We swore in a new president today, and with that, hopefully a new approach to energy and the environement. It’s fresh, and limited, but here is the official plans: (Link at the bottom.)
ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The energy challenges our country faces are severe and have gone unaddressed for far too long. Our addiction to [...]
By implication, that means less money for start-ups in the next few years. Companies are going to be forced to look for alternative capital sources. The big question will be, where? Consider what it cost to start a company like Facebook. Now consider what is involved in producing bio-fuels, or [...]
We are told that although solar has made considerable strides in its march towards this Mecca, we are not quite there yet. The magic number for modules, say they, is $1; at a buck a watt. At that point it will finally be cheaper to produce subsidy-free electricity from a module than buy it from [...]
“According to Vectrix, the Vx-1 costs just one cent per mile to operate (the equivalent of 357 mpg), compared to 50 to 87 mpg for most other gas-powered scooters.
It’ll also do 0 to 50 in 6.8 seconds, so it’s not your granny’s scooter.
Weighing in at 515 pounds, with a 60-inch wheelbase, the Vx-1 is powered [...]
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Honda says they will have an electric motorcycle on the market in 2 years.
Why focus on electric motorcycles before a viable electric car? Says Fukui, “History shows that motorcycles [...]
I’m a big fan of biofuels if the come from a smart feedstock. I don’t know enough about aquaculture to know if this is the answer, but it’s certainly a compelling argument.
Citing the work of Robert Glenn, a plant biologist at the University of Arizona, two biologists argue in this week’s Science [...]
Is there nothing the might yeast can’t do?
Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Dr. Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley, have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with an n-butanol biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a ten-fold improvement in n-butanol production from one of the strains to 2.5 mg/L. An open access [...]
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Typical pulp & paper mills produce thousands of tons a day of a liquid biomass called black liquor. Currently this by-product is burned in steam boilers with low energy [...]
Stories I found interesting, but didn’t get around to blogging about.
Recycling- Market for Recyclables in U.S. Dwindling Rapidly Via GreenBiz
Efficiency-Turning Wasted Heat into Dollars in China Via GreenBiz
“There is more opportunity in China than anywhere in the world,” Ballentine said of waste-heat recovery.
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