Posted on 12/05/2009 6:18:46 AM PST by thackney
The federal government on Friday committed to award as much as $564 million to 19 projects nationwide that aim to transform wood chips, algae and plant parts into renewable fuel, including a planned biorefinery in Freeport.
At the same time, the Energy Department announced $350 million in spending to propel technology that captures and stores carbon dioxide, with $350 million set aside for a 400-megawatt plant near Midland.
All of the spending comes from the $787 billion economic stimulus bill enacted in February and is designed to help close the gap between current biofuel energy production and the future goals set by Congress.
The advanced biofuels money, announced by Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, is designed to leverage private investments in facilities that are developing alternative fuels from organic material.
The money targets the development of so-called second-generation “advanced biofuels” that are made not from consumable corn kernels and other food, but from often-discarded material or fast-growing organic matter.
“Advanced biofuels are critical to building a cleaner, more sustainable transportation system in the U.S.,” Chu said in a statement.
Biofuels advocates hope the government funding will accelerate the development of alternative fuels that can meet federal renewable fuel mandates.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
32 years, and trillions of dollars later, we are NO close to "renewable energy" they when we were then.
Drill here, Drill Now!
The Department of Energy was formed on August 4, 1977 by President Jimmy Carter's signing of legislation, The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, but before that, the Department's history trails back to World War II.
The spending, announced by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, is designed to leverage private investments in pilot, demonstration and commercial scale facilities that are developing biofuels from organic material.
Here’s the complete list of projects.
http://www.energy.gov/news2009/documents2009/564M_Biomass_Projects.pdf
Making fuel out of wood chips when there is millions of gallons in the ground just waiting to be drilled for.
Look out now the cost of wood sheathing just went up.
There is also this nonsense:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 4, 2009) — The Department of Energy announced three projects will be recipients of funding for carbon capture and storage projects. Summit Power will receive $350M in funding for its Texas Clean Energy Project near Midland-Odessa. TxCCSA members AEP and Schlumberger Carbon Services also received funding for their projects in West Virginia and Alabama.
Stephan Chu is an idiot with a degree.
Carbon sequestration is lunacy.
“Advanced biofuels are critical to building a cleaner, more sustainable transportation system in the U.S.,” Chu said in a statement.
How is burning bio diesel cleaner than burning diesel?
I got nothing against biofuels but these guys are chowderheads.
Maybe we should invest in DC. Its loaded with BS
What ever happened to Chu’s idea of painting the roofs and roads of the world white?
Did Obama declare it racist?
We can’t let the MSM win this.
Best ClimateGate clips (show everybody you know):
I gotta laff.
My Mom belies we cant drill for oil because it will kill the caribou.
I used to build and install oil well production units back home.They are on every farm.
I asked her, Mom? do you see a lot of dead cows lying around them oil wells?
I am okay with Carbon Dioxide capture as long as not funded with Tax Payer dollars and used for enhanced oil recovery project like done is several location.
Caribou
http://www.anwr.org/features/pdfs/faces-caribou.pdf
Environmentalists argue that we should not allow responsible development on the Coastal Plain of ANWR because it will have a negative impact on the caribou and other wildlife in the area. The truth is that the industry and the environment can coexist. Recent surveys of the Central Arctic caribou herd near the Prudhoe Bay oil field shows the herd population at its highest level ever recorded in the past quarter century. The herd has grown more than sevenfold since Prudhoe Bay development began in the mid-1970s.
$564 million to 19 projects nationwide ,Remember the buddy system works when in D.C.
Oh I know.
We would pipe the oil though heated production tube bundles immersed in a tank full of anti freeze that was heated with a burner jet from a hot air balloon.
This kept he oil from sludging up. critters like that warmth too.
Just go to yellowstone at this time of year. All the critters will be down in the geyser basin for the warmth.
The list, ping
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