The changing sources for renewable liquid fuels

While it may be way too early to declare a final winner in the race to find replacement renewable liquid fuels to replace the jet fuel and d...

Cellulosic Ethanol and Jatropha, too much too soon

It would seem, despite the inability of the cellulosic ethanol industry to produce an economically viable product to date, that it remains t...

API and some thoughts on America's Energy Future

There seems to be a little drop in the intensity of the debate over the arrival of Peak Oil. Given that crude oil prices are hovering aroun...

Predicting and investing in the energy future

When Congress passes laws, and politicians put the full resolution of a problem into the “out years”, i.e. those in the future, there is a t...

Can politics be removed from biofuel generation?

The Administration has been praised for its move to rely more on science in the generation of policy, and on Tuesday a new group was announ...

On Oil Prices - or a Gentle Cough in Newsweek's direction

Newsweek has a story this week on why we should not be worried about the potential problems of peak oil. (One of the advantages of the Kin...

2009 Energy Conference - Renewable fuels

The renewable energies panel was moderated by Michael Schaal of EIA, and again took the form of a panel sitting around a table chatting. Th...

Biomass is not free - memories from a Dubuque conference

One of the things that I think is important, where possible, and when I have been to a Conference, is to provide information on Conference p...

37. Pick Points

Half-a dozen or so stories of interest: Since reconvening in Juneau last month, Alaskan lawmakers have been looking to the natural gas field...

P36. Pick Points

So today was Power day at CERAweek , and the President of the Environmental Defense Fund was pressing for increased research and developme...

P25. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: What to do about the contradiction that rising commuter traffic is moving to metro train and bus lin...

P15. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Further to the post yesterday on Bulgaria and Slovakia’s options to find natural gas, one of the sug...