Tag: Biomass
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The Do's and Don'ts of Backyard Composting
Follow these simple rules for composting success.
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4 DIY Compost Bins You Can Build in One Day (VIDEO)
Save money on a compost bin by building your own. You can recycle wooden pallets, trash cans, barrels and cinder blocks for these projects.
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3 Compost Bins for Small Spaces
Composting doesn't have to be ugly. Here are three solutions to composting in small spaces.
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Poo-Powered Tuk Tuk Hits the Denver Zoo
The motorized tuk tuk is part of a system that will convert more than 90 percent of the zoo's waste—1.5 million pounds annually—into energy.
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Build a Wood-Burning Rocket Stove Made Entirely From Wood
This simple design for a cook stove is made from one single log, and it actually becomes its own fuel. Here's how to make it.
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Rocket Mass Stove Burns Tiny Amounts of Wood, Heats for Well Over 12 Hours
If you burn a fire in the evening, his carefully designed rocket mass heater/bench heats a room (and the occupant's butt) well into the next day.
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Build an Ultra-Efficient DIY Wood Stove for Backpacking
This simple, DIY stove can boil water in minutes using only a few twigs. Here's how to build it.
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Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's not really good news.
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Woodland Restoration Volunteers Rewarded with Cheap Firewood
Woodland conservation is getting a boost from volunteers who want to source cheap wood fuel. It's a win-win situation for all.
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Hardwood Could Become The New Sugar Cane - If Sustainable Development Becomes 'Super Critical'
This post offers an overview of a patented new process being used by Renmatix to achieve physical transformation of sustainably
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Not Icky At All; the Happy Pig Farm
If shrimp can be happy on a farm, why not pigs? For all the weekday vegetarians and omnivores out there, here is a way to obtain sausages, chorizos and bacon in a friendly way. First of all, plenty of indoor and outdoor space
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Biogas and How to Make a DIY Anaerobic Digester (Video)
Image credit: The Urban Farming Guys Biogas and anaerobic digestion made number one in HowStuffWorks' list of wacky alternative energy, and poop-to-energy biogas projects have proven popular on Discovery News too. From biogas in Haitian slums to green
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Ben & Jerry's Factory to Convert Ice Cream Waste into Energy
Unilever is taking a Ben & Jerry's factory in the Netherlands a green step forward: constructing a bio-digester that will convert the waste products from ice cream production and provide for 40 percent of the factory's green energy
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Biochar or Compost - What's Best for Soil Quality? (Video)
Despite claims that biochar could offset 12% of human carbon emissions, and boost agricultural production in the process, others are not so sure. Whether it's the author of the biochar solution saying it's not a
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Burning Wood May Do More Harm Than Good
Of all the sources of renewable energy, one type invariably dredges up more debate than any other—biomass. Granted, the term biomass does cover a lot of topics and a lot of different controversies—from food versus
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Techo-Leapfrogging At Its Best: 2,000 Indian Villages Skip Fossil Fuels, Get First Electricity From Solar
If you ever need a great example of technological leapfrogging in practice, here it is: In the Indian state of Orissa, the state government has decided to electrify approximately an additional 2,000 villages by March 2012.
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Black Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Causes Twice the Warming As Burning Biomass
More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased
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DARPA Seeks Porta-Reactor Technology for Troop Poop Fuel
Alert Pentagon-watchers who stumbled upon the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicitation SN-10-37 looked past the official title "Request for Information (RFI) on Deployable Reactor Technologies for
