Last Thursday Chemrec launched the world’s first DME (dimethyl ether) fuel plant in Piteå, Sweden. The opening is a huge opportunity – Chemrec has worked with Volvo for several years to test the viability of DME as a trucking fuel. Now half of Sweden’s trucks could potentially run on DME.
St. Lucia’s government signed an agreement with US-based Qualibou Energy for the development of a geothermal plant. The plant will generate 12 megawatts of electricity by 2012, and another 108 MW of capacity will be in operation by 2015.
I admit my stomach turns whenever I see that BP logo. And 20-plus years after the Exxon Valdez spill, I have a hard time buying Exxon- or Mobil- branded gas. But participating in a boycott misses the point.
The Obama Administration told us that these oil leases were approved for drilling because they were far from the coast, were “safe,” and in the spirit of compromise, offshore drilling advocates were thrown a bone in order to get some kind of climate change legislation crammed through Congress.
“It’s about seeing the world as what it can be and not what it is.” – K.R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy. I have just returned from Brazil, functioning on two nights of little sleep, but I cannot restrain myself from gushing and hoping that the much hyped “Bloom Box,” which launched today, [...]
Today we leave for Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. It’s a trip to which we are looking forward immensely. We will be there for Carnival, and decided to book the trip last May. We visited Rio in 2004, and would love to visit again, but we decided to visit Salvador to explore its African heritage–and supposedly [...]
Everyone is on the renewable energy bandwagon. Supposed visionaries like T. Boone Pickens preached about using wind in the nation’s heartland to provide electricity for the United States’ major population centers. Here’s the problem: massively sized projects such as Pickens’ plan means building huge networks of transmission lines that are expensive and would take years [...]
“It’s a one-off hookie-mookie.” –Patsy Stone, a character on the British sit-com Absolutely Fabulous, explaining why she could not sit down in her unique virgin silkworm saliva outfit. We are always hearing about slick alternative energy solutions in the media. This past week, we have learned that reject watermelons could be a potential feedstock for [...]