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What Are the Biomass Advantages?

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The idea of going “green” is more than a hot trend. The fact is, the entire world is desperately searching for ways to make better use of the earth’s natural resources. And doing so means getting away from the use of fossil fuels. That said, biomass is one of the best ways to generate power in a cleaner manner. In fact, there are many biomass advantages. Here are just a few of them:

• Generating biomass electricity affects our environment in a positive manner-It’s a highly publicized fact that we’re on the verge of a complete crisis in regards to global warming. And one of the major causes of this crisis is all the carbon dioxide we’re releasing while burning fossil fuels. However, when you burn biomass fuels, you’re cutting down on noxious gas emissions. So if you choose to burn biomass, you’re doing something positive for the environment.

• Burning biomass can allow you to repurpose waste byproducts-If your industrial facilities generate reusable waste, you may capitalize on one of the largest biomass advantages. By installing the proper biomass system, you can burn your waste to create biomass electricity. In turn, you may be able to produce enough electricity to power all your facilities. Even better, you just might be able to sell some of that clean electricity back to the grid. Meanwhile, you’re keeping your waste by-products out of landfills. Everyone wins.

• You can meet changing energy regulations– Gone are the days when you could just burn fossil fuels with no repercussions. We have a real problem in our environment and the government is finally stepping in and laying down some rules. And the fact is, these rules are getting stricter. Companies that burn fossil fuels exclusively are going to find increased difficulty in meeting these changing energy regulations. However, switching to biomass energy can help you more easily meet those energy requirements.

• You can burn biomass without building new power plants-One of the greatest biomass advantages is that burning biomass fuels can occur simultaneously with burning fossil fuels in a process known as “co-firing.” With co-firing, you can cut your coal consumption dramatically. You’ll also still benefit from the other biomass advantages, such as recycling carbon dioxide. And at the same time, you’ll still be able to use the same facilities you have in the past, along with the same boiler.

If you think you might be able to capitalize on biomass advantages, then you need to find a reputable biomass energy company. They’ll be able to help you every step of the way. From analyzing your raw materials to planning your biomass technology to integrating your system, they’ll oversee all aspects of your project.

Just remember to look for a company with experience. And not just a few years-you need a company that has been involved with biomass energy creation for decades. When you find that company, give them a call and see how they can help you take advantage of biomass energy.

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Marketsnmarkets : Top And Emerging Bio-fuel Markets By Technology

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According to the new market research report Emerging bio-fuel markets published by MarketsandMarkets, The biofuels (bioethanol and biodiesel) production in top and emerging countries like U.S., Brazil, France, Spain, India, Colombia, Thailand, Sweden, Belgium, and Netherlands. is expected to grow from 102,896 million liters in 2011 to 150,975 million liters in 2016 at CAGR of 8% for the same period. The markets representing high growth rate are Sweden (32.2%), Colombia (24.4%), India (19.7%), and Thailand (16.3%).

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The liquid biofuels (biodiesel and bioethanol) market with respect to production, consumption, trends, forecasts, and policies and regulations are covered in detail for top and emerging markets like Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and U.S. The major players are selected from these countries and in depth competitive landscape is provided for them.

Biofuels are gaining importance in recent years due to their low carbon emissions, government support, growing automobile industry, volatile and rising crude oil prices, and energy sustainability with new opportunities resulting in scaling up production with utilization of new feed stocks like jatropha and algae for biodiesel and cellulosic feed stocks for bioethanol. Technologies mainly used for bioethanol production is fermentation and for biodiesel, and esterification.

In the year 2010, 107.6 billion liters of biofuel was produced globally, of which top and emerging countries accounted for 84.5% of production. The biofuels production in top and emerging countries is expected to grow from 102,896 million liters in 2011 to 150,975 million liters in 2016 at CAGR of 8% for the same period.

As of 2010, global biofuels production market is largely dominated by U.S. (45.9%), Brazil (29.3%), and France (3.75%). These countries have mature markets as compared to other countries. The countries like India (1.3%), Spain (1.14%), and Thailand (1.04%) are in growth stage, while the countries like Sweden (0.33%), Netherlands (0.33%), Belgium (0.63%), and Colombia (0.65%) are at nascent stage in biofuel production.

