Joyful Event
I would like to announce the tentative adoption of a new, personal, Senator. I don’t like the ones my neighbors keep electing, so I’m picking one of my own. I’m sorry it isn’t Congressman Barney Frank. I am awfully fond of this very smart man. Nor, unfortunately, is it Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Congresswoman from Florida’s 20th District, in part, of course, because she, like Mr. Frank, is not yet a Senator, but give her time. She is still young and a “real
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
I told Shell, Biofuel Tax Credits Restored & Retroactive, Greening Africa w/Facebook
While Visiting Scientific American
While on the SciAm website, I saw and answered a survey placed there by Shell Oil (aka Royal Dutch Shell) asking for "votes" on best methods to meet the energy crisis (though they didn't actually call it that), [part of] the exact question was, "What should the government do "
To see my answer you can go to their comments section where I did in fact give this reply, or you can skip the trip and read it below.
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While on the SciAm website, I saw and answered a survey placed there by Shell Oil (aka Royal Dutch Shell) asking for "votes" on best methods to meet the energy crisis (though they didn't actually call it that), [part of] the exact question was, "What should the government do "
To see my answer you can go to their comments section where I did in fact give this reply, or you can skip the trip and read it below.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Rising Cost of Gas, African Air, Obama White House Stumbles
My Thoughts On Rising Gas Prices
California has done a very sensible thing in raising taxes on gasoline USERS since they are the ones who use the transportation infrastructure that state expenditures must maintain with the revenues they collect. Indeed, I think the nation needs to stop subsidizing oil company profits by taxing the cost of maintaining that transportation infrastructure of roads and bridges and traffic signs and ... well, you get the idea. If the "value chain" from which the p
California has done a very sensible thing in raising taxes on gasoline USERS since they are the ones who use the transportation infrastructure that state expenditures must maintain with the revenues they collect. Indeed, I think the nation needs to stop subsidizing oil company profits by taxing the cost of maintaining that transportation infrastructure of roads and bridges and traffic signs and ... well, you get the idea. If the "value chain" from which the p
Monday, December 6, 2010
Republican House Spurs Green Future Optimism, Burlesque, Will Thurmond
Republican House Spurs Green Future Optimism
Can it be true? Did I really says that? Can having Republicans in control of the House actually be good for the country and for “green tech” and “green energy” in particular? Well, we’ll have to wait and see, but I’m not the only one who remains optimistic until evidence proves otherwise. You see, a month ago an article entitled, Why The Election Could Be Good for Green Tech appeared in GreenTechMedia.com, written by Michael Kanel
Can it be true? Did I really says that? Can having Republicans in control of the House actually be good for the country and for “green tech” and “green energy” in particular? Well, we’ll have to wait and see, but I’m not the only one who remains optimistic until evidence proves otherwise. You see, a month ago an article entitled, Why The Election Could Be Good for Green Tech appeared in GreenTechMedia.com, written by Michael Kanel
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Biomass $ Yield Tripled, Econ101 with Krugman, Exporting Green Energy Policy
The Economics of Biomass Has Just Changed – For the BETTER!
No one should rush to divest themselves of their Exxon stock because of the article carried in Science magazine, but George Huber, chief investigator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst based firm of Anellotech indicates that they have come up with a technique for a “tunable” two-stage catalytic process to turn pyrolysis derived bio-oil into a range of high value chemicals that have previously relied upon petroleum as t
No one should rush to divest themselves of their Exxon stock because of the article carried in Science magazine, but George Huber, chief investigator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst based firm of Anellotech indicates that they have come up with a technique for a “tunable” two-stage catalytic process to turn pyrolysis derived bio-oil into a range of high value chemicals that have previously relied upon petroleum as t
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Algae=Food+Fuel (not VsFuel); Browner, Biden Back DOE Loans
Who CARES who gets the credit?
