Stories tagged with "solar efficiency"

My Top 10 Energy Stories of 2007

Posted by Robert Rapier on December 28, 2007 - 6:29pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: 10 things, al gore, chevy volt, conocophillips, ethanol, food prices, ls9, nuclear energy, oil prices, peak oil, range fuels, reader submission, solar efficiency, solar power [list all tags]

First, thanks to all who contributed ideas. You may have an entirely different opinion on the most important energy stories. Feel free to share it. Many of these stories were contributed by various readers. Comments by readers are italicized. If you want to know who wrote what, you can see the entire comment thread here.

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The Future is Solar

Posted by Robert Rapier on July 27, 2007 - 10:00am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: biodiesel, green diesel, solar efficiency, solar power [list all tags]

Or more precisely, the future should be electric.

I have done a lot of research lately into various alternative diesel technologies as I was working on my renewable diesel chapter. One thing that became very clear to me is that the world will not be able to displace more than a fraction of our petroleum usage with biofuels. I already knew that this was the case with ethanol, but now I think this will be a general limitation for all liquid biofuels. Consider this sneak preview (still in draft form) from the book:

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