Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS More Planting This Year February 29th , 2012 by Foxy In our latest ZimmPoll we asked , What will be planted this year It’s that time and everyone seems to have their own idea about what it will be . 45 of respondents said More of both , 32 said More corn less soybeans and 12 each said More soybeans less corn and Less of both . USDA is estimating corn acreage will be higher this year and the highest since 1944 with soybean acres nearly the same as last year . What do you think Our new ZimmPoll is now live and asks the question , Is our food system broken During the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum one of our speakers was Gawain Kritke , Oxfam America . He told us our food
This figure can be used to visually engage your students on the topic of the world’s energy reserves. Published in the April 2009 issue of The Solar Update, the newsletter of the International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, this figure shows total recoverable reserves for finite energy resources (fossil fuels and uranium) and [...]
. Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us sOccket to Me Ten Ways to Reduce U.S . Dependency on Oil On February 28, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original post at Clean Fleet Report Iran stopped shipping oil to the United Kingdom and to France . Global oil prices shot-up and we pay more at the pump . With the threat of oil shipment disruption in the Strait of Hormuz , prices are likely to stay . high In the USA , over 96 percent of our transportation fuel comes from oil refined into gasoline , diesel , and jet fuel . To protect our security and national leadership , Americans are taking 10
Some readers of my post on Friday about record-high seasonal gasoline prices asked a good question: Were those data adjusted for inflation? Answer: No,...
Gasoline prices are the talk of the town right now. Lots of stories are circulating about where prices are on...
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Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us The Quiet Clean Mining Revolution Coal Powered Electric Cars Fact and Fiction On February 21, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original article by John Addison at Clean Fleet Report The electric car doesn’t do any good because it’s just powered by coal” gets repeated by the oil industry , by news pundits who ignore fact checking , and even by some . environmentalists In the past three years of writing about electric cars I have yet to meet an electric car driver or fleet manager who only uses coal power . If you own an electric car and only use coal
It’s Presidents’ Day as I write this, so if you were lucky enough to have the day off, give some thanks to Washington, Lincoln and all the other chief executives — even stinkers like James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson. Of course in modern American politics, every day is really Presidents’ Day — so central is [...]
Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us The World According to BP The Quiet Clean Mining Revolution On February 20, 2012, in Blog by Dallas Kachan Few industries have got the black eye , literally and metaphorically , of . mining After centuries of environmental effects ranging from toxic emissions to unsightly tailings ponds , acid mine drainage , massive energy consumption and other impacts , mining is slowly cleaning up its . act Why Mostly because new clean technologies are increasing industrial efficiencies . They’re lowering mining companies’ power needs . And they’re even helping reduce
There are no shortage of reasons why the Keystone XL pipeline has become such a hot button issue for environmentalists. Many worry about the risks the project could pose to the Ogallala aquifer in Nebraska, where the pipeline was originally designed to pass. Indeed, when President Obama rejected Keystone XL in January, his stated concern [...]
These images from NASA show the average solar insolation, or rate of incoming sunlight at the Earth’s surface, over the entire globe for the months of January and April. Such images are particularly useful to engineers and entrepreneurs who develop new technologies for converting solar energy into electricity. To attain best results, most devices for [...]
If you were trying to invent with a term that sounds as scary as possible, you couldn’t do better than “fracking.” That’s industry terminology for hydraulic fracturing, the process used to get at unconventional natural gas and oil contained in tight rock layers that need to be cracked open—or fractured—so drillers can get at the [...]
If there were any doubt that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline—which would bring more than 700,000 barrels a day of Canadian oils sands through the Midwest to refineries in the U.S.—has become the biggest environmental issue in America, this week should have quieted them. On Monday at 12 PM ET a coalition of major environmental [...]
Some readers of my last post noted that the decline in oil consumption in the United States since 2007 caused...
Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Climate Change Mitigation : Refocus Needed San Francisco Doubles Taxi Fleet while Cutting Gasoline Use in Half On February 14, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original article at Clean Fleet Report San Francisco has about 1,500 taxis , double its fleet of 15 years ago . The total gasoline used each year by those 1,500 taxis is about half the total used by the 750, in years past . San Francisco taxi operators are saving millions by with a fleet that is 92 percent hybrid or fueled with . CNG San Francisco taxis average a punishing 90,000 miles per year ,
Home About Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Econbrowser Editors' Corner Energy , Security , Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Feb 13, 2012 with 45 responses No Free Lunch in Our Energy Options : Tags Tweet Land Usage and Wildlife vs . Carbon Emissions If I had to describe the theme of my upcoming book with just one phrase , it would be There is no free lunch in our energy options . 8221 Sometimes the costs are obvious , as when an oil spill occurs or a nuclear accident happens . Other times , the costs are not so obvious , but the trade-offs are always . there Some people have insisted to me that there really aren’t too many trade-offs with solar power , but a new story in the Los Angeles Times highlights a few of : them Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
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Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Concentrating on Utility-Scale Solar Energy Tesla to Ship 5,000 Model S in 2012 On February 9, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original post at Clean Fleet Report I’m sitting behind the wheel of this new Tesla Model S wishing that I could drive it away . I can’t . This prototype does not have a drive system . It is on display at the Clean-Tech Investor Summit getting serious interest from attending CEOs and venture capitalists that can afford the 59,400 starting price . The price starts at 79,400 for the model with a remarkable 300 mile electric .
Western Slope mayors are mad that Rep. Doug Lamborn is pushing to open up land to oil shale development in their communities without taking into account local impacts