Biofuels – June 11
Top UK scientist says biofuels are scam
The great biofuel hoax
Malaysia defends palm oil production
All aboard Branson’s bio train
US subsidy aids European drivers
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – June 10
Lawrence Laboratories scientist: Myths of biofuels
Thailand to enforce bio-diesel in 2008
Bumper corn crop fuels US energy dilemma
Corn is for eating… or drinking
Unlike subsidies to farmers for growing corn, which tends to bring the price of corn down, the more corn that subsidized ethanol plants use, the higher the price rises, and so inevitably, the price of meat, milk and eggs too. Somewhere along the way, the consumer may face a momentous decision: shall I eat or shall I drive? The best use of corn in my opinion is to make good bourbon. At least we might die happy if our civilization crashes like the corn-dependent Mayan culture did.
On the edge – June 7
Cyclone Gonu: TOD post-mortem
OPEC: Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge
The Iraqi war against labor
Thomas Friedman: Our green bubble
Renewables – June 6
Thomas Edison – wind pioneer
Two years of record growth in wind – just the beginning?
Wind power: some lessons from 2006
Mali: Jatropha oil lights up villages
Corn-based ethanol: Is this a solution?
Analysis of corn-based ethanol, with some surprising answers.
Biofuels – June 5
Biofuel gangs kill for green profits
Indonesia Won’t let oil palm growers cut forests
First food prices climb, now, beer?
Ethanol boom won’t threaten food supply [sic]: analysts
Guardian: Biofuels and food prices not funny for poor
Biofuels – June 2
Will milk become America’s new oil?
As pork prices soar, Chinese put brakes on corn for ethanol
Cargill chief warning on biofuels boom
Biofuels – May 30
Ancient plant has potential as biofuel (camelina)
Rapier: The mythical ethanol threat
South Africa: Biofuel making staple food more expensive
Mexico: Ethanol plan meets resistance
Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Renewables – May 30
Who owns the wind?
PV costs to decrease 40% by 2010
Spain’s new renewable energy rules
Peak oil – May 30
CNN special: We were warned: Out of oil
ODAC News
Sharon Astyk: Feels like I’m dying
peak oil in 600 words or less
Strange – May 30
Eating radiation: A new form of energy? (MIT)
Florida man invents machine to turn water into fire
