Word: biomass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows that in the past ten years the growth rate of loblolly pine, a coniferous evergreen, has been 25% less than expected. Botanist Vogelmann's 20-year study of Camels Hump has shown a rapid decline in nine species of trees on the 4,083-ft. peak. The biomass (the combined weight of tree trunk, branches and foliage) has dropped sharply for several kinds of trees: 25% for sugar maples and beech and 34% for white birch. Red spruce has been the hardest hit, with a biomass decline...
...Biomass, or organic material from plants and garbage, has provided the most encouraging results thus far. The burning of bagasse, the brownish fibrous residue from sugar cane, began in the early 1970s when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a halt to the dumping of 2.7 million tons of cane waste per year into the Pacific Ocean. With a little help from the Government and a capital investment of some $25 million, planters discovered that a ton of bagasse produces the equivalent electricity of 1 bbl. of oil. Bagasse now provides 7% of Hawaii's electricity needs. But the state...
...stage where we would have liked it to be.' Executives at Genex, the Rockville, Md., gene-splicing firm, expect to double its million-dollar business this year Genex is currently seeking outside capital for a major research project: developing a bacterial organism that would convert biomass like wood or grass into ethanol, which is used in the production of industrial chemicals. The company is also accelerating research into the mass production of vitamins and amino acids used to enrich foods. Success could cut the cost of additives in feed corn from $50 to as low as $2 a pound...
...accepted proposals in just about every energy field, including wood, wind, solar, biomass, hydropower and the general area of conservation. To get money, however, the applicants must first go through a rigorous winnowing process that is designed to eliminate technically unfeasible ideas and those that do not meet regional and state energy needs. The maximum available to any one scheme under the awkwardly named Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program is $50,000, but grants as small as $200 will be made. The 800 or so lucky applicants will be culled from 19,329 proposals received by the DOE, with...
...billion grab bag of energy odds and ends. Included are $3 billion for various solar and conservation programs over the next three to four years, $850 million in subsidies to spur the commercial production of ethanol, which can be mixed with gasoline to make gasohol and $600 million for biomass energy, such as that derived from turning municipal garbage into fuel. Finally, the bill included a provision to fill the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For months the Department of Energy has delayed buying oil for the reserve largely because of opposition from Saudi Arabia. The 750 million-bbl. stockpile...