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...
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An Uncertain Future for the Renewable Fuels Standard 2 (RFS 2)
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...
Advanced Biofuels: Why Feedstock Neutrality Matters
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...
GTL, In Fact, Stands for Something Other than Gym-Tan-Laundry
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...
The