by Ilona Amos(The Scotsman) The climate crisis doesn’t need to be all doom and gloom and signal an end to modern life as we know it, according to the entrepreneur behind Scotland’s first and only biorefinery. — Professor Martin Tangney, founder and president of start-up firm Celtic Renewables, says he’s fed up with the doomsday scenario and being told all the things we can’t do if we want to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.
The microbiologist believes there is a “positive spin” for a green future.
It’s about growing the circular economy, where nothing goes to waste, and moving away from fossil fuels to biological technology.
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And what his firm will do is turn organic waste from the likes of whisky distilleries and farms into valuable chemicals that can replace petroleum-based equivalents to make all sorts of everyday products – including motoring fuel.
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The award-winning firm, which officially launched ten years ago, grew out of a scientific project at Edinburgh’s Napier University.
Today it has a team of 30 staff, including chief morale officer and medical alert dog Ekko, and is poised to begin commercial production of butanol, ethanol and acetone at its brand-new state-of-the-art processing plant at Caledon Green in Grangemouth. READ MORE
West Coast laird to accelerate whisky-powered biofuel (The Press and Journal)
Three Scottish firms collaborate to turn whisky into biofuel (Biofuels International)
How Scotch whisky is playing a role in the creation of biofuel (The Drinks Business)