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

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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

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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

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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

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