The final yield tally after dedicated energy crops are harvested gets a majority of the attention when evaluating these crops. Standing next to 12 foot tall grass and realizing big yields once the crops are harvested is always impressive, but Genera Energy appreciates the importance of waist high grass during the spring season as well. [...]
If you hang out with chemists very often, you’re bound to hear one of their favorite witty wisecracks about lignin at some point: “You can make absolutely anything out of lignin … except money.” This full of potential yet still scorned complex polymer, lignin, is nature’s glue filling up spaces in plant cell walls, helping [...]
Biomass is an environmentally clean alternative for producing fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts. Why then do we hear about cleaning or even washing biomass on occasion? Last week, I helped my wife preserve some of the bounty of our garden by canning bushels of tomatoes. There is nothing like fresh vegetables out of the garden. When I [...]
Short rotation woody crops are woody tree species that have been bred and selected to have extremely high rates of growth, allowing them to be harvested after a short growing period. They are an ideal feedstock component for biomass supply chains. While many hardwood species have full management rotations that may approach 50 years or [...]
At Genera Energy, we always make safety a top priority. However, no matter how much we train and prepare, bad things can still happen. Unexpected incidents can include injuries or health emergencies with visitors or employees, accidents related to equipment or could be caused by other factors, such as weather. […]
Tough decisions would be made much simpler if the answers were always black and white. Unfortunately, managing a biomass supply chain does not always afford the luxuries of clear-cut decision making. We often get asked which feedstock delivery package is best; round bales, square bales, or field chopped material. It is not our intention to [...]
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “sustainable” as an adjective that means a resource is “able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed.” In agricultural and environmental circles, defining what constitutes a sustainable crop or practices is much more difficult to define. To the consumer, the basic tenants of producing agricultural crops that [...]
As part of its normal operations, Genera Energy, like any other industrial installation, is required to operate under the Tennessee Storm Water Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Activities. This permit requires companies to create a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan that identifies potential sources for pollutants and best management practices to help mitigate these risks. [...]
We at Genera Energy understand that biofuels are a renewable energy source that can minimize the United States’ dependency on imported petroleum and improve the domestic economy. Systems for producing, harvesting, collecting, preprocessing, storing, and transporting diverse forms of biomass can operate more efficiently if the biomass they process is uniform and consistent in terms [...]
Typically, herbicide use is fairly limited in well-established bioenergy crops such as perennial grasses. These high yielding crops may receive casual maintenance applications of herbicide for specific weed problems since the dense canopy has a tendency to crowd out most weed competition. Nevertheless, the crop establishment years are particularly vulnerable to weed pressure which can [...]
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