PP30 Launch event at APL this Friday!
June 29th, 5-7PM, Berkeley California We look forward to seeing many of you at our new product Launch Party later this week. We have 60 people RSVPed so far, which is approaching the attendenance levels for our full workshop weekends of years ago– which is great. We also have some surprisingly dedicated international travellers coming for the event. We’re of course very happy to see this much interest in our new product. We have space for ~100 people, so if you want to be there, please do RSVP to the event page soon.The event will be a formal presentation by APL Founder/CEO Jim Mason on the new concepts and features……
The New PP30 Cogen-CS
Combined Heat and Power with built-in Carbon Sequestration (CHP-CS) All Power Labs invites you to join us for a special Launch Party on Friday, June 29th in Berkeley, CA where we will debut the new Gen 2 Power Pallet. The event will be a formal presentation by APL Founder/CEO Jim Mason on the new concepts and features of the PP30 Cogen-CS, as well as run demonstrations with several machines on site. As many of you have noticed, APL has been rather quiet for the last two years in terms of new announcements and deployments. The pause has been enabled by significant grant funding……
Local Carbon Network: Campaign progress
Thank you to all who have participated in the Indiegogo campaign to set the Local Carbon Network project in motion. So far we’ve raised about $25,000 in Local Carbon sponsorships, which is about 20% of the way to our goal. This is a great start, and we were pleased so many of your wrote notes back to us to affirm this new model for enabling local carbon drawdown. Now we need to get the campaign to the goal of $150,000 to fully set the Bay Area Carbon Cluster in motion. We have about a week left in the campaign, which is……
LA Times: APL biomass gasification “one of the most promising technologies”
Flexible clean energy that helps solve climate change? That’s what the LA Times calls biomass gasification from All Power Labs– “one of the most promising technologies” to help solve the forest health crisis in California. Last week the Los Angeles Times, California’s largest newspaper, published an editorial exploring solutions for one of the toughest problems facing the Golden State: how to preserve our leadership on climate change while dealing with a crippling multi-year drought that has left more than 100 million trees dead. The solution is to convert all that dead biomass into on-demand energy, and along the way do……
A menace in our mountains: the terrifying climate truth behind California’s fall forest colors
Fall in the United States is known for the colors in New England, as trees turn to the warm shades of autumn before dropping their leaves. That sort of change historically wasn’t common here California, where our forests are mostly evergreen pine trees. At least, that used to be true–but not anymore. Thanks to drought and climate change, there are now 66 million dead trees in California, a number that may triple by year’s end. That’s almost one million linear miles of dead biomass, enough to stretch to the moon and back twice. But, when combined with a forward thinking……
Constant improvement: 2016 updates to the Power Pallet
Gasification has been famously described as “all variables, all the time,” and wrangling those variables into a tractable form has been our work at All Power Labs since starting out with the GEK kit back in 2OO8. Since then, we’ve released five complete generations of our gasification systems, and today Power Pallets are at work in more than 3O countries on six continents, and are supporting research at dozens of universities. They deliver high-quality energy for productive use by turning waste biomass into on-demand, renewable, carbon-negative energy for far less than the cost of solar or diesel. (A recent video……
We got a great climate deal at COP21 – Now What?
We got a great climate deal at COP21–now what? We should all be rightly happy about the outcome of the COP21 climate accords. Now comes the hard and exciting work–how do we reach these climate targets? The answers are sobering, and one take away is absolutely clear: solar and wind alone won’t do it. We’ll need carbon negative energy, and on a massive scale. APL brought a big team to COP21 to share a simple message: affordable, renewable, carbon negative energy from biomass is here, and ready to help solve the twin challenges of energy access and climate change.……
Report from COP21
The first week is finished at COP21, with less than a week to go until the deal is (hopefully) done. APL is attending these climate accord meetings to raise awareness about the potential of biomass gasification + biochar to make carbon negative energy. Gasification + biochar is a rare solution that can offset and replace fossil fuel emissions for contemporary power generation, as well as capture and and sequester additional carbon against previous fossil emissions. It is both fossil offsetting generation and atmospheric carbon drawdown together. The result is quite a few “a ha’s” at our booth with consequential folk,……
APL is going to Paris for COP21 and carbon negative energy
Carbon negative renewable energy : a solution for climate, energy access, and human dignity Or, why we’re going to Paris, and you should be, too (even if just in spirit) […]
From Workshop, to White House, to Silicon Valley
As those who’ve been involved in this for a long while know, one of the biggest challenges in gasification is simply getting people to know it exists. We keep chipping away at this invisibility–as you can see in the events below–and plan more chipping around the upcoming COP21 climate meetings in Paris in December. More on our plans to shout “gasification + biochar = carbon negative energy” in a very crowded room in Paris coming up shortly. In the interim, here’s what October looked like around APL. First: OEM Workshop First came our GEK Gasifier OEM workshop ten days ago.These gatherings……