The solution to 7 Billion Consuming Resources

On 11/01/2011, the world population hit 7 billion, a warning to the world’s resources: limited food, absolute water scarcity, increasing consumption of non-renewable oil.


One solution: technological advancements and a free market.

• Desalination: to get fresh water from the sea!
• Hybrid and high yield food: Transgenic plants?
• Alternative energy- biofuels,natural power sources like solar and wind may be an alliterative before our fossil fuels run out.

All quotes from U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Touts Mass. Biofuels Sector

QUOTE from: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Touts Mass. Biofuels Sector

$11+ trillion in biofuels production by 2050: Internatio​nal Energy Agency

$11+ trillion in biofuels production by 2050: Internatio​nal Energy Agency

ARPA-E 2011 Keynote: Secretary Steven Chu

News: Secretary for the US Department of Energy, Steven Chu, discusses the big picture of how the United States uses Energy and why innovation in clean technology is the key to Winning the Future.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHVOoUDpN4

The latest MIT Sloan report on "Sustainability: The‘Embracers’ Seize Advantage"

Here is the latest MIT Sloan report on "Sustainability: The‘Embracers’ Seize Advantage"


Is it "W" shape for sustaibable business development and investiment?

Farmers now delivering biomass to POET's Project LIBERTY storage site

A news from Renewable energy world.com "Farmers now delivering biomass to POET's Project LIBERTY storage site ", indicating Poet is making progress on cellulosic ethanol. Hopefully it is not just a trial or testing!

U.S. EPA approves E15 for 2001 and newer vehicles (news)

One more srep forward, U.S. EPA approves E15 for 2001 and newer vehicles!

Cellulosic biomass pretreatment reactor

A news from Biorefiningmagazine.com reported that  a bench-scale horizontal reactor designed and manufactured by AdvanceBio Systems LLC will be in use by Penn State University for their cellulosic pretreatment research. This is great! If looking at the reactors that have been used in bench top studies on biomass pretreatment, most of them can not be use to run the large particle size (un-milled biomass) with good high shear mixing at high solids content.

"climate change”: "J-O-K-E" or "J-O-B-S"?

It was the hottest topic sevral years ago, but why not now?
It is crucial to the survival of the world with the investment on energy; but why is it cooling down?


"Aren’t We Clever?" The author gets it but whoelse not?

China Overtakes US as World's Largest Energy User

According to IEA, China Passes U.S. as World's Biggest Energy Consumer.

Good news or bad news?

To the global energy resources, it is bad news because it is a giant engine of global energy-demand growth

To the renewable energy developers, it is good news because it means challenges and opportunities, which may stimulate the technological development under the current cool-down environment for renewable energy.