Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Are Oil and Gas Renewable?

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A long-time reader of this blog sent me a link to a New York Times article highlighting the diverse scientific pursuits of Jesse Ausubel of ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Gas Taxes and Price Divergence

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Rising gasoline prices got my attention pretty forcefully this weekend when I filled up our rental car in South San Francisco, at the end of...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Seeing Our Footprint

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I know I've commented before on the number of PR lists that I'm on as a blogger. Every day brings emails touting some new process or...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Industrial Scale Ethanol

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After my recent posting on resurgent food vs. fuel competition from expanding corn ethanol production, one of my contacts called to ask if I...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Still Not Worse Than Coal

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At the end of last year I examined assertions by a professor from Cornell University, based on his unpublished paper, that leakage from natu...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

What's the Alternative to Oil Sands?

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I can recall when technologies like oil sands and coal gasification were commonly referred to as alternative energy, with the same high-tech...
Friday, April 08, 2011

Congress Defers to EPA on Climate Policy

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The confrontation over climate policy that was teed up by the results of last November's mid-term election culminated with the House of ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Flex-Fuel Competition for OPEC?

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An op-ed in this morning's Wall St. Journal by former CIA Director James Woolsey makes an interesting and seemingly pragmatic suggestion...
Monday, April 04, 2011

The Missing Food vs. Fuel Circuit Breaker

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Corn futures have spiked to their highest price of the year, and, as the Wall St. Journal reported over the weekend, to their highest level ...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Obama on Energy: Getting the Balance Right

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Another energy crisis, another presidential speech? It must seem that way to many of us who came of age in the first set of energy crises in...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Deploying Extra Power for Japan

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Just over two weeks after the earthquake near Sendai in northeastern Japan, which I'm increasingly seeing referred to as the " Grea...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Renewable Energy: Horses for Courses

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It has become nearly impossible to keep track of all the major wind and solar projects underway at any point in time. Considering that I can...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Carbon-Neutral Gasoline

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I see that Google's venture capital fund is investing in a startup company that would produce hydrocarbon fuels from cellulosic plant m...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Fewer Choices Post-Fukushima?

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Even before the resolution of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex--a crisis that has diverted media attention from the much ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Energy in the Aftermath of the Sendai Quake

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Investors and companies around the world are scrambling to assess the impact of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami on supply chains and marke...