While hydrogen fuel is being touted as a cleaner and potentially more affordable alternative to gasoline than electricity, it is still far from being the ideal transportation fuel, considering that the most common methods for producing hydrogen nowadays are not …
Category: Biofuels
The Folly of Biofuels Is Only Made More Obvious When Crude Oil Prices Are Low
A reporter has asked me for a 300-word submission on the following: “Ethanol and biomass: what’s the state of the biofuels industry in the face of the oil crash?” My viewpoint is below, and I’ll send it along, though it’s …
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Waste-Tire To Energy, Fuels
In all candor, my association with the few people who claim to have workable, reliable technology to extract the chemical energy (and other goodies) out of waste-tires has been a disappointment. After several years of work in this arena, I …
What the Oil Companies Can Do To Morph Into “New Energy” and Become Good Corporate Citizens
Sev Clarke, a fellow from Australia I’ve known and admired for many years wrote this about my recent post on Shell Oil: Craig, sorry to contradict, but a few of your statements do not hold water, probably because you have …
Biofuels Breakthrough?
I just came across a start-up that proposes to convert some of the chemical energy in landfill waste (MSW – municipal solid waste) into glucose, and then sell it to ethanol producers. I had promised myself that I wasn’t going …
Methanol from Natural Gas
A woman in New York wants my feedback on a new gas-to-liquids technology, a supposedly better way to make methanol from natural gas. I write: I don’t have the chemistry background to tell you if this is a superior GTL …
Are Great Energy Technologies Being Suppressed?
We’ve all been told that this was so, and we’ve all had the notion that it might be true. Forty or fifty years ago we had claims of the auto carburetor that gave drivers 400 MPG (but the car companies …
Nailing Down the Sustainability of Processing Waste Isn’t Easy
Here’s an article on waste oil recycling that a friend sent me earlier. Every time I see something like this I wonder about the overall sustainability of the enterprise. Obviously, waste grease doesn’t collect, purify, and distribute itself. Is all …
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From Guest Blogger Ross James: Finding an Approved Biomass Fuel Supplier
2015 will be here before we know it, and with the new year comes new rules for the renewable energy industry: from spring 2015, all of the biomass fuel used within houses, businesses and any other organisations that are claiming …
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The Future of Biofuels
If there’s anyone I respect in the biofuels industry, it’s Jim Lane, editor & publisher of Biofuels Digest, the most widely-read biofuels daily and newsletter. He knows that I’m not a huge believer, but we had a very detailed and …
