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Signs we’d really like to see

Jay — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:43:19 +0000

We can’t afford to buy real world billboard advertising yet, so we did the next best thing and hacked a picture to make a point: the future of green energy is just around the corner!

This one sums up our business nicely, but not quite completely. Because our technology can convert much more than household trash to E4™ ENVIROLENE® mixed alcohol fuels. All kinds of unwanted stuff such as excess biomass, sewer sludge, toxic wastes, petroleum byproducts [...]

Beetle kill: 3.9 million acres in Montana

Jay — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:17:29 +0000

“British Columbia has lost 40 million acres of forest to the bark beetle; Colorado is approaching 2 million acres of dead forest; Wyoming just recently crested the 1-million-acre mark,” said Mary Ann Chambers, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service’s Bark Beetle Incident Management Team for the Rocky Mountain region.

Source: The Climate Daily, “Climate change has doubled forest mortality”

This photo taken in Wyoming but it could be anywhere in the western US.

Destruction of trees [...]

Bioroot Energy sponsors Jon Turk speaking engagements in Montana

Jay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:44:38 +0000

Bioroot Energy today announced that it will provide Montana book release tour support for Jon Turk, noted Montana writer, scientist, and adventurer. Mr. Turk is releasing his third book, titled The Raven’s Gift, on Macmillan Press.

View the full press release and tour schedule.

Trash and Apathy: Evil Twins

Jay — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:04:27 +0000

One novel way to view trash? Think of trash as mankind’s apathy, made real. The visible signs of our failure to act responsibly to preserve our own interests. We’ve been burying and burning waste since we lived in caves or slept underneath the stars 10,000 years ago. Just like apathy which shadows all human initiative, trash has been a constant backdrop of all human activity.

At some point soon enough, without direct, concerted action at the local [...]

Trash Monopolists

Jay — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:59:45 +0000

Don’t let the local waste management company fool you. They’re not experts at doing anything more than hauling away your trash. Out of sight out of mind, and it better not stink!

You get a bill at the end of each month. You’re locked in. They like it that way. Oh sure, the big waste companies give plenty of lip service to being “green”, and are slowly moving to adopt cleaner methods. But their bread and butter [...]

A Radical Solution That’s Neither Left Nor Right

Jay — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:36:52 +0000

History shows we are on same path as Roman Empire

Are we ignoring the road signs?

We have all heard the expression that “history repeats itself.” It has been uttered for centuries, by intelligent and studious men in Greek, Roman and Chinese literature, and has been expressed so many times over the centuries that we just naturally assume that it is true. Well let’s look at some statements from the past and see if they relate to what [...]

Steal This Idea? Good Luck!

Jay — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:51:33 +0000

In viewing Bioroot Energy site visitor logs, lately we’re getting a lot of visitors using “Ripper 0″, which is apparently a web site ripping tool that copies the contents of an entire web site to a local machine. So far about 15 people have ripped the public portion of the site, and we’re working on identifying whether there has been any plagiarism. Which is to say, if we find some of our content on your site, [...]

The Monster Truck Option

Jay — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:20:29 +0000

“There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through. There needs to be a monster truck option.”

- Jeph Jacques

Given the enormous social, political and economic hurdles of turning America’s trash into clean energy, it’s not likely that we will suddenly make the leap into a new paradigm of waste management without significant effort. And it’s equally unlikely that we’ll be able to plow through the hurdles along the way if we continue [...]

The Trash Pipeline

Jay — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:59:45 +0000

One way of understanding our mission is to look at your own trash and excess biomass in a different way. Instead of seeing trash as stuff to be thrown away, landfilled or incinerated, think of trash in aggregate terms as intrinsically valuable raw material moving through a maze of pipelines that wind their way through every home and business in America.

Remarkably like the toilet you flush and the sewer pipes in your home that carry away [...]

Skepticism about gasification’s potential is healthy

Jay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Healthy skepticism is the business person’s best friend. It’s keeps our feet planted firmly on the ground as we go about the lofty business of changing the world by changing how we manage trash. And addressing honest skepticism as it arises is a great way to make the Bioroot Energy story that much more compelling!

We’ve been interacting lately via email with a very knowledgeable person with a background in global marketing. After reviewing our site, he [...]