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June 29th GreenMonk Energy and Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on June 30, 2009 · 0 comments

in GreenMonkTV, energy, sustainability, video

Here is the chatstream from yesterday’s Energy & Sustainability show (above) – there were a couple of technical hitches which I have now sorted out and which shouldn’t present problems next week:
03:31 Tom Raftery: Do we have audio & video
03:32 cgarvey: yup, both working
03:34 SukiFuller: I’m gonna be listening but not able to [...]

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The high price of oil is not the problem – it is the solution to the actual problem of anthropogenic climate change

by Tom Raftery on June 17, 2008 · 6 comments

in biofuels

Photo Credit Future-PhD
Chris Morrisson has a post on the VentureBeat blog extolling a heavily self-funded startup called Algenol Biofuels which is using algae to produce ethanol for use as a fuel.
The company is about to build a refinery in Mexico to produce:
a jaw-dropping billion gallons a year of ethanol by the end of 2012
In the [...]

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