Biofuels

17 to 423 years to repay carbon debt from replacing natural ecosystems with ethanol or biodiesel farms. Use only prairie biomass on abandoned or marginal cropland, maybe sugar cane from Brazil's cerrado.

Biogas

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Finnish City Taps Sewers for Energy in Sprint for Net Zero 0522

Oregon Is Turning Sewage into an Endless Supply of Green Energy 0322

Phasing Out Cookstoves a ‘Win-Win’ for Climate and Health 0217 Substitute biogas, electricity for coal, wood, dung.

CLP Power to Tap Methane from Tuen Mun Landfill for Electricity 0117 - outside Hong Kong

Dutch Dairy Industry Launches €150 Million Biogas Project 1116

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Tapping Landfills to Generate Power Seemed Smart, but Is Threatened Now 1016

Biomass Could Help Power Africa’s Energy Transition 0516 - Convert biomass to biogas. Use it to make electricity.

Duke Energy Signs Deal to Turn Pig Poop Into Electricity 0316

Key to Water Security Could Be Lurking in a New Mexico Sewage Farm 0815

Backyard Unit Eats Trash to Make Biofuel 0515 - Israeli one solves efficiency, odor & insect problems of China/India units

UK's 1st ‘Poo Bus' Goes into Regular Service 0315

Turning Muck into Money - the Biogas Revolution Takes Off 0215

Biofuel from Trash Could Create Green Jobs Bonanza in UK & Abroad 0215

Turning Blood to Power, Maasai Pastoralists Begin Bottling Biogas 0115

Central America's New Coffee Buzz - Renewable Energy 1214

Wisconsin's Potawatomi Project Will Use Food Waste to Make Energy 1013

Poop Power - New Generation of California Farmers to Use It 0613

Biogas Energy Answer to Zimbabwe’s Power Outages 0513

Biogas Can Meet 25% of Gas Needs 0710

Biodiesel & Jet Fuel

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Grass for Gas? Researchers, Business Weigh Sustainable Aviation Fuel Options 0123

Germany Opens World’s 1st Plant for Clean Jet Fuel 1021

ExxonMobil Gambles on Algae Biofuel 0721

Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions 0118

Planes across Europe to Start Running on Vegetable Oil and Animal Fat 1017

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Are Advanced Biofuels Ready for Takeoff? 0517

Airplanes Flying on Biofuels Emit Fewer Climate-Warming Particles 0317

U.S. Navy 'Green Fleet' Fills Up with Italian-Made Biofuel 0616

Can Corn Make Good Jet Fuel? Alaska Air Says Yes. 0616

Clean Fuel from ‘Bionic Leaf' Could Ease Pressure on Farmland 0616
Solar panels split H2O into O2 and H2. 10% efficient, vs 1% for photosynthesis.

Biofuels Will Power Navy’s Next Deployment 0116

Could Diesel Made from Air Help Tackle Climate Change? 0915

Oil Price Slump Taking a Toll on U.S. Alternative Fuels 0115

Biofuel innovators Look for a Breakout 1214

Governments Seek to Raise EU Cap on Food-Based Biofuels 1113

Finn Researchers Make Cheap Biofuel, US Ones Pull Hydrogen from Water 0813

EU Lawmakers Deal a Blow to Crop-Based Biofuels 0713

Kenya Biofuel Project Ignites Land Disputes 0613

Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae into Fuel 0613

Wood

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Emissions, Deforestation Set to Spike under Indonesia’s Biomass Transition 0922

European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy 0922

Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy 0922

The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet 0321

500+ Experts Call on World’s Nations to Not Burn Forests for Energy 0221

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To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things (Wood) 0121

EU Being Sued to Stop Burning Trees for Energy; It’s Not Carbon Neutral 0319

Wood Fuel is Bad News for Climate and Biodiversity 0318

EU’s Renewable Energy Policy Is Making Global Warming Worse 0217

Phasing Out Cookstoves a ‘Win-Win’ for Climate and Health 0217 Substitute biogas, electricity for coal, wood, dung.

Is Wood a Green Source of Energy? Scientists Are Divided 0117

Biomass Power Slumps as EPA, Industry Spar on Science 0816

Is Burning Trees Still Green? Some Experts Now Question Biomass 0716

Polluted Air Causes 5.5 Million Deaths a Year 0216 - Wood use for cooking and heating (India, Africa, etc.) is a big chunk.

Dutch Lawmakers Call for Halt to Wood Energy Subsidies 0216

Save More than 4 Million Lives a Year by Harnessing the Sun to Cook 0116

US Forests Threatened, as Demand for Wood-Based Biofuels Grows 1015

UK to Build World’s 1st Power Plant with Negative Emissions 0815

How Europe’s Climate Policies Have Led to More Trees Being Cut Down in the US 0615

Burlington, Vermont Goes All Renewable. Keep Wood in the Mix? 0415

Scientists - No, We Can't Fight Climate Change by Burning Trees 0215

Wood Pellets Are the Energy Boom You Haven't Heard About 1214 - above all, US exports to Europe

Fort Drum Powered by Wood in Renewable Energy Push 1114

Biomass Fuel - Worse for Climate than Coal? 0414

Roll on the Green Revolution - Paper Industry 1113

Power Plants Try Burning Wood With Coal to Cut Carbon Emissions 1113

Cleaner Than Coal? Wood Power Makes a Comeback 1013

Wood Could Bring Power to Those without Electricity 0913

Finn Researchers Make Cheap Biofuel, US Ones Pull Hydrogen from Water 0813 - same as above

Wood is Key Ingredient in Cheap Rechargeable Battery 0613

Wood - Europe’s Fuel of the Future? 0413

Misc

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Gates-Backed Startup Is Making Fuel from Water and CO2 - 0424

Giant Methane-to-Methanol Machines Could Curb Methane Emissions 0923

A Green Methanol Pioneer Finally Has a Market 0123

Falling Crop Yields with Warming Could See Rapid Decline in Bioenergy Potential 0922

What’s with Exxon’s Big Algae Push? 0818

Exxon Thinks It Can Create Biofuel from Algae at Massive Scale 0318

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Bioenergy Has Its Limits for Cutting Emissions 0117 - Offsetting electricity and heat with bioenergy is 1.6–3.9 times more effective at cutting emissions than offsetting liquid fuels

The Great Garbage Fire Debate - Should We Burning Our Trash into Energy? 0117

Carbon-Eating Bacteria Could Be One Answer to Climate Change 1116

Largest Biochar Facility in U.S. Opens at Cornell 0416

United Airlines Is Flying on Biofuels. Why That’s a Really Big Deal. 0316

Polluted Air Causes 5.5 Million Deaths a Year 0216 - Dung use for cooking and heating (India, Africa, etc.) is a chunk.

Oslo Trash Incinerator Starts Experiment to Slow Climate Change 0116

Save More than 4 Million Lives a Year by Harnessing the Sun to Cook 0116

Scientists Seek to Harvest Electricity from Algae in Green-Energy Effort 1115

Researchers Find Sweet Source for Aviation Biofuel 0615

Vietnam Plans to Generate Power from Rice Husks 0415

Waste-to-Energy Revolution Boosted by Bio-Battery Idea 0315

Oil Price Slump Taking a Toll on U.S. Alternative Fuels 0115