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The Renewable Minute: Can Green Algae Help Save the World?
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December 15, 2009. Can Green Algae Help Save the World? Hear the 1 minute show:. Corn and sugar cane, move over. Several US companies are harvesting an algae that can be converted to oil and refined into biodiesel. Amazingly, the algae can grow in waste water, where it feeds on carbon dioxide. This means the algae offers a double benefit: it eats up excess CO2 while it matures into a non-polluting fuel source. Algae has a high energy density and can produce 15 times more oil per hectare than other biofue...
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The Renewable Minute: Should US Tax Payers Bailout the Electric Car Killer?
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November 20, 2008. Should US Tax Payers Bailout the Electric Car Killer? Hear the 1 minute show:. While the US Treasury and Congress debate whether to save the Big 3 carmakers, environmentalists and renewable energy activists ponder whether General Motors, the Detroit auto manufacturing giant that killed their electric car. 10 years ago, should be given a second chance. Some say that the 100 mile-per-gallon Chevy Volt. Promised in 2010 is too little, too late. Instead of making advances in hybrids and el...
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The Renewable Minute: February 2010
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February 10, 2010. Making Waves in California. Hear the 1 minute show:. Last December, California's largest utility company PG&E committed to the development of an Offshore Wave Energy Power Plant on the shores of Humboldt County. The Canadian company Finavera Renewables has cut a deal with California to build an ocean wave energy plant 2.5 miles off the coast that will service PG&E's customers throughout northern and central California. The regulatory process that any renewable energy company must face ...
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The Renewable Minute: Clean Coal Stays in Obama's Stimulus Package
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February 25, 2009. Clean Coal Stays in Obama's Stimulus Package. Hear the 1 minute show:. Obama talked about it along with John McCain in the presidential campaign. And despite environmentally-friendly cabinet members, clean coal got 3.4 billion dollars in the US 2009 stimulus bill under the line item - Fossil Energy and Carbon Capture. All that money despite the fact that there is no electricity made through clean coal technology and right now that technology doesn't even exist. 981 FM Santa Fe. A new t...
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The Renewable Minute: December 2009
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December 15, 2009. Can Green Algae Help Save the World? Hear the 1 minute show:. Corn and sugar cane, move over. Several US companies are harvesting an algae that can be converted to oil and refined into biodiesel. Amazingly, the algae can grow in waste water, where it feeds on carbon dioxide. This means the algae offers a double benefit: it eats up excess CO2 while it matures into a non-polluting fuel source. Algae has a high energy density and can produce 15 times more oil per hectare than other biofue...
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The Renewable Minute: Out of the Red and Into the Green
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March 18, 2009. Out of the Red and Into the Green. Hear the 1 minute show:. In his Sept 28 2008 column, Friedman wrote:. Friedman is one of the freshest pragmatic visionaries to emerge from punditry in a long dry time. If I could whisper in the President's ear, I'd say three words: Friedman, Energy Czar. Check out his new book, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America. Here he speaks with Fareed Zakaria:. In fact, as part of this effort, today I've signed a presi...
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The Renewable Minute: December 2008
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December 12, 2008. Petrol Cheaper Than Ethanol? Hear the 1 minute show:. In our last program I shared what it cost the Saudis to extract 1 barrel of oil - $2/barrel or less 4 cents/gallon. Well, I stand corrected. The oil minister of Saudi Arabia was just interviewed by 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl ,and he told her on Dec. 7 of 2008 that it cost LESS than $2/ gallon. This means that with US current laws, gasoline will be more expensive because of the mandatory blending with ethanol than by itself! Today driv...
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The Renewable Minute | Driving on Air
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Listen to the Renewable Minute. Sunday mornings at 10 am on. KBAC 98.1 FM Santa Fe. 10 clean energy innovations. 10 truths about big oil. Hear the 1 minute show:. Will we see the car anytime soon in America? Very probably not, says auto industry insiders. Even if the automotive and oil lobbyists approved the idea, the air car's small, lightweight fiberglass body (which is literally glued together) would not fare well on American streets. Learn more about Guy Nègre. Visit the Air Car web site. Reporting o...
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The Renewable Minute: The Company That Killed the Electric Car Brings It Back
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November 3, 2008. The Company That Killed the Electric Car Brings It Back. Hear the 1 minute show:. Below is a review of the Chevy Volt from Bryan Walsh. Labels: alternative fuel cars. With news from the growing edge of the renewable energy revolution. Reporting on the war between big oil and renewable energy technology. To the Renewable Minute live Sunday mornings at 10 on KBAC. 981 FM Santa Fe. Listen to the latest shows. A new take on solar power. Read the Satellite Solar Initiative.
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The Renewable Minute: January 2009
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January 28, 2009. Chinese Electrics Beat the U.S. Hear the 1 minute show:. With Chevrolet’s decision to power their hybrid electric car with batteries made in China, the globe’s greatest polluter may also become the world leader in zero-emission cars. At the 2009 Detroit car expo China shocked the auto industry presenting 3 different working models of electric cars that use the same battery as the Chevy Volt, which doesn’t arrive until 2010 or later. Add that to the fact that the Chinese, as a culture, f...