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Biofuel fraud exposes some big names

A court has awarded over $10-million in damages for fraud perpetrated by Cello, a biofuel company. If you've read Anthony Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW you could have predicted something like this. Scams are as old as the stock market. If you follow any current headlines you...

Tags: Biofuel, Fraud, Biofuel Fraud, Scams, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

"Organic" Marketing melarky, not scientific term

Think you know what "organic" means? Like "security" or "god," it means many different things to many different people, some of them slick marketers. Like the additives in organic baby formula. And there are different categories of "organic" even for products that are honestly labelled under the...

Tags: Marketing, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Hollywood celebrity explains her West Virginia expedition

Here's Darryl Hannah's explanation of why she cares about West Virginia coal mining, even though she doesn't live there. I blogged about the protest and arrests there in June. Of course, the coal industry itself claims all of the cancer and pollution complaints are not to be taken...

Tags: West Virginia, Coal, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Nuclear power has political meltdowns

A next generation nuclear power plant was being developed in Ontario. Now all work has been stopped. The price tag was climbing and the provincial government pulled the plug even though it's pledged to close all coal-burning plants there within five years. Right now about half of Ontario's...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Finland, Ontario, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Nearly every energy and greentech and auto and battery and utility company in America has a stake in the proposed Waxman-Markey bill. So does every taxpayer and the future of any potential agreement with China on global warming could hang in the balance, and...the list of possible effects of...

Tags: Game, Bill, Dems, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

California not politically bankrupt

With more electoral votes and more voters than any other state in the U.S. California has won a big political victory in Washington. Along with more than a dozen other states like New York tagging along, California has just gotten permission to enforce its own, stricter fuel efficiency regs...

Tags: California, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Case study of resource use without thought of consequences

Much of the industrialized world is dotted with no-go zones. Toxic sites. Chernobyl. Old tannery sites and battery factories in London are fenced off. They sit empty amidst Europe's most densely crowded city. In my old home state of Missouri, Time's Beach is abandoned by humans--too many...

Tags: Battery, Consequence, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Ready for a rise?

Here's a book review at nature.com--it's a new book on sea level rise. This book does point to the public policy debate that is needed: what to protect, where to retreat? Of all the mainland nations on earth Netherlands has the most to lose...to rising oceans. How...

Tags: Sea Level, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Aerosols may not be so helpful

New research indicates atmospheric aerosols are not going to be a big help in combatting greenhouse gases. Research in Norway says the aerosols are likely to counter only about 10% of the greenhouse gas effects in our atmosphere. Earlier it had been hoped aerosols could reverse up to...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-29

The little engine that can

And it's an electrical engine that can haul you and your stuff around. Saw this nano-truck on the street today in my hometown. It's Zap's Xebra. It's a three-wheeler. Two in back, one in front. List price is $12,500. Top...

Tags: Engine, Cargo Bed, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate

There was not a kind word to heard be from the Republican Party today about the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. Obama calls the bill "bold and necessary." The Republicans called it names. Waxman-Markey would change many aspects of federal law on energy, air pollution and global warming. Amazingly...

Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Senate, Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Carbon Wars in the U.S. Senate

The Waxman-Markey bill passed the House by seven votes. It will be mucher closer than that if and when the 100-member U.S. Senate votes on their version of this bill. Every carbon-conscious lobbyists and arm-twister in D.C. is already at work. Today the man with the bully...

Tags: Bill, Carbon Dioxide, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-27

One forward step for Waxman-Markey bill, the easiest step

The Waxman-Markey bill now faces the U.S. Senate where a simple majority is rarely enough to pass anything more important than a resolution commemorating some sports team's victory. Today the House voted to approve the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by only 219 to 212. ...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Roping in Round-up?

Battle of titans: Monsanto v. EPA. Round 1 on Round-up. The EPA says the eight-year-old Monsanto mine in southern Idaho is producing illegal pollution, and has since it began operation. Of course, during the Bush Administration there was slim chance that any anti-pollution laws would be enforced...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Round-up, Monsanto, Storage, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...

Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Big Media going solar? If you scroll past gubernatorial confession and dead rock star...

ABC lists seven big-time solar gizmos. Calling them "sensational" makes it more...well, senational, I guess. I don't like the discomfort of camping, but I do like the idea of a solar tent. But that means the teenagers in the next campsite can play their mindless music and...

Tags: Media, Games, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Coal: more on the fall-out

There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your children's lifetime. Coal burning is destroying our atmosphere, our climate and turning an already...

Tags: China, Coal, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Renewable energy is only a patch--MSFT research head

Stop the release of CO2 says Craig Mundie. Any way and every way. Doesn't Craig understand that it's always about making a profit and you do that by selling more energy, even renewable...not by cutting down on CO2. That's generally a costly public service like clean water...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide, MSFT, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

New England software company could harvest rewards from carbon cap

The only carbon cap trading in the U.S. is now done in the northeastern states, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative RGGI. Using cap-and-trade market RGGI's collected $360 million through the auctioning of pollution permits in 10 states. This program would stop in 2012 if an overall federal...

Tags: Software, Carbon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

James Hansen arrested, as promised

Environmental scientist and activist, Dr. James Hansen, got arrested as he intended. He was prominent among the protestors in West Virginia, where they were protesting mountaintop removal to get at coal deposits. Hansen has advocated banning coal burning within twenty years because of its greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Tags: Hansen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24