Here’s a note specifically meant for chemist/senior energy analyst Glenn Doty, my go-to guy for questions of this nature. I thought I’d post it here, since other readers might be interested.
Glenn: Do you mind looking at this for a few seconds and commenting? It’s a GTL technology that converts natural gas into diesel or jet fuel, breaking down the CH4 into syn gas and using FT to create the final product. (more…)
According to the American Energy Society, below is a list of the five “most important” oil fields in the world.
In a recent comment, frequent contributor MarcoPolo makes a couple of interesting points to which I’d like to respond: (more…)
It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking about environmental concerns in abstract terms. (more…)
Here an extremely common occurrence here at 2GreenEnergy: the submission of an idea from an inventor with a patent but no working model of the device. Like so many others of this type, I respond: (more…)
Here’s an article that explains how the European Union has agreed on what the author refers to as “ambitious” renewable energy targets (30%) for 2030. Though this is obviously good news, I join those who believe that such targets are a piece of cake, for a few reasons: (more…)
Those of us who subscribe to Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Day” know that some words seem to call out to us to make them part of our working vocabularies, while others are of passing interest, at best. Today, for instance, we learned that “boustrophedon” (boo-struh-FEED-n), is an ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right. See the example shown here, but don’t look for another use of that word in the blog here at 2GreenEnergy, because I doubt you’ll find it in a guest post, and I’m quite sure I’ll never use it again after today. (more…)
Shortly after we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in 2009, I made a series of videos called “The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy,” where, in each segment, I talked about a certain technology: wind, solar, biomass, hydrokinetics, and geothermal, and listed, as thoroughly and objectively as I possibly could, the advantages and disadvantages of each. (more…)
A few years ago, few people cared about protecting our natural resources. All people cared for was how they would exploit these natural resources and make more money, but the situation is changing after manufacturing companies realized: resources that were once deemed infinite were on the verge of depletion. (more…)
Perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of the new anti-regulatory environment in Washington is that it’s so amazingly arbitrary and capricious. Life in America today more closely resembles being asleep than awake; it’s as if we’re making our way through a world that Lewis Carroll crafted for us.
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Execute him, then examine the evidence. (more…)
