Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In my recent essay Vinod Khosla Debunked, I challenged Mr. Khosla to a written debate on his recent ethanol claims. Mr. Khosla e-mailed me shortly after that essay appeared, and offered to discuss the matter by phone. [Khosla is an influential venture capitalist now promoting ethanol.]
Green energy: ethanol and biodiesel / Redesigning life to make ethanol / Biofuel demand creates chain reaction in crop prices / Ethanol’s rise prompts worries of a corn crunch / Agency seeks to develop military aviation biofuel
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
When an influential person begins to affect energy policy decisions – decisions that will have a huge impact on all of our lives – we better take a critical look at the claims that person is pushing. You can’t discuss ethanol for long with an ethanol proponent without having them mention the endorsement of Vinod Khosla.
Grain Drain /
Wheat price soars as world granaries run low /
India grows a grain crisis /
Zimbabwe: ‘Power Cuts Could Reduce Wheat Yield’ /
Lester Brown: The grain needed to fill an SUV’s tank could feed a person for a year /
Food crisis in Lebanon
The dirty secret (coal) /
Biofuels to incite grain demand shift /
Big Oil’s pain
(high production costs)
Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / How the energy crisis will help my diet / India: organic farming, answer to farmers’ suicides? / Peak oil preview: North Korea & Cuba
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels / Lester Brown: supermarkets and service stations now competing for grain / Challenges emerge for wind power (costs up 70%)
Edible oil turns into bio-diesel /
Ethanol ain’t all it’s cracked up to be /
Green Energy: A Second Coming /
Focus on biofuels is foolish /
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate /
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels
US DOE Releases Roadmap for Cellulosic Ethanol /
Biofuels, Petro-fuels = Liquid Fuels (Part One) /
Patzek: The Real Biofuel Cycles /
Ethanol won’t solve energy problems /
USDA Questions Sugar-To-Ethanol Profits
Tapping the latent power in what’s left around the barnyard / Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” / Malawi: turning the future into charcoal / Malaysia weighs palm oil share for food, energy
The biofuel illusion / Big Oil’s big profits, and the big lies they’re telling to maintain them / Vietnam to squeeze biofuel from catfish to run engines / Where biodiesel is a rising star (Texas) / Indonesia turns to biodiesel / Vancouver Sun:
Ethanol misses mark as silver bullet / Washington Post: the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort
