Sometimes people ask me what I think will happen as a result of peak oil. Well, it depends. We could see alternatives – natural gas, ethanol, GTL, CTL, etc. – fill the gap of falling […]
How to Calculate Ethanol’s Value
There was a comment following the previous post that claimed that ethanol producers are making money – minus subsidies – at $1.75 a gallon. I attempted to set the record straight in the comments, but […]
Book Review: Green Algae Strategy
Introduction I love to read. I particularly enjoy books about energy, sustainability, and the environment. One of the benefits of reviewing books is that I end up getting a lot of free books on these […]
Accoya, Ethanol, and an Anniversary
Coming up I have a book review ready to go for Green Algae Strategy: End Oil Imports And Engineer Sustainable Food And Fuel. However, I will wait another day or so to put that out […]
Obama’s Secret Meeting With the Oil Industry
Sometimes I come across information that isn’t publicly known. That occasionally happens because I am digging, and I uncover something newsworthy. I can generally report on those kinds of things. But sometimes it is because […]
Oil Moving Back Up
On my latest trip to Amsterdam this week I saw 19 oil tankers parked off the coast in the North Sea (ironically next to a Dutch offshore wind farm). These tankers are being used for […]
Is the Dark Cloud Over Solar Energy Beginning to Break?
Sitting in DFW Airport, about to make my way back to Europe. I will be offline for a day or so. This seems like a good time for the latest from Money Morning, which as […]
The White Revolution
When I was recently transcribing the interview that Vinod Khosla did for the Milken Institute, something he said caught my attention: Hybrids are an uneconomic way to reduce carbon dioxide. If you go to hybrids […]
Book Review: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Jeff Rubin – the former chief economist at CIBC World Markets – has always struck me as someone who “gets it.” I have seen him do a number of interviews, both on television and in […]
Chemistry: The Future of Cellulose
I am not a big believer in a commercial future for the biochemical conversion of cellulose into fuels. There are many big hurdles in place that are going to have to be overcome before cellulose […]