Is alt-energy a distraction from real solutions?
Both wind-power supporters and opponents replied to my column last week.
Renewable Energy
Biofuels and wind – July 15
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Technical solutions – July 15
Why pellets are packing the power / A hundred thousand points of light: Thinking out of the grid / Energy surety for mission readiness (microgrids and the military) / Movie casts the electric car as hero, GM as bad guy
Study cites plan to end U.S. oil imports
Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
Biofuels – July 13
Edible oil turns into bio-diesel /
Ethanol ain’t all it’s cracked up to be /
Green Energy: A Second Coming /
Focus on biofuels is foolish /
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate /
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels
An Early Retirement For The Hydrogen Fuel Cell
At last weekend’s Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference, Ulf Bossel, the organizer, made a pretty signinficant announcement
Biofuels – July 11
US DOE Releases Roadmap for Cellulosic Ethanol /
Biofuels, Petro-fuels = Liquid Fuels (Part One) /
Patzek: The Real Biofuel Cycles /
Ethanol won’t solve energy problems /
USDA Questions Sugar-To-Ethanol Profits
Energy policy – July 10
Revealed: G8 plan for global nuclear expansion /
Nuclear to power ahead of renewables in UK plan / Germany’s new power (renewables) / A dated carbon approach / EU may introduce carbon tax on airplanes / So we drive on
Transport – July 9
Arianna Huffington: Who killed the electric car? / Costly tar hurts paving / Blowing in the wind (sail revival)
End of cheap oil, the global energy crisis and climate change
We in India who have lived in a biodiversity and biomass energy economy are rushing into oil addiction precisely when the global oil supply is running low and prices are running high.
Biofuels – July 7
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
Biofuels – July 5
The biofuel illusion / Big Oil’s big profits, and the big lies they’re telling to maintain them / Vietnam to squeeze biofuel from catfish to run engines / Where biodiesel is a rising star (Texas) / Indonesia turns to biodiesel / Vancouver Sun:
Ethanol misses mark as silver bullet / Washington Post: the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort
