Renewables & clean tech – May 23
Mike Splinter: renewable energy is the solution
Green cement
Microgen in the UK
Renewable Energy
Renewables – May 22
House passes massive tax extensions for renewable energy
Bartlett: Congressional delays hobble renewable energy
Environment is secondary to private profits (renewables vs sequestration)
Inter-connected global grid for green energy,
Biofuels – May 22
James Hamilton: Reconciling estimates: biofuels and food prices
New trend in biofuels has new risks (invasive weeds)
Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger (book)
Food crisis – May 21
Brazil threatens to nationalize fertilizer mines
South America’s industrial-ag powerhouse eyes rainforest potash deposits
Forget Saudi peak oil – worry about Saudi peak grain
IMF “cure” for food crisis also a cause
Hunger prompting desperate acts
Renewables – May 20
Stockholm: Separating food waste is profitable
Burning wood: issues for the future
Quietly, wind farms spread footprint in U.S
Dr. Harry Zervos: Photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon
Rudd’s solar misstep and Australian energy policy
Sun sets on Rudd’s climate change credibility
Rebate rules ‘disaster’ for solar power industry
Solar means-test is necessary: Swan
Australia’s need for renewable energy
Renewables & cleantech – May 19
Australia’s first underwater wave farm
Bartlett’s renewable energy bill
Germany debates subsidies for solar industry
Market for LEDs for illumination could be big
Dysfunction – May 19
Flying cars
The Surge (in lame excuses)
When cars compete with people for food
Remember Malthus? He’s back for good
His ideas have been the inspiration since 1798 for anyone concerned about over population and food scarcity. Relegated to history’s back shelf in the 1960s by agriculture’s Green Revolution, his forecasts are back, with a vengeance.
Prices – May 16
Chavez says U.S. attack would cause $500 oil
Don’t hope for prices to drop, says API economist
Libertarian: Why oil prices will fall again
Who really controls the oil market? Not Saudis or OPEC, says Arab News
Naimi blames oil price on financial turmoil
Shell: Crude shortfalls will boost renewables
Renewables – May 15
Biofuels majority of non-OPEC oil growth
New source for biofuels discovered- cyanobacteria
World’s largest offshore wind farm in the works
Wave/geothermal – energy return on investment (EROI)
Renewables – May 14
Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Boone Pickens ready to bet on wind power
Oregon Inst of Tech to be 100% geothermal
DOE’s John Mizroch – Renewable gigawatts