We at DaoChi Energy of Arizona (my company) have developed an integrated model of algae cultivation for food and fuel, based on waste water sanitary processing, but which also calls for anaerobic digesters, algae oil to biojet fuel processing, ethanol (and/or biobutanol) production from algae fermentation and distillation, and finally, electricity generation both from the methane outgases of the digestion process but also gasification of residual sludge and ad
We at DaoChi Energy of Arizona (my company) have developed an integrated model of algae cultivation for food and fuel, based on waste water sanitary processing, but which also calls for anaerobic digesters, algae oil to biojet fuel processing, ethanol (and/or biobutanol) production from algae fermentation and distillation, and finally, electricity generation both from the methane outgases of the digestion process but also gasification of residual sludge and ad
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
WH:Cave In, Ex-Im Bank Intro, "Go, Invest, Young Man"
White House Cave In
If that topic headline sounds like a sink hole swallowed the White House, you could be excused for guessing that. You would be wrong, but only because the analogy is far too mild for the inexcusable disaster of the White House collapsing when David Axelrod started making concession speeches about extending the Bush tax cuts before there was even any exchanges of discussion with the newly elected Republican House of Representatives Majority. I am all in favor of pacif
If that topic headline sounds like a sink hole swallowed the White House, you could be excused for guessing that. You would be wrong, but only because the analogy is far too mild for the inexcusable disaster of the White House collapsing when David Axelrod started making concession speeches about extending the Bush tax cuts before there was even any exchanges of discussion with the newly elected Republican House of Representatives Majority. I am all in favor of pacif
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Relationships, India and Reality -- Date Night: A Bright Light, Sometimes the Movies Get It Right
President Obama went to India to discuss ... well, jobs, I hear. But more importantly to set the stage for some lessening of tensions between India and Pakistan. At least I hope that's at the top of his India agenda. On the other hand, apparently the trade delegation that went with him looked like the winners of a television reality show entitled, "Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire", or at least close enough for government work, as the old insult goes.
Indeed one of the things that struck
Indeed one of the things that struck
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Republicans Vote Wednesday, Democrats Vote Tuesday
The Mid-term Elections
Okay, my title isn't exactly original, but I couldn't resist a little "dig" at the quality of candidates being offered to Republicans by their dissident wing, the so-called "Tea Party". I still am trying to recover (literally and figuratively) from the George W. Bush administration, and the complete degradation of the office of President of the United States by allowing that bumbling idiot to sit in the chair. Clearly, however, new lows are still possible based on
Okay, my title isn't exactly original, but I couldn't resist a little "dig" at the quality of candidates being offered to Republicans by their dissident wing, the so-called "Tea Party". I still am trying to recover (literally and figuratively) from the George W. Bush administration, and the complete degradation of the office of President of the United States by allowing that bumbling idiot to sit in the chair. Clearly, however, new lows are still possible based on
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Absence
I've been "away" (from my column at American Chronicle, Santa Barbara Chronicle, World Sentinel and the rest of this "chronicle" online syndicate) writing my "blog" at Lifestyle.psyrk.us and a small syndicate of my own websites (having gotten past the snobbish distinction between "columnist" and "blogger" by recognizing that content is the distinguishing factor, not the job title) (Thanks in part to Andrew Sullivan and some of the other pioneers of the blogosphere.)
I write fair
I've been "away" (from my column at American Chronicle, Santa Barbara Chronicle, World Sentinel and the rest of this "chronicle" online syndicate) writing my "blog" at Lifestyle.psyrk.us and a small syndicate of my own websites (having gotten past the snobbish distinction between "columnist" and "blogger" by recognizing that content is the distinguishing factor, not the job title) (Thanks in part to Andrew Sullivan and some of the other pioneers of the blogosphere.)
