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Autoblog: Reuters reports GM Europe as denying Thursday that it would announce engineering job reductions next week, apparently responding to this article in the Detroit Free Press, which forecasts a "Black Tuesday" next week for GM engineers in its North American operations. (via Cosmos)

Domestic Fuel: According to Paddock Talk, the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler are supporting efforts that seek to provide 25 percent of America’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2025, known as 25X’25. In meetings with Congressional leaders today, Chrysler Group President and CEO Tom LaSorda, Ford Motor Company Chairman and CEO Bill Ford and General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner gave their support the initiative, which is an effort led by the Energy Future Coalition and supported by agriculture and forestry groups to get 25 percent of the nation’s transportation energy needs met by renewable fuels by 2025. (via Cosmos)

  Freedom Blog: energies, beyond the meager efforts of the current administration (Britain is an excellent example of what is possible: see this Washington Post op-ed, World Changing, and the Economist). The poll was sponsored by the Energy Future Coalition for the 25 x ”˜25 work group, which aims for 25% of U.S. energy to be produced by alternative sources by the year 2025. (via Cosmos)

The Washington Monthly: My point is that there is a scientific consensus that global warming is real, is happening now, is happening with a rapidity that is both unexpected and unprecedented in recent geological history, is caused by human activites which are increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in the Earth's atmosphere to levels not seen in hundreds of thousands or millions of years, and is already triggering multiple self-reinforcing feedbacks; and that the climate change caused by this anthropogenic global warming is gravely dangerous to life on Earth, in the worst case threatening mass extinctions comparable to those of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 251 million years ago when 70 percent of land species and 90 percent of marine species became extinct. (via Cosmos)

  Alternative and Renewable Energy News, Resources, Weblog and Website Directory.: Created by the Nevada Legislature in 2001, this task force advises the Nevada State Office of Energy with regard to the use of renewable energy and conservation measures for the use of energy. Additionally it handles public education and outreach, studies related to the use of renewable energy and energy conservation and energy efficiency and grant distribution. (via Cosmos)

  sustainablog: At the same time, I have to agree with Missouri State University Sierra Club chapter president Simon Mahan who noted in an earlier article, "This isn't a completely renewable resource "it's coming from people throwing things away and wasting resources to begin with." Mahan did say that he thought it was good that the state was tapping an energy source that was otherwise going to waste, though. I tend to agree, and feel much like I did when I took note of the Georgia plant turning chicken poop into energy -- it's a good move for what we have in place, but let's not view it as truly sustainable. (via Cosmos)

Domestic Fuel: Here’s a very good, comprehensive report on cellulosic ethanol from Cox News Service. Good information about cellulosic, including blurbs about SunOpta’s new technology (see previous post) and Iogen’s progress in the field (also noted elsewhere on this blog). (via Cosmos)

  BioConversion Blog: I think President Bush woefully underestimated the impact and rate of change of a paradigm shift from a petroleum-based energy economy to one based on cellulosic ethanol converted from waste. Furthermore, conversion technologies are not "untested" - they are real, many have been in use in Japan and Germany for years, and they have undergone stringent emissions testing - meeting all environmental regulations by a significant amount. (via Cosmos)

Domestic Fuel: “He said that in six years we want to have competitively priced ethanol from cellulose (waste plant material),” said Reid Detchon, executive director of theEnergy Future Coalition, a bipartisan public policy group. “What that involves is moving from small scale pilot projects to full scale commercial facilities. (via Cosmos)

  BioConversion Blog: The theory goes that corn is almost a net energy loser because we put as much petroleum energy into plowing, seeding, fertilizing, harvesting, and distilling corn into ethanol as we get out of it. Switchgrass, which grows like a weed natively in parts of the country that are otherwise considered unarable, does not need nearly as much energy input to grow or cultivate with irrigation. (via Cosmos)

Cleantechblog: An independent panel of leaders in science and industry have determined the winners of Superconductor Industry Awards for 2005. Interestingly, the panel has chosen to call attention to two different dimensions of the superconductor industry: a leader in the field of high temperature superconductivity (HTS), which has applications in advanced power technologies relevant to cleantech has been chosen as “Superconductor Industry Person of the Year.” On the other side of the industry, a leader in low temperature superconductivity (LTS), which is used primarily in medical and scientific research applications, has been chosen for the “Superconductor Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.” LTS wire is also used in the massive magnet coils for the large-scale plasma physics research behind the holy grail of all cleantech concepts: zero emission, virtually limitless, fusion energy. (via Cosmos)

 [Hydrogen Fuel: News] Hydrogen Fuel: Archives: Hydrogen Fuel: Archives Hydrogen Fuel: Links March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 Hydrogen Fuel: Latest News Current Date: Idaho National Laboratory makes hydrogen for record 1,000 hours Researchers at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory used a high-temperature electrolysis stack to produce hydrogen for 1,000

 [Bioconversion.blogspot.com] BioConversion Blog: General Motors - Live Green/Go Yellow Campaign: BioConversion, n., The conversion of biomass feedstock - such as agricultural, forestry, or urban waste - into renewable energy and/or other usable products via environmentally clean technologies. This Blog is home to news and comments about emerging BioEnergy technologies as the fossil fuel energy paradigm shifts to renewable energy.

[Domesticfuel.com] Domestic Fuel: According to Paddock Talk, the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler are supporting efforts that seek to provide 25 percent of America’s energy needs from renewable sources by 2025, known as 25X’25. In meetings with Congressional leaders today, Chrysler Group President and CEO Tom LaSorda, Ford Motor Company Chairman and CEO Bill Ford and General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner gave their support the initiative, which is an effort led by the Energy Future Coalition and supported by agriculture and forestry groups to get 25 percent of the nation’s transportation energy needs met by renewable fuels by 2025.

[Thegreenlife.org] The Green Life: Publications: Don't Be Fooled: Under a watered-down definition of partnership, the campaign includes only those cases in which ChevronTexaco gets its way due to government and industry backing: Monitoring Emissions tells of the company’s donation of emissions-monitoring technology to the American Petroleum Institute, a forum not of “competition,” but of collusion to avoid regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions;

 [Forests.org] Forest Conservation Blog: Forest Conservation Archives: Forest ministers from around the world will gather today to discuss the future of the forests at the start of the Fifth Conference of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at the UN's headquarters in New York. Greenpeace is calling on governments to bring an end to the UNFF talk-shop which to date has done nothing to protect the forests nor the communities or the biodiversity that they house and create a legally binding agreement that will ensure the protection of the world's last remaining ancient forests.

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