Photo: World Economic Forum , Flickr, CC Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea — there’s little disagreement about that , especially in environmental circles. For starters, it’s an incredibly inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Al Gore: I Was Wrong About Ethanol
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On Monday, NewsBusters was the first American media outlet to report Nobel laureate Al Gore's admission that he only supported ethanol mandates in the '90s because he thought it would help his presidential ambitions. As it turns out, with very few exceptions, no major news divisions thought this was at all important: read more
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Media Mostly Ignore Gore Admitting He Only Supported Ethanol Mandates to Help His Presidential Ambitions
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Photo: Wikipedia , Creative Commons But How Will Blue on Blue Look on Screen? James Cameron is nothing if not ambitious. Avatar was a triumph of cutting edge technologies (advanced motion capture, 3D cameras, computer generated characters and sets, digital projection, etc), but it might turn out to have been a walk in the part compared to the Avatar sequel. Cameron has apparently decided to have at least part of the action take place in Pandora’s oceans, and he has commissioned an ultra-deep-sea submarine that can rea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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James Cameron Wants to Film Parts of Avatar 2 at the Bottom of the Sea
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Image credit: Wikimedia Commons As oil and natural gas reserves are being depleted, the world’s attention is increasingly turning to plant-based energy sources. These include food crops, forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, plantations of fast-growing trees, crop residues, and urban tree and yard wastes—all of which can be used for electrical generation, heating, or the production of automotive fuels…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Growing Potential and Rooted Limitations of Biofuels
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There’s a growing body of evidence that land-use conversion in the tropics, driven in part by biofuels, negates many of their benefits. Photo: Craig Morey via flickr. The UK government’s own climate advisors have recommended that current biofuel targets for transport of 10% by 2020 are too high, given concerns about their impact on tropical forests. Currently the nation gets about 2.5% of its transpor… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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UK Biofuels Target Should Be Reduced to Protect Tropical Forests: Government Climate Advisors
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Image credit: Heal the Bay I’ve wondered before whether plastic bags are a distraction , and Bonnie has marveled at the lengths people will go to to get a designer reusable grocery bag instead. But having just watched a fascinating online documentary, I am never going to look at the humble plastic bag in the same light again. For the first time ever, a team of crack wildlife film makers have tracked the “majestic” plastic bag on its … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"The Majestic Plastic Bag": Documentary on the Plastic Cycle of Life (Video)
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Image credit: Future Atlas /Creative Commons The food versus fuel debate already has many people worried that we can’t feed the world and power our cars . but some folks are claiming we can power (some of) our cars, feed the world and have a drink in the process. Karin already reported on Scottish efforts to create biofuels from byproducts of distilling , and now it looks like such efforts are paying off. The resulting fuel may even offer significant performance i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Whisky Biofuel Available in a Few Years: 30% More Power than Ethanol
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A few years ago, the state of California passed a landmark bill designed to reign in carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2020, and Governor Schwarzenegger signed it into law. Now, the trailblazing law is beginning to take effect — but wouldn’t you know it? The fossil fuel industry and conservative politicians who ally themselves with it are attempting to shut it down. In particular, a number of Texas-based oil companies have begun funneling millions of dollars into misleading campaigns designed to overturn California’s law…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Texas Oil Companies Funding Campaign to Overturn CA Climate Law
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This Car Runs on Poop: The Bio Bug
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photo: Kevin Dooley Two new pieces in NRDC ‘s Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the Congressional Budget Office , details how much money eliminating the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit; the second, from
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Ditching Ethanol Subsidy Not Only Will Save US $6 Billion, But Won’t Hurt Domestic Production
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