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- Wary of ethanol buzz
- Wary of ethanol buzzDirect solar.. US lower 48 average 4.6kWh/m^2/day..Is plenty enough to run an industrialized society. (If you don't waste it needlessly.) Note: You would quickly freeze solid if not for the SUN and it's solar radiation. Ethanol is very inefficient use of solar energy. Biomass is roughly...
- Tags: Government, Ethanol, Biomass
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
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- What's transparent carbon neutrality worth to you?
- Here's another checkoff item for your hosting company: carbon neutrality. At least that's what e-retailer hosting specialist Guidance, based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., is hoping. The best part is that it's not requiring its customers to do anything different. It's taking this approach behind the scenes. ...
- Tags: Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- SCE adds to its solar energy portfolio in deal with eSolar
- Everything around me is wilting today, including me. Therefore it seems apt for me to search around for something solar-related to write about. Found this quick update from Southern California Edison, which bills itself as the leading purchaser not provider of solar energy, buying about 90 percent...
- Tags: Tower, Solar Energy, mW, SCE, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Roasting biomass to produce more energy
- Roasting biomass to produce more energysounds more likethey dried the biomass before burning and yielded better results. That is expected, but what's the cost of this extra step when compared with a plain burn?I think that reactors use carbon rodsIt's like a big carbon arc lamp that produces heat.(There's...
- Tags: Roasting
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Roasting biomass to produce more energy
- According to engineers at the University of Leeds, UK, it is possible to use torrefaction, a process usually associated with coffee production, to increase the energy content of some of some crops by up to 20 per cent. Not only torrefaction would lead to an increase of the energy extracted...
- Tags: Energy, Public Relations, Construction, Benefits, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Tags: Team, Biofuel, Researcher, T., Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- VC Supports Next, Greener Generation of Biotech
- Using, not losing, all the carbon. Courtesy Zeachem and Mohr Davidow. Click on diagram for full view. We've had several blogs here recently reflecting the building political anxiety around the current generation of biofuels, esp. those based on using food products. You...
- Tags: Food, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Clean Technology, Zeahcem, OPX, Genomatica, Biotechnology, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Some thoughts from Intel's green queen: Lorie Wigle
- Here's a stat about Intel that you might not have heard: The company is currently the largest purchaser of alternative energy: an estimated 1.3 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) kilowatt-hours in annual green power usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest Top 25 list. That's roughly 46 percent...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, KWh, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Podcasts, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...
- Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- From an Eye in the Sky to Roots on the Ground
- How much pulp/lumber/biomass/sugar cane is there on that piece of ground? There are many reasons for asking that question. As commodity prices and energy pirces climb, the need for the answers get more urgent. The folks at Lanworth have gathered the global database, experience and...
- Tags: Analysis, Shailu Verma, GIS, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Brace yourself: here's some hopeful news
- Map showing Foula's location, courtesy of UK's Joint Nature Conservation Commission. First, there's a proposal from scientists that more gardening globally and more farming could help with the problem of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. Planting beans to save life as we've known it....
- Tags: Renewable Energy, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Can baking soda curb global warming?
- Can baking soda curb global warming?Baking Soda..Because of the acid rain and leaves that get in my pool, I use a lot of baking soda in my pool or bath to soften the water.Great stuff why store it? Sell it to pool companies and others. I am sure...
- Tags: sunlight, soda, carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- Mirror, mirror on the wall. Where’s the greenest city of them all?
- Mirror, mirror on the wall. Where’s the greenest city of them all?seems great- the catch?I'm impressed with these programs and the drive behind them, but I wonder if they are on the right track. There is a lot of debate out various renewable fuels and their damage to the...
- Tags: Construction, Mirror Mirror, wall
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Come 2010, will there be enough renewable energy to switch on your lights?
- Here's some irony for you. There's a new report out of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL that suggests demand for renewable energy will outpace supply by the year 2010. (The report carries the scintillating title of "A Preliminary Examination of the Supply and Demand Balance for Renewable Energy.") ...
- Tags: Renewable Energy, MWh, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Biofuel, more questions than answers
- There's an interesting commentary from AlwaysOn concerning biofuels. The author posits three waves of the biofuel business and tech development. The third and latest wave depends on much of the current biofuel-related research proving out. Better enzymes are needed. This commentary focuses on corn as the main source...
- Tags: Author, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Every day, in every way, we're getting better and...
- It is getting almost daily, the new record price for crude oil in absolute terms. There are now murmurings that oil could hit $100 per barrel this week, not some time in a vaguely defined future. Before the next weekend. All this is helped along by shutdown of...
- Tags: Price, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Toward greener jet fuels
- Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...
- Tags: Princeton University, Petroleum, Aerospace, Alternative Fuel, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?
- If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?Children Between Two Rocks and a Hard PlaceI am betting that the OLPC will be the spark that sets their imaginations on fire and symbolize hope for a chance at having a better life.Let's keep that hope going. That's...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Are you willing to pay more for a green tech supplier?
- How much does a particular supplier's green profile affect your decision to sign on the dotted line? I will answer this question personally and say that up until now, not much. I couldn't tell you, for example, where it's really best to buy your gasoline. (Because,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Rackspace, Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Chevron fuels debate over conservation, alternative energy
- I'll be the first to admit, much to the detriment of my profession, that I don't usually look at the advertising in print magazines. But a splash spread by Chevron in The Week caught my eye. The ad was for a Web site Chevron has started...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Chevron Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
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