I write fair
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Silly, Sillier + Seriously Stupid: Baucus, O'Donnell, Bush and More
The Sillies versus the Sillier
Although we usually watch such serious PBS far as HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and this week Bill and his guests really outperformed Gwen Ifall and her panelists, indeed topping Chris Matthews and his friends on Saturday. Fortunately the use of logic tends to stack up against stupid people, and there seems to be no shortage of them standing for election in this off-year election cycle. Bill Maher gets significant amounts of credit, unfortunately, for givi
Although we usually watch such serious PBS far as HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and this week Bill and his guests really outperformed Gwen Ifall and her panelists, indeed topping Chris Matthews and his friends on Saturday. Fortunately the use of logic tends to stack up against stupid people, and there seems to be no shortage of them standing for election in this off-year election cycle. Bill Maher gets significant amounts of credit, unfortunately, for givi
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Phyco to Grow Chinese Algae, Ed Fails Again? Food v Fuel MYTH
Hong Kong Deal for Phoenix Firm
Ben Cloud, CEO of Phyco BioSciences, a Phoenix based firm, has announced that his company has solidified a deal with Hong Kong based, China Biological Engineering, Limited to develop two plots of algae in China’s Shangdong province which may total as much as 320 acres between the two of them. Starting sizes are just 10 and 40 acres respectively but with them from Chinese Institute of Science in Quaingdou for locally suitable cultivars of algae, grown in cust
Ben Cloud, CEO of Phyco BioSciences, a Phoenix based firm, has announced that his company has solidified a deal with Hong Kong based, China Biological Engineering, Limited to develop two plots of algae in China’s Shangdong province which may total as much as 320 acres between the two of them. Starting sizes are just 10 and 40 acres respectively but with them from Chinese Institute of Science in Quaingdou for locally suitable cultivars of algae, grown in cust
Monday, September 20, 2010
Obama Challenges TeaParty, Japan offers Loans to Calif, Little Green Businesses?
Japan to Finance California Hi-Speed Rail
Americans are fond of “pulling themselves up by the bootstraps”, the quintessential Horatio Alger story, rags to riches, to rags again, back to riches and all that. Indeed, broke, strapped for cash, some $19 billion in the hole this past year (according to some reports at least), Californians nevertheless voted to okay borrowing US$10 billion to finance the beginnings of a high speed rail system for the state that is primarily a connector of the
Americans are fond of “pulling themselves up by the bootstraps”, the quintessential Horatio Alger story, rags to riches, to rags again, back to riches and all that. Indeed, broke, strapped for cash, some $19 billion in the hole this past year (according to some reports at least), Californians nevertheless voted to okay borrowing US$10 billion to finance the beginnings of a high speed rail system for the state that is primarily a connector of the
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Tony Blair Warns of Global Jihad
Whenever I get frustrated with my own lack of progress in trying to inform the world about how quick, easy and simple a transition to biofuels could be, something comes along that proves to me that a small group of people really can affect the fate of the world. Unfortunately most of the examples consist of horrible people doing destructive things, and of late the fashion parade of favorites seems to be fanatically anti-American terrorists, although this week, a tiny group of Christian fanatic
Monday, September 6, 2010
Filipinos E-jeepneys, BigChanges, Noblesse Oblige, Biofuels Co in the Black
Filipinos get eJeepneys on Battery Power
A company called PhUV but also known at the retail level as the Electric Jeepney company has created a battery powered version of the ubiquitous “Jeepney” bus vehicles that fill the roads, highways and barely trodden paths to transport more people in the Philippines than virtually any other means of transport. They call it the “ejeepney”. Tackling the problems of fossil fuel dependency and of fossil carbon air pollution at this point in the
A company called PhUV but also known at the retail level as the Electric Jeepney company has created a battery powered version of the ubiquitous “Jeepney” bus vehicles that fill the roads, highways and barely trodden paths to transport more people in the Philippines than virtually any other means of transport. They call it the “ejeepney”. Tackling the problems of fossil fuel dependency and of fossil carbon air pollution at this point in the
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Green Movies, Argentine Algae Fuel, Picken Plan Latest Move
Doing It Right In Argentina
This week a new biofuel plant began operations in Argentina, which in itself is less than earth shattering news, but this one is a little different. You see this is the first biofuel plant to offer a commercially available, retail grade biodiesel made from algae oil. Okay, that’s only partly true, but I’m not trying to lie to you so here’s the rest of the story.
They are using soybean oil too. So far it is 100% biodiesel, but it is 90% soy oil, and ju
This week a new biofuel plant began operations in Argentina, which in itself is less than earth shattering news, but this one is a little different. You see this is the first biofuel plant to offer a commercially available, retail grade biodiesel made from algae oil. Okay, that’s only partly true, but I’m not trying to lie to you so here’s the rest of the story.
They are using soybean oil too. So far it is 100% biodiesel, but it is 90% soy oil, and ju
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Bacteria Eat Oil Spill- no DeadZone, Telemedicine Nepal, Cheap Nat. Gas a Sucker Punch? Air Africa ReRoots
Good News Will Have to Wait
I read some good news that I want to share with you about OIL EATING BACTERIA being DISCOVERED, but today I have something more important that I want to share with you first.
