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Energy Forum #5
Biofuels' Potential, Risks and Implications
National and Global Perspectives
Dr. Michael A. Pacheo, National Renewable Energy
Lab
&
Suzanne Hunt, Worldwatch Institute
Monday July 17
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Doubletree Hotel, 300 Army Navy Drive, Crystal
City, VA
Biomass derived from plants or animal
waste is a renewable source of energy. Liquid
biofuels for transportation such as biodiesel,
methanol, or ethanol can be produced from biomass.
Heat can be obtained by reprocessing organic waste.
There are disputes concerning the potential for
biomass to replace petroleum and other fossil
fuels as a sustainable source of energy and also
about the environmental impacts of energy from
biomass.
In this Energy Conversation, Dr. Michael Pacheco
of the National
Renewable Energy Lab and Suzanne Hunt of the
Worldwatch
Institute clarify some of the key issues surrounding
the use of biomass to enable policymakers and
those who influence them to ask relevant questions
about short term and long term ramifications of
our energy use options and decisions.
Event items
Announcement
Ms.
Hunt's presentation (2.4 MG ppt)
Dr.
Pacheco's presentation (39 MG ppt)
Further information about our presenters
Dr.
Michael Pacheco - Director, National Bioenergy
Center (NBC)
Suzanne
Hunt - Biofuels Project Manager, Worldwatch
Institute
Select articles and links
New Fuel Source Grows on the Prairie - With Oil
Prices Up, Biomass Looks More Feasible
- June 22, 2006 Washington Post article
Dr. Pacheco's Invited
Testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources (pdf) presented on June
19, 2006.
Biomass
as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry:
The Technical Feasiblity of a Billion-Ton Annual
Supply - April 2005 report by the USDA and
the DOE. Additional reports from this collaboration
can be found at this website.
Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel
can significantly reduce global dependence on
oil, according to the new Worldwatch Institute
report Biofuels
for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications
for Sustainable Agriculture and Energy in the
21st Century. Available in a short summary
and extended summary forms.
On June 7 2006, Worldwatch Institute
held an International conference on "Biofuels
for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications
for Sustainable Agriculture, Energy and Security
in the 21st Century." The transcripts
include speeches by Christopher Flavin, President
of Worldwatch institute, Paul Wolfowitz, President
of the World Bank, Thomas Dorr, U.S. Under Secretary
of Agriculture, our presenter Suzanne Hunt and
others.
USDA powerpoint slide on Building
a Sustainable Biomass Market.
NREL information:
NREL Biomass Program Overview - website
NREL Biomass
Research - website
NREL
National Bioenergy Center -website
Reports produced by the NREL
The
National Bioenergy Center, Laying the Foundation
for Biorefineries - pdf
NREL
Bioprocessing Pilot Plant Available for Industrial
Use - pdf
DOE
Thermochemical Users Facility, A Proving Ground
for Biomass Technology - pdf
Additional resources
Reaction to this presentation from Jan
Lundberg of CultureChange.org. The
Maturation of Matt Simmons, energy-industry investment
banker and peak oil guru - pdf or link
to blog page.
Energy
Consensus website
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Upcoming Event
Sept 18 - Retired
Navy Admiral Frank L. "Skip" Bowman (USN, Retired)
-
Nuclear Energy 2006: Status and Outlook
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2006 Calendar
March 27 - R. James
Woolsey, Former Director of the CIA -
Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st
Century
April 24 - Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Dr.
Robert Hirsch, SAIC
Averting a Liquid Fuels Crisis from "Peak Oil"
May 22 - Jeremy
Rifkin -
The Hydrogen Economy
June 20 - Matt Simmons
- Twilight in the Desert
July 17 - Dr. Michael Pacheco and Suzanne Hunt
-
Biofuels' Potential, Risks and Implications
- National and Global Perspectives
Sept 18 - Retired Navy
Admiral Frank L. "Skip" Bowman (USN, Retired)
-
Nuclear Energy 2006: Status and Outlook
October 16 - speaker and topic to be announced
November 13 - speaker and topic to be announced
December 11 - speaker and topic to be announced
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