Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops Novozymes: New enzyme cuts cost of next-gen biofuels USDA bets (again) on advanced biofuels Poet s cellulosic ethanol strategy:
and fueled by pure, unrefined canola oil, and in a world first, urine will be collected from purpose-built lavatories to be used as soybean
Bye bye imported oil? New tech converts junk plastics into fuel Solar-powered trash cans World s cheapest light bulb Printable paper solar panels New battery can recharge itself using sunlight The future
Therefore, the profit on the same barrel of oil will be higher when it's produced from a high EROI source than
which a certain amount of energy in the forms of natural gas and diesel fuel are used to create an equivalent amount of energy in the form of ethanol,
thin enough to be swamped by the volatility of both corn and oil prices, as indeed it was in recent years.
One example King and Hall offer is that a 60 percent drop in EROI from 25 to 10 resulted in a 150 percent increase in oil prices, from $19 a barrel to $48.
having fallen from around 100 in the early days of oil (Cleveland, 2005). Even in the few prospects where we can still drill a well that will produce over 100,000 barrels of oil per day,
like the deepwater Gulf of mexico, the EROI varies from 4 to 14 (Moerschbaecher, 2012). Hall and Murphy have also found that a given fuel must have an EROI of at least 3 to deliver a net benefit to society because of the associated infrastructure needed to support
In the words of Heun and de Wit, There are not perfect and scalable substitutes for oil at the present time.
In so many ways, conventional oil is special. We are losing the race between oil depletion and the pursuit of substitutes and better extraction technology.
Drilling technology cannot overcome depletion because depletion is giving us declining EROI and intolerably high prices for substitutes.
The researchers conclude that a smooth transition away from oil is unlikely without a deliberate policy effort to steer us toward alternative energy sources
Bedazzled by the sheer magnitude of unconventional resources trillions of barrels of oil equivalent! they cannot see how the low energy return of some (not all of those resources will ultimately force us to leave them in the ground as their cost of production proves intolerable.
The source is almost 100 percent oil. But typically--behind driver wage--fuel is second highest expense.
Every time you burn diesel fuel you re generating greenhouse emissions. So just by managing our resources wisely,
Most of them also burn diesel fuel. In different applications, some will use all electric engines.
Burning 100 gallons of diesel fuel emits 1 metric ton of carbon emissions. This year we will ship over 1 million loads via intermodal service.
The wood in the pyrolysis process comes out in this liquid--pyrolysis oil. They were extracting the chemicals for food additives from it.
In petroleum refining, there's a technique called FCC--fluid catalytic cracking--that makes gasoline, predominantly.
Turning algae into oil the NASA way Scientists create high-capacity batteries from algae Pressure-cooking method makes an algae-based biofuel Plane takes first flight on 100
Green algae used to make plastics that dont contain petroleum The algae bloom of alternative energy Video:
sustainable hydrogen from algae could reduce U s. dependence on foreign oil Solazyme founder Harrison Dillon:
Sora Stoda 21 years old decided to start a potato chip factory using local potatoes and local oil.
which panelists discussed the impact of rising oil prices on the cost of plastic building materials;
Blaine Brownell Assistant Professoruniversity of Minnesota School of architecture There are a lot of plastics that come from oil, but  were increasingly seeing plastics that come from renewable material.
Jay Bolus Vice president of Technical Operationsmbdc Alternatives to petroleum based plastic: Corn-based, cellulose-based, soy based, sugar based.
or to use petroleum-based plastic; or to switch to steel and aluminum. Recycling came about as a waste management strategy;
and derived by something other than petroleum? Green chemistry is all about thinking about end of life considerations before you design the molecule and put it into the environment.
but manmade materials, most derived from oil today, will fall across some spectrum of green.
I would say its not just transiting from petroleum-based to bio-based. The first thing we have to do is make people aware that alternatives exist
At the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, a clever engineer named Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his namesake engine with peanut oil.
But in the age of cheap petroleum, biofuels could never really overtake gasoline as the fuel of choice.
can be converted into diesel fuel and also into jet fuel. It has essentially no impurities and is essentially indistinguishable from normal diesel and jet fuels.
