Archive for September, 2009
Ethanol, Imports, and the MTBE Effect
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?
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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 $$ in Alternative Energy, US Investors Might Want to Build Their Own Japanese Stock Portfolio), as well as the [...]
Three Alternative Energy Stocks That Feel Like They Could Take Off
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Editor’s Note: In keeping with its policy of being solely a news source, this EnergyTechStocks.com article is presented for information purposes only.
Having recently discussed investment opportunities among Japanese alternative energy firms (See To Make $$ in Alternative Energy, US Investors Might Want to Build Their Own Japanese Stock Portfolio), as well as the [...]
Alternative Energy Has A ‘Missing Link’ – Investors Who Find It Stand to Make $$
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 [...]
Soliciting Reader Input for Bioenergy Chapter
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Calling All Wood Experts
In 2007, I wrote the renewable diesel chapter for a book called Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems. One thing I did when I was working on the book chapter was to solicit feedback from readers on what I might have missed. Some of that feedback [...]
Biofuel Niches
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BP’s ‘Giant’ Discovery Gives the Gulf of Mexico New Life
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I am trying to climb out from under an avalanche of correspondence, and I also hope to have the “Niches” article done by Monday morning. Until then, the latest from Money Morning on BP’s new oil discovery. As I previously explained topical Money Morning content will be featured here from [...]
Biofuel Pretenders
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Note
This article was initially titled “Pretenders, Contenders, and Niches.” However, the section on pretenders grew to the point that I have decided to split the essay up into three parts. The first part, Biofuel Pretenders, will cover many of the current media and political darlings. The second part, Biofuel Contenders, will [...]
A Pair of Odd Energy Stories
Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
I am working on a story inspired by last week’s Wall Street Journal article:
U.S. Biofuel Boom Running on Empty
It is taking longer than anticipated, but hopefully I will have something up tonight or early tomorrow. Until then, I thought I would share a couple of odd energy stories this Sunday. The [...]
To Make $$ in Alternative Energy, US Investors Might Want to Build Their Own Japanese Stock Portfolio
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Colorado power utility Xcel Energy Inc. (Symbol XEL) is among the leading U.S. developers of “smart grid” technology, but when it needed a partner with know-how for operating a wind-to-battery storage system, it turned to Japan Wind Energy Co. (Symbol TYO3:2766).
Get used to it. As much as President Obama keeps warning that the [...]
To Make $$ in Alternative Energy, US Investors Might Want to Build Their Own Japanese Stock Portfolio
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com
Colorado power utility Xcel Energy Inc. (Symbol XEL) is among the leading U.S. developers of “smart grid” technology, but when it needed a partner with know-how for operating a wind-to-battery storage system, it turned to Japan Wind Energy Co. (Symbol TYO3:2766).
Get used to it. As much as President Obama keeps warning that the [...]
