Startup Spotlight: Insight Renewables

Insight Renewables, a startup born out of a UCD research project, creates clean, renewable, smokeless bio-coal from woody biomass material.

But what is biomass, and why use it? Put simply, biomass covers pretty much any organic material either living or dead, including woods, plants and grasses. As a fuel, these substances are carbon neutral, which means they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and when they die, they release the CO2 back into the atmosphere. ...