I was responsible for purchasing oil and selling crude products--is: how do you make money in this business?
and that are often found in oil-rich kingdoms or with names like Trump on them.
Drones will play a role in oil and gas exploration. Utilities can also use drones to survey power lines.
BP scraps cellulosic ethanol plant plans Turning pine trees into jet fuel Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops
A zero-fat soybean oil called Plenish under its Pioneer brand in 2012. We have a unique capability to have both science in advanced materials as well as biotechnology,
the company is partnering with oil giant BP on commercialization in the U s. and Brazil.
and fats/oils, and not significant for soda/juice. Comparing extremes, healthier diets cost $1. 48 per day more than the least healthy ones.
Fuhr and Pociask forecast that IT applications could save 555 million barrels of oil by year 10,
or roughly 11%of the oil imported into the US today. In general, the evidence presented in this study shows that broadband-driven technologies can make a sizable contribution to reducing carbon emissions,
In January we are going to be announcing an oil collection service to work with a local producer of biofuels, DC Biofuels.
They will use the oil to create fuel that will be used by D c. Public schools and D c. Public works.
Right now, the oil is being reused for cosmetics or animal feed--but we think this is a better use.
Startup turns landfill-bound plastics into oil E coli bacteria that eats switchgrass to make fuel Dead people power:
With partial funding from the German government, Lufthansa has purchased 800 tons of blend from Finland s Neste Oil for the 6-month, â 6. 6 million biofuel program.
and they have problems with extraction and the development of the oil sands. We have a joint development center with Conocophillips in Doha, UAE.
so it can be used for cooking oil and in animal feed. However, when the GM CROPS persist in the wild
tapioca and wheat, says algae-based plastic could replace up to 50 percent of petroleum content found in traditional plastic resin.
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Ground zero in the energy-water nexusthe oil and gas producing countries of the Middle east may be sitting pretty in fossil fuels,
Other Middle Eastern oil and gas producers are considering similar options. UAE's next door neighbor Qatar has the world's third-largest gas reserves
If all of that oil were sold at current Brent benchmark prices (it wouldn't be but just as a point of reference), that's $115 million a day in lost revenue, just to make fresh water.
Fifteen to 20 percent of global oil use is there and once it's consumed it's not going to be there anymore.
mishandling of my consumption of electricity, water, oil and gas? he asked rhetorically. Dubai also started to do a little bit of relief of the subsidy that has been in,
High oil prices: Fortunately and unfortunatelyhigh oil prices are changing our world in many ways;
some for the good, and some for the worse. Contemplating these changes, I'm reminded of a book I loved as a child, Fortunately,
Such it is with high oil prices. Mass transit Last week, I wrote that drivers in the U s. will be forced to simply hand over the keys to new drivers in developing countries as competition for oil increases.
But there are other reasons too, like lower costs and less stress. Bus and train ridership increased by 2. 3 percent in 2011 over 2010
which are forced by high oil prices but which aren't easily detected in official data.
Airlines As ever, high oil prices hurt the airlines most of All the last time global oil prices were this high was in the first half of 2008,
Southwest Airlines, one of the few carriers who hedged their oil price risks properly in 2008
But at today's oil prices, merely being unprofitable is doing very well indeed. Air france-KLM reported a $1 billion loss for 2011,
when the global supply of oil will be 30 percent or more lower than it is today,
As we progress into the era of expensive oil, we cannot continue having our food shipped an average 1, 500 miles from the farm to our tables.
High oil prices and the North american recession are destroying the labor arbitrage that once made it attractive to offshore manufacturing to Asia,
Oil and the End of Globalization. Soaring transport costs suddenly change the entire economics of importing everything from cheap labour markets half way around the world,
So much so that triple digit oil prices will soon breathe new life into our hollowed-out rust belts,
and that when oil prices hit $150 a barrel, it begins to reverse offshoring prompted by labor costs.
