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First renewable energy exchange opens in Amsterdam

Dutch-Belgian energy market provider APX-Endex launched a "biomass exchange" Thursday specialising in trading wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, a venture it said was a world first.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Supercritical water could lead to biomass-to-fuel conversion on a large scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Converting agricultural waste into vehicle fuel has so far been an enticing yet elusive endeavor, at least on the industrial scale. But recently the Georgia-based company Renmatix has taken ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Haitians turn to waste to combat cholera, deforestation

Desperately poor Haiti is finding a cheap source of fuel in recycling human excrement, a move that could help put a dent in a cholera epidemic and slow the country's pervasive deforestation.

Biology / Other

created Apr 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New biofuels processing method for mobile facilities

Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels, and they are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers improve production of chemicals from wood waste

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have succeeded in making a significant leap forward in the production of biochemicals and biofuels from waste wood. They discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus ba ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0