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- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?
- Can wild grass produce clean fuel?Missing data.How much energy is used in the fermentation process? In other words and this applies to any biofuel discussion is there a net loss in energy using bio instead of oil?What about yard grass? It may not be as efficient but it's already...
- Tags: Biotechnology, corn crop, fossil fuel, grass, crop
- Discussion threads 2007-02-20
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- A bit more money for the greentech ventures
- Bet they invested in Ethanol tooWhenever I hear news stories about the world wide shortage of food (you greenies don't seem to talk about that for some reason that I can't fathom) I wonder what all those hungry people think when they hear that in America, our government forces us...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Vertical industries, Benefits, Ethanol
- Discussion threads 2009-08-16
- Biodiesel's future
- I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation
- I just spoke with Bob Ackerman, founder of Allegis Capital, and he is very concerned about innovation in Silicon Valley, primarily because of the cumulative impact of US government actions and regulations. Here are some notes from our conversation: -...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Venture-capital Company, Darwin, Venture Capital, Government, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings
- The MIT Technology Review previously glommed onto the temperature rises contained in the NOAA global warming report. Ten degrees or more before the end of this century. Kansas, for example, would have 120 days of highs topping 90 degrees. The Kansas ag industry might try growing sugar...
- Tags: NOAA, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- You are full of water, so's your food
- Because humans, corn, grapes, beer, ice cream, coffee and French fries all contain large amouns of water, most of us can agree it is a necessity. There are hints that life cannot exist without fresh, relatively non-toxic water. With that in mind researchers are looking for ways to...
- Tags: Food, Researcher, Monitoring, Water, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...
- Tags: Production, Ethanol Production, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Green tech company hits the red, and the panic button
- Green tech company hits the red, and the panic buttonethanol from corn fuel? Forget about it...Ethanol from grasses and wood waste and switch grass is a great idea. Ethanol from corn is a boondoggle from the word go and was set up to subsidize large farms run by Republicans....
- Tags: Food & Beverage, corn, food, Green tech company, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- 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
- 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
- Biofuel's got an outspoken enemy
- The Finance Minister of India has attacked biofuel as an outrageous use of food crops. He specifically cited the United States which he claims uses 20% of its corn for fuel, not food. Once American farm surpluses helped feed millions of people outside the country. Now the...
- Tags: Food, India, Green Technology, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- A change that's headed right for Green Tech Industrial Park
- We live in an era of change, you and I. Some unprecedented. Never before has the world shared a communications technooogy as flexible and open-ended as the Internet. In the days of newsprint or even broadcast, the concept of unlimited space or storage was inconceivable. I...
- Tags: Food, Green Technology, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- 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
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...
- Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to switchgrass?
- It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood taller than the settlers and their covered wagons. It once nourished millions of American bison. ...
- Tags: Corn, NREL, Government, Web Site Development, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Green Tech boon. But is the new U.S. energy law cornographic?
- A new U.S. energy bill has been signed into law by the President. Here are some of the green tech relevant provisions: Higher fuel-efficiency for cars and light trucks, up to 30 MPG average by 2020. That is currently the standard already in China. Europe already...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. General Services Administration, Law, Corn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- 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
- GMOs down to the chromosome level
- If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...
- Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- Libertarianism and its discontents
- Libertarianism and its discontentsCare to explain our Somalia like government in the beginning?Our greatest expansion of economic growth was under a weaker central government during the 19th century. We did not need subsidies back then to implement the infrastructure like we seem to need now. Ron Paul raises some good...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Socialism, Libertarianism, government, discontent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- It's red hot in the green tech world
- AlwaysOn has just released the names of its first GoingGreen 100. AlwaysOn describes these as the "hottest private companies in greentech." It was clear that green lighting green tech is getting easier. This event was hosted by KPMG at their Silicon Valley offices. ...
- Tags: Green Technology, AlwaysOn, Mendel Biotechnology, Solio, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
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