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2010
May
21
World Bioenergy Award
For the first time, the World Bioenergy Award will be delivered at World Bioenergy 2010 in Jönköping. The aim of the award is to recognize a person who has made a contribution to the development of the bioenergy sector. The announcement of the award resulted in 90 nominations from all continents. Seven "finalists" were selected by the board of World Bioenergy Association and the organizers of World Bioenergy 2010.
global bioenergy sector - from small-scale cooking technology for
families in poor countries, to large-scale bio-refineries and pellets
factories.
Here are some words from these distinguished nominees:
Pentti Hakkila, Finland:
"In retrospect, the most exiting part of the work was proving the huge potential to harvest almost any fraction of the above- and below-ground forest biomass in the form of chips at a reasonable cost."
Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zeeland:
"There is no doubt bioenergy will have a growing contribution to make to the low carbon energy supply system".
D.R. Ranade, India:
"I envisage a very large number of biogas plants coming up in India and other Asian, African and Latin American countries owing to rich agricultural production".
Harry Stokes, USA:
"Since cooking represents 70 to 90 percent of the total energy demand in most poor countries, we need to give priority to developing clean liquid biofuels for cooking".
John Swaan, Canada:
"Densified bioenergy fuels such as wood pellets will see a 10-fold increase in production globally within the next 10 - 15 years."
Laércio Couto, Brazil:
"To participate in the advancement of silvicultural techniques to help supply the increasing demand of biomass for energy in Brazil and in the world, is a really exiting feeling".
Bernt Svensén, Sweden:
"We are going to see more biocombines delivering electricity, heat/cooling and biofuels".
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