The following is a guest essay by Kevin Kane. Kevin is the author of the Energy Fanatic Blog. Oil Prices, Recession-Depression, and Investment Low Oil Prices Foster Future Oil Price Peaks By Kevin Kane As […]
Radio Interview on the USDA Ethanol Report
I have had family visiting me for the past two weeks, which has slowed my posting down a bit. I am trying to finish up the followup story to the essay on the MixAlco process, […]
Introduction to the MixAlco Process
In this essay, I am going to talk about my graduate school work at Texas A&M. Since leaving A&M there have been a lot of developments related to the technology I worked on, so in […]
The Tesla Motors Electric Vehicle Strategy for South Korea
I am working on two essays, but it is going to be a couple more days before I have either one of them finished. One is about the recent USDA report on the energy return […]
The Climate Change Thought Police
I have taken grief from some readers at times for my position on the issue of Climate Change. I have always maintained that I am not an expert, and therefore I accept the scientific consensus […]
Range Fuels’ Number One Critic
That title appears to be reserved for me, even though I did not set out to earn it. It all started with the first story I wrote on Range Fuels in which I pointed out […]
The Cost of Energy Independence
I have noted before that every president since Nixon has talked about the need to get the United States off of foreign oil and moving toward energy independence. Jon Stewart recently captured this theme in […]
Setting the Ethanol Record Straight
Based on my Site Meter, it appears that a lot of new readers are stopping by because of my recent inclusion in the Top 10 list of ethanol enemies. Because the article presents a highly […]
I’m Number 5!
I am still in Europe through the end of the week (today in Germany), but working on several articles and trying to get caught up on correspondence. Today I started getting a lot of e-mails […]
Five Positive Notes on Next-Generation Biofuels
In the previous essay, I discussed some of the challenges that next-generation biofuels face according to a recently released USDA report: Next-Generation Biofuels: Near-Term Challenges and Implications for Agriculture Here are five positive notes from […]