Tag: pyrolysis

I thought I’d publish this email I wrote to a colleague whose team I’m trying to connect with one of my clean energy investment opportunities, as I’d like people to know that I do whatever I can to weed out …

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Over the years, I have helped well over 100 students, from 4th grade to graduate school, with their papers on renewable energy or sustainability more generally. I enjoy the living heck out of, and I’ve gotten some of the most …

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Here’s an article explaining that the state of Michigan proposes to meet a good chunk of its renewable portfolio standard by burning scrap tires from cars and trucks. You may be thinking what I was: define “burning.” They can’t mean “incineration,” …

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We’ve been hearing about various processes for converting waste-tires to energy, fuels, and other valuable stuff (e.g., carbon black) for decades now.  And yes, there really are a few people with pyrolysis technology that really works; my friends from the …

Waste-Tire-to-Energy — An Advancement Read More »

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I’ll soon be updating our list of renewable energy investment opportunities, as I’ve come across a few more that I think are excellent.  One is a municipal solid waste (MSW) to electricity via pyrolysis project in a small, stable, but …

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Late last night I was on a Skype call with a friend, a clean energy aficionado based in Central France.  He went on at length about some of the projects he’s pursuing, several of which are various types of pyrolysis …

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I had breakfast yesterday with a venture capitalist in Greensboro, NC, who had expressed an interest in waste-tires-to-fuels.  People are using pyrolysis in this capacity, with varying degrees of success, in plants all over the world, and I’ve noticed a …

Using Pyrolysis, Turning Waste Tires To Fuel Read More »

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The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record.  Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on …

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It’s only mid-evening here in New York City — still before 11.  I’m sure there are thousands of people within a mile-or-so radius of where I’m sitting right now who are planning their fun for the night.  I’m not one …

Good Day Advancing Renewable Energy Concepts Read More »

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For quite a while, I helped to promote a client back east and their solution to processing the manure that comes from our nation’s 7.6 billion chickens. The problem I had, in retrospect, was the technology, which was garden-variety (pardon …

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