Tag: biogas

Here’s my monthly installment on the Hedge Connection blog.  The group is an attempt (and a successful one at that) to bring together hedge fund managers with investors/allocators. Pictured here: Hedge Connection CEO Lisa Vioni. I really like these people. …

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Production of energy is one of the most crucial challenges facing many countries across the world. Energy production method varies from one point to another but what makes it expensive is the cost of production. Bio gas is one of …

From Guest Blogger Maria: How Bio-Gas as Fuel Can be Harmless to the Environment Read More »

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I had a Skype chat yesterday with a well-heeled investor/entrepreneur in Dubai whose family has numerous business operations in Africa and the Middle East – including Pakistan, the country in which one of my favorite projects is located.  Readers may …

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Here’s an article on the use of natural gas mated with concentrated solar power (CSP).  The central issue facing CSP is achieving temperatures high enough to minimize thermodynamic heat losses, and, for most configurations, that means coupling the troughs and …

Concentrated Solar Power Mated With Biogas Read More »

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Some of the waste-to-energy concepts I’ve come across recently should not be discussed over dinner. One contemplates fish-waste in British Columbia that comes from the significant percentage of the fish that is unusable: the head, tail, guts, and spine.  Currently, …

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I thought readers may be interested to see a rendering of the biogas plant that I intend to help establish in Southern Pakistan to process the 8000 tons of manure that come from 400,000 tightly confined buffalo each day.  Linked …

Biogas Plant in Southern Pakistan Read More »

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In June’s webinar, I interviewed Robert Orr, CEO of Landhi.  The manure from 400,000 buffaloes in a tightly confined area of Southern Pakistan is creating one of the worst ecological disasters and threats to human health on the planet.  A …

Biofertilizer / Biogas Webinar Read More »

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Tucson Electric Power has signed up to solar photovoltaic array projects with capacities of 35MW, 25MW and 5MW; single-axis tracking PV arrays with capacities of 12MW, 4MW and two of 5MW each, a concentrating PV plant with capacity of 12MW …

Guest Post: Arizona Utility Signs up to Solar, Biogas and Wind PPAs Read More »

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Growing crops to create biogas has become a controversial renewable energy source because it creates competition for land for food crops. But there is another major source of biogas that doesn’t compete with food crops. In fact, exploiting it would …

[The Vector] Biogas that Doesn’t Compete with Food Crops Read More »

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