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Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
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Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.
The good, the bad, and the unreal. Read all about it on this blog. Meanwhile Murphy Oil spends over $90-million for a corn ethanol plant in North Dakota. Canada's largest oil company, Suncor,...
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Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings
The MIT Technology Review previously glommed onto the temperature rises contained in the NOAA global warming report. Ten degrees or more before the end of this century. Kansas, for example,...
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Global warming heating up Washington D.C.
There are many billions of dollars at stake. Not since the Wall Street meltdown have we seen such high stakes in the lobbyist-WhiteHouse-Congress axis. From oil to transportation to electricity...
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Daily Debrief: Corn farmers vs. Google
CNET News.com's Charlie Cooper and Declan McCullagh discuss corn farmers who are taking anti-Google fight to Washington.
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Bulls in the corn field, beware! Ethanol from corn? Mooooo.
Those are market bulls of the two-legged sort similar to the ones currently jacking up crude oil futures. The next great investment bubble may focus on the fields of Iowa. Today's Department of...
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Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in...
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Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to switchgrass?
It's natural, it's all-American, it's a native that was here before any humans arrived, and it's green in many ways. It's switchgrass. We've blogged about this prairie grass that once stood...
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Green Tech boon. But is the new U.S. energy law cornographic?
A new U.S. energy bill has been signed into law by the President. Here are some of the green tech relevant provisions: Higher fuel-efficiency for cars and light trucks, up to 30 MPG average by...
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Biofuel massacre: ethanol's zone of death
We Americans want our gasoline, or ethanol. That means Midwestern farmers are raising the most corn in sixty years. And that, unnaturally, means more fertilizer is being used. That means more...
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Biofuel's nightmare question: food or fuel?
A major mainstream economic writer has just weighed in on the food-or-fuel debate. That's the monster in the closet of the entire biofuel industry. Right now in America most biofuel comes from...
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One company's fascination with hydrocarbons
My high-school chemistry team never prepared me for this sort of stuff. The folks at Global Resource probably despaired of me ever posting this item. But, frankly, it has taken me this long to...
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Boxed in: America's new energy trap
Michael Butler and Randy Shefman say miscalculations have temporarily boxed us in and led the U.S. off the path to energy self-sufficiency.
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Ethanol, continued: creates heat over energy production
Another voice raised in doubt about whether ethanol production is really environmentally friendly. Here's an editorial in a Columbus newspaper explaining why it opposes a new ethanol plant in the...
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Biofuel, more questions than answers
There's an interesting commentary from AlwaysOn concerning biofuels. The author posits three waves of the biofuel business and tech development. The third and latest wave depends on much of the...
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Ethanol from corn: does it need a subsidy?
Prominent researcher tells "newsweek" that corn and ethanol are not silver bullet for ernergy future. He also says the ethsanol industry does not need a subsidy for corn. growers Of course, the...
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Ethanol isn't a magic word
Cascadia Capital's Michael Butler says hype around ethanol may blind people to complex realities of the clean-technology business.
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Corn, better as food or fuel?
At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Peter Hanschen, Partner with Morrison and Foerster leads a discussion with executives on the challenges bringing ethanol...
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Switchgrass: not a sex toy, but still attracting a lot of attention
They're talkin' switchgress out there in farm country. From Oklahoma and Iowa to Virginia and North Carolina, there's a definite buzz in the fields. It's not cloming from the apparently...
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Update on Devil's Lake, North Dakota
I flew into Fargo Thursday afternoon and then drove a long, long ways, through more corn, sunflowers, and sugarbeets than I've ever seen in my life. In between, there were sugarbeet, corn, and...
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Waiting for energy tech's best and brightest
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says it's time to explode the myth surrounding the corn ethanol mania.
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