- Okay, this is what we’ve been waiting for.
- Now watch how fast a vast European network of distributed biogas plants can emerge.
- (Hint: A lot faster than they can switch electricity production over to nuclear, even if they wanted to.)
Archive for the Non-Food Biofuels Category
Gas Is Everywhere
Posted in Non-Food Biofuels, Sustainable Energy on January 7, 2009 by Mark P. LineSan Antonio is going green with sewage
Posted in Non-Food Biofuels, Transparent Government with tags biomethane, San Antonio, sewage on September 15, 2008 by Mark P. LineSan Antonio is going green with sewage
- What a concept. We’ve had the wherewithal for this since the early 1970’s or so. But it wasn’t “feasible” even during the original OPEC crunch back then.
- So what makes it feasible now? Public opinion.
- You’re no longer considered a pinko commie anti-American bastard if you vote for city officials who are willing to look at sustainability issues.
- The meme mill grinds slowly in this land.
Turning Waste Material into Ethanol
Posted in Adhocracy, Non-Food Biofuels on August 13, 2008 by Mark P. LineTurning Waste Material into Ethanol
- One more example of how the only real innovations left to be made in the greening of our energy economy is in material science.
Wonder grass may solve biofuel woes
Posted in Non-Food Biofuels on August 12, 2008 by Mark P. LineWonder grass may solve biofuel woes
- Fine, go for it.
- Am I the only one who thinks it’s OKAY to start planting, harvesting and processing a number of these non-food crops (wondrous or otherwise) on a large scale even BEFORE the economy has locked itself into a single energy crop that can be the subject of a commodity futures market?
- Am I the only one who thinks that commodity futures have NEVER been the only, or even the best, way to hedge against risk?
- Can you say DIVERSITY?
- PLANT THEM! PLANT THEM ALL!
Jatropha biofuel offers hope to local economies
Posted in Global Warming, Non-Food Biofuels, Sustainable Energy with tags Japan, jatropha on August 7, 2008 by Mark P. LineJatropha biofuel offers hope to local economies
- Marginal land in an area of lower labor costs. Now, where in the world would we find any of that.
Farm waste biofuel ‘can beat oil crisis’
Posted in Non-Food Biofuels, Sustainable Energy with tags Australia, biofuel, farm waste, second-generation biofuel on August 7, 2008 by Mark P. LineFarm waste biofuel ‘can beat oil crisis’
- I wouldn’t be so self-deprecating. The Australians are not at all behind the curve when it comes to “these technologies”, as evidenced by the mere fact that they actually know the difference between second-generation (non-food) biofuels and first-generation biofuels that compete with food uses of the same crop.
