Victoria Marugg writes: Hello, Craig. I have a burning question for you that flared up again with today’s NY Times article which is off-handedly praising a new bio-diesel plant in Hawaii. Please clarify for me and others… Doesn’t the burning …
Category: Biofuels
Adventures in Biofuels
A colleague asked for my two cents’ worth on Joule Unlimited, a biofuels company that taps into the strength of cyanobacteria. I spent some time on their website and have the following to report: There’s nothing theoretically impossible about this, …
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Five Keys for Making your Muscle Car More Energy-Efficient and Eco-Friendly
Muscle cars are known for their tire-smoking performance. Unfortunately, these high-powered driving machines tend to burn a lot of fuel. Here are some proven ways to make a muscle car more energy-efficient. Install a free-flowing exhaust system
From Guest Blogger Sophie Andersen: Be Sustainable this Winter
As winter is rapidly approaching, the need to sink into a comfy sofa in front of a warm, inviting fireplace is rapidly increasing. However, opinions are somewhat divided, when it comes to choosing a type of a fireplace between those …
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Tagged with: sustainability
World's Largest Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Here’s my colleague Jon LeSage’s current edition of his publication “Green Auto Market,” which features an article on the opening of the world’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant, expected to produce about 30 million gallons per year from corncobs, husks and stalks, harvested …
From Guest Blogger Auvisa.org: Mallow-Biofuel–Diesel from a Tough Wildflower
Diesel vehicle usage is growing in the United States, with 60 diesel model cars and trucks expected to be available to American buyers in 2017. Biofuel use is also on the rise. The U.S. consumed 244 thousand barrels of biodiesel …
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From Guest Blogger Charlie Hill: What You Can Do With a Rotary Dryer?
Fossil fuel resource is limited in this world. Coal, oil, gas will someday go to the end of its destiny. Government and institutes are advocate substitute fuel. Biomass energy is emerging and growing rapidly in recent years, not only because …
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From Guest Blogger Charlie Hill: Benefits of Briquetting Technology
Briquetting is a process that agglomerate powders and fines together to produce solid briquettes under high pressure, and most of the time, with the help of binder and high pressure. Initially, coal briquettes are made during WWII for home heating …
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BioGas, BioFertilizer, and the Hedge Connection
Here’s my monthly installment on the Hedge Connection blog. The group is an attempt (and a successful one at that) to bring together hedge fund managers with investors/allocators. Pictured here: Hedge Connection CEO Lisa Vioni. I really like these people. …
Hard To Get Excited About Bio-Energy
Here’s a tome (700 pages!) on bio-energy for anyone looking for a comprehensive study on the subject; an enormous amount of time must have gone into this. Personally, I don’t see the reason to get excited about any of this.
Tagged with: bio-energy, biofuels replace gasoline and diesel rather electricity, cheap available wind charge electric vehicles, half a billion acres of arable farmland, Hard To Get Excited About Bio-Energy, large amounts of water and fertizer, tiny efficiency with which sunlight can be transformed into useful chemical energy via photosynthesis, wind turbines convert about 20% of the energy in their swept area into electricity, wind turbines run at capacity factors that often exceed 30%