(more on this subject, later, below)
Birth and Death Outside Khatmandu
I have received a couple of communications recently from Khatmandu, Nepal, that “kingdom above the clouds” in the Himalayan Mountains, North and East of India. One was a young gentleman wanting to provide power
I read some good news that I want to share with you about OIL EATING BACTERIA being DISCOVERED, but today I have something more important that I want to share with you first.
(more on this subject, later, below)
Birth and Death Outside Khatmandu
I have received a couple of communications recently from Khatmandu, Nepal, that “kingdom above the clouds” in the Himalayan Mountains, North and East of India. One was a young gentleman wanting to provide power
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
DryAlgae Jetfuel, Dumb & Running, Nigger News, RFID, Algae Fiber, & Solid State Drive
If James Bond Made an ALGAE Martini …
The legendary James Bond vodka martini was well known to be VERY dry, and shaken, not stirred, so one could postulate that the dry algae jet fuel from AlgaeAviationFuel.com folks could be the James Bond algae jet fuel martini. It too, would be VERY dry, and since the microalgae from which it is produced are already micro-fine in size, it does not need to be ground up by some mechanical process. However, it might also be a good idea to “stir the tank
The legendary James Bond vodka martini was well known to be VERY dry, and shaken, not stirred, so one could postulate that the dry algae jet fuel from AlgaeAviationFuel.com folks could be the James Bond algae jet fuel martini. It too, would be VERY dry, and since the microalgae from which it is produced are already micro-fine in size, it does not need to be ground up by some mechanical process. However, it might also be a good idea to “stir the tank
Monday, August 9, 2010
Amendment Nightmare, East Beats West, Student Retention
Was it a Nightmare?
I must have been mistaken when last night I thought I heard the sounds of noise-makers and celebratory shouts coming from New Orleans. After all the full on ruckus of Mardi Gras doesn’t make it all the way from Louisiana to Arizona without being broadcast, and yet … it sounded like Senator Mary Landrieu’s voice that could be heard above the rest. Ah, wait, I remember now, it was a nightmare I has just as I was falling asleep that Carol Browner, the former head of
I must have been mistaken when last night I thought I heard the sounds of noise-makers and celebratory shouts coming from New Orleans. After all the full on ruckus of Mardi Gras doesn’t make it all the way from Louisiana to Arizona without being broadcast, and yet … it sounded like Senator Mary Landrieu’s voice that could be heard above the rest. Ah, wait, I remember now, it was a nightmare I has just as I was falling asleep that Carol Browner, the former head of
Monday, August 2, 2010
David Lewis “Free at Last” but Wrong, WorldBank Food vs Fuel Just a Myth, Senate Back on Track
Democratic Senate, Back on Track
Unlike a comprehensive reform of Immigration Policy that appears to need to be done as one piece, it is perfectly legitimate to cobble together pieces of Energy Policy as a patchwork of "doable" bits of legislation and various regulations from EPA, reforms in and by Mineral Management Service, Department of the Interior and even Department of Transport and FAA in co-operation with the IATA and the airline industry. Politics is the art of the possible. The w
Unlike a comprehensive reform of Immigration Policy that appears to need to be done as one piece, it is perfectly legitimate to cobble together pieces of Energy Policy as a patchwork of "doable" bits of legislation and various regulations from EPA, reforms in and by Mineral Management Service, Department of the Interior and even Department of Transport and FAA in co-operation with the IATA and the airline industry. Politics is the art of the possible. The w
Friday, July 23, 2010
Invisible Paint, Invisible Senate Strategy, Dalien, China raises visibility: International Bioenergy Conference.
