A few months back, Jeff Goodell, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, contacted me with some questions about ethanol. Jeff’s name may be familiar to those in the energy business, as he is the author […]
Rolling Stone Article
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Biodiesel Growth Slowing
From yesterday’s OPIS: It has been a tough year for biodiesel markets as well as for biodiesel producers. Plants are struggling to break even against high feedstock costs including near-record high soy oil prices. That […]
A Seamless Transition to a Post-Fossil Economy?
I am going to be covered up through the weekend, but there have been some good discussions down the page that I want to bump up as stand alone posts. One is a discussion of […]
Coal and Ethanol
A Lightbulb Uses a Lot of Coal Just a very quick post today while still on vacation in the U.S. I was browsing around the other day, and I ran across this: How much coal […]
Ethanol Roundup
A couple of interesting ethanol articles that were recently brought to my attention. First off, we have Iowa State saying something I have been saying for a while: Corn ethanol unprofitable by 2008, says Iowa […]
The Crumbling Ethanol Facade
I have seen it all now. When the biggest ethanol boosters are starting to suggest that maybe we have a problem, you know we have a problem. And that is exactly what is happening. I […]
The Mythical Ethanol Threat
There have been many claims in recent years that ethanol is going to help wean us off of fossil fuels. In fact, many of our political leaders claim that as long as we just keep […]
Mark Jacobson Responds to Vinod Khosla
Following the previous response by Vinod Khosla, I sent a link to Professor Jacobson and asked if he had any comments he wanted to make. I received the following, along with permission to post it: […]
Vinod Khosla on Mark Jacobson
Note: In the interest of fairness, I will post a response from Mark Jacobson tomorrow. In response to my recent essay, Vinod Khosla and The Truth, I got a response from Mr. Khosla in which […]
Vinod Khosla and The Truth
One thing I noted during my previous debunking of Vinod Khosla’s claims was that he was very careless with information he presented as fact. I have seen numerous incorrect or grossly exaggerated claims in his […]