In the current issue of Scientific American, there is an article with nice multiple graphics to educate people about today’s higher cost of producing energy as measured by the EROI. Energy return on investment (EROI) is the value used to represent the energy obtained per unit of energy spent to obtain it. The article titled, [...]
Colorado Sunflower Field. Photo by Brittany Seydel. Here are my chosen news links for this week…. ● Why is Brazil the new America? Hint: water. While the US farm belt is mining its groundwater, Brazil is expanding production and lowering the cost of raising food. (CSM) ● US farmers using more pesticides on ‘superweeds’ …the [...]
The following 15 minute video is a talk by scientist Jonathan Trent, about his vision for biofuel production from algae in floating pods on the ocean. There are numerous versions of algae systems being studied today and so far none is close to economically viable, yet there is great hope for figuring out a way [...]
