Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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]
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
NPR: Biofuel threatening food supplies?
Energy solution is growing on trees in Sweden & N. Europe
Ethanol wrong biofuel option say US experts
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
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Gore Urged to Put Brake on Biofuel Production
Demand for corn driving up meat prices
Livestock Industry Testifies Before Congress In Food Vs. Fuel Debate
Success derails biofuels bandwagon
Bush hails biofuels pact in Brazil
Brazil’s ethanol slaves
US looks to Brazil to fuel energy revolution
Cuba-Venezuela: Making biofuels without wasting food
Tortillas spark inflation, drive down Mexico’s peso
What’s So Bad About Big?
PG&E sees power in North Coast waves
Analysis: Nile Basin energy future
Green energy deals ‘mislead customers’
The Big Green Fuel Lie
A switch to biofuels will not save the planet
Oil giant Chevron bets on biodiesel
Success Derails Biofuels Bandwagon
Japan to receive bulk of Brazil’s ethanol exports
UK Independent: The big green fuel lie
Brazil accused of growing biofuel under conditions like slave labor
Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
A moral solution to our energy problem
‘We’ve got to have more corn,’ expert says
The free market will ignore solutions that can’t turn a profit. The corollary is that the free market will ignore any solution that cannot be controlled, either through property interests (enforceable intellectual property, monopoly licenses, etc.) or because economies of scale demand centralized operation. This means that free market innovation is structurally incompatible with a huge portion of the universe of possible energy solutions.
“Matthew Simmons, a distinguished petroleum investor who is no liberal Democrat tree-hugger like me, he is one of the Bush family’s close friends. He’s a conservative Republican. He says we have 35 years of recoverable oil left.”
