It’s Not Easy Going Green

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 4th at 08:04 PM  | 

It sounded like such a good idea. Back in 2009, NRG Energy Inc. hatched a plan to “go green” using switchgrass and sorghum as boiler fuel supplement. It was hoped that it might replace up to 10% of the coal which fires its Big Cajun II power plant in New Roads, LA. All the elements were in place: land near the plant (up to 30,000 | Read More »

Update from the Alternative Fuel Front

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 20th at 01:55 PM  | 

Remember $4.00 gasoline? (Hint: It was just one year ago…) How there was no need to Drill, Baby, Drill because we needed to get Big Oil interested in pursuing alternative fuels? Besides, a new discovery in ANWR or on the 85% of the Outer Continental Shelf that is currently off-limits to exploration would be five, maybe ten years away from commercial production, so what’s the | Read More »