Are biofuels the answer? It depends on what the question is. Biofuel Investment Prospects BusinessWeek this week has a solid article reviewing the investment landscape for biofuels. The question it tries to answer is, Who will make money in biofuels? The short answer, according to BusinessWeek: “Shell, BP, DuPont, and other majors.” Read the article [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 27, 2009
Weird Consensus on Global Warming Emerging?
Are the arguments about global warming getting weirder? Last week Bjorn Lomborg opined in the New York Times, as he has elsewhere, that cutting emissions of greenhouse gases is a waste of time. Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” which argued against the idea that global warming was getting worse, seems now to acknowledge “the [...]
April 22, 2009
Efficiency is Hot
I’ve been vacationing in Arizona and have let my posting slide. I will try to get back on track this week. To get the ball rolling, I thought I’d observe that for all the emphasis on finding new energy sources, energy efficiency is where the action is. Most analysts believe that the biggest, fastest and [...]
