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19/3/2013
The United States could cut petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 for light-duty vehicles through the use of alternative fuels and strong government policies aimed at overcoming high costs and influencing ...
18/3/2013
A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and small trucks -- via a combination of more ...
16/3/2013
Five years ago, rural America was giddy for
ethanol.Backed by government
subsidies and mandates, hundreds of
ethanol plants rose among the golden fields of the Corn Belt, bringing jobs and business to small towns, providing farmers with a ...
27/2/2013
The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil and natural gas from their prices.
Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to conservative estimates from the ...
20/2/2013
A new plant is rising from the fields around Emmetsburg, Iowa--one that will ferment into
ethanol the cobs, stems and husks of corn from nearly 50,000 hectares of farmland. Such cellulosic
ethanol offers a way to get the energy and environmental ...
25/1/2013
With the world population growing at a rate of around 80 million people a year, it is estimated that by 2030 the world will need 30% more water, 40% more energy and 50% more food. That's not just to feed, water and power the new arrivals, but ...
14/1/2013
Food, water and energy systems are inextricably linked, and as recent events like droughts, oil spills and increasing food prices make clear, the U.S. can no longer view these systems in isolation. A new paper from the GRACE Communications ...
9/1/2013
The fiscal cliff is a tragic example of an all-too-common malady: managing by living crisis to crisis. In this case, it was almost entirely a self-created crisis, but the underlying financial problems, such as increasing healthcare costs and ...
4/1/2013
The Congressional budget deal brokered this week kept tax breaks in place for a variety of industries, but biodiesel got something even better: a retroactive reinstatement of a dollar-a-gallon credit going back to January 2012, when it ...
27/11/2012
“A new moment for mankind.” That was how Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described his country’s biofuel boom in March 2007. Back then, Brazil was the poster child of
ethanol fuel, its output second only to that of the ...
15/10/2012
Without water, crops cannot grow and the world cannot eat. And this year, there hasn't been enough of it.
The US has seen its worst drought in more than 50 years, vast swathes of Russia have been left parched by lack of rain, India has ...
5/10/2012
'It's possibly,' someone remarked to me this week, "one of the worst things ever to come out of Brussels.' Quite a condemnation, everything considered -- and all the more so for coming from an Action Aid campaigner against poverty and climate ...
23/9/2012
It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government
subsidies that solar and wind power demand.
"The free market has ...
25/7/2012
For the second time in five months, the U.S. government is being sued to overturn a law that forces oil refiners to use a scarce biofuel.
Under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, refineries were required by the Environmental Protection ...
25/7/2012
Yasuyuki Ikegami has been in great demand since the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. A specialist in marine energy, Ikegami has spent years figuring out how to generate electricity from the power of waves and tides. One year after ...
22/7/2012
YOU don’t have to be a climate scientist these days to know that the climate has problems. You just have to step outside.The United States is now enduring its warmest year on record, and the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all ...
6/7/2012
Big oil and natural gas companies may vastly outspend and outman the renewable fuels industry on Capitol Hill but the general gridlock in Washington gives advocates of wind,
ethanol and other new-age sources the upper hand in the growing battle ...
2/7/2012
Big oil and natural gas companies vastly outspend and outman the renewable fuels industry on Capitol Hill, but the general gridlock in Washington gives advocates of wind,
ethanol and other new-age sources an edge in the growing battle to overhaul ...
16/6/2012
A surge in domestic oil and natural gas production and a decline in national political support for grain-fed biofuels threatens to cripple Iowa’s more than $20 billion renewable energy industry just as it has matured into a major force in the ...
11/6/2012
What is green? What is a viable economic alternative? What is reasonable and will do more bad than good? Welcome to Biofuels. Two scientists are challenging the currently accepted norms of biofuel production. A commentary published today in GCB ...
18/5/2012
After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with the first of a new generation of production facilities about to come on line.
The new facilities are designed to take biofuels beyond ...
17/4/2012
Republican strategists predict that Mitt Romney could intensify his attacks on the president's energy policies, including perhaps on past efforts to reduce carbon emissions, now that the former Massachusetts governor is accelerating into the ...
8/3/2012
The federal government spent $24 billion on energy
subsidies in 2011, with the vast majority going to renewable energy sources, according to a government report.Renewable energy and energy efficiency accounted for $16 billion of the ...
7/3/2012
In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices. Now researchers are projecting that by 2013, food prices will soar to unparalleled heights, causing widespread hunger in the most ...
10/1/2012
If there is an epicenter of the nation's farmland boom, it can be found here amid the rolling hills of northwest Iowa.
A fortune is being plowed into the dirt of Sioux County, where well-heeled farmers and wealthy investors compete ...