Comments on: Cleantech Joint Ventures: Chevron Biofuel & IBM Nanotech

By: The Daily Sprout « Earth2Tech

The Daily Sprout « Earth2Tech — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:30:39 +0000

[...] producer Lignol is working with pulp and paper giant Weyerhaeuser on cellulose-based biochemicals. Weyerhaeuser has a separate JV with Chevron to develop cellulosic biofuels – Green Car [...]

By: AltaRock Seals Deal to Explore for Hot Rocks « Earth2Tech

AltaRock Seals Deal to Explore for Hot Rocks « Earth2Tech — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:27:28 +0000

[...] land management strategy to tap the potential of its assets. Earlier this year the forestry firm launched a joint venture with Chevron called Catchlight Energy, focused on non-food cellulosic biofuel [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:23:38 +0000

I spent some time working in Saudi Arabia back in the 90's. May be the Saudis can see the writing on the wall as far as the supply of oil is concerned.

At any rate I think there will be a whole raft of Joint Venture initiatives coming out of this.

Best wishes

Steve

By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:23 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

By: Swapping trees for corn...

Swapping trees for corn... — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:12:30 +0000

…seems like a pretty bad idea from a carrying capacity standpoint. Without pulling scientific rabbit out of a hat, deriving liquid fuel from trees–it seems–would run into the same carrying capacity challenges that ethanol is now facing. Paper and lumber prices would skyrocket–as would the pressure to log native forests (think Amazon, Borneo, Canadian Boreal, Russian Taiga, ) to make room for plantations to grow feedstocks. The Don’t forget about the “eco-nightmare” that Palm Oil is proving to be.

There’s certainly other CleanTech ventures out there more promising than this one.