Biofuels – Sept 6
New Zealand firm makes bio-diesel from sewage
Fish fat to fuel in Vietnam
Rabobank: Biofuel industry unviable without Govt support
Time to slow down on biofuels?
Palm oil prices to rise
Renewable Energy
Biofuels – Aug 31
NYT: Fill up on corn if you can
NASA joins Brazilian biofuel effort
Rapier: Energy balance of ethanol versus gas
Renewables – Aug 30
The new energy companies
Giant turbines bring winds of change
to W. Texas
Alternative energy without being too green
Engineers race to steal nature’s secrets
U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
The strategy of salvage
The humble alternator, junkyard fodder in an industrial society but a valuable resource in a deindustrial one, offers a snapshot of the possibilities for action in a post-peak society.
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
– Lappé: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
Wind – Aug 24
– Whither wind?
A journey through the heated debate over wind power
– Wind power, downsized
– Wind power’s gusty forecast
Biofuels – Aug 24
– Ethanol isn’t a good answer for replacing oil
– Home-grown crops accelerate drive towards biofuels (sugar beets in UK)
– Does biofuel make sense?
Energy policy – Aug 24
– Actor/environmental activist Ed Begley, Jr., on environmental and energy issues
– Alternative energy gets mainstream treatment
– Letter from Sweden: fossil fuel-free by 2020, maybe
The Real Green Revolution
A friend once suggested to me that the three worst things we could be doing for the environment are, in order of destructiveness, 1) drive cars, 2) eat meat, and 3) eat vegetables. I’d consider listing the car third.
Biofuels – Aug 22
Interview: Robert Rapier on Vinod Khosla, Proposition 87, peak oil, and the need for transportation electrification / Indonesia counting on biofuel / Brazil’s road to energy independence /
Balkan biofuel could be on the horizon
