Sandia Lab developing technology to help algae ponds recover from crashes

Biofuels Digest

Meghan Sapp | April 17, 2013

 

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EPA, DOE to study contaminated lands for bioenergy potential

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Lisa Gibson November 08, 2011

As part of the RE-Powering America Initiative, the U.S. EPA is investing about $1 million to determine the capability of 26 different contaminated sites to host renewable energy projects. The studies will be carried out through project partner U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Delaware City’s Standard Chlorine site in Delaware is among the superfund, brownfield and former landfill or mining sites being studied for potential to support biomass, solar, geothermal or wind projects. The other sites are in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, New Mexico, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, according to the EPA.

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Grass could turn toxic waste into energy

ABC Science (Australia)
Friday, 29 October 2010
Carl Holm

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists claims to have pioneered a method to decontaminate polluted land and provide an ecologically renewable energy resource in the process.

They say the secret lies in a relative of the sugar-cane plant, known as giant Napier grass.

The project is a collaboration between the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), Hong Kong-based HLM Asia Group and Shaoguan University in China's Guangdong Province.

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