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BIOMASS Magazine is set to release it's first, full-color wall map featuring comprehensive data from across the biomass industry. The BIOMASS Power & Gas Production Map 2009 will include more than 200 operational and under construction biogas recovery projects in addition to 99 operational biomass power projects across the United States.

Look for this in the September issue of Biomass Magazine.

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From Yahoo!

HOUSTON – Plans for the world's largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he's looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines.

Pickens has already ordered the turbines, which can stand 400 feet tall — taller than most 30-story buildings.

"When I start receiving those turbines, I've got to ... like I said, my garage won't hold them," the legendary Texas oilman said. "They've got to go someplace."

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I just watched David Blume's "Alcohol Can Be a Gas" video last night and it got me thinking about the potential synergies between alcohol production and gasification. The video is 2 hours and 40 minutes of great info that ranges from U.S. history to permaculture to completing natural cycles. As you look at the structure of biomass you see that plants use photosynthesis to create complex chains from sugars.

Here is the order:
Sugars
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Some of you may have seen the link to Arduino in the links section, but many haven't so check out these great how-to videos from Makezine.com. A great tool for automating things and learning basic programming.
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Saw this on Yahoo! It seems like gasification may get a boost from this proposed legislation as long as the carbon crusaders don't get too stupid. Good ideas invariably become bad ideologies. Carbon is apart of the cycle. We don't need a war on carbon. How would it fight back? With a bankrupt government getting its hands into everything it wont be too much longer now. Have your gardens planted before the Chinese stop buying dollars.

WASHINGTON – In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Demo… Continue