Georgia (U.S. state)
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Information about biofuels and bioenergy in Georgia.
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Georgia is a state located in the south-eastern United States. It is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land area and has a population of over nine million. Important for future biofuels are the more than 24 million acres of forest in the state.
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Events
2009
- 13-16 September 2009, Atlanta, GA, USA: Renewable Energy Markets 2009 Conference. (Themes: biofuels, energy, biotechnology)
2008
- 23-25 January 2008, Rome, Georgia: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies Conference
- 12-13 February 2008, Atlanta: Integration of Agricultural and Energy Systems
News
- USDA Announces a Guaranteed Loan to a Biorefinery to Produce Renewable Energy, 3 March 2010 by the USDA newsroom: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that Range Fuels, Inc., a Colorado based firm with a planned biorefinery located near Soperton, Ga., is the recipient of a loan guaranteed by USDA Rural Development to make cellulosic biofuel from wood chips."
- "This project is expected to provide biorefinery jobs, construction jobs and support the timber industry."
- "When fully operational, the plant is expected to produce an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year."[1]
- Dead Forests to Fuel Vehicles, 15 September 2009 by CleanTechnica: "The University of Georgia Research Foundation has developed an innovative way to turn dead trees into a liquid fuel and has licensed it to Tolero Energy in California. We could be driving on our dead forests as soon as 2010."
- "The technology represents a leap forward for the biofuels industry. Not only does the resulting biofuel need no additional refinement before blending with diesel fuel, but it is a naturally very low-sulphur biofuel."
- "Infestations of the mountain pine beetle have devastated forests in the western United States and Canada, killing over 40 million acres of pine trees. As the trees decompose and decay, they release millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, and the devastation has created a significant and dangerous fire hazard in the western forests."
- "Tolero will use this low-cost, on-site process to turn waste biomass into sustainable and renewable forms of energy and industrial products. The biomass is heated at carefully controlled high temperatures in the absence of oxygen, a process known as fast pyrolysis. The vapors produced during pyrolysis rapidly condense into a bio-oil that can be added to biodiesel or petroleum diesel. Other pyrolysis by-products are gas and bio-char, which can be used as a soil amendment."[2]
- House Committee on Small Business Takes Notice of Biochar, 21 July 2009 by re:char (with video): "On Thursday, May 21 University of Georgia Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering K.C. Das testified before the house Committee on Small Business. The hearing’s purpose was to discuss 'the impacts of outstanding regulatory policy on small biofuels producers and family farmers including biochar carbon sequestration.'"
- Das stated: "'From what I see there is very little discussion at the national level, at the federal agencies, or within the existing legislature or outstanding legislature legislations that discuss biochar as a means of addressing the excessive carbon levels already in the atmosphere], and I’d like to bring that to your attention."[3]
- Range Fuels gets $80M loan commitment, 19 January 2009 by Denver Business Journal: "Range Fuels Inc. said Monday it’s received a conditional commitment for an $80 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build the company’s commercial cellulosic ethanol plant near Soperton, Ga."
- "Range Fuels uses a proprietary, two-step conversion process using heat and chemicals to convert biomass — such as wood chips, switchgrass and other carbon-based waste items — into ethanol. The Georgia plant will use wood and wood waste from that state’s pine forests and mills as its feedstock and is expected to have the capacity to produce more than 100 million gallons of ethanol a year." [4]
- Georgia Starts First U.S. Pine Tree Biofuel Plant 7 November 2007 - according to manufacturing.net, the plant, located in Soperton, Georgia, and built by Colorado-headquartered Range Fuels, will be the first of its kind in the country and will produce 20 million gallons of ethanol by 2009.
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Universities
- Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus are focusing their attention on biofuels as a necessary complement to oil and gas.
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