Research and Development

A stand of willow shrubs is harvested from a test field on Prince Edward Island. So apparently willow bushes can be used by farmers as biomass fuel to help ...

Farm Focus, February 25, 2013

Willow trees cultivated for green energy can yield up to five times more ... the BBSRC-funded BSBEC-BioMASS project said "We are very excited about these ...

Phys.org, January 20, 2013

They will build on more than 25 years of research and development work conducted at ESF on willow biomass crops. Their research will focus on sustainability ...

SUNY-ESF Headlines, October 19, 2012

... of new willow hybrids developed through breeding in Larry Smart's program. ... role in the Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium (NEWBio), ...

AZoCleanTech, October 18, 2012

The Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium, or NEWBio, will develop perennial feedstock production systems and supply chains for shrub willow -- a ...

Penn State Live, October 16, 2012

Now, using 777 willow trees, a University of Missouri research team is beginning a two-year study to determine methods to reclaim developed flood plain land ...

EurekAlert, April 10, 2012

It provided a starting point for US analysis of biomass as a possible future alternative .... poplar and willow) and annual energy crops such as sorghum. ...

Biomass Power and Thermal, November 1, 2011

The 2005 study estimated the biomass potential within the country based upon assumptions ... poplar and willow) and annual energy crops such as sorghum. ...

Biomass Power and Thermal, September 22, 2011

This research proves that perennial biomass, such as miscanthus and short rotation willow coppice, can form part of a sustainable solution to Ireland’s ...

Irish Independent, September 20, 2011

Ray Glendening, left, shows Shibu Jose how tall the new willow plants should grow in one ... is proposing to cultivate and harvest biomass crops along the ...

Columbia Missourian, July 28, 2011