Carbon Dioxide emissions in the states are down. The government estimates that between 2007 and 2009, carbon emissions will be down by a whopping nine percent. This is the equivalent of shutting down 400 coal plants for a year. This is good news and it’s real. Now the bad news. The reason for the decline [...]
Archive for the ‘biomass’ Category
Greenhouse Gases Dive in US
Posted in Clean Vehicles, Energy Solutions, Sustainability, Wave Energy, biodiesel, biomass, ethanol, hydrogen, solar, wind on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Florida Legislators Confused about Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy
Posted in Energy Solutions, Sustainability, Wave Energy, biomass, hydrogen, solar, wind on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While state legislators wonder whether to call nuclear power clean or renewable the old issues that have kept the industry shut down for thirty years are still unresolved: nuclear proliferation, waste, sabotage and safety. Just last year, the safety issue was raised again at the FPL Turkey Point plant. The top nuclear operator there accused [...]
INCREASE PRODUCTION OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS or create a robust Florida ethanol industry?
Posted in biomass on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What’s your response? Before you answer listen to Professor Lonnie Ingram’s talk at the University of Florida. Ingram and staff did the research and developed a process to make ethanol fuel (the tequila process) from woody biomass, yard waste and the inedible portions of agricultural crops. He says 20-30% of transportation fuel can be produced [...]
Funding approved for UF cellulosic ethanol pilot plant
Posted in biomass on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There is much legitimate concern about the use of corn to produce ethanol: diversion of food sources, higher corn prices, continued use of water damaging fertilizers, energy-in versus energy-out. A professor at UF has developed and patented a technology to produce ethanol from yard trimmings, sugar cane waste and orange pulp. The governor [...]
Sustainability Forum at Florida Tech
Posted in Clean Vehicles, Conferences, Energy Solutions, Sustainability, Wave Energy, biomass, ethanol, hydrogen, solar, wind on February 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
This conference includes Frank Leslie’s session on March 7th on Renewable (Sustainable) Energy from 2:00 p.m. until 4:20 p.m.
News Release
MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Tech will address smart growth and environmental sustainability at its fourth international, interdisciplinary forum, “Sustainable Pathways: New Research and Practices,” on March 6-7 on campus. The forum is a collaborative effort of the Florida [...]
Tallahassee presented with plans for a biomass plant
Posted in biomass on May 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A proposal is being considered for a 75-megawatt biomass plant to be located on FSU property in Tallashassee. The idea is competing with a proposal for a regional coal plant that could generate 800 megawatts. Tallahassee would only use 150 of those megawatts. A city commissioner opposed to the coal plant reasoned that two biomass [...]
Progress Energy making progress with biomass
Posted in biomass on May 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Progress Energy has recently signed a contract with Biomass Investment Group to purchase electricity from a proposed generation plant to be fueled with a tall-growing grass that will be grown on 15,000 acres surrounding the plant. The plant is to be located somewhere south of Orlando with three sites currently under consideration. The projected output [...]
Biodiesel Progress in Brevard County
Posted in biodiesel, biomass on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You may be interested in Brevard Biodiesel, a small group exploring the use of biodiesel in Volkswagen Jettas.
Check out their website here.
Frank Leslie
Lecture at UF on March 28 – Why Biomass is Important
Posted in biomass on March 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Ann Bartuska, deputy chief for research and development for the US Forest Service, will be giving a lecture at the University of Florida in Gainesville on March 28th. Her topic is “Why Biomass is Important – The Role of the Forest Service in Managing and Using Biomass for Energy and Other Uses.” For more details, [...]
