The California Biomass Collaborative

Collaborative Newsletter:
Below are the articles that comprise the current edition of the Collaborative's Newsletter. They will be converted to .pdf and made available under the Archived Newsletters heading as new articles are released.

Energy Fuel Use in Brazil, by Tom MacDonald, MacDonald Associates, added July 27th, 2007
"Tom MacDonald is making the transition from a thirty-year career with the California Energy Commission to form MacDonald Associates, a transportation energy consulting firm specializing in alcohol fuels. In this article, he shares some observations from his November/December 2006  trip to Brazil, where he participated in the Sixteenth International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels.  Further information is available on his website at www.tmacenergy.com.

Alcohol fuel experts from more than a dozen countries convened in Brazil for the Sixteenth International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF XVI), held November 26-29, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro.  The event marked ISAF’s thirty-year anniversary, and the venue in Rio highlighted Brazil’s Proalcool Program, the world’s foremost example of market introduction of an alternative fuel.

Any remaining doubts about the success of Brazil’s ethanol fuel market can be allayed based upon the many authoritative reports delivered at ISAF XVI – half of the 70 symposium papers and presentations.   Firsthand observations of the use of ethanol in this diverse country of 190 million people provide further proof of success." <Read the full article here>

Archived Newsletters:

-Volume 3, Issue 2 (Spring 2006)
-Volume 3, Issue 1 (Winter 2006)
-Volume 2, Issue 3 (Fall 2005)
-Volume 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2005)
-Volume 2, Issue 1 (Winter 2005)
-Volume 1, Issue 2 (Summer 2004)
-Volume 1, Issue 1 ( Spring 2004)