2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood asked for my take on this article in Scientific American on the environmental issues associated with biofuels. Craig: I’m bearish on biofuels for many reasons. The main problem, and it seems insurmountable, is that plants didn’t …
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Corn Ethanol Under Pressure
Of the 13 billion bushels of corn harvested in the U.S. each year, 27% are consumed in creating ethanol, largely on the basis of the $7 billion in subsidies paid to corn farmers by the U.S. government.
Solar, Wind, and the Future of Human Civilization
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: The solar and wind industries are both heavily dependent of government and consumer subsidies. When those subsidies are modified or withdrawn the industries suffer massive constrictions. Solar and wind employment is a little like a gold …
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Tagged with: advanced nuclear, carbon emissions problem, corn ethanol, development of solar and wind, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, high voltage transmission, oil companies have been receiving subsidies for 90 years, runaway climate change, smart cities, solar and wind industries, subsidies for solar and wind
Burning Trees To Generate Electricity
A reader sent me this recent article by legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben. In passing it along, he notes: Craig, it appears that “Green” can become a kind of dogma so that if something is given a green coat of paint …
Government Subsidies for CleanTech: Two Competing Views
Writing on government subsidies for cleantech, a reader notes: taxpayers get stuck with inefficient, inadequate and inappropriate technologies, which government agencies support for political and ideological reasons. This suppresses and discourages R&D for potentially superior technologies. Let’s begin by admitting …
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Biofuels Breakthrough
2GreenEnergy supporter Tom Blakeslee is a prolific author, the president of the non-profit Clearlight Foundation, and an all-around terrific human being. I smiled when I just checked my email and found that he had sent me this fascinating piece on …
An Energy Analyst's Viewpoint on Corn Ethanol
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 …
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
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 …
[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
