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Tackling Denial About The Government's Role In Technology Innovation

September 23, 2011 by Alex Trembath
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I recently engaged in a discussion with David Zetland, a former economics professor of mine, on the value of public investment in technology (NB: I feel authorized to re-publish his and my comments because they were originally published on his public blog). It's worth noting that his blog, Aguanomics, is spectacular and I enjoy reading... [read more]

March of the Elites: Why Grassroots Can't Save the Climate

July 6, 2011 by Alex Trembath
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The campaign to avert cataclysmic climate change soldiers on. Despite an aggressive global economic crisis that unequivocally stole some wind from the sails of climate action, the movement lingers, organizing marches and rallies for the coming climate revolution. But action on the climate-energy front will not occur at the grassroots... [read more]

Another Response to the DARPA Claim

February 19, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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Many of my essays here are reprinted at The Energy Collective. Following a reprint of my recent essay examining DARPA's extraordinary claim on the cost of algal fuel, a reader named Durwood Dugger (this gentleman, I presume) posted some very interesting comments that are worth reproducing here. His original comment can be found here... [read more]

Algal Oil for $2 a Gallon?

February 17, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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By now I have had at least a dozen people send me the link or ask me to comment on the recent DARPA announcement that they can produce algal oil for $2 a gallon. It is an extraordinary claim, and it deserves some scrutiny. My fellow blogger Lou Grinzo has already made a few comments, and I share his skepticism. Then again, if you... [read more]

Algae jet fuel

February 13, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Algae to solve the Pentagon’s jet fuel problem: The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that helped to develop the internet and satellite... [read more]