On the surface, it sounds great. In fact, it sounds genius. What do need? fuel. What are we introducing as a fuel alternative? ethanol. What do we have tons upon tons of? garbage. Add all of those things together and it seems like we are killing a couple of birds with one stone. Lake County, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘energy’
August 24, 2008
Lake County, IN garbage-to-ethanol plant, not as an environmentally savvy as you might think
August 18, 2008
chaos determent – A couple of positive steps towards worry free energy
We may get out of this yet…
trend 1 – an even more exciting race to maximize energy capture and storage from waves, tides, artificial photosynthesis.
trend 2 – By 2035, the U.S. could conceivably cut its use of energy in half.
July 25, 2008
Mitch Daniels’ questionable dance with Duke Energy’s coal
Govenor Mitch Daniels and Duke Energy’s agreement to build a new coal fired power plant is an unfortunate exercise in backward 20th century thinking. The Daniels’ brokered deal for the new coal power plant in southern Indiana embraces the myth of clean coal and to make matters worse, deceives the public with its actual implementation. The new power plant is a great [...]
July 16, 2008
Pickens Plan. Genuine compassion or well guised marketing?
What’s T. Boone’s angle with the ‘Pickens Plan‘? Is this genuine concern or are there ulterior motives? He’s a “swift-boater”, contributing $2,000,000 to the cause in the 2004 election. So, he knows the value of an effective marketing scheme.
Joseph Romm, a guest contributor over at the Gristmill calls his plan “Half brilliant and half dumb.” The brilliant part being the investment [...]
July 7, 2008
Rise in biofuels forced our food crisis
The World Bank seems to have bought back some karma recently. Sort of. They have studied the effects of biofuels and the correlation of its use with the current global food crisis. A whopping 75% of the increase in the price of food can be linked to the increased production of biofuels. This is a far [...]
