Saturday, January 22, 2011

It will NOT take a decade for Algae Oil to replace Petroleum

I apologize that this is a bit of a "rant" and less polite than I usually am in public, but my frustration level is very high when I see yet another who set of pronouncements that implementing algae biofuels will take "decades".

Sometimes I think that algae oil is not just a case of "the blind leading the blind" but a case of the blind leading the blonde stupid. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I am tired of listening to these "conservative" estimates who primarily want to avoid being disappo

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Obama V. Congress, Export Ideas = Jobs

My apologies for a late post this week. I was accumulating "too much information" before I was satisfied I had "enough" to say. I finally realized that I usually say more than a mouthful with every post, so I am trying to "feed you" in smaller, bite-sized bits (and bytes).


Black Mark for Congress

When they talk about, “The buck stops here,” I sometimes wish “they” (whoever they are) were talking about my bank balance, but frankly, I haven’t been hit as hard by the economic

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Export Expansion POLICY Proposal

A Roadmap to a Greener World and to American and Worldwide Economic Recovery

EXPEDITED EASY EXPORTS = JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

On DECEMBER 7, 2010 the following announcement appeared on the www.commerce.gov website.
“Today Secretary Locke joined seven other U.S. government agencies in launching the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative, a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency exports.

Through the Initiative, the U.S. government will support

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Supercritical Water + Biomass = Oil, True Grit, The Price of Fuel

Super Critical

If it weren’t for the fact that my family already has a motto (“There’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ cookie.”) the heading above could have qualified as the guiding dictum in our house, which is my excuse for being a neurotic as I am. Other than that, however, “Super critical” is a technical, even “scientific” term for a substance that has undergone sufficient physical change (in terms of thermal energy)(aka “heat”) that its temperature would normally have

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