Chemrec’s latest success is its partnership with Domsjo Fabriker’s refinery in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. With the assistance of SEK 500 million grant (US$75 million, or 55 million euros) from Sweden’s Energy Agency, the plant will produce two clean and renewable biofuels, biomethanol and bioDME.
Walking through Prizren, Kosovo, one feels excitement at what this charming town of 70,000 could achieve in a few short years. Water and sewer lines are benefiting from upgrades. Homes and apartments are starting to crowd out houses that had been abandoned and became decrepit.
One potential economic boost for Bosnia could be renewable energy. Blessed with many rivers, the country is already exporting electricity to its neighbors, and more kilowatts of power are possible.
That grease has to go somewhere, and now it is sometimes stolen in the middle of the night. Stolen grease incidents were isolated just a couple years ago, when what the industry calls “yellow grease” often sold for about thirty cents a pound-most restaurant owners were happy to just get rid of that waste. Now it’s a big business and a target for thieves.
Last Thursday Chemrec launched the world’s first DME (dimethyl ether) fuel plant in Piteå, Sweden. The opening is a huge opportunity – Chemrec has worked with Volvo for several years to test the viability of DME as a trucking fuel. Now half of Sweden’s trucks could potentially run on DME.
Search the Internet and troll through Twitter, and you’ll find all sorts of compelling, even, cool stories about algae and how this may be our ticket away from dependency on fossil fuels. By any measure, there are about 200 to 250 start-ups in this fledgling industry.
April Fool! But she’s not just about reducing global warming: ending world hunger and improving memory capacity are at the core to a research project that will prove as a disruptive technology in renewable energy research. Daniela Mercury is probably Brazil’s most prominent goodwill ambassador. Her music is popular around the world; much of her [...]
Believe it or not, I’m giving a presentation to a USC alumni group 2 days after I return…Thur., Feb. 25, 7pm, at the Village Idiot (no pun intended), in the Melrose area of L.A. If you think you’d like to attend, or know someone that will, please DM me on Twitter (leonkaye), or email me [...]
Sunday night we joined Daniela Mercury´s bloco for Salvador da Bahia´s Carnaval. It was wild–more details on that later. I think we joined the best bloco. The way Carnaval works is that you have these trios, which are like floats, where the singer or band performs. On the trio, which is a jerry-rigged semi-truck, are [...]
The debate over biofuels is often a heated one. In Indonesia, the thirst for palm oil has led to deforestation and a rise in food crops. Naturally we all have opinions over corn ethanol’s effects here in the United States. I’ve always had the view that biofuels, if sourced sustainably and does not require more [...]