Emerson's Alan Novak, leader of the alternative energy and metals & mining industry teams, offers his thoughts on the reemergence of $100 USD/barrel oil. While no one was looking, oil (West Texas Intermediate - WTI) has slowly crept back to $100/barrel (WTI...
Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the alternative energy team, shares his observations from the recent Advanced Biofuels Markets conference and Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) board meeting. The 2011 Advanced Biofuels Markets conference and ABFA board meeting...
Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the alternative energy industry team, shares his perspectives on author Daniel Yergin's book on energy security and efficiency. Just about every day, in just about every media outlet, you will likely find some article or opinion...
Emerson's Alan Novak, who leads the alternative energy industry team, shares his thoughts on the future of the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard 2. When the Renewable Fuels Standard 2 was put in place as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, it was...
Should we be picking the winning alternative energy feedstocks right now? Emerson's Douglas Morris explores this question in today's guest post. I'd like to start this blog post with a question: When you hear the term biofuels, what typically comes to mind? Chances...
Emerson's Douglas Morris, a member of the alternative energy team, shares his thoughts on the developments in natural gas to liquid conversion to help diversify U.S. sources of energy. Even though I'm from New Jersey, I'm not going to discuss the daily ritual of...
I saw a tweet from Control magazine editor-in-chief Walt Boyes, which alerted me to a presentation that I needed to get my hands on. Emerson's Bob Sabin, a member of the industrial energy team, was kind enough to provide me a copy. You may recall Bob from several...
Emerson's Thomas Snowdon, a member of the Power & Water Solutions team, shares his thoughts on the changing global energy mix. A recent Power Magazine article, Global Gas Glut, made much of the prediction that shale gas production and its use is likely to grow...
Douglas Morris from Emerson's Alternative Energy team comments on the recent announcement by the U.S. government to use the Defense Production Act to spur the development of advanced biofuels. In the past year, the advanced biofuels industry has hit a bit of a rough...
Emerson's Alan Novak, leader of the Alternative Energy team offers his thoughts on the use of coal as a source of energy: The current economic climate has slowed, but not stopped, the growth in global energy demand. "Slowed" is relative, as countries such as China...
Emerson's Dennis Tkacs, a strategic program manager in the Power & Water Solutions division, shares his thoughts on the use and trends biomass-based energy production in the United States. While a significant amount of energy is generated from biomass, not too...
Douglas Morris from Emerson's alternative energy industry team discusses biofuel investment by multinational companies in Brazil. Biofuels, whether you are talking about the traditional or advanced variety, is a favorite topic for debate in the United States. Most...
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