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Tech Watch
Joule Biotechnologies has announced what could be quite a revolution in 3rd generation biofuels. They claim to have created a process using engineered microorganisms that can convert CO2 and sunlight directly into fuel.This eco-friendly, direct-to-f...
Why Ethanol - Not Electric Cars and Hybrids - Is the Answer
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures explains why biofuels are the answer for fossil fuel replacement for personal transportation in the near term. As I have said before, liquid fuels are key to providing economical tran...
Ethanol Petition
If you'd like the option to buy E15 rather than just E10, please sign the petition at ethanol.org:http://www.ethanol.org/petition/I believe we should be allowed to choose more clean, American-made renewable fuel for our cars. The federal government a...
Amount of Alternative Energy Needed to Temper Global Warming
Here is an extremely sobering video describing the sheer enormity of the challenge that our planet faces. If anthropogenic greenhouse gasses drive a sharp increase in global temperatures, I fear we may be along for the ride. @ Yahoo! VideoSee Traged...
Global Trends 2025: Timing is Everything
Chapter Four of Global Trends 2025 covers one of my favorite topics - resources. I'll begin the discussion by highlighting a section concerning alternative energy and the challenges that we face.Timing is EverythingAll current technologies are inade...
Biofuel's Effect on Grain Prices
Maybe ethanol isn't the only thing that can affect corn prices..."When you have something come in like Lehman Brothers going bankrupt, then it influences your market. Those kind of things are impossible to build into your business plan," said Krug. ...
America's First Biofuels Corridor
Interstate 65 is now America's first biofuels corridor. E85 Ethanol and B20 Biodiesel blends are available the entire length of the Interstate, from Gary, Indiana to Mobile, Alabama. A driver is now no more than a quarter-tank's drive from a fuel ret...
Global Trends 2025: Update
I thought I would provide an addendum to the post on Global Trends 2025, since I found a little additional related information.First, here is the transcript of Thomas Fingar's speech, so you can read it for yourself.Next, another National Intelligenc...
Strategies for the Energy Crisis
Here's an interesting interview examining energy policy and greenhouse emissions.After nearly 30 years at Caltech as a professor of theoretical physics and, eventually, provost, Steven Koonin took a leave of absence in 2004 to become BP's chief scien...
The Self-Sufficiency Handbook - and a Few "Deep Thoughts"
The Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Greener Living. Alan and Gill Bridgewater.As I have said many times before, I truly doubt the existence of a complete self-sufficiency book. While this text boldly proclaims as such in the title, I ...
Is Ethanol Getting a Bum Rap?
Here's a Business Week article from May '08 that provides a level and even tempered report on the present state of ethanol.Ethanol is taking a tumble. Once hyped as a magic brew for reducing both oil addiction and global warming, alcohol made from co...
Pickens' Plan
As I noted in this post, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens has some ideas on how to break our addiction of foreign oil. His 'Pickens' Plan' outlines how. He primarily is resting our hopes on wind energy and domestic natural gas. Since these alter...
IEA Issues New Pessimistic Oil Outlook
Here is the press release from the International Energy Agency's latest Medium-Term Oil Market Report. (It appears the actual report costs 400 Euro, so I won't be commenting on that)Some interesting highlights:SupplySupply growth deriving from a con...
Bio-fuels, Mandates and Energy Policy
Here is an article from the spring of 2007 that investigates bio-fuels and public policies that affect their development and production.The fact that current policy increases energy security and reduces greenhouse gas emissions does not imply, howeve...
Scramble and Blueprints
Here is an interesting take on the future describing two divergent paths, Scramble and Blueprints. This 8 minute movie, produced by Shell, highlights the need for intelligent, quick, and decisive action from all of the world's inhabitants.ScrambleIn...
Ethanol is an "Ugly Baby"
Ethanol is “an ugly baby but it’s ours and it will move cars,” according to billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens.Even some oilmen are on board...I bet Mr. Pickens has diversified his portfolio a bit....
