[Sustainable-biodiesel] Excellent article on sustainable biofuelsfrom Climate Solutions

[Mark Fitz]

Attached is another good Oregon Sustainable Biodiesel document.

The attached document was recently created by the Oregon Environmental 
Council and is one of the best documents of its type I've ever seen.  It 
covers every issue facing the sector from Renewable diesel, to sustainable 
feedstocks, and the potential of second generation technologies.

Mark Fitz
StarOilco
www.DieselGeek.Blogspot.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bonitz" <bonitz at cleanenergy.org>
To: <biofuels_interest_group at lists.emji.net>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Excellent article on sustainable 
biofuelsfrom Climate Solutions


> Friends,
>
> This article on sustainable biofuels innovations comes from Climate
> Solutions, a Portland Oregon group.  I've enclosed two excerpts and link 
> to
> the whole story.
> ~ ~ ~
>
> John Bonitz,
> Farm Outreach & Policy Advocate
> Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
> PO Box 1833, Pittsboro, NC  27312
> Phone: 919-545-2920
> Mobile: 919-360-2492
> bonitz at cleanenergy.org
>
>
>
> Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Producing Bioenergy on the Farm
> http://harvestjournal.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/12/growing-sustainable
> -biofuels-producing-bioenergy-on-the-farm.html
>
> By Patrick Mazza
>
> While growing biofuels feedstocks on farms is becoming a commonplace,
> actually making biofuels on the farm is fairly rare.  Two Pacific 
> Northwest
> efforts to develop advanced technologies for farm-scale production
> illustrate significant potential to produce fuels from local feedstocks 
> for
> local use.
>
> In Corvallis, Oregon a start-up company is working to commercialize a
> biodiesel microreactor that could serve a small community¹s fuel demands
> with a device that would fit on a bench in a shed.  Near Spokane a 
> nonprofit
> group is developing a farm-scale operation to process agricultural 
> residues
> into energy products.
>
> The biodiesel device is based on a microchannel technology developed by
> Goran Jovanovic of Oregon State University and announced in 2006.
>
> . . .
>
> The agricultural residues project is being developed by Farm Power, a
> nonprofit dedicated to promoting farm-scale bioenergy production.  The 
> group
> is partnered with USDA Agricultural Research Service.  In a federal
> bioenergy research complex heavily focused on large-scale technologies, 
> ARS
> is a welcome oasis for distributed, community-based bioenergy development.
> The outfit is looking at potential feedstocks ranging from hog manure in
> North Carolina to cotton seed oil in Georgia to crop residues in the
> Northwest.
>
> ARS has done some first-order studies looking at biofuels potential of
> Northwest residues.  But, notes Gary Banowetz of ARS, the challenge is 
> that
> these feedstocks have low energy density and a certain amount must be left
> on the soil to preserve fertility.  Taking these constraints into account,
> it would require 167,000 acres worth of residues to supply one plant 
> making
> 10 million gallons of ethanol yearly.  So ARS is interested in 
> smaller-scale
> technologies that are less hungry.
>
> The Farm Power project at Rockport, Washington a few miles south of 
> Spokane
> fits the bill.  It employs technology developed at ARS Western Research
> Institute which uses heat to convert biomass into energy gas.
>
> To read the complete article, click here:
> http://harvestjournal.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/12/growing-sustainable
> -biofuels-producing-bioenergy-on-the-farm.html
>
>
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