Will biofuels always be hopeless?
Do biofuels suck for deep fundamental unchangeable reasons? Or for contingent reasons that might be amenable to change over time with technological innovation? The answer might not be so obvious.
Renewable Energy
Other energy – May 27
Military focuses on energy / BBC survey: your electricity choices revealed /
Drilling in troubled waters (hurricanes) / Enough coal on hand to keep US cool? / A new reliance on coal could sap green cred from the ethanol industry
Renewables – May 26
Sugar rises as costlier crude oil spurs demand for ethanol / China: Oil-producing trees to help solve fuel shortage / Giant grass to get larger role in energy supply
The alt fuels distraction
If you were the proverbial Martian, visiting our planet to dispassionately assess our energy options, what would you find most promising? Would it be nuclear power? “Clean coal”? Ethanol? You’d only decide on those options if you happen to be an uncommonly gullible Martian.
E85: Spinning our Wheels
If you listen to the news lately, you know that E85 is going to lead the U.S. to energy independence, just like it did in Brazil. Perhaps not, argues Robert Rapier.
Other energy – May 23
An ill wind: nuclear in Australia / Brazil leads field in alternative fuel race / The Onion: Oil executives march on D.C. – ‘We just want our voices heard’ / Democrats on energy: Still a zero
Other energy – May 19
Brazil’s nuclear ambitions / ‘Wonder plant’ to fuel India /
Japan warned over its energy security / IEEE: Taking wind mainstream / Texas could accelerate to 80 mph /
Renewables – May 18
Alcoholics Unanimous Newsletter (biofuels) / Cargill, ADM differ in food-fuel debate / France’s renewed taste for wood heating /
China’s spending on renewable energy ranks world No. 1 / Denmark: Ministers want to export green cures for the energy crunch
Peak oil – May 17
Report for California on long-term crude oil supply / Le Monde Diplomatique: Addicted to crude / Byron King: peak oil letters / CEO Shell: ‘World is not running out of oil’ /
Ian Cohen speech on PO & biofuels in NSW Parliament
Other energy – May 17
Reporters look at congressional push on energy policy / Military searches for an alternative to oil-based fuel / Fuel economy takes a big hit with E85 / How MSN readers would fix the energy crisis / Nuclear is back on the agenda, says Blair
Other energy – May 15
Wind power / The oil sands sweepstakes / An ethanol reality check / Columbia U. report: US has low-cost alternatives to oil / Dead cows move trains (India & renewables)
Peak oil & Sweden: what a small country can do
The Swedish Government has set a new policy target: the creation of the conditions necessary to break Sweden´s dependence on oil by 2020. It is already a major competitive advantage for Sweden´s industry and the economy that, by international standards, Sweden is not so dependent on oil. (Speech to the “Beyond Peak Oil” conference, Washington DC, May 9)