According to the Journal of South Mississipi Business, the state's logging industry is set to conquer a new market: biofuel production. Green Circle Bio Energy, Inc. recently announced plans to build a multi-million dollar wood pellet manufacturing plant in George County, with construction expected to start this fall. Once completed, the plant will provide about a hundred new jobs for the county. This development isn't at all surprising, considering that Mississippi has always been renowned for its timber industry. However, the proposed wood pellet facility may be a manifestation of the current industry shift toward reliable and sustainable biomass energy sources. Such a project provides the perfect example of the kinds of socially responsible investment opportunities companies like Emerald Knight Consultants typically market to interested investors.
http://www.emeraldknightconsultants.com/mississippi-set-turn-wood-waste-products-sources-biomass-energy/Monday, 14 October 2013
Friday, 11 October 2013
Public and Private Investments Help Advance Biomass Energy Research
The secretary also announced that new investments on research algae fuels worth $16 million will be spent to aid the development of the cost-effective fuel. Additionally, more than $5 million will go to streamlining the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz hopes that the partnership the department has with industry research units and universities will “help make clean, renewable biofuels cost-competitive with gasoline, give drivers more options at the pump and cut harmful carbon pollution.” According to the official website of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the renewable biomass energy is the oldest source of renewable energy and has, until recently, “supplied far more renewable electricity—or biopower”--than wind and solar power combined.” Developed properly, UCS believes that that biomass can single-handedly increase the amounts of biopower.
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