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 …
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Synthetic Fuels in the News
2GreenEnergy has had a long-running interest in helping a company called Doty WindFuels enter the synthetic fuel market; in fact, they’re on our “clean energy investment opportunities” page. The company, based in Columbia, SC, has a proprietary multi-step approach that …
Covering the Subject of Synthetic Fuels for "The Hedge Connection"
Here’s another monthly installment that I write for The Hedge Connection, where, in this case, I present a short introduction to the subject of synthetic fuels as a viable method of energy storage. I begin with a reminder to Hedge …
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Hedge Connection Publication "The Edge" Features Doty WindFuels
Here’s my monthly post for the Hedge Connection, an online link between investors—now called “allocators”—with hedge fund managers. I contribute articles to their publication called “The Edge,” which is read by a large and growing number of high-level people whose job …
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Exploring the Impact of Electric Transportation on the Environment
Each year around Earth Day, Kelley Blue Book publishes its list of the Top 10 Green Cars. Whenever I see something like this, I’m reminded of how few people understand the environmental impact of electric vehicles, which includes at a …
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Talking Up Synthetic Fuels at the Energy Efficiency Summit
My participation in last week’s Energy Efficiency Summit also enabled me to talk about Doty Windfuels, under the heading of synthetic fuels more generally. One of the presenters cheerfully reported that one of the graduate students he’s mentoring had outlined …
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Discussing the Value of a Career in Renewable Energy with Jillian Seymour
Jillian Seymour, a 2GreenEnergy supporter and college student living in Lyon, France called me the other day, as I had agreed to an interview in which I would provide my advice on careers in renewable energy. In the course of …
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An Enemy of a Working Energy Policy: Bad Ideas
I spend a fair amount of time writing about how the vested interests in energy (e.g., the oil companies), keep bad ideas in place (e.g., extracting and burning petroleum), at the expense of good ideas (e.g., renewables). But there is, …
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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 …
The Best Approach to Synthetic Fuels: Doty WindFuels
A reader asked if I would comment on this piece on using the carbon in CO2 to produce fuels. Yes, I’ve seen this, and yes, it works, if we want methanol, which generally we don’t. I believe that the best …
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