
Tag Archives Biomass

Saskatchewan company to buy flax straw in Gilbert Plains area
Prairie Clean Energy to pelletize flax straw for animal bedding

U.S. to boost biofuel mandates over next three years
Biofuel groups still feel shortchanged

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?
Some projects may be handed to other family members

Maersk signs first green methanol deal toward dropping fossil fuels

Racing an analogy for battery-powered tractors
Producing renewable electricity from farm biomass would be the ultimate closed loop

University pioneering urban biomass heating
The University of Winnipeg’s new biomass heating system will be a model for other institutions, say proponents of alternative energy sources
When school starts this fall, the University of Winnipeg will flip the switch on a novel way to keep downtown buildings heated — with boilers that burn wood pellets. Last fall the downtown university took delivery of two 100-kilowatt biomass boilers, to provide supplementary heating a steam plant now provides for its Ashdown, Manitoba and
Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

Biomass atlas provides map for future sustainability
Manitoba could be a global leader in this sector of the bioeconomy

Cutting the cost of ethanol
Researchers devise a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels

U of M showcases alternative building materials
‘Hempcrete,’ soy-based roof panels and other Manitoba-grown biomass products are tested and evaluated at University of Manitoba’s Alternative Village