Vilsack Announces Advanced Biofuels Roundtable
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, presented by Biofuels Digest, Tuesday in Washington D.C. and announced an upcoming Advanced Biofuels Industry Roundtable to be held next month.
Vilsack said the Roundtable will be a joint effort between USDA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Navy and will be held on May 18 “as the next step in the partnership with the private sector to produce advanced biofuels to power military and commercial transportation.”
“Advanced biofuels are a key component of President Obama’s ‘all-of-the-above’ energy strategy to limit the impact that foreign oil has on our economy and take control of our energy future,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “By bringing together farmers, scientists, and the private sector to produce fuel for the American military, we can help spur an industry producing biofuels from non-food feedstocks all over the nation, strengthen our middle class, and help create an economy built to last.”
The roundtable will focus on efforts to accelerate the production of bio-based fuels for military and commercial purposes and will address the next steps for the production of aviation biofuels and marine diesel. Topics will include production, distribution and contracting, and best practices. This roundtable follows a “match making” event hosted last week at USDA headquarters to promote connections between agricultural producers of energy feedstocks, and biorefineries.
The conference this week in Washington has the theme of “Go Big, Stay Strong” and features dozens of top officials from advanced biofuels companies, as well as a special full-day session Thursday on Military & Aviation Biofuels.
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Les Blevins
At Advanced Alternative Energy Corp. we have develolped new concept ‘core’ biorefinery technology that we designed and we patented that is designed to allow biorefineries to be scaled at county scale. We believe this is just what this nation needs. ie a low cost and less complex biorefinery technology to allow us to place a biorefinery in most of the nation’s 3,000 counties and to convert most all of what today goes into landfills and residues from grain production, and other opportunity fuels such as storm debris, and in a technology that can gasifiy coal with clean coal technology that we’ve invented instead of with air so that toxics and air emissions are minimized. Shame on the US DOE and the US DoA and the EPA and former Senator Brownback and Senator Roberts for refusing to even discuss this much needed development with me and my company these past 25 years. I should probably include Sec. Steven Chu in that as I was in the DOE office building in 1909 and tried to get a message forwared to Sec. Chu but never recieved any note from him.
Les Blevins
This time without the typos,
At Advanced Alternative Energy Corp. we have developed new concept ‘core’ biorefinery technology that we designed and we patented that is designed to allow biorefineries to be scaled at county scale. We believe this is just what this nation needs. ie a low cost and less complex biorefinery technology to allow us to place a biorefinery in most of the nation’s 3,000 counties and to convert most all of what today goes into landfills and residues from grain production, and other opportunity fuels such as storm debris, and in a technology that can gasify coal with clean coal technology that we’ve invented instead of with air so that toxics and air emissions are minimized. Shame on the US DOE and the US DoA and the EPA and former Senator Brownback and Senator Roberts for refusing to even discuss this much needed development with me and my company these past 25 years. I should probably include Sec. Steven Chu in that as I was in the DOE office building in 1909 and tried to get a message forwarded to Sec. Chu but never received any note from him.
Les Blevins
Most local government leaders and cleantech energy investors little understand the dynamics of fuels conversion. Compared to bioconversion, advanced thermochemical pathways of biomass conversion offer distinct opportunities for the rapid and efficient processing of diverse feedstocks into heat, fuels, chemicals and power. Thermochemical processing has advantages relative to the biochemical processing pathway, these include much faster reaction rates, greater feedstock flexibility, conversion of both carbohydrate and lignin into products, and the ability to produce a wider selection of fuels and other high value end products.
Thermochemical processing of biomass and wastes also offers a greater number of possible conversion pathways for converting diverse biomass feedstocks into fuels, chemicals and electrical power through the use of heat and catalysts, and the world is in need of more advanced methods of diverse biomass and waste conversion that offers flexibility in both feedstock acceptance and multiprocessing capabilities not available in today’s leading conversion technologies. See AAEC’s prototype at aaecorp.com/ceo.html
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