Teru Talk
Newsletter
Volume I, Issue
12
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May 16,
2011
Teru Talk
by Michael Theroux
(pronounced
"TerĂº")
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when our news and action
items are updated, and when
we add new reports and
articles.
Teru's Trash
Talk
My daddy said, "It's a
smart man who knows when
he's stupid." That doesn't
mean we're off the hook for
learning new things; it
just says we know where we
are "challenged". It isn't
enough that I'm being
trained by both my
Blackberry and my BlueAnt
Know-It-All headset, we've
started seriously working
with the "Social Media",
which curiously makes me
quite
unsociable.
So @TeruTalk gets you to us
on Twitter (where we're not
Twits as I thought, but
"Tweeps"). We've built a
Teru Talk page on Facebook
(probably better for family
than biz, but we'll see).
We've been working with a
couple of the Groups in
Linked-In, especially the
Zero Emissions Carbon
Refinery. And we're using a
desktop program called
TweetDeck to help keep it
all organized: it lets you
see all your various
accounts at once so you can
get REALLY
confused.
You
can learn a lot of the
ropes from @BIOblogger. In
his #biochat this week we
were chewing on this topic
of how to use these new
tools to promote biomass to
energy and fuels. One thing
was abundantly clear: any
connect-the-people tool
that can overturn
governments certainly has
the potential to push
Conversion forward; we just
need to learn
how.
Hey
Rube!
The message:
Sit down, Sing in, and Figure
Out how to get connected. We
can indeed use the Social Media
to let folks know when
Something Big changes, when
something needs to be attended
to at the very moment it is
happening, when one of us needs
six like-minded souls to speak
up. Most of this is free; all
of it is being used by your
children and often their
children. Hook up with us
@TeruTalk (we'll at least
commiserate), hunt down
@BIOblogger (he can help). Put
the new tools to work; we all
need every arrow in the
quiver.
The Week's Extra
Reading
New article by
guest authors Evan W.R. Edgar,
Edgar & Associates, and
Bill Camarillo,
AGROMIN:
Beyond Waste Companies in the
Blue Ocean
.
The Week's
News
National Biodiesel Board
Directs Webinar on Food, Fuel
and Land
Use
The National
Biodiesel Board (NBB) is
presenting a webinar called
"Vantage Point: Views on Food,
Fuel and Land Use" to explore
biodiesel’s impact on the food
supply and land use.
05/13/2011
Senators Barrasso, Manchin
Introduce Alternative Fuels
Bill
Senators John
Barasso (R-WY) and Joe Manchin
(D-WV) introduced the
bipartisan American Alternative
Fuels Act (S. 937) to the
Senate this week with the
intent of breaking down the
barriers to alternative
fuels—including fuels derived
from coal, biomass, algae and
waste.
05/13/2011
Albemarle Corporation Acquires
Catilin
Global
chemicals company Albemarle has
acquired biodiesel catalysis
specialists Catilin, expanding
their role in provision of
advanced biofuels production
processes.
05/13/2011
Cambi Offers
Workshop during Residuals and
Biosolids
Conference
Norway-based
biosolids conversion company
Cambi will present their first
Cambi Academy on May 25, 2011
in conjunction with the
Residuals and Biosolids
Conference and Exhibition in
Sacramento, California.
05/13/2011
Dyadic Awarded New Fungal
Enzyme
Patent
Florida-based Dyadic
International, Inc. has been
issued U.S. Patent No.
7,923,236 for “Fungal Enzymes”
by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for
production and use of enzymes
to convert lignocellulosic
biomass into fermentable
sugars.
05/12/2011
USDA Establishes First BCAP
Project
Area
US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack
announced establishment of the
first Biomass Crop Assistance
Program (BCAP) Project Area
with the enrollment of up to
50,000 acres in Missouri and
Kansas for bioenergy feedstock
production.
05/12/2011
USDA and DOE Joint Award: $47MM
for Biofuels
Development
The US Departments of
Agriculture (USDA) and Energy
(DOE) announced awards of $47
million to eight research and
development projects for
production of biofuels,
bioenergy and high-value
biobased products.
05/12/2011
U of Florida Beet Waste Biochar
Recovers Phosphorus from
Wastewater
Researchers in the University
of Florida's Institute of Food
and Agricultural Sciences have
developed a method for
producing biochar and using the
dense material to remove
phosphorus from water.
05/12/2011
UK's Greenergy to
Extract Oils from Food Waste
for Biodiesel
Production
Supplier
of one fifth of Britain's
transport fuel, Greenergy has
begun producing biodiesel and
energy from food waste in
partnership with Brocklesby
Ltd, a specialist in extraction
and recycling of oils from
unsaleable high-oil food
products.
05/11/2011
MSU Gets $1MM
Glycerol-to-Succinate Waste
Conversion
Grant
The US Department of
Agriculture awarded $957,582 to
Michigan State University
microbiology and molecular
genetics assistant professor
Claire Vieille to develop a
microbial process that converts
glycerol into succinate.
05/10/2011
CORE Biofuel Signs MOU for
Testing and Biorefinery
Development
Canadian company CORE Biofuel
Inc has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with an
un-named renewable energy
project development entity for
construction of integrated
biorefineries.
05/10/2011
UC San Diego Receives $2MM for
Large Molecule Biofuels
Initiative
The California Energy
Commission has awarded
$2,000,000 to researchers at
the University of California
San Diego to establish the
California Initiative for Large
Molecule Sustainable Fuels
(CILMSF).
05/10/2011
DOE Community Energy Strategic
Planning Webinar
Scheduled
The US Department of Energy's
(DOE) Technical Assistance
Program will provide an
informational webinar on May
12, 2011 to explore the new
Community Energy Strategic
Planning (CESP) program for
cities and counties.
05/10/2011
Wake Forest U Receives
Biodiesel Catalysis
Grant
The Biofuels Center of North
Carolina (NC) has awarded a
grant of $145,665 to Wake
Forest University's Terrafinity
project, where researchers are
developing inexpensive
catalysts for converting the
free fatty acids into
biodiesel.
05/09/2011
The Week's
Action
Items
Due 06/23/2011: DOI-DEMD 2011
Proposals for Tribal Energy
Development
The Department of the
Interior's Office of Indian
Energy and Economic Development
(IEED) through its Division of
Energy and Mineral Development
(DEMD) office has published a
formal solicitation for
proposals from Tribes for
assessing, evaluating, and
promoting energy and mineral
resources on Indian trust
lands, with funds from the
Energy and Mineral Development
Program (EMDP).
05/13/2011
Due 07/01/2011: Proposals for
Blue Sky Funded Renewable
Energy
Projects
Rocky
Mountain Power and Pacific
Power have both released 2011
requests for proposals (RFPs)
to develop eligible
community-based renewable
energy projects through its
Blue Sky program in their
respective service areas, with
a preference for local
community based projects.
05/11/2011
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