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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in the state of Kansas in the United States.
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Events
- 17-18 December 2007, Manhattan, Kansas: CASMGS Forum: Agriculture's Role in the New Carbon Economy - Conference on soil carbon sequestration.
- 2-4 June 2008, Kansas City, Kansas: 6th Corn Utilization and Technology Conference. Sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association. (Themes: corn, ethanol)
Issues
News
- USDA Announces Project to Encourage Development of Next-Generation Biofuels, 5 May 2011 press release by USDA Farm Service: "Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the establishment of the first Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) Project Area to promote the production of dedicated feedstocks for bioenergy. This project will help spur the development of next-generation biofuels and is part of Obama Administration efforts to protect Americans from rising gas prices by breaking the nation’s dependence on foreign oil."
- "Comprising 39 contiguous counties in Missouri and Kansas, the first BCAP Project Area proposes the enrollment of up to 50,000 acres for establishing a dedicated energy crop of native grasses and herbaceous plants (forbs) for energy purposes. Producers in the area will plant mixes of perennial native plants, such as switchgrass, for the manufacture of biomass pellet fuels and other biomass products to be used for power and heat generation. The proposed crops also will provide long term resource conserving vegetative cover. The project is a joint effort between the agriculture producers of Show Me Energy Cooperative of Centerview, Mo., and USDA to spur the expansion of domestically produced biomass feedstocks in rural America for renewable energy."
- "BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, is a primary component of the strategy to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil, improve domestic energy security, reduce pollution, and spur rural economic development and job creation. BCAP provides incentives to interested farmers, ranchers and forest landowners for the establishment and cultivation of biomass for heat, power, bio-based products and biofuels."[1]
- Ethanol company Ethanex to file for bankruptcy, 25 March 2008, by Columbus Telegram: Kansas-based Ethanex Energy Inc., "a 2-year-old ethanol company, said it is planning to file for bankruptcy after being unable to gain interim financing."
- "The company had originally planned to build three ethanol plants, each capable of producing 110 million gallons of the annually....But the declining price for ethanol forced the company to change its build-first strategy last fall."[2]
- Bioenergy effort under way, 24 August 2006, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kansas, United States reported on the efforts of an Sunflower Electric Power Corp. electric cooperative in southwest Kansas "to create a first-of-its-kind 'integrated bioenergy center'" combining a "meat-processing operation, dairy, ethanol plant and biodiesel plant" with a coal-fired energy plant, which would together "generate electricity, produce ethanol, feed livestock and otherwise help one another succeed -- through reductions in water use, lessening of emissions and a host of other spin-offs previously unrealized in a single project anywhere."
- "The project would convert manure to methane, which could fuel an ethanol plant. Flue gas from the coal-fired electric plant could feed into an algae reactor, whose water could be drained for boiling in the power plant -- steam drives the turbines that produce electricity -- while the algae could be used to feed dairy cattle or help produce biodiesel fuel."[3]
Organizations
Academic organizations
Governmental organizations
Nongovernmental organizations
- Kansas Bioscience Authority
- National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization at Kansas State University
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