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From Treehugger

Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of

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Green_Freedom_Overview.pdf

From the Los Alamos site

Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk,
transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale
production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organi… Continue

What to do with those small lousy wood chips that tend to plug up gasifiers?

This is a gasifier design that I have been kicking around in my head out in the shop. It makes use of low quality chips.

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Could this be the energy break through we have been looking for? Bloom Energy has apparently perfected the solid oxide fuel cell for use on both natural gas and biogas. This type of fuel cell is compatible with syngas as well.

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Heat engines are the key to unlocking full utilization of biomass, but finding one that A) Works & B) is affordable is another quest altogether.

I had a call with Stirling Biopower this morning and they seem to have a very cool and very large 55kw Stirling eng… Continue