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Utah biomass energy project gets $2.5M grant

A biomass energy project was awarded $2.5 million in a congressional earmark that Utah Sen. Bob Bennett included in a pending federal budget bill.

Gasification May Be Key to U.S. Ethanol

The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.

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North America's First Waste Gasification Plant
Source: TreeHugger

The idea behind waste gasification is an attractive one: Take trash and subject it to extreme heat under anoxic conditions to produce syngas, a blend of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel source.

GreenShift Portfolio Company Sterling Planet Partners with PepsiCo on Purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates
Source: Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF) today announced that its Sterling Planet, Inc. portfolio company entered into an agreement ...

Company Plans To Use Garbage As Fuel And Produce Electricity

Ever since I started looking at renewable energy projects, the world has changed. Unsightly landfills and poor solid waste methodologies used to be a city's bane.

Gasification plant that can turn garbage into electricity
Source: PhysOrg.com

" Southgate Township officials in Canada's Ontario Province say a company has agreed to build a gasification plant that can turn garbage into electricity."

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