Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The perennial question about cellulosic biofuels has been will they always be 5 years in the future. I've written about how there has been an explosion in private sector efforts to develop a wide range of technologies to convert biomass...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
David Pimentel, writing earlier this week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, continues to make his case against corn ethanol and biofuels more generally. Dr. Pimentel has made a name for himself by repeating old data that is out of line...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
A few weeks ago I wrote about how many fear that cellulosic biofuels will always be 5 years away. Two weeks ago I bookmarked this story on Biopact about Mascoma's plans to build a cellulosic refinery in Tennessee and to run...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I'm pretty much smack-dab in the middle of Wired Magazine's target audience, so imagine my surprise when I saw the cover of the October issue featuring this picture and tag line: My job dropped even further when I flipped to the actual...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
National Geographic Magazine has a good article on biofuels in the October issue. It's the cover story in the hard copy, and you can see the article online here. The article does a good job of covering the field in...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
With the House and the Senate moving slowly towards conference on a comprehensive energy bill, this week NRDC and a group of other environmental organizations sent a letter around both chambers calling for environmental protections and performance standards as part of...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
When people take the time to learn the details of how producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass is expected to work, they often raise good questions about the anticipated use of genetically modified organisms. For example, JM (actually that's Dr. JM...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Interesting posts in two cleantech blogs today. CleanTech Intevesting reports today about a $10 million financing round for a bio-butanol developer. Supported by Khosla Ventures and Virgin fuels, the funding is intended to support a pilot plant stage. This is...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
Or at least that's what Gov Pawlenty would like to see happen along with some ethanol from cellulose development according to this press release. I don't know what's behind the goals, but you have to be at least a little...continued→
Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil
An article by Tom Webb in the Pioneer Press raises a critical problem with the current renewable fuels standards. Section 1501 (a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 amends the clean air act to create the RFS and in...continued→
