Biofuels – March 25
Lester Brown: Massive diversion of U.S. grain to fuel cars is raising world food prices
WaPo: Corn can’t solve our problem
China’s corn exports may plunge as local demand rises
Renewable Energy
Al Gore and the wedges game
Whether they realize it or not, policymakers are deeply engaged in the “wedges” game – imagining how to replace energy technologies that produce greenhouse emissions with less-harmful alternatives. But we have to play the wedges game fair.
Renewables – Mar 24
Tidal power experts discuss technological advancements, roadblocks
A Wave Of Support For Tidal Energy
Singapore to invest in clean energy industry
Electricity rationing tightens in Ghana
Biofuels – March 23
The millenary history of sugar cane
Catholic bishops slam Brazil ethanol growth plan
Ethanol reaps a backlash in Midwest
Ethanol and biofuels
Non-partisan Congressional think tank concludes: “…there are limits to the amount of biofuels that can be produced and questions about the net energy and environmental benefits they would provide. Further, rapid expansion of biofuel production may have many unintended and undesirable consequences for agricultural commodity costs, fossil energy use, and environmental degradation.”
Solar: Payback analysis and Internal Rate of Return
One way to sidestep the gloomy verdicts of payback analysis is to do what most companies do when contemplating a long-term investment like solar energy — calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) on the invested capital.
Biofuels – March 19
Ethanol’s growing list of enemies
Ecuador petition – Palmoil firms robbing Indian land
Jakarta: Alternative energy needs to focus on waste recycling
Warmer, warmer
I don’t think I can be the only person who finds in myself a strong degree of psychological resistance to the whole subject of climate change. I just don’t want to think about it. Part of the problem is one of scale. Global warming is as a subject so much more important than almost anything else that it is difficult to frame or discuss. [Excerpts]
Renewables – March 17
Abu Dhabi: Turning to the sun in the land of oil
Green energy enthusiasts also bet on fossil fuels
Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries?
Renewables – Mar 15
Shell & BP plunge into the wind business
Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley
Towards Renewables in the UAE
Suburban Solar Retrofit
White House Seeks to Cut Geothermal Research Funds
Biofuels – March 15
NPR: Biofuel threatening food supplies?
Energy solution is growing on trees in Sweden & N. Europe
Ethanol wrong biofuel option say US experts
Biofuels – Mar 13
Ethanol-driven feed costs cut U.S. meat output
Thailand studies ethanol to biodiesel
State taxes local couple’s vegetable oil car
U.S. seen short of Bush’s ethanol plan
Biodiesel from palm oil not be as ‘green’ as hoped
