A new report released by the Congressional Budget Office yesterday afternoon reaches some eye popping conclusions about what our lavish support for old corn ethanol is costing us. For mature and mainstream corn ethanol, we the tax payers are shelling out $1.78 per gallon before ...

It should come as no surprise that the first copy of the full text of Sen. Klobuchar's energy bill  was found on a corn ethanol industry association website; the bill reads like the industry's wish list. Klobuchar says she's trying to broaden the base of support ...

That title appears to be reserved for me, even though I did not set out to earn it. It all started with the first story I wrote on Range Fuels in which I pointed out that their progress does not remotely align with their early promises. Since that initial ...

Here are five positive notes extracted from the USDA report on next generation biofuels.

As I have been traveling around New Zealand, I have had a lot of discussions about various renewable energy companies. Inevitably, there is some discussion as to why certain approaches have failed. Occasionally, companies failed simply because they were running a scam and lying about what they were doing. More ...

While other countries are rapidly producing biogas, economics plus concerns about byproduct emissions cause the US to lag behind.

9/8 Update: Lichtblick/VW announcement is now in the English version of Der Spiegel:A Power Station in Your BasementGreen-energy provider Lichtblick and German automaker Volkswagen are joining forces and promising to stir up the energy market with an unusual plan. Instead of relying on ...

After publishing the previous story, I went back and searched through my Gmail to see when I had first heard about the E-Fuel MicroFueler. It turns out that about a year ago a regular reader of my blog - and someone I had exchanged a number of e-mails with ...

I spend a lot of time thinking about the trade-offs involved with different energy options. Take petroleum, for instance. It offers great convenience, and has been relatively inexpensive for decades. Cheap petroleum has enabled numerous people a level of mobility that had never before been possible. Some of the downsides, ...

Those were the words of Helena Chum, a research fellow at NREL on the topic of advanced biofuels. Forbes just published an article on this:Biofuels Battle: Chemistry Versus BiologyA lot of the subject matter and the companies discussed will be familiar to regular readers....