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- 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
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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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Will greentech investors discover food?
- The first known death in the U.S. from the current round of infulenza has been reported. This swine flu bruhaha adds ammunition to arguments of those who favor more humane farming methods. The poor pigs may be getting a bad rap on "swine flu." There's no evidence...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- 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
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.typical responseHow about the fuel needed to harvest the corn, fertilize, transport and impact on wild life.Corn for ethanol is a scam!Now, if this had been an oil exectalking about the abundance of oil, advancing technologies in drilling and refining oil, etc. You'd be all...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Bioethanol is a heavy drinker
- Bioethanol is a heavy drinkerwill water resulting in burning ethanol disappeare?Obviously producing ethanol from corn or other plants in the deserts of AZ does not make sense. Who said that we should? The market will take care of this. Nobody drills oil in Illinois even if they can physically drill...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Bioethanol is a heavy drinker
- A new scientific study of bioethanol production estimates it will use lots of water, perhaps water that won't actually be available as the climate changes in the U.S. Corn Belt. Some estimates of current water use for bioethanol production: 9 billion gallons annually. The new study says that...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Trash to cash, any investor's dream
- How the process works. Courtesy: BlueFire The folks at Blue Fire Ethanol see a bright future for ethanol. But they are not using corn or sugar or other food crops, they're planning to use all the stuff we have "used up" and "thrown away." ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- New U.S. energy triumverate now in power
- New U.S. energy triumverate now in powerEnergy independence....will be achieved when the govt gets OUT of the energy industry. How can some lawyer/senator be the expert on energy production?These are the same people who, prior to the election, said they weren't banning clean coal, but that companies would go bankrupt...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Obama's Dr. Energy
- The nominee for next Energy Secretary faced his Senate hearing today. Dr. Steven Chu, head of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has been outspoken in his views on global warming, energy conservation and fossil fuels. For today's purpose, getting confirmed, the Nobel Prize winning physicist tempered some of his...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-over
- Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-overIs it really alcohol?http://www.abchomeopathy.com/r.php/Nux-vRE: Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-overCorn-based ethanol was [b]never[/b] competitive. It was propped up by government subsidy and really was nothing more than a boondoggle with the added bonus that it also raised food prices.Ethanol itself is a less than ideal gasoline substitute...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-09
- Alcohol binge leaves nasty hang-over
- This isn't the usual dry-mouth, aching head, nausea beyond weltschmerz kind of hangover, this one is going to be financial. Lost jobs. Plants shutdown. The kind of thing we expect everywhere at any time in this current phase. It's not drinking that's the trouble among humans this...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Next year: science and greentech in Washington D.C.
- As always, money will dominate American poilitics next year. But it appears science may play a larger role that it has in recent years. The Obama Adnministration wants a scientist at the head of the Energy Department. It would be the first time a Nobel Prize winning scientist...
- Blog posts 2008-12-21
- Politics of energy and autos
- Two more leaked cabinet choices from the incoming Obama Administration. Both will have influence on energy, land use and green tech subsidies. Interior Secretary nominee: Sen. Ken Salazar (Colorado-D). Here's what his official website says about his enviornmental credo: "He...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- 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....
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureShibboleth?Here's the dictionary definition:1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons. 2. a slogan; catchword. 3. a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth. A report, providing...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Save the environment: stop eating
- So we know many fish species are in trouble due to over-fishing. Heavy production of corn in the American Midwest is killing off life at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Poor farming methods lead to desication and soil erosion. Some areas of tropical rainforest are being...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
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