Glenn Doty’s calculations in the comment on my piece on biofuels and electric transportation compare the costs of energy from solar PV and bioethanol. This is a very good way of looking at the subject. I thank Glenn, as always, …
Category: Biofuels
More Cars Are Powered by Biofuel Than Electricity — But Why?
My friend and colleague Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com comments on my piece on biofuels: (The efficiency of PV) is still 10x better than biofuels, but the capital costs of all those solar panels are probably much more than costs of …
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Tagged with: AltEnergyStocks.com, arable vs. desert land, biofuels, efficiency of PV, solar panels, Tom Konrad
Biofuels' Dubious Efficiency
Frequent commenter from the U.K. Gary Tulie writes on my piece this morning concerning creating biofuels from sugar beets: … the efficiency of photosynthesis to energy stored in biomass is at the very best in the 3 to 5% range – and …
Biofuels – Can They Scale?
I may have mentioned that my wife bred race horses for many years, and her interest in the subject wound us up in a fairly rural area of California. As I like to do on weekends, I took a long …
Note on Synthetic and Biofuels
I just published a short post on the article: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress Bashes Navy’s Biofuels Program in which I mentioned that I find the people who presume to tell the U.S. Navy how it should be planning to defend our …
U.S. Navy's Biofuels Program Remains Controversial
Frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me this piece: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress Bashes Navy’s Biofuels Program and notes: Interesting commentary from Robert Rapier on a new report written by a navy captain absolutely savaging the navy’s Green Fleet program …
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Biofuels: What’s Really Driving Food Prices?
Anyone who pays even casual attention to the biofuels industry has come across the “food versus fuel” argument, i.e., that the rise in biofuels comes at the expense of the world fuel supply. But as shown in this article: “What’s …
Biofuels — Celebrating Humankind's Best Intentions Despite Our Worst Actors
I had meetings all over Southern California on Thursday, and driving to and from them enabled me to listen to the radio and absorb news that I otherwise would have missed. I had barely backed out of my driveway when …
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Tagged with: Biofuels scandal
Waste-To-Biofuels
Here’s an article that presents the subject of waste-to-biofuels in a very readable, high-level way. In the U.S., we’re converting about 3% of our organic waste to some form of useful energy, as compared to 37% in Europe. Of course, …
It's a Small World in Renewable Energy
I had a Skype chat yesterday with a well-heeled investor/entrepreneur in Dubai whose family has numerous business operations in Africa and the Middle East – including Pakistan, the country in which one of my favorite projects is located. Readers may …
Tagged with: biofertilizer, biogas, buffalo dung, Dubai, environmental catastrophe, Karachi, Landhi, Pakistan, Renewable Energy, UAE
