DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office Launches New Renewable Carbon Resources Webpage
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has launched a new, comprehensive webpage dedicated to one of its priority subprograms, Renewable Carbon Resources (RCR), which helps develop RCR technologies and creates strategies for bioenergy and bioproducts production. RCR supports applied research and pilot-scale projects for the production, harvesting/collection, supply logistics, storage, and preprocessing of biomass and wastes to feedstock.
RCRs are carbon-based resources generated through photosynthesis (plants and algae) or through waste generation (non-recycled portions of municipal solid waste, biosolids, sludges, plastics, and carbon dioxide and industrial waste gases). These resources are rapidly regenerative, unlike finite carbon resources such as petroleum or coal, which take millennia to regenerate. This subprogram aims to responsibly optimize the use of each of these resources using sustainability indicators such as land-use changes, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, resource conservation, wildlife habitat, fire mitigation, food security, social well-being, and water, soil, and air quality.
The newly launched RCR webpage is organized around the following activities:
- Production and sourcing logistics
- Feedstock-conversion interface
- Waste management technologies
- Environmental remediation
- Carbon management
Visit the new RCR webpage to learn more about the subprogram's research, development, and demonstration activities. Explore other bioenergy technologies on BETO’s website.
BETO supports technology research, development, and demonstration to accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions through the cost-effective and sustainable use of biomass and waste feedstocks across the U.S. economy. BETO is part of DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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