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 Algenol Biofuels, which boasts a considerable breakthrough in this arena.
9000 acres of ethanol per acre per year? That really sounds attractive. By my calculations, the energy equivalent of an acre of PV with a capacity factor of 20% is about 6.5 times that amount, but there is no doubt that creating a liquid fuel is of considerable value, and Algenol’s results are more than 20 times that of corn ethanol.
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Because Noam Chomsky is so far out of the mainstream discussion, I believe this post may be the first of our 3000+ in which I’ve quoted this American linguist, philosopher, logician, cognitive scientist, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he worked for over 50 years. In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war, politics, and mass media, and is the author of over 100 books. He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and he was voted the “world’s top public intellectual” in a 2005 poll. 
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