Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently redesigned its Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network (BFIN), dramatically increasing ease of access to feedstock related data and analysis. The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Information Network (BIN), housed at ORNL, had become a central location for information related to biomass and in particular feedstocks. Information available at the site includes:

* Reports  * Fact sheets  * Databases  * Presentations  * Images  * Links
* News  * Events  * Contacts

Biomass feedstock types with information featured on the site includes:

• Agricultural residue
• Forestry residue
• Herbaceous crops
• Municipal/Urban residues
• Oil crops
• Short-rotation woody crops

The new website, renamed Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network (BFIN), is now available publicly at http://bioenergy.ornl.gov

The site's overall design and structure is predicated on primarily two publications: The 2003 Roadmap for Agricultural Biomass Feedstock Supply in the United States and the 2005 Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply. The industry segments, outlined in the Roadmap, help to partially structure the site's content into five distinct supply system processes; harvesting, storage, preprocessing, transportation and system integration. The Billion-Ton study provided the structure by which feedstock types were categorized. The study also drives many of the numbers and projections that form the basis for information on the site.

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Comments

[JesseJenkins]

Well, that is good news for my thesis research on alt. transport fuels.

The 'Billion-Ton Vision' report is worth at least scanning over. It lays out where all the potential feedstock supplies (sustainable ones that is) are and how much recoverable supply is available. Considering the potentially devestating consequences of using unsustainably harvested feedstocks for biofuels (think slash and burning acres of Malaysian rainforest to put in oil palm plantations for biodiesel feedstock, etc.), these are the resources we should be looking to harvest.

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