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- Biofuel fraud exposes some big names
- A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Oops, seems we're trashing our own seacoast, still
- Oops, seems we're trashing our own seacoast, stillIt shows why people like youare such fools.Allways complaining that the your idea is better, while indicating the rest of us are callous, evil people. You never investigate the negative ramifications of your "great idea".[b][i]Now[/i][/b] you are starting to realize that you bio-fuel...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- EPA to become the most controversial agency in nation?
- EPA to become the most controversial agency in nation?EPANow the Obama admin wants the EPA to monitor and tax cattle and pigs since they produce Methane, allowing the EPA to put controls on without legislation. Up go prices for meat already being pushed by suspect proposals for biofuels!Ethanol Biofuel:...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy
- To change,or simnply more of the same without all that pesky government intervention. To have, or to have not. That seems to be the question. There's now a draft of new federal requirement for alternative energy. And there is a proposed push toward biofuels....
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Ethanol, our trash and our economy
- This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Videos 2009-02-12
- Swedish greentech will miss the Bush Admin
- The U.S. Ambassador to Sweden appointed by Bush will likely be replaced. And Swedish greentech companies will likely miss him. He took his cross-cultural duties seriously and worked to promote the Swedish greentech companies in the American market. That matters hugely because the U.S. population is over...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Energy from the wind is the best for Earth
- According to a Stanford University researcher, 'wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy.' The scientist 'has conducted the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy-related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?
- Green Tech Bubble Deflation--Matches General Economy?Never terribly excited by it.As one of the many alternatives we could come up with, this one never really excited me. Sure it's cool to be able to create fuel in our own nation, but I think other alternatives hold more promise.That's the problem with...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
- At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product...
- Videos 2008-12-05
- Video: The week in Green tech
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Biofuel cheaper than $50-a-barrel oil?
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Susan Mac Cormac of Morrison & Foerster moderates a panel discussion about the benefits and risks of biofuel. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures says that biofuel solutions could be cheaper than $50-a-barrel oil in 10 years if the venture capital community backs...
- Videos 2008-09-17
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?
- Are lower oil prices the death knell for cleantech energy?Yes!... well you asked!
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Photos: Solazyme rethinks algae
- Biotech company is exploring how algae can be used to make everything from biofuel to cooking oil and skin care products. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-26
- Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
- Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of Agriculture numbers on the American corn crop (the world's largest) are not encouraging for corn...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Energy and food becoming global battlegrounds while high profile VC becomes lightning rod
- Energy. Food. Money. The nexus is fraught with political disagreement, high intensity accuations and lots of potential for profit, or disaster. All depends on who you listen to. If the era of cheap petroleum is truly and forever dead, then these battles shall only get more nasty,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love themRE: Agri-BotherI can't understand how anyone can say that the agricultural industry "sucks up the fresh water, and doesn't put it back". How do you think that the vegetables and produce get to market. It doesn't just...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Just as old media once berated and belittled the Internet as a silly fad, now too with cleantech
- That venerable pillar of old, very established business, the Wall Street Journal has gone public with the bitter resentment of old business and fossil fuel for those upstarts who are trying to shift the business model. The editorial attacking VC Vinod Khosla is just one volley in what will...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
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