R-Squared Energy

During the past five years that I spent in Hawaii, I worked on a number of different projects. The company I worked for invested in energy projects, and our focus was on converting biomass into […]

Update Sunday 9:30 PM PST: KiOR announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy this evening. The press release says that the company has “accepted a bid for substantially all of its assets from certain affiliates of Vinod Khosla” […]

Executive Summary for Those with Short Attention Spans For those who tend not to read much past the headline, the answer to that question is “No.” If you want to understand a bit more about […]

A few years ago, I wrote a post about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attempt to mandate a non-existent fuel into existence, and then fine refiners for not buying this fuel. That post was […]

It’s been years since I looked at this article I wrote on LanzaTech in 2007, but today I was made aware that it’s been linked to from an article in Biofuels Digest: Junk or treasure? […]

The US Shale Oil Boom There have been a lot of stories over the past few years about the implications of the US shale boom. To review for those who might have been living in […]

A Lesson Learned If there’s one thing billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has learned over the past decade, it’s that the oil companies aren’t as stupid as he thought. In 2004, Khosla was telling anyone […]

The Ban on Crude Exports One of the 2014 predictions that I made back in January was “The crude oil export ban will not be lifted in 2014.” The present ban on US crude oil exports […]

I saw a very interesting graphic several days ago that shows the most consumed fuel in every state in the US: Image Credit: Movoto

Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released Statistical Review of World Energy 2014. The previous posts covered the world’s growing fossil fuel consumption: World Sets New Oil […]