Cellulosic Ethanol is Dead! Long Live Biomass Gasification! My thunder has been stolen. I have been kicking around a post in my head for the past couple of weeks. I just haven’t had time to […]
Tag: cellulosic ethanol
The Manpower Shortage Worsens
Now for a short personal note. It’s been several days since I last updated, but there’s been a lot going on. There have been a lot of stories in the past year about the manpower […]
Vinod Khosla on Plug-in Hybrids
I am in rural Oklahoma with dial-up access currently indicating 50.6 Kbps, but I wanted to get this out there. Odograph pointed this PHEV story out yesterday, but now Vinod Khosla has dropped by and […]
Holiday Travel Plans and a Letter from a Reader
I will be traveling from December 16th until January 13th with intermittent Internet access. During this time, I hope to put up some posts covering the year in energy, my $1,000 bet on oil prices […]
Termite Power
When I was in graduate school at Texas A&M in the early 90’s, I selected chemical engineering Professor Mark Holtzapple as my research advisor. His work was exactly in my area of interest: Biofuels from […]
Vinod Khosla Scoops Me
Some people think I am anti-ethanol. That is an oversimplification, and a misrepresentation of my position. I have nothing against ethanol as a fuel. It isn’t as good a fuel as butanol, but then again […]
Range Fuels Breaks Ground on the Nation’s 1st Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
I have gotten several of these press releases from Public Relations firm OutCast Communications publicizing Range Fuels’ pending groundbreaking: Good morning Robert — Wanted to share with you that Range Fuels will break ground today […]
Review: How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life?
“Have the guts to consider the silent consequences when standing in front of the next snake-oil humanitarian.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan I believe our generation faces a sobering choice: Take serious steps […]
Excellent Cellulosic Ethanol Overview
Wired just published a nice overview of cellulosic ethanol. It takes you through the history, the challenges, some of the major players, etc. It is one of the most comprehensive and balanced articles on the […]
USDA Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Check
I was getting some traffic from Grist, and I tracked it back to this story by Tom Philpott: The USDA goes all lukewarm on cellulosic ethanol Now this is good stuff. The same outfit that […]