Energy Biosciences Institute / by Tryg Lundquist, Ian Woertz, Nigel Quinn, John Benemann www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/media/AlgaeReportFINAL.pdf [Green Car Congress] Even with necessary advances in biology and process efficiencies, the resource potential of microalgae biofuels will always be modest mainly due to the lack of sites having all the needed resources, in particular available CO2, according to a … Continue reading »
Posted on November 2, 2010 …
Innovation and International Technology Transfer: The Case of the Chinese Photovoltaic
CERN/ParisTech, Center for Economics and Industry / by Arnaud de la Tour, Matthieu Glachant, and Yann Ménière http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/49/85/78/PDF/CERNA_WP_2010-12.pdf [Michael Levi's summary] The ratio of hype-to-facts in discussions about the Chinese clean energy sector is remarkably high. This surprisingly accessible study looks at how the Chinese PV industry has had far more success breaking into the … Continue reading »
Evaluation of Proposed Tax Changes on the US Oil & Gas Industry
Wood MacKenzie for American Petroleum Institute http://tinyurl.com/2wysrpz [Michael Levi's summary] Fine-grained analysis of how tax changes proposed by the administration would affect production. The administration has argued that since the value of the tax changes is a small fraction of the value of oil and gas produced, the impact would be minimal. So far, industry … Continue reading »
Trading Carbon for Food: Global Comparison of Carbon Stocks vs. Crop Yields on Agricultural Land
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (November 1, 2010) (doi: 10.1073/pnas.101107810) / by Paul C. West, Holly K. Gibbs, Chad Monfreda, John Wagner, Carol C. Barford, Stephen R. Carpenter and Jonathan A. Foley (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/10/28/1011078107 [Yale Environment 360] The conversion of the planet’s ecosystems into cropland — particularly in tropical rainforests — … Continue reading »
Engineering the Climate: Research and Strategies for International Coordination
US House of Representatives / by Bart Gordon, Committee on Science and Technology http://tinyurl.com/37wgj9f [PEN-e posting] This report…states that climate engineering, also known as geoengineering, can be described as the deliberate large scale modification of the earth’s climate systems for the purposes of counteracting and mitigating climate change. As this subject becomes the focus of … Continue reading »
