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- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?
- Cellulosic ethanol: A fuel for the future?TypicalWe're sopping wet in oil in this country in Alaska, the gulf and the Atlantic Continental Shelf and instead we waste millions of dollars on stupid ethanol plants and run the risk of deforestation. There have already been food riots in mexico because of...
- Tags: Tembec, Cellulosic Ethanol, refinery
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
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- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.Get the environazi boot of our neck.Build more refineries.Reduce government regulations.Eliminate the Endangered Species Act.Build more dams for flood control.Build more highways to relieve traffic congestion.Relax nuclear power plant requirements to build more reactors.Your mindset is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, vision, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem
- Enclave, courtesy Buick. The very nice man at the Auto Alliance did not accuse me of being stupid, nor did he even accuse you of being short-sighted. But that's the bottom line. The auto manufacturers have been making high mileage cars and bringing...
- Tags: Car, Charlie Territo, Americans, Taxes, Free Trade, Fuel Cells, Financial Planning, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.Talk to the elbow...Please add me to the list of people who don't want to hear whining about higher gas prices. No, I don't like having to pay more...
- Tags: ANWR, hydrogen car, Pre, gasoline price
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.
- Clarity, courtesy Honda. Good news: Honda's now making a zero-emission car. Better news: they're shipping them from Japan to car-hungry Los Angeles. Bad news: even if you live in LA, you're not going to get one of these cars for a long time....
- Tags: Car, Honda Motor Co., Corn, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
- Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.Good NewsAll of this is good news.The US Government bet correctly on the value of ethanol and helped jump-start the market in the US just in time. Now the market is piggy-backing on that infrastructure and moving on to...
- Tags: Mooooo, corn field, Ethanol
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?
- Yes, American gasoline prices have risen more than 30% in a year. Yes, consumption is now down in the U.S., year to year. Just under 4%. So maybe nobody ever said there was a one-to-one ratio. Bet if gasoline gets to $5 per gallon, consumption will...
- Tags: Oil Company, Alternative Energy, Gasoline, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- 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...
- Tags: Biofuel, Corn, Corn Production, Current Estimate, Khosla, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- It's official gasoline now over $4 per gallon average in U.S.
- It's official gasoline now over $4 per gallon average in U.S.Enron Loophole ...the biggest problem IMHO is the Enron Loophole Clinton signed into law that allowed Oil to be traded on the Mercantile Exchange ... aka Commodities Market .. so instead of oil just being sold as a consumable for...
- Tags: gasoline, official gasoline
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Got science?
- It seems there are numerous American scientists who feel bereft. I can relate, because I am related. I have two brothers who are physicists, like our father before them. My father drove a beat-up pick-up truck with a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize Physics." That was...
- Tags: Science, Scientist, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- 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,...
- Tags: Brazil, Food, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- (Images: Supersize solar power)
- (Images: Supersize solar power)about timeIt may not be the total solution but a good baby step forewordHow about a story about the true cost of a new car (including recycling cost and chemical pollutants to manufacture all the plastic pieces and please do not use a state of the art...
- Tags: solar energy
- 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...
- Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Two of world's richest nations crawl to catch up with VCs
- In a bold move, the governments of the U.S. and Japan are proposing a global governmental fund to support cleantech research and development. This news bulletin comes to us from a meeting in Japan. So now both governments will say they are supporting cleantech ventures without really having...
- Tags: Clean Technology, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- 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...
- Tags: Biofuel, Wall Street Journal, Media, Business, Clean Technology, VC Vinod Khosla, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Holy power supply, batman, how soon does crude oil hit $150 per barrel?
- Holy power supply, batman, how soon does crude oil hit $150 per barrel?I don't get it, there are plenty of rich oilfields!Iraq is very rich in oil. I can't understand why we just won't confiscate some of the oilfields or just start drilling there until the people of Iraq pay...
- Tags: power supply, biofuel, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- High tech: respected in Europe, projected in the U.S.
- The European Commission is turning to high tech to solve its low energy blues. Specifically, the EC is hoping to see real progress in lowering greenhouse gas emissions by making buildings and power systems much more efficient. Not a new idea but one not embraced equally by other governments...
- Tags: Biofuel, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Another morning hangover for ethanolics
- This time a major U.S. newspaper editorializes against the American subsidies for ethanol. Their conclusion: "This does not mean that Congress should give up on biofuels as an important part of the effort to reduce the country's dependency on imported oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What it does...
- Tags: Biofuel, Methanol, Greenhouse Gas, Clean Technology, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
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