The objective of report is to highlight key market trends and winning imperatives which can be strategically useful and actionable for the stakeholders i.e. bioethanol producers, biodiesel producers, petroleum companies, feedstock suppliers, biofuel project developers, biofuel research institutes, and biofuel process equipment suppliers. The entire report is supported with lot of facts and figures about market size (million liters), market revenues ($ million), raw materials and cost structures. The total number of tables and figures are about 104 and 59 respectively in the report.

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Enzymes Used for Bio Fuel and Algae Fuel and the Continuation of the GMO Debate

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We keep watching as science moves to the next level in bio-fuels, specifically with algae bio-fuel which can be turned into jet fuel, bio-diesel, and they even have a scheme to turn it into pure rocket fuel; Whoorah – take that to the moon why don’t you? Recently, there was a decent article in the New York Times, I say decent because it laid it all out in layman’s terms. The article on 7-26-2010 is very much worthy of your time to read.

In it the writer explains that “they have produced over 4,000 enzymes, many of which are up to 10 times better at turning algae into fuel.” I’d say that is some real innovation in the environmental bio-fuel space, and could be one of the answers to slow our outflows to Middle Eastern oil, which as President Bush rightly noted; “The problem is that we are addicted to foreign oil.”

Nevertheless, all these research papers I read each day as part of our Think Tank activities, as well as this great summary in the New York Times, have me asking more questions than ever, for instance, 4,000 enzymes to turn algae more efficiently into fuel, concerns me, namely because of the implications for human health, the environmental food chain, and all aquatic species; plants and animals.

You see, all of this begs the question, similar to the GMO sunflower issues a decade ago, what happens when all this gets into the wild, and in the water? Humans can’t drink fuel laden water right – ouch, talk about a cancer causing crisis coming? We’ve already dealt with fuel additives in the ground water and the aggressive cancers that causes, and this is scary, we need to be risk adverse to all this, or we will be sorry later. More studies are needed – NOW!

Okay so, without getting to sounding like an environmental mouthpiece, which I am not, I am not even a global warming religion follower. And well the reality is; I am not an anti-GMO guy, but realize that mankind doesn’t know enough yet to be screwing around with such things so rapidly, we need to take it slower and make sure we know what we are doing, and it’s clear we don’t, yet. Screwing around with genes in the food chain is going to turn around and bite us in the rear, I fear.

Just like screwing around with free markets, attempting to micro-manage them has brought instability and uncertainty to our economy, messing with the food chain, and the risks of an already challenged water supply is a real problem. As I understand it the GMO crowd wishes to add nutrients to the foods, vaccines, reduced sterilization chemicals, and drugs to solve other problems in the third world, and increase production for the first world while making every fruit and vegetable, yes, and animal produce the right color, texture, shape, etc.

Sill, in doing so the law of unintended consequences could cause chaos, even if it solves some problems temporarily such as preventing Ug99 virus in wheat for instance. A serious issue today, considering the droughts and the world food supplies. You see, the viruses and bacteria will find a way, and in the end we will have resistant bacteria and more dangerous viruses and it will be all our own doing.

Of course, I am preaching to the choir, and we all know this, the FDA, scientists, Monsanto, everyone realizes how serious this is, and they are being as careful as their shareholders and voters allow for. Nevertheless, when we introduce large regions of our nation growing algae, using special enzymes, that stuff will move around and it will most likely end up places we don’t want it. So, we need safe guards and we need to choose the most benign, yet still efficient enzymes and we need to watch and be hyper vigilant every step of the way. Please consider this.

Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you’ve enjoyed today’s discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net – Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.

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Growing Our Bio Fuel and Bio Diesel; Challenges on the Road Ahead

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Growing a percentage of our fuel makes sense from a philosophical standpoint and should be implemented. In consideration of the Distribution of Bio-fuels, I do not see any problems in economic terms, which would prevent this ramp up at 10% per year. Until which time we could not grow any more to meet demand.

With card key fuel stations, travel centers, government and truck fleet use the supply will be made available. Blended fuel programs have also been very popular in many states.

Problems I see that no one is addressing are listed below. I am not necessarily suggesting we cannot over come these issues with our current technology or that we should necessarily introduce them now to the public debate, but we need to be thinking here too and make sure our comprehensive strategy takes these issues into consideration.

