The Daily Sprout
“The Never-Ending Story”: A New York Times journalist blogs his ongoing struggle in trying to report the climate crisis and climate critics. The post is full of links to his articles and has over a hundred interesting comments – NYTimes.
Cellulosic Ethanol May Never Be Viable: Three Iowa State University ag economists have constructed a biofuels model and doubt cellulosic ethanol will get off the ground, let alone meet the biofuel goals set by the federal government – Grist.
SiGNa Gets Oil Money for Green Chemistry: SiGNa Chemistry has expanded its green chemistry line with a license for a new catalyst from Exxon Mobil. The technology will be used to make polymers and rubber – Cleantech Media.
Standard Solar Gets $3.5M: The solar service provider will use the $3.5 million from Truecast Capital to expand it’s D.C.-area residential and commercial solar business – Renewable Energy World.
Leader Ventures Invests $3M in LS9: The VC has put $3 million of equipment financing into LS9, a maker of hydrocarbon fuels derived from a variety of feedstocks – Green Car Congress.
Forget Cow Power, Go WhalePower!: A Toronto-based company is modeling their fan blade designs on the notched fins of humpback whales which could lead to better wind turbines – TreeHugger.
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.
ethanol isn’t very efficient to produce simply because of the massive quantities required. made sense but anyone could have figured that it was a bad idea to try to get a renewable fuel source from food.