Tag: synthetic fuels

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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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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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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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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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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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 …

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 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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Senior energy analyst and frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: Farmers are getting hit by the drought and heat wave. Wealthy southern landowners are getting hit by increased tropical storm activity… and everyone has to spend more to keep the air …

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Today it’s off to see Doty Windfuels, less than two hours’ drive south from my stops yesterday.  This will require great concentration, as the advanced chemistry that is the mainstay of what they’re doing goes a bit over my head. …

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The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record.  Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on …

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