Environmental stories tagged with: biomass

A new European research consortium has been put together to "pave the way" for the large-scale production of biomass to liquid fuels for transportation based on wood and forestry residues.

The Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks, has today given the go ahead to Helius Energy plc to construct a 65 MW biomass power station near Stallingborough in North East Lincolnshire.

Farmers, foresters and biomass producers can apply for up to £200,000 each under a new round of grants opened today by Environment Minister Phil Woolas.

The huge potential of reusing waste wood as fuel is being wasted, Environment Minister Joan Ruddock has warned. The significant carbon and energy benefits of recovering energy from waste wood are detailed in a new information report on the sector that surveys the activities of producers, aggregators and users of waste wood.

Biomass fuel from renewable sources is becoming ever more popular, but existing sources are not enough to meet the future demand.

The Carbon Trust is planning on funding research projects to create biofuel from an alchemist sounding process called Pyrolysis.

Volkswagen and Daimler have put their money where they think the future of fuel is when they acquired a minority shareholding in a Freiberg based biofuel company, Choren Industries.

A biomass power plant is being planned for Sleaford, Lincolnshire.  It is expected to produce enough electricity for 65,000 homes and use straw and woodchip sourced within 50 miles of the plant.

MP Nicholas Soames, the Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, joined residents at Hoathly Hill Community today to launch its new green heating system.

According to Volvo Trucks, its factory in Ghent will be the first vehicle factory in the world that is totally carbon dioxide free, thanks to an on-site wind-farm and a biomass production facility that cover most of the energy needs for the plant.

Growing and burning many biofuel crops may actually raise, rather than lower, greenhouse gas emissions. That's the conclusion of a new study led by Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen, best known for his work on the ozone layer.