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Great Visuals on Biogas State Production Potential from ABC

Biomass Rules Posted on June 30, 2025 by Mark JennerJune 30, 2025

The American Biogas Council (ABC) had made available current and potential capacity of local state-level biogases, also known as, biogenic methane and other gases produced from ambient organic feedstocks.  The ABC has been in action for less than two decades, … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, firm, macro, policy, production, science | Tagged agricultural, American Biogas Council, biogas, biogas conversion capacity, biogenic methane, externality, food waste, great visuals on biogas state production potential from ABC, heat, internalized, landfill, market magic, natural gas, power, pulled into the economy, renewable natural gas RNG, state-level, transportation fuel, wastewater | Leave a reply

Terrain Ag – Economic Sustainability of Dairy Digesters – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on June 20, 2025 by Mark JennerJune 20, 2025

Ben Laine, Terrainag.com wrote an interesting report dairy digester sustainability.  One graphic message in an animated version of this map shows US dairy digester growth since 2001.  Dairy digesters keep growing in size.  The most recent digesters dwarf the earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, education, farm, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, science | Tagged Ben Laine, biogas, biogenic, dairy bedding, direct use, economic sustainability of dairy digesters, fertilizer cost savings, fossil natural gas, fuel value, Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits, making sense of energy, methane, offsets, peak-power pricing, Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits, renewable natural gas RNG, tax credits, Terrain Ag, terrainag.com, tipping fees | Leave a reply

Evaluating Loan Schedules – What the Function

Biomass Rules Posted on December 11, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 11, 2024

Last week Biomass Rules posted about comparing 4-year loans to 7-loans.  The Wall Street Journal published an article that discussed negative equity from partially paid car loans.  There are multiple factors to consider with more than one correct solution.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, science, What the Function | Tagged absolute address anchor, evaluating loan schedules, interest payment function, interest rate, IPMT(), monthly loan payment calculation, negative equity, PMT(), PPMT(), present value, principal, principal payment function, renewable natural gas RNG, term of loan, unique period number, validation check, Wall Street Journal, what the function | Leave a reply

US Economic Policies are Naturally Fractal and Not Retractable

Biomass Rules Posted on December 3, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 4, 2024

In the United States, one president is preparing to leave, while the next one is preparing to take over.  With each presidential transition, there are plans to dismantle policies created during one administration so life will return to better days.  … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, education, policy | Tagged Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, dismantle, fractal, Inflation Reduction Act, natural, non-random, not retractable, overturn, policies grow and adapt, renewable natural gas RNG, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, retraction, Roe vs. Wade, time-series, US economic policies, US economic policies are naturally fractal and not retractable, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), waste to resources | Leave a reply

Impressions of a Fledgling Blogger – Day 257

Biomass Rules Posted on September 16, 2024 by Mark JennerSeptember 16, 2024

As an economist, I have been trained to see the world through a lens of critical thinking.  As a manure visionary, I have been trained to look beyond traditional monetary values to measure both benefits and costs.  If and when … Continue reading →

Posted in Biomass Rules, economics, policy, science | Tagged agribusiness, bioenergy, biomass, blog, Census of Agriculture, clarification, climate, Day 257, economics, fledgling blogger, food systems, hemp production, impressions, Impressions of a fledgling blogger on day 257, inflations, local markets, renewable natural gas RNG | Leave a reply

Dr. Jenner is Absolutely Crazy about Dollar Signs – What the Function

Biomass Rules Posted on September 12, 2024 by Mark JennerSeptember 12, 2024

Cell addresses in spreadsheets, by default are relative objects.  This means that when a formula is copied in Excel the relationship to adjacent cells that are included in the copied cell formula, also gets copied.  If the cell to the … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, science, What the Function | Tagged absolute reference, absolutely, cell, cell anchor, column, crazy, dollar signs, Dr. Jenner, Dr. Jenner is absolutely crazy about dollar signs, Excel, intercept, Microsoft, object, powerful, relative reference, renewable natural gas RNG, row, slope, spreadsheet, what the function | Leave a reply

Full Circle Waste to Revenue – RNG Story

Biomass Rules Posted on March 21, 2024 by Mark JennerApril 25, 2024

[Note: this post was originally posted on 1/1/24, but the site was updated later and the dates got changed.]  Every new day, week, month, or year, is full of potential, and for me, hope.  A few weeks ago, Renewable Natural … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, wealth creation | Tagged biogenic methane, codification of RNG, economic externalities, emission, full circle, full circle waste to revenue RNG story, gas, greenhouse gas (GHG), methane (CH4), natural, renewable, renewable fuels standards (RFS), renewable natural gas RNG, revenue, waste | Leave a reply

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