Xcel Energy announced plans Tuesday to spend between $55 million and $70 million to convert a coal-burning power generator into one fueled by gasified biomass -- primarily waste wood. Before the ...

Rice straw could be converted to usable fuel for biomass generators, according to agricultural engineer Bryan Jenkins. Biomass generators use fuel such as wood from forest thinning, farm waste or ...

Companies that burn wood pellets for energy may be “marking their own homework on sustainability”, an influential cross-party committee has warned. In a report published on Friday, MPs on the Public ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Experimental biomass-burning generators aren’t working out as lucratively and efficiently as a Fairbanks area businessman had hoped when he launched the idea to turn waste ...

A new comprehensive review highlights how converting biomass into gaseous fuels such as hydrogen, methane, and syngas could ...

Early one morning in mid-December, Cheryl Adams got out of bed and peered outside. The fog that obstructed her view of the industrial plant in Colbert less than a mile from her front door was now ...

The global generation of biomass residues from agriculture, forestry, animal waste, food and other biodegradable municipal waste represents an increasing management problem, as biomass waste can have ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Food waste is a growing problem in Canada and many ...

Antimicrobial resistance and ecological disruption caused by broad-spectrum disinfectants have created an urgent need for ...