News and Opinion about Woody Biomass and Renewable Energy

Improving prospects for renewable energy financing

12.13.2012

New tools to finance renewable energy projects may get through Congress next year, according to Dem. Senator Chris Coons. In addition to growing Republican support for some form of carbon pricing, Coons believes there is sufficient support for renewable energy financing improvements. Right now, investors in oil, gas and coal projects can form Master Limited [...]

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Biomass News

12.05.2012

I have created a page of links to news and information about woody biomass as an energy source.  This page includes links to RSS news feeds to which you can subscribe in any news reader. This page will be updated periodically as I find new sources of information.

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Inland water ways at record lows

11.26.2012

    I spend a fair amount of my time working on the logistics of moving bulk quantities (wood, wood chips, pellets) by truck, rail and barge.  The simultaneous news that the Corps of Engineers is reducing Mississippi River flows from the Upper Missouri to deal with the midwest drought, and that the Great Lakes [...]

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Biomass: Green & Sustainable Energy for Kentucky

06.08.2010

Here is my recent presentation on biomass for Kentucky, presented at several conferences. The slide show requires narration, which I will add as soon as possible. Biofuels for kentucky View more presentations from Tom Kimmerer.

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A biofuel future for poplar

03.01.2010

Poplar trees (genus Populus, not to be confused with yellow-poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera) are among the fastest-growing trees in the world, and represent a diverse wide-spread genus of trees.  Poplars are grown in plantations for pulp and paper, and have great potential as feedstock for biofuels production. Poplars have a lot of advantages as experimental plants, [...]

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