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Alas, it's still true about what's too good to be true
Crap, another means of continuing business as usual failing to survive scrutiny |
JMG |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Important, albeit somewhat depressing, post about biofuels from algae on chemical engineer Robert Rapier's always excellent blog. Here's his introduction to the article, which you should read in its entirety:The following is a guest post by John Benemann. John has many years of expertise in biomass conversion, and previously co-wrote a guest piece on cellulosic ethanol. On the subject of biodiesel from algae, he literally wrote the book. I originally wrote an article over ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Our long-term source of transportation power
What's sustainable? |
David Roberts |
21 Feb 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Related to the soon-to-be-revised index-card manifesto, I have a question, raised by some of the feedback I got: My assumption is that sooner or later all personal vehicles -- and eventually all vehicles, period -- will be powered solely with electricity from renewable sources: wind, solar, hydrokinetic, biothermal. Here's my basic reasoning: Humanity's energy reserves (fossil fuels) are finite. We need to start living within the earth's solar budget. Consider th ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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