Peak oil and the new era of higher oil prices may mean that you can't just flit off to Vegas for a weekend on the cheap anymore,
A magic elixir that will wean the U s. off of foreign oil without sending the economy into the dark ages.
The remaining amount includes 1 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel fuel and four billion gallons of advanced renewable biofuels other than ethanol from cornstarch and that achieve a lifecycle threshold of at least 50 percent.
The NRC expects the U s. to meet conventional biofuel and biomass-based diesel fuel production mandates.
A world characterized by high oil prices, technological breakthroughs and a high implicit or actual carbon price.
So now it s that constant process of trying rid my life of petroleum. And getting a good understating of my own carbon footprint.
More than 85 percent of homes are heated with oil. So part of our struggle is to get ourselves off fuel,
Most municipal buildings are running on oil. Natural gas is not only cleaner but it s cheaper.
It's called bio-oil. It's a low-grade crude oil substitute. We can upgrade it to a point where it can run a diesel generator.
Beijinger s penchant for fried food means that the city s waste is surrounded by a layer of cooking oil,
ground into paste with a bit of thyme oil as a binder (and less recognizable than when served alive).
Watch for Kraft to become an even bigger activist related to this commodities, as well as palm oil. Deforestation will be another place it places its sustainability investments.
and approximate the emissions of the much-maligned oil mined from tar sands. The numbers were intended for release in the spring when the EU presents new proposals on biofuels,
The EU's default value for measuring carbon efficiency for oil from tar sands is 107g CO2 equivalent per megajoule of fuel (CO2/mj.
Palm oil-105g Soybean â oe 103g Rapeseed â oe 95g Sunflower â oe 86g Palm oil with methane capture â oe 83g
By reducing reliance on petroleum-based materials and using its own agricultural scraps as feedstocks for new bottles,
and Pepsico. The new bottle will use the bio-based materials to reproduce the molecular structure that is used in petroleum-based polyethylene terephthalate (aka PET),
Meanwhile,  less than one-tenth of 1 percent of renewable fuels produced next year will come  from cellulosic ethanol-- the transportation fuel panacea expected to wean the U s. off of foreign oil
deliciously replaced by oil. Still, potato chip factories need a lot of water to make their salty snacks.
We are looking at it with a new lens around where we get all our key ingredients such as sunflower oil for our crisps,
It also means using healthier oils and fewer fats and sugars. We re conscious of the lifestyle change of our consumers,
and is made of starches, proteins, olive oil, minerals and vitamins. It will cost about $3 per meal,
They are working on things like better batteries to replace oil used in transportation. And they are doing natural gas research.
'pursues variety of reactorsa nuclear reactor to clean up the oil sands industryas thorium tests begin in Norway,
Cobalt is trying to replace some of the petroleum and petrochemical materials in anything from gasoline to plastics to paint.
As farming became more mechanized and reliant on petroleum based inputs, it became a more independent and solitary career.
we need to prepare ourselves for a future without cheap oil and gas
Biohackingmany of the world's great innovators started out as hackers people who like to tinker with technology
The U s. uses roughly 21 million barrels of oil per day. According to a recent U s. Census bureau report, 2. 8 million people have so-called oeextreme commutes,
Public transportation is cited often as a cure for oil addiction. In the United states, rise of disabled elderly Americans will strain public transportation systems.
Developing nations growing hungrier for scarce oil supplies, coupled with concern over the environment in developed nations,
will signal the end of the oil era. Petroleum alternatives now comprise about 17%of global energy use
and are growing at just 30%per year. By 2020, only 30%of global energy is likely to come from alternative energy sources.
As a replacement for oil, algae is extremely practical, utilizes mostly cheap and abundant resources like saltwater and wasteland,
the cost of halophytic algae biofuel is less than the cost of petroleum trading at $70 per barrel or higher.
900 litres of water if it comes from palm oil. Advances in bioechnology have helped us push food production to its limit.
or palm-oil production releases large quantities of stored carbon into the atmosphere. Grazing ruminant animals, like cattle and sheep, also contribute significantly to climate change.
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