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From a speech delivered at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington DC on November 28, 2007. Besides writing blogs, I am a Communications Director* of the Biomass Coordinating Council (BCC) of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). ACORE is a Washington-based advocacy association that promotes all renewable energy forms. The BCC, led by the intrepid Bill Holmberg, focuses attention on

Bioenergy is the ONLY renewable technology that can convert solar energy into LIQUID fuel. If we expect to substitute renewable energy for fossil fuel energy, we are going to have to tackle the challenge of liquid fuels - how do we replace our dependence on oil, diesel, and gasoline with functionally equivalent biofuels? So much of the positive press about renewables focuses on the urban

What are the capabilities of bioenergy technologies that make them unique as a means of reducing greenhouse gases? Bioenergy comes from the processing of biomass. Biomass "refers to living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production. Most commonly, biomass refers to plant matter grown for use as biofuel, but it also includes plant or animal

There are biomass waste streams throughout the world that could provide the feedstock for future biomass conversion to biofuels. These waste streams are creating some of the most acute environmental problems afflicting society - • Excess biomass in forests – forest density that is 4 to 10 times historic norms – creates conditions that exacerbate droughts leading to forest fires and bug

Bioenergy can revive depressed economies - local, national, and worldwide. Depressed economies need private investment in healthy industries to build lasting employment. Fossil energy - with all its societal costs and impact on the environment - is no longer viewed as "cheap." It is seen as an addiction - a wedge that is coming between our communities and their environment. In contrast, a

Bioenergy provides the only renewable LIQUID fuels we will see at the pump in our lifetimes. The United States is a nation that not only preaches self-reliance, but also freedom of choice. We vote at the election booth every couple of years and we promote the global spread of this “self-evident” right. But we also vote with our wallets every day of the week. People who are apathetic and

Tuesday Google announced an initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.

Tuesday Google announced an initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.

Termites may be the key to greener, more effective biofuels, report scientists writing in the November 22 edition of the journal Nature.

Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.