The 3rd annual Florida Farm to Fuel conference starts in about 9 hours in Orlando. According to Domestic Fuel it sounds like it’s going to be thoroughly interesting this year given Crist’s recent pushes for environmentalism in Florida. He and a few people from FAU recently returned from their ten day jaunt in the UK, gaining knowledge on what the Britons are doing in the fields of alternative fuel sources and how they’re working to educate consumers about eco-friendly choices.
From what I’ve found, there hasn’t been a lot of public talk about what they learned on their trip but I have a feeling that’s due to the fact that the conference was (is) right around the corner from their return date. Wouldn’t want to spoil all that green goodness before the conference! The conference lasts until August 1st at which time I’m sure Florida news websites will be clamoring to publish what happened in Orlando this week; at least I can dream that they will. No doubt Crist and Charles Bronson (not that Charles Bronson!) will be discussing FPL’s upcoming solar farm plans. I hope they’ll also be discussing some options regarding offshore wind turbine generator farms, rumors that have been floating around for about a year now. I know they’d probably get demolished by even light Category 2 hurricanes, it’d be nice if they were an option for us.
With all of the sugar cane production and waste produced from it, this will hopefully be discussed in a way to use that waste as biofuel, either through syngas or other means. There will be a panel discussing a number of different feedstocks for biofuels but I hope this is a discussion of feedstock waste for biofuel and not food-from-the-food-stream for biofuels. Unfortunately, these feedstock panels seem to constitute a huge portion of the panel time which can only mean the latter will more than likely be the topic of focus. Why can’t someone from Maker’s Mark be there to discuss how they’re turning biowaste into biofuel to fuel their distilleries? I know that’d be a lot more interesting than “oil feedstocks for biofuel” (whatever those would be).
I’m looking forward to it to say the least.
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