Friday, April 20, 2007

Pacific Natural Energy Launches Innovative Alternative Energy Solution: A Mobile Biodiesel Processor

Pacific Natural Energy Launches Innovative Alternative Energy Solution: A Mobile Biodiesel Processor Makes Renewable Resources Anyone's Business

Press release, Apr 2007

Pacific Natural Energy, a Los Angeles-based startup, unveils an innovative and cost-effective way to turn urban waste oil into Biodiesel. The company will supply both mobile processing reactors and fully processed biodiesel fuel. This will introduce a new option for individuals, businesses, entrepreneurs and local communities to become fuel manufacturers and produce ASTM grade biodiesel at approximately $1.50 per gallon, opening a new market of legal biodiesel production in the 50,000 to 250,000 gallon per year range. The announcement comes just in time to coincide with Earth Day 2007.

Read the full press release from here @ PR Web

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Businesses scramble to squeeze ethanol from Florida citrus waste

Businesses scramble to squeeze ethanol from Florida citrus waste

March 15, 2007

KANSAS CITY - Companies wanting to produce ethanol from citrus waste in Florida are scrambling to obtain patents and secure sites for pilot projects, evidence that the national craze for the fuel is branching out from the more traditional grain-based feedstock.

The material used in the process is what is left after processors have squeezed the juice from the orange, which equals nearly one-half of the fruit's original mass.

Read the full news article from Check Biotech

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Purdue, city and county, industries join to turn waste into power

Purdue, city and county, industries join to turn waste into power

Giles Clark, 13 March 2007

by Susan A. Steeves

Planners and scientists from Purdue, central Indiana's Clinton County and city of Frankfort, and industries Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Indiana Clean Energy LLC (ICE) are joining forces to use waste to produce methane for conversion to electricity. Two separate facilities will be built — one for industrial waste conversion and another for hog waste — with the goal of having plants in operation by spring 2008.

Read the full report here @ Biofuel Review

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Trash power - Energy from Waste & Garbage

Trash power - Energy from Waste & Garbage

Mar. 27, 2007

Reynolds, a town 20 miles north of Lafayette, is aiming at generating its own electricity and gas, using everything from municipal trash to farm waste, hog manure and even town sewage.

The project will have a facility that turns garbage into electricity. The project could become part of the solution to two of the country’s biggest challenges: Disposing of garbage and reducing America’s reliance on fossil fuels for energy.

The equipment at the BioTown technology center in Reynolds includes an anaerobic digester, gasifier and fast pyrolysis, which will create syngas, bio-oil and fertilizer.

Read the full news story from here @ Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Manure to become energy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Manure to become energy in Mount Joy

By Patrick Burns, Staff

Intelligencer Journal

Mar 09, 2007

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - EnergyWorks, of Annapolis, Md., has agreed to build an anaerobic digestion plant on a poultry farm that would produce biogas from waste created by the chickens.

The plant will produce an odorless, colorless gas similar to natural gas that is produced when animal waste is decomposed by bacteria in the absence of oxygen.

More from this news report @ Lancaster Online

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