Archive for October, 2009
Interview With an Algae CEO
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
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 [...]
Catching Up
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
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
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 [...]
A High School Senior Asks About Peak Oil
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
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?
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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 [...]
Cellulosic Ethanol Falling Short
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 [...]
