg announced a groundbreaking development for the field as she unveiled the world's largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on poultry manure.

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In this special feature, Nature's News team looks at how much carbon-free energy might ultimately be available — and which sources make most sense.

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Middle Eastern oil sheiks move over. There's a new kid on the energy block! Bio-fuel is the new green, completely clean fuel source. It's also known as "agro-fuel" and can be broadly defined as any solid, liquid or gas fuel consisting of or derived from biomass.

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Parasites are small, but they punch above their weight in terms of their effects on other life forms. Now it turns out that the amount of parasites in an ecosystem physically weighs more than the top predators.

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BURIED in the news a few weeks ago was an announcement by a small Californian firm called Amyris. It was, perhaps, a parable for the future of biotechnology.

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This means it is conceivable – but unproven – that some of the cells are as old as the sediment. At 1.6 km beneath the sea, that's 111 million years old.

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