Biofuels – Aug 16
Lester Brown: Ethanol could leave the world hungry /
Ethanol, Corn Users May Deplete US Supplies By 2008 /
Africa looks to shrubs and sugar to beat oil price /
OPEC President Discusses Ethanol
Renewable Energy
Renewables – Aug 15
Prof. Paul Alivisatos on nanotechnology and renewable energy / Boatload of biodiesel shipping today / San Francisco’s clean energy revolution is here
Biofuels – Aug 14
Due Diligence: An Oil Drum reader’s response to Khosla (on biofuels) /
Deconstructing the Virdian case for ethanol /
China Targeting Growing Biofuels 12x by 2020; 15% of Transportation Fuels /
Biodiesel Boom brings Demand for Vegetable Oil to Record heights
Biofuels or Biofools?
Biofuels could only play a meaningful role in a society that lived with some ecological modesty argues Dana Visalli
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
