Saturday, February 26, 2011

"Baked Montana", Dinner with Obama, Biomass Crop Assistance

Not Long Ago, and Not Far Away …

In a land known as “The Bay Area”, President Obama met with high tech industry leaders, especially the entrepreneurial ones, to discuss how to create jobs. Of course, that is not really what President Obama meant. He didn’t mean, “create jobs in Kenya and Nepal,” he was seeking ways to create jobs for Americans in America. A person would have to presume that you could include the idea of repatriating some of the tech support jobs from the Phili

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Budget Cuts Preview, or NOT?

Black History Future

It's not as confusing as it sounds. See our PRESS RELEASE here.

BIG Money and Bigger Money

The very large numbers involved in any discussion of the US Federal Budget, the Budget Deficit, and especially the “National Debt” get tossed around a lot these days. A friend sent me a link to a video that shows how misleading some of those numbers are because we just don’t have a human scale of perspective to draw on that really gives a true sense of proportion.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Obama & the SOTU Flashback, Clostridium in my Kitchen = Biobutanol? State of the BioButanol (revised?)

Do You Remember Zippo?
Zippo was the "wind-proof" cigar and cigarette lighter design from the 1930's and 1940's that lasted a very long time, until butane disposable lighters became popular.
Well, for those who haven't been following my column for a while may not know that I am a "fan" of a biofuel made from the same "base" molecule as butane. It is called butanol, or on our case biobutanol. The big news in butane happened a few years ago (who says there's not such thing as "old news"? It'

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