Here’s a tome (700 pages!) on bio-energy for anyone looking for a comprehensive study on the subject; an enormous amount of time must have gone into this. Personally, I don’t see the reason to get excited about any of this.
Category: Biofuels
Hard To Get Excited About Bio-Energy
Tagged with: bio-energy, biofuels replace gasoline and diesel rather electricity, cheap available wind charge electric vehicles, half a billion acres of arable farmland, Hard To Get Excited About Bio-Energy, large amounts of water and fertizer, tiny efficiency with which sunlight can be transformed into useful chemical energy via photosynthesis, wind turbines convert about 20% of the energy in their swept area into electricity, wind turbines run at capacity factors that often exceed 30%
BioFertilizer and BioGas from Animal Waste
Here’s what I’m submitting for this month’s “Craig Shields–Clean Energy Deal of the Month” at the Hedge Connection, a website that brings together hedge fund managers with investors/allocators. I did a webinar a while back with these folks, and I’ve …
The Business of Biogas
A reader asks: I would like to know the basics involved in biogas production from cow dung and food wastes. In particular, I would like to have your view on how realistic it is to make a business out of it …
From Guest Blogger Jordan: Scientists Discover a More Cost-Effective Way to Produce Hydrogen Fuel
While hydrogen fuel is being touted as a cleaner and potentially more affordable alternative to gasoline than electricity, it is still far from being the ideal transportation fuel, considering that the most common methods for producing hydrogen nowadays are not …
The Folly of Biofuels Is Only Made More Obvious When Crude Oil Prices Are Low
A reporter has asked me for a 300-word submission on the following: “Ethanol and biomass: what’s the state of the biofuels industry in the face of the oil crash?” My viewpoint is below, and I’ll send it along, though it’s …
The Folly of Biofuels Is Only Made More Obvious When Crude Oil Prices Are Low Read More »
Tagged with: chemical compounds that are damaging to our health and environment, chemical energy refined and transported, Chevron Chairman and CEO John Watson, Crude Oil Prices Are Low, Folly of Biofuels, internal combustion engines convert over 80% of that energy in heat and other forms of waste energy, replace every ounce of gasoline and diesel in the 230 million cars and track on U.S. roads with a 14% increase in electricity production, solar PV standing passive and inert in the desert
Waste-Tire To Energy, Fuels
In all candor, my association with the few people who claim to have workable, reliable technology to extract the chemical energy (and other goodies) out of waste-tires has been a disappointment. After several years of work in this arena, I …
What the Oil Companies Can Do To Morph Into “New Energy” and Become Good Corporate Citizens
Sev Clarke, a fellow from Australia I’ve known and admired for many years wrote this about my recent post on Shell Oil: Craig, sorry to contradict, but a few of your statements do not hold water, probably because you have …
Biofuels Breakthrough?
I just came across a start-up that proposes to convert some of the chemical energy in landfill waste (MSW – municipal solid waste) into glucose, and then sell it to ethanol producers. I had promised myself that I wasn’t going …
Methanol from Natural Gas
A woman in New York wants my feedback on a new gas-to-liquids technology, a supposedly better way to make methanol from natural gas. I write: I don’t have the chemistry background to tell you if this is a superior GTL …
Are Great Energy Technologies Being Suppressed?
We’ve all been told that this was so, and we’ve all had the notion that it might be true. Forty or fifty years ago we had claims of the auto carburetor that gave drivers 400 MPG (but the car companies …
