Renewables – Feb 2
A green energy industry takes root in California
Environmental and social justice groups Call for federal agrofuels moratorium
Renewable Energy
Food & agriculture – Feb 2
Climate ‘could devastate crops’
Australia to investigate fertiliser prices
Mexican farmers protest end of corn-import taxes
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
Food & agriculture – Feb 1
The hedge fund manager who bought a farm
National Farmers Union: Realism needed on biofuels
Vibing on vertical farms
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
Biofuels and solar – Jan 28
Scientific American: A solar grand plan
Ethanol fuel is not so green
Are ‘green’ fuels really good for the earth?
Biofuels – Jan 25
Vinod Khosla: Biomass I, II and III
Der Spiegel: Critique mounts against biofuels
Biofuels – Jan 24
More bad news for ethanol – UC researchers say it could be twice as bad as gasoline in terms of emissions
Biofuel production may worsen water, food problems in Asia : study
Lester Brown: Ethanol production will drive food prices higher
False hopes and cellulose
Congress expects cellulosic ethanol to fulfill the renewable fuels requirement. Catering to an uninformed public, our politicians have laid out a road map for failure. Cellulosic ethanol is not a silver bullet that solves America’s oil dependency.
Biofuels, transition and divergent visions of the future of farming
It was fascinating to see the enthusiasm among the farmers for a more localised approach to farming. Perhaps the National Farmer’s Union should be figuring out how it can best support their wish to create and sustain local markets rather than continuing to focus on an approach whose benefits to the climate are questionable at best, and which at worst, would continue the erosion of soil, resilience and the local economies we will become increasingly dependent upon.
Renewables – Jan 22
Is cellulosic ethanol the dream fuel or a pipe dream?
UK MPs’ warning on biofuels angers Brussels
Appearing as a hologram, Prince Charles hails new money for alternative energy
