Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting Wired article on enzymes from microbes and the production of cellulosic ethanol. As a counter to the “gee whiz, isn’t it cool that we can do that?” nature of that article, here’s Kevin Hassett of AEI writing in Bloomberg: Indeed, no matter how expensive fossil fuels become, ethanol will never …
Lynne Kiesling Welcome to Winds of Change readers coming to KP from the Energy Markets and Policies roundup there, and thanks to John for his kind mention. There’s a lot of great content aggregated there, so check it out!
Lynne Kiesling Three different airborne wind power technologies are in development, and are discussed in this article. Sky Windpower’s uses motors to get the turbines into position, then once in position the motors turn to generators. That’s pretty cool. And they would have far better uptime than most windmills–since the jetstream never quits, they should …
Lynne Kiesling OPEC ministers are on a PR blitz today, all trying to drive home the point that they will keep producing at current high levels. Indeed, OPEC President Edumun Dakoru says OPEC will stay out of the politics and geopolitics of such member countries as Iran and his home country of Nigeria. Meanwhile, oil …
Lynne Kiesling Check out this very interesting fact from this recent FuturePundit post on using corn as a fuel: And Dennis Buffington, a professor of engineering at Penn State University, provided these figures in a recent Wall Street Journal story about corn stoves: For 1 million BTUs of heat, it takes $16.47 in natural gas, …
Lynne Kiesling Hmmm … another Western-looking former Soviet satellite experiences disruptions to their natural gas supplies. This time it’s Georgia, not Ukraine, but one has to wonder if this is a coincidence. Certainly Georgia President Saakashvili sees dastardly intentions behind the incident: Accusations by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili that Russia is to blame for the …
Lynne Kiesling There has been some attention to Whole Foods’ recent announcement that they will purchase sufficient wind energy credits to run all of their stores. The Austin-based company said it is purchasing 458,000 megawatt-hours of wind energy credits a year ? enough to power 44,000 homes annually ? from Renewable Choice Energy of Boulder, …
Michael Giberson I tried typing with gloves on, but it didn?t turn out so well. (Can you read this: ?Tgjhkis a tewaest rfp0 k,u tuju[o9jme woytuj gp0v4es pjm.? Me neither.) U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman is urging consumers to be more ?energy conscious? and called for greater conservation and energy efficiency. I forgot to turn …
Michael Giberson In an interesting complement to Lynne?s article on the Russia-Ukraine natural gas situation (How Do You Say “Holdup Problem” in Ukrainian?), the folks at the Energy Legal Blog report on a proposed regulatory change by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affecting the ability to unilaterally change the terms of a long-term contract …
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Lynne Kiesling This Russia-Ukraine natural gas situation is a total mess, and as seems to be typical when Russia is involved, it’s not clear to me who’s in the right and who’s in the wrong. Perhaps I don’t know the details sufficiently to decide, but here’s the narrative as I understand it. Russia engages in …
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