All Entries in the "Opinion" Category

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “E15 ethanol: Yes or No”

E15 NO: Andrew P. Morriss, University of Illinois: “Corn-based ethanol, the type used in the United States, is a terrible transportation fuel whose production has serious environmental consequences and raises food prices for the world’s poor while delivering few net environmental benefits.Requiring higher blends of it to be put into engines not designed to handle [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “We are basically going to see a shortage of capacity within two or three years. We’re being lulled by present excess capacity.”

Ardent Energy Group: “Yemane Daniel Gezahegne, CEO of Ardent told the Ethiopian Reporter that biofuel can help Ethiopia reduce its dependence on oil imports that are costing the country more than $1 billion dollars a year…He said that after three years of research on various possible projects to reduce the oil dependency, AEG decided to [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Reality, and Codexis

REALITY – How Broad is Your Customer Platform?

Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Reality
Successful companies build core areas of content.  This may be a technology platform or a basic product upon which to expand. This core is the basic element though you may later customize your offerings,
What can you do to deal most effectively with [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “I thought you might be interested in a more current aerial of our Soperton Plant.”

Patrick Wright of Range Fuels: “I thought you might be interested in a more current aerial of our Soperton Plant to give you a better visual sense of where we stand on construction efforts on the first phase.  I also wanted to pass on that we’re on schedule to begin production of cellulosic biofuels from [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Our benchmark for success is $1 a gallon – or $40-50 a barrel on a straight volume basis.”

The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance: “The GRFA is calling on all governments to adopt biofuels friendly policies in the transport sector, and wherever appropriate, binding targets…to take into account the increasing efficiency of global biofuels production in developing policies as opposed to relying on out-of-date data and outdated arguments…to increase investment in the agricultural sector [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “[Wind, solar, geothermal] – it’s not there yet.”

Energy Secretary Steven Chu interviewed 3/13/2008 in the PBS documentary “The Big Energy Gamble“:
Q: Is California ready to turn to renewable energy—wind, solar, geothermal—to provide base load electrical power?
Chu: No, it’s not there yet. We need to solve the problem of energy distribution and energy storage before renewables becomes, for example, 50 percent of the [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “CO2 is only half the climate problem.”

Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development: “We need meaningful action in Copenhagen to address CO2, but CO2 is only half the climate problem. We also need to take fast and aggressive action to reduce the other, non-CO2 half of warming. Reducing black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, methane, and HFCs, as [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “There is no reason why this surplus corn can’t be turned into ethanol.”

Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis: “We heard it loud and clear from members of Congress today. Ethanol has a major role to play in breaking our nation’s dependence on imported oil. Ethanol can supply the clean, green transportation fuel we need today and tomorrow. But there are two things that must happen. We must raise [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “As long as there are people starving on this planet, fuel sources that directly compete with food supplies are morally flawed.”

From Smoky Mountain News: “Let’s see, automakers can get CAFÉ (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) credits for making gas guzzlers like Chevy’s suburban that can run on ethanol. That way they can rate one of those gas-guzzlers that gets 13 mpg at 23 mpg. Oh, and say goodbye to roasting ears. If we’re gonna get the [...]

Biofuels recovering as “moment of energy opportunity” arrives

If July and August were the “Summer of Algae”, then September and October are surely “the Indian Summer of Ethanol” for there has been unexpectedly warm results from the sector, and focus on the long-term “energy opportunity” inherent in the climate bill should give even more seasonal cheer to an industry battered by a plentitude [...]