A Proud Moment (or two)
I am in good company, because, ”I Believe in ZERO” that is an anti-hunger campaign sponsored in part by Alyssa Milano, or at least supported by her, and lots of other fairly famous Hollywood stars (Lary Fishburn, Lisa Liu, Mia Farrow) who appear in a 30 Public service Announcement that appears on her web site, though the program it is promoting is actually the UNICEF program. You know the one you probably either took our yourself on Halloween, or sent your kids
I am in good company, because, ”I Believe in ZERO” that is an anti-hunger campaign sponsored in part by Alyssa Milano, or at least supported by her, and lots of other fairly famous Hollywood stars (Lary Fishburn, Lisa Liu, Mia Farrow) who appear in a 30 Public service Announcement that appears on her web site, though the program it is promoting is actually the UNICEF program. You know the one you probably either took our yourself on Halloween, or sent your kids
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
John Henry Doesn't Stand a Chance Today
For any of you young enough not to recognize the reference in the title, it harkens back to the early days of mechanization and automation of the labor force during the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Specifically there is a tale of a man, probably a slave, who himself was legendary for using a heavy (9 pound) sledge hammer to drive spikes into railroad ties to hold the new rails in place as the railroads were first crossing the North American continent. John Henry was pitted agai
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Obama and Congress Can't Afford to Coast into Recess
My apologies that some of this is duplication of something I wrote elsewhere, but I think the point is important enough that I want all of my readers to see it.
I fear that the Obama administration and both Houses of Congress have actually given up on getting any legislation of substance passed before the August recess, and that would be a mistake the proportions of which we haven't seen in .... well, since the same dumb move last August when they failed to press the advantage that they had
I fear that the Obama administration and both Houses of Congress have actually given up on getting any legislation of substance passed before the August recess, and that would be a mistake the proportions of which we haven't seen in .... well, since the same dumb move last August when they failed to press the advantage that they had
Monday, July 12, 2010
Eucalyptus praised for UK Biomass - See Biomass Conference:Berlin, Sept 13&14, 2010
IN RESPONSE TO:
http://industryintel.com/iiBlog/index.cfm?event=read.blog&id=2528907288&goback=.amf_1773692_27666388.gde_1773692_member_23924436
Not every climate or location will find it easy to culitvate any particular species of vegetation, but there are currently strains of algae that grow in Antarctic waters BELOW 0 degree Celsius (due to the salt content of the sea water) and others that grow in the bubbling "hot spring" geysers of Yellowstone Park, almost everywhere else is
http://industryintel.com/iiBlog/index.cfm?event=read.blog&id=2528907288&goback=.amf_1773692_27666388.gde_1773692_member_23924436
Not every climate or location will find it easy to culitvate any particular species of vegetation, but there are currently strains of algae that grow in Antarctic waters BELOW 0 degree Celsius (due to the salt content of the sea water) and others that grow in the bubbling "hot spring" geysers of Yellowstone Park, almost everywhere else is
Eucalyptus praised for UK Biomass - See Biomass Conference:Berlin, Sept 13&14, 2010
IN RESPONSE TO:
http://industryintel.com/iiBlog/index.cfm?event=read.blog&id=2528907288&goback=.amf_1773692_27666388.gde_1773692_member_23924436
Not every climate or location will find it easy to culitvate any particular species of vegetation, but there are currently strains of algae that grow in Antarctic waters BELOW 0 degree Celsius (due to the salt content of the sea water) and others that grow in the bubbling "hot spring" geysers of Yellowstone Park, almost everywhere else is
http://industryintel.com/iiBlog/index.cfm?event=read.blog&id=2528907288&goback=.amf_1773692_27666388.gde_1773692_member_23924436
Not every climate or location will find it easy to culitvate any particular species of vegetation, but there are currently strains of algae that grow in Antarctic waters BELOW 0 degree Celsius (due to the salt content of the sea water) and others that grow in the bubbling "hot spring" geysers of Yellowstone Park, almost everywhere else is
Knight and Day, Tax Credits:NO, Mandates:YES, Corn Ethanol v. Algae Fuels
Mandates vs. Tax Credits
We, especially here in the USA, seem to get money and politics so tightly entwined that we mistake money for policy. Yes, incentives can be useful, but as Vinod Khosla says, if an industry cannot be economically viable within a reasonable time frame (I seem to recall he was thinking 5 to 7 years) then it doesn't deserve continuing support. Perhaps fissile nuclear energy does deserve special considerations because of the "dangers" of both misappropriation for illegi
We, especially here in the USA, seem to get money and politics so tightly entwined that we mistake money for policy. Yes, incentives can be useful, but as Vinod Khosla says, if an industry cannot be economically viable within a reasonable time frame (I seem to recall he was thinking 5 to 7 years) then it doesn't deserve continuing support. Perhaps fissile nuclear energy does deserve special considerations because of the "dangers" of both misappropriation for illegi
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