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UK airport to be powered by willow trees – greenwashing?
photo by Bruce Marlin (source: Wikimedia Commons) East Midlands Airport in the United Kingdom will be partly powered by a biomass boiler fueled by willow trees. The trees have already been planted on a...
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Rise of the veggie robots: Steampunk for real?
photo by Kyle Saric (source: Flickr Creative Commons) It’s science fiction meets Victorian technology. The US military may be going a bit steampunk by funding the development of a robot that gathers...
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UK: Will biomass farming replace livestock?
A recent piece for The Ecologist, entitled ‘Biomass Britain: do fields of energy crops spell an end to grazing livestock’, explores the possibility of a revolution in the UK’s land use. 70-80% of land...
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Biofuel from garbage
photo by SaltyGrease (Flickr CC) So-called ‘second generation’ biofuels are fuels derived from biomass which do not come primarily from food sources and thus attempt to avoid the ‘food vs. fuel’...
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UN: Cut black carbon, save lives and slow climate change
Los Angeles' famous smog, photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive (Flickr CC) The dirty, low-tech burning of fossil fuels, wood and other biomass produces poisonous pollution and “short-lived...
View ArticleHungary: New biomass heating block proves success
Since November 2014 the new biomass block in Pécs, Hungary has covered the electricity needs of thousands households so far, according to a report by Hungarian News Agency MTI. The biomass block, which...
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