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June 15, 2015 Newsletter Volume V, Issue 24. Somebody called this “economical environmentalism”: we do a good turn for this global home of ours, and we all make more money.
January 6, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 1. Waste conversion is all a balancing act, and engineering science provides ways to assess both the mass and the energy balance.
April 14, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 15. Losing a few hundred tons of wood chips may or may not be a 'waste', but losing an entire forest and the communities within it certainly qualifies.
April 21, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 16. There is just a whole lot of waste-sourced resource that needs heat to break it down - those kinds of wastes for which microbial decomposition isn't well suited.
September 22, 2014 Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 38. The Nay-Sayers are wrong again. It is the careful acquisition and conversion of waste as feedstock that makes biofuels economical.
July 15, 2013 Newsletter Volume III, Issue 28. We're living in an age where Policy regularly trumps Science. When Science isn't the foundation, the results can be both ridiculous and damaging.
August 26, 2013 Newsletter Volume III, Issue 34. Put your own voice behind support for Sane Use of Forest Biomass. It could be your forest that is next to burn.
May 7, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 19
Let's consider some of the most common characteristics for industrial application of waste / biomass-fueled, small-scale distributed systems for generation of combined heating, cooling, power and/or other commodities.
May 21, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 21
There are two things that are really necessary to attract funding and technology for waste conversion. Both are easy to say you will have in hand, simple to assume the work can be done, but particularly difficult to accomplish.
June 18, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 25 We do so much magic and so much harm with words. We've been taught that "disposal" is the act of tossing things away, and that certainly is the case if we toss that something along the roadside, or into a hole or burn-barrel in our back yard.
June 25, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 26. Assembly Bill 341 mandates Commercial Waste Recycling starting on or after July 1. If all we do is require Business to "arrange for recycling services" and don't attend to what happens next, perhaps we should call the program, "Mandatory Commercial Separation."
August 13, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 33. Why pay to protect oil Over There, when we can develop it over here? Why hog-tie US security to those who'd just as soon hold us hostage? The only way home-grown fuels are more expensive is if we don't count the real cost of OPEC blood-for-oil.
August 27, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 35. It seems to me there's more confidence showing in our waste conversion industry these days. Confidence that says, "if we build it, they will come"… here, let me explain.
September 17, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 38. What is it about "recycling" that enthralls everyone? Simple: it's the Right Thing to DO because it is just stupid to keep throwing resources into a hole in the ground, and then paying to keep them there.
October 1, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 40. The upheaval this spring caused when the Energy Commission put the kibosh on injection of bio-sourced methane into the common carrier natural gas lines may well have resulted in some legislative sanity, this time with the assurance that there is actual local benefit.
October 15, 2012 Newsletter Volume II, Issue 42. There's the old joke, "Raise your hand, who's not here…" and it applies to this business of tracking the ways communities convert waste.
Teru Talk action items pertaining to waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bio-based products for resource recovery. Last Update: 04/19/2016
TERU Focus Report on NYSERDA Funds Biomass and CHP Microgrids, 13 of 83 NY Prize Stage 1 Awards Include CHP, Waste, Biomass Energy Recovery. 07/13/2015
TERU Focus Report on California Organics Management Legislative Update by Michael Theroux, and The Green Waste Landfill Cover-Up - by the California Compost Coalition . 09/05/2014
TERU Focus Report on Back from the Biomass Forum. Highlights of the California Biomass Collaborative's 8th Annual Forum, including The Great Debate. 04/16/2011
TERU Focus Report on the Interagency Forest Working Group's trip to the south end of the Lake Tahoe Basin for "What We've Learned" discussions walking through the devastated area of the Angora Fire of 2007. 10/15/2010
Linking Bioenergy Crop Development with Soil and Water Phytoremediation by Michael Theroux. Explores the use of Short-Rotation Woody Crop
trees for both production of biomass and phyto-remediation of contaminated soils. May 2007, revised April 2011
Discussion of the difference between "dirty" incineration and "clean" conversion, a bright line not yet clearly defined in laymen’s terms and therefore not commonly accepted, by Michael Theroux.
Teru's Bookshelf: "Biogas Engineering and Application-Volume 1" This book provides an excellent summary of all facets of biogas development in Germany and China. First in a series, the book is a compilation of articles on biogas assembled by the Sino-German Project on Optimization of Biomass Utilization | Biogas.( 2011)
Teru's Bookshelf: "The Brilliance of Bioenergy" by Ralph Sims is for those wishing to learn more about biomass, the technologies and the business potential. It will be welcomed by all involved in biomass production, bioenergy utilization, planning and development.... (2012)
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