Al Gore's renewable energy scheme…crop residues may not be a renewable resource…the Model Fuels Consortium

What follows is an extensive analysis of where the various alternative fuels stand with respect to one another and to the incumbent fossil fuels.

We have been in the midst of researching algal biofuels for a number of months. Before we proceed further with this endeavor, we wish to determine the market potential for such a study.

I guess it takes a fair degree of audacity to speculate on the pricing of oil in world markets several years out, but I think that in a journal devoted to alternatives one needs to undertake the exerc

T. Boone Pickens and wind…Thorium nuclear reactors…High altitude wind…

Announcing a New Advanced Biofuels Forum at www.cleanenergyjournal.com

I suppose the biggest news of last week was the announcement on the part of the UK newspaper The Guardian of having obtained a leaked copy of a report by the World Bank on biofuels production.

This weeks roundup will be short, not because nothing happened, but because nothing epochal happened, and because my time was taken up by the production of two other articles.

This is another think piece, and, it is to be hoped, one that will stimulate much further thought.

Earlier this week I was invited to listen in on a phone conference given by academic economist Robert Kaufmann on the price oil.