BIOpact: December 2006 Digest

Biopact Blog writes many stories that are relevant to the study of BIOstock, BIOconversion, and BIOoutput.

The final week of the year, BIOpact has written a Looking back on 2006 series of articles summarizing worldwide factors affecting development in the biomass conversion industry by geographic zone:
• Looking back on 2006
• The year in review: Asia
• The year in review: Africa
• The year in review: Latin America

Rather than summarize and reprint excerpts from this excellent source of information, a breakdown of each month's most relevant titles is provided in one updated article...

BIOstock...
• Japanese company to produce ethanol from oil palm waste
• Eight countries create sugarcane bioproducts
• Blood protein used to split water into O2 and H2?
• European forestry company (UPM) to become biofuels producer
• Transgenic switchgrass to double biomass yield
• Senegalese government to distribute 250 million jatropha plants
• Plant a tree and save the planet? Let's think again.
• We are all Sun worshippers
• Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
• From black cloud to green gold: turning Egypt's rice residues into energy
• China restricts expansion of grain based biofuels, switches to biomass and alternative crops
• Investments in renewables top $100 billion in 2006

BIOconversion...
• Europe and Brazil produce ethanol in Africa
• Biofuels industry creates jobs
• CHINA: Ethanol preferred over methanol
• European regions commit to energy savings, renewables: energy action on the ground
• FAO adapts World Agriculture report to reflect effects of emerging biofuels industry
• A quick look at nanotechnology in agriculture, food and bioenergy
• Solid biomass production for energy in EU increases markedly
• Ethanol boosts farmland prices in the US

BIOoutput...
• Sugar cane has "enormous potential for green chemistry"
• INDONESIA: Electricity from pure plant oil
• Problems with undersea CO2 sequestration?
• Biofuels or Hydrogen - which fuels are more promising?
• Plastics are "poisoning the world's seas"
• The bioeconomy at work: flexible bioplastics
• Why electric cars and plug-in hybrids mean a boost to bioenergy
• The bioeconomy at work: bioplastic fuel lines to handle aggressive biodiesel
• The bioeconomy at work: France's BioHub project
• The bioeconomy at work: UK finances development of biodegradable plastics for car components
• http://biopact.com/2006/12/glycerin-as-biogas-feedstock.html