I urge our readers to check out this article that Glenn Doty, an extremely senior energy analyst and frequent commenter here at 2GreenEnergy, wrote on corn ethanol. Glenn asked me to respond, so here goes. I totally agree. I’m not…
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An Energy Analyst's Viewpoint on Corn Ethanol
Tagged with: biofuels, corn ethanol, corruption, energy analyst, foreign oil, Glenn Doty, global climate change, global warming, population growth, Thermodynamics
Posted in Biofuels
Posted in Biofuels
Electric Transportation and Solar Energy
A reader asked that I comment on this fairly euphoric piece, suggesting that the world economy can and will be revived with the aggressive adoption of electric transportation and photovoltaics. Here are a few bits and pieces of my reaction.…
Tagged with: adoption of electric transportation, Amory Lovins, burning coal, coal-fired power plants, corn ethanol, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, EV consumer value proposition, EVs, externalities, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, fracking, Jeremy Rifkin, lowest-cost baseload power, nuclear renaissance, oil companies, oil pipelines, our home planet, production tax credit, PV, smart grid, solar energy, solar power, subsidies for the oil companies, using energy more wisely, using less energy, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, Wind Energy, wind power, world economy
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
Clean Energy's Low-Hanging Fruit
Frequent commenter Larry Lemmert waxes metaphorical with the respect to our clean energy targets: We need to go after the low-hanging fruit before climbing the tree and going out on a limb to harvest energy that has a negative payback…
Tagged with: clean coal, corn ethanol, Energy conservation, energy efficiency, Larry Lemmert, low-hanging fruit, solar energy, solar power, Wind Energy, wind power
Posted in Efficiency
Posted in Efficiency
[The Vector] Biofuel Bounces Back
In the US, the biofuel industry is undergoing something of a revival. Mothballed plants are reopening. Across the globe biofuel industry leaders are extremely bullish about their ability to bring down operating costs, to generate fuels from sources that don’t compete…
Tagged with: AE Biofuels, Al Gore, biofuel, blend, camelina, corn ethanol, ethanol, green energy, jatropha, palm oil, renewables, second generation biofuel, SG Biofuels, Solazyme, Valery Okulov
Posted in Biomass
Posted in Biomass
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