Apr
9
Looking at the Leading Biomass Cooker
April 9, 2008 | 16 Comments
Dynamotive Energy Systems of Vancouver BC Canada has signed deals with Marketech International Corporation (MIC) of Taipei City Taiwan for a review of the technology as commercially feasible and if warranted, design and construct what it seems would be the world’s first two commercial fast pyrolysis bio oil production plants. Both firms are publicly held, […]
Apr
4
Cooking Up Some Fuel?
April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Cooking Up Some Fuel? We’ve been on a biofuel track for some days now and just to be complete across the field of converting biomass to fuel we’re going to look at another process, one called the Syntec Process coming from Syntec Biofuel Inc. that was a spin-off from the University of British Columbia. Please […]
Mar
28
Another Way to Bio Gasoline
March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Wednesday Royal Dutch Shell and Virent Energy Systems of Madison Wisconsin announced their collaboration to develop biogasoline. The deal is using the existing research and development work of Virent in catalysts that convert plant sugars into hydrogen and fuel gas, a combination of hydrogen, methane, propane and CO2. The research so far has been quite […]
Mar
27
The Oil Empire Strikes Back!
March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Well, sort of. The awl bidness has had a few tough decades, three in a row to be honest and the striking back at the world is mostly about getting the facts out in the air so the abuse might get controlled and a little support displaces the disinformation campaigns of a long list of […]
Mar
14
What Is This Pyrolysis Fuel Making Thing?
March 14, 2008 | 14 Comments
With the very knowledgeable folks in a stunned sense of realization that biomass is the oil reserve that dwarfs Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and all of OPEC, and everything else combined and would not deplete, the connections to the excitement are to a chemical process called pyrolysis, that everyone else is wondering about. Pyrolysis is cooking. […]
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