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Interview With an Algae CEO

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:30:35 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog So I am finally back home for the next 10 days, and slowly catching up. I had a good trip to Panama and then to Stanford. I had my luggage sniffed by dogs when I connected in El Salvador, and then when connecting in LAX Gwen Stefani and her husband walked [...]

Interview With an Algae CEO

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:25:51 +0000

Catching Up

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:50:51 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Folks, I know it has been almost a week since I posted anything new, and it will still be a couple more days. I have had a productive trip to Central America, and am at Stanford this morning to give a talk on sustainability. It will be the first time I [...]

Attention Green Investors: Get Over Your Hatred of Coal – Carbon Capture & Storage Here to Stay

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:50:09 +0000

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Why should any self-respecting “green” investor invest in companies developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology? Because whether or not you hate coal, and whether or not you believe that CCS is a scam perpetrated by the fossil-fuel industry, if you want to make money, CCS looks like a very good sector to be in. Fact [...]

Attention Green Investors: Get Over Your Hatred of Coal – Carbon Capture & Storage Here to Stay

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:49:04 +0000

A High School Senior Asks About Peak Oil

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:05:00 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I tend to get a lot of e-mails, and I try to make a point to answer them all. Sometimes, the e-mail is a question that I can quickly answer. Sometimes it is a request for comments on a specific technology. But sometimes I get one that someone put a [...]

‘Clean’ Energy Investors Can’t Afford to Overlook ‘Dirty’ Companies Like Statoil, Mitsubishi, Cemex

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:10:45 +0000

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com There are at least two axioms EnergyTechStocks.com believes alternative energy investors should follow. The first is to have an investment horizon of at least three to five years, in order to be able to take advantage of several upcoming sea changes – such as global cap-and-trade and the mass introduction of plug-in electric [...]

A Massive Decline in Carbon Emissions?

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:45:23 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay that ultimately turned out to be very controversial: Why We Will Never Address Global Warming That same essay published at The Oil Drum received 560 comments, and was until recently the most-commented upon post in The Oil Drum’s history. Global Warming/Climate Change is [...]

Ethanol and Petroleum Imports

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:39:49 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog This is the concluding post in a series looking at the impact of increased ethanol production on petroleum imports. Previous posts concluded that there has been little measurable impact on our petroleum imports as a result of increased ethanol production. In this post, I provide a spreadsheet to all the data [...]

What Would Ron Wyden Do?

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:06:36 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog The refining sector has been in the news a few times this week, and not in a good way: A Fine Mess For U.S. Refineries HOUSTON — Excess capacity, weak demand for fuels and rising product inventories continue to squeeze margins for U.S. oil refiners. Sunoco, the second-largest refiner in the country that doesn’t [...]

Book Review – Power of the People

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:41:19 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I will finish up my long-promised concluding post in the recent series on ethanol and oil imports. I have been traveling for ten days, and inadvertently left all of my graphics for that post on another computer. I am back home now, and will try to tidy it up and post [...]

What Happened to a Buck a Gallon?

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:07:24 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Coskata will produce ethanol for under US $1.00 a gallon anywhere in the world, from almost any input material. - Coskata Vision Statement A bit more than a year ago, I read a number of claims from ethanol start-up Coskata stating that they would be able to produce ethanol from cellulose for [...]

Energy Potpourri

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:41 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I am at the 2009 Gasification Technologies Conference this week, with a pretty full schedule. But there are three stories that I wanted to quickly hit. One is a follow-up on the previous cellulosic ethanol post, one is about Paul Sankey’s new report on peak demand, and the last is on [...]

Energy Potpourri

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:13 +0000

Cellulosic Ethanol Falling Short

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog The reason I spend time debunking wild claims is that I think they damage the entire bioenergy sector in the long run. People who issue press releases claiming they can produce fuel for $1/gallon - and by the way we can do it next year if you give us the money [...]

Ethanol, Imports, and the MTBE Effect

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:57:07 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I am traveling later this week, and will be on the road for nine days (Colorado, New York, Massachusetts). I was trying to wrap up the loose ends from my previous post with a much more comprehensive look at the ethanol/import issue before I travel. However, there are a couple of [...]

Does Ethanol Reduce Petroleum Imports?

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:48:59 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog One of the main arguments in favor of ethanol production in the U.S. is that it supports the goals of energy independence by getting us off of foreign oil. After all, we could just tell the entire Mideast to take a hike while we grow our own fuel. In fact, there [...]

CNG in Your Beer

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:48:00 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Thanks to a reader for this story: Cheap Natural Gas Drives Truck Alternatives NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - If you order a beer in New York, the odds are growing that it was delivered by a truck running on natural gas. Beer distributors are among a growing vanguard of private trucking fleets encouraged by [...]

Gas Taxes and Long Range Energy Planning

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:46:57 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I consider the level of dependence of the U.S. on imported petroleum to be a very large financial risk endangering the country’s future. There are certainly other import-related risks as well, but here I want to talk about the financial risk. I consider it similar to having a mortgage upon which you [...]

Book Review: Crude World

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:22:11 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Introduction It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession. - Peter Maass Today a new book by Peter Maass was released. The book is called Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Peter Maass is [...]

About That $72 Billion Subsidy

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:02:42 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog I am going to be pretty busy for the next few days, and probably won’t be able to put anything new up until at least mid-week. Until then, over the past few days there have been a lot of headlines about a recently released study from the Environmental Law Institute. The [...]

An Urban Legend Falls

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:49:08 +0000

Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog Figure 1. Classical Outlier or Amazing New Discovery? On November 16, 2007 a study was released that stirred up a lot of excitement in ethanol circles. The study was titled Optimal Ethanol Blend-Level Investigation. The study was commissioned by the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), and the work was carried out by [...]

Three Alternative Energy Stocks That Feel Like They Could Take Off

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:47:51 +0000

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Editor’s Note: In keeping with its policy of being solely a news source, this EnergyTechStocks.com article is presented for information purposes only. Having recently discussed investment opportunities among Japanese alternative energy firms (See To Make $$ in Alternative Energy, US Investors Might Want to Build Their Own Japanese Stock Portfolio), as well as the [...]

Three Alternative Energy Stocks That Feel Like They Could Take Off

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:46:29 +0000

Alternative Energy Has A ‘Missing Link’ – Investors Who Find It Stand to Make $$

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:22:33 +0000

Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com In Great Britain, more than 60 gigawatts (GW) of power, a quarter of that from renewable sources, reportedly is waiting to be connected to the nation’s power grid. In California, electric utilities say they have little hope of meeting the state’s mandate of achieving 20% of their generation from green sources by 2010 [...]