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Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.

The good, the bad, and the unreal. Read all about it on this blog. Meanwhile Murphy Oil spends over $90-million for a corn ethanol plant in North Dakota. Canada's largest oil company, Suncor, will resume expansion of its ethanol plant in Ontario. It had been postponed...

Tags: Expansion, Corn, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Chipotle iPhone app makes it too easy to order burritos

Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its new iPhone and iPod touch ordering app, which makes it way too damn easy to order an $8 burrito. The free app, which is now available in the App Store, gives iPhone and iPod...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Corn, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-26

How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.

How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.as long...........as they dont touch my beer ,wine , pastis,whisky,they can do all they want with fuel .....if a see one fed near a keg its gonna end up bad RE: How much alcohol is too much? Feds to decide.This...

Tags: Food & Beverage, alcohol, Ethanol

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

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...

Tags: biofuel, corn

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

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...

Tags: carbon dioxide, Ethanol, ethanol, corn

Discussion threads 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...

Tags: Bioethanol, Ethanol, corn

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

John Deere: Drive Green (Windows)

Bale hay, mow fairways, plant soybeans or corn, spray or harvest corn and more--it's up to you to do the job right. See what you can do with 500 horsepower of Green Machine.Drive any of the great John Deere vehicles or equipment you own. Buy additional equipment with Deere Dollars...

Tags: Job, Vehicle, Microsoft Windows, Corn, ValuSoft, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-02-13

ethaNO

ethaNOAgreedClassic example of how people got whipped up into believing this was a really good idea when in fact it is a really poor idea. For another example of this effect, witness the "stimulus" bill being rushed through Congress. Like watching an oncoming train wreck in slow motion, I...

Tags: ethaNO

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

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...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, deflation, green technology

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

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

Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday

Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next MondayNoScript/XHR?[i]as well as support for cross-site XMLHttpRequests XHR for building stronger web applications and more easily implementing mashups.[/i]NoScript will block that, won't it? Is XHR a security problem?RE: Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Mondayi like corn.corn for allcorn is...

Tags: Web browsers, pea, Firefox 3.1 alpha, Firefox 3.1, alpha, Mozilla Firefox, corn

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

There'a zero-emission car now, but you can't have one. BTW: the Pres doesn't wanna hear you "squawk" about gasoline prices.

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

Daily Debrief: Corn farmers vs. Google

CNET News.com's Charlie Cooper and Declan McCullagh discuss corn farmers who are taking anti-Google fight to Washington.

Tags: Google Inc., News, daily debrief, Charlie Cooper, Declan McCullagh, google, farm, corn, lobbyist, washington, search

Videos 2008-06-11

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

Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?

Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?The real questionIs the cure worse than the disease? Global warming alarmists are predicting apocalypse in 50 years. Yet we are seeing food riots today that are a direct result of their "fix."Modern environmentalism: creating human misery wherever it is applied.RE: Jobs or...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Treximet, www.Treximet.org, false dicotomy, dicotomy, pollution, job

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

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

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

Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...

Fuel cell breakthrough? Gentlemen, start your engines...Here's a better ideaBurn the freaking methanol in an internal combustion engine. Catalyst requirement gone.Sheesh.Just another example that global warming really isn't about global warming. Making and burning methanol is carbon-neutral, but note how the idea of simply manufacturing methanol to...

Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, methanol, global warming, internal combustion engine, combustion engine

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe

Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globebiofuels is the latest political scamthrowing subsidies in our fuel tank and giving more reasons to countries to exercise population control is the way we will defend our interests overseas. If we play it smart we might be able to get some...

Tags: Food & Beverage, biofuel

Discussion threads 2008-04-14