· Long Term Droughts.

· Over turning soil too much.

· Need for terminator seeds to prevent messing up wild blends of corn.

· Crop failure due to weather or catastrophic wildfires.

· Use of Nitrates downstream in Gulf of Mexico (algae blooms-ecosystem).

· Price Spikes out of control and commodity trader fluctuations

· Profitability in future without government incentives (making them weak now) IE. Reagan speech; “if it moves tax it, stops subsidize it”

Although these challenges seem huge, I believe we have in place the needed solutions to conquer these last hurdles, as listed below:

· Use weather control strategies and transfer technologies from Military

· Monsanto Terminator seed use

· Water rights issues with Canada need to be considered and Underwater aquifers monitoring

· Better seed genetic manipulation to use less water in growing, processing and to use less fertilizers, pesticides and nitrates.

· Separate Commodity sector for Bio fuel blends; all move together as one like an index fund, prevent price spikes.

· Slowly remove the government subsidies on Bio-fuels completely by 2012.

· Taxation strategies of Bio-Fuels must not bankrupt government in its never ending thirst to spend our money.

· Moratorium on new regulations and limits of liability to companies and entrepreneurs involved in growing, refining, cars, components.

We must remember when embarking on such a huge endeavor that the devil is often in the details and thus if we are to change the way America uses our fuel, we must consider the entire production, distribution and financial issues from capital flows to commodity markets. Consider these additional items in the Bio Fuel strategy vision for America as we move from the present period into the next. Think on this in 2006.

“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

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BioFuel a Greener Energy Future

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The growing global demand for energy has caused a steep rise in energy prices, notably for petroleum-based fuels which are the prime source of energy for most of the world’s power plants, machinery, and transportation. As more and more so-called “fossil fuels” are burned to create energy, there has also been a steep rise in the emission of polluting gases around the world. Personal automobiles are the main culprit, since they produce most of the cardon dioxide (CO2) released daily into the atmosphere. CO2 is considered a “greenhouse gas,” trapping heat from the sun at the surface of the earth much the way a greenhouse traps heat inside its glass walls.

Biofuels are by definition any fuel that, by being burned, can be converted to energy, and that is produced from a biological source. Since a biological source is also a renewable one, biofuels are reproducible. Unlike fossil fuels of which there is a fixed amount on earth, biofuels can continue to be produced so long as a source of biomass is available. The types of raw material that be converted into biofuel include organic plants, animals (especially animal fat), and even animal and human waste material.

One type of fuel already being produced from biological sources is biodiesel. This fuel, which burns cleaner than its petroleum-based cousin, can be used by most diesel engines without any need for conversion. Many companies are already involved in the production and distribution of a form of biodiesel known as B20. B20 is a mixture of petroleum-based diesel and biofuel “diesel equivalent.”

Biofuel is already being made from corn and soy, for example. But using corn and soy has correspondingly driven up the demand for both foods, which while being ideal for biofuel production, are also consumed as food by people around the globe. Using these foods for biofuel has pushed up their cost considerably, which in turn has created food shortages in some areas of the world. This has produced an unexpected quandary for biofuel proponents.

If biofuel is ever to become a true alternative to fossil fuels, a way is needed out of this quandary. One possibility is the use of algae as a biofuel foodstock. Algae have the advantage of being a non-food source which can be produced in areas not already being used to grow other types of food. Corn, soy and cottonseed must be grown on arable land. Algae can be grown in pools, in warm climates around the world, and acre per acre algae yield over a hundred times the quantity of biomass of soybeans.

Since algae take in, rather than produce, carbon dioxide, the very foodstock being used to create biofuel can itself be a cause for a reduction in a significant greenhouse gas. Algae biofuel farms could therefore benefit from a dual income stream. The first is from the sale of the algae itself to refineries for the production of biofuel. The second is income generated from the use of the algae farm as a consumer of other forms of pollution.

Some companies have recognized the benefit to poorer communities of developing the market for biofuels while at the same time encouraging the development of foodstock supplies such as algae farms. These companies are planning to encourage production of foodstock for biofuel in poorer countries to supply the energy needs of more developed areas of the world should raise everyone’s quality of life, both in economic terms and in terms of encouraging a cleaner global environment.

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