Biofuels or Biofools?
Biofuels could only play a meaningful role in a society that lived with some ecological modesty argues Dana Visalli
Renewable Energy
Solar cells change electricity distribution
In separate announcements over the past few months, researchers at the University of Johannesburg and at Nanosolar, a private company in Palo Alto, have announced major breakthroughs in reducing the cost of solar electric cells. While trade journals are abuzz with the news, analysis of the potential implications has been sparse.
Biofuels – Aug 10
Why Wal-Mart wants to sell ethanol /
Imagining the Future of Gasoline: Reality or Blue-sky Dreaming? /
Environmentalists Burn Ethanol Hype as Empty Promise /
DOE To Invest $250 Million In New Bioenergy Centers
Biofuels – Aug 10
Frankenstein fuels / Sugar, oil prices decouple as biofuel stocks grow / Sweden 2020
Why renewable energy matters
Investing a portion of today’s relatively abundant energy resources into technologies that will yield energy later on, when fossil fuels are scarce, will make it a good deal easier to provide that little when it’s most needed, and cushion at least some of the impacts of the Deindustrial Revolution.
Food & agriculture – Aug 8
Food prices would soar in biofuels switch, says Unilever /
Chez Kaiser’s food revolution: Hospital experiment putting locally grown produce on patients’ plates /
Micropropagation and sustainability
Sun and sea – Aug 8
Energy from the restless sea / How Australia got hot for solar power / India is rapidly developing solar energy
Biofuels – Aug 6
Peaches touted as future fuel source / Gasoline’s fledgling rivals: the race to power your car / Australia: Opposition U-turn on fuel
Renewables – Aug 5
Cellulosic Ethanol: Clutching At Straws ? / MIT: Abundant power from universal geothermal energy /
China makes huge breakthrough in wind power technology / India hopes to double wind power generation by 2007
Transport – Aug 5
Salting the Earth (the viability of auto fuels and technologies) / Qantas challenged by soaring fuel costs / US carmakers suffer drop in sales / “Electric Car” director on Daily Show
Sun and wind – Aug 2
Northwest land rush to build wind farms / Texas tops in wind energy production /
Hot German July doesn’t faze farmer who reaps the sun
Climate change and electricity from biomass
As we make the transition to biomass for electric power generation, the US can create jobs and wealth, export technology to Asia (China & India), mitigate climate change and take a large step toward avoiding a longer term calamitous future.
