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NRDC: Cultivating Clean Energy: A growing number of entrepreneurs, investors, academics and policy makers are working to make algae-derived gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel a reality. The economic, national security, and environmental costs of our dependence on oil become more clear every day. If developed sustainably, the algae biofuel industry may be able to provide large quantities . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Algae biofuels The biofuels news keeps getting hotter by the day, it seems. We recently had the flood of news about Exxon’s $600 million investment in algae biofuel development, and now we have some “minor” announcements (links below), plus a potential blockbuster from Joule. [Press release] Joule Biotechnologies Introduces Revolutionary Process For Producing Renewable Transportation Fuels: Joule Biotechnologies, Inc., an innovative . . . → Read More: A Joule of an announcement You can quote numbers all day about how much oil the US uses and for which purposes, but few things drive the point home like the graph below. This shows US oil consumption for just transportation (broken out by mode), with a line plot of domestic production, revealing a humongous gap and explaining why so . . . → Read More: Graph of the week: The US transportation gap As we stumble through the multiple, overlapping discovery processes of finding better, cleaner ways to provide energy or figuring out in detail how Earth’s climate works, we’ll no doubt be reminded from time to time that “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that . . . → Read More: Jatropha the water hog Last week the blogosphere was chattering about the two papers in Nature that addressed the issue of how much of the world’s remaining fossil fuels humanity could burn before we triggered an unacceptable level of climate change. In writing about those articles (It’s Crunch Time), I said: Casting the situation as a limit on how much . . . → Read More: The bounty (or not) of biofuels The US Dept. of Energy/EIA has released the 2007 edition of Renewable Energy Trends: The report, Renewable Energy Trends in Consumption and Electricity, 2007, provides an overview and tables with historical data spanning as far back as 1989 through 2007 on renewable energy consumption and electricity. As always, you can download the whole report from the above page . . . → Read More: Document alert: Renewable Energy Trends 2007 San Diego Unveils Algae Coalition To Advance “Green Gold” Research: They call it “green gold,” and its proponents are betting that the light, sweet crude oil that can be extracted from farm-cultivated algae will help the world to cut its dependence upon dirty and increasingly expensive gasoline and diesel fuels that are extracted from fossil fuels. And, on . . . → Read More: San Diego and algae fuel The other night, my wife and I went to see the Rochester Greywolves play their first game of the season on the Onondaga Reservation, near Syracuse. Being the team photographer (as I was last year), I had to be there, even though it was an 8:30PM start time out of town. Driving home on a very . . . → Read More: Late night thoughts on I-90, somewhere east of Rochester A couple of articles just popped up over on Scientific American that touch on a topic I’ve been meaning to write about: Biodiesel from algae. The thing that put me on this particular line of thought is the . . . → Read More: It’s algae time, baby  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Biofuels, Climate change, Economics and business, Transportation The US Dept. of Energy has issued a set of spreadsheets on the use of alternative fuel vehicles, available from two web pages: EIA Alternative Transportation Fuels-Supplier Data EIA Alternative Transportation Fuels-User and Fuel Data A few observations: This data is just for government and other organization fleets and does not include individual owners. This is not obvious from . . . → Read More: Document alert: Alternative transportation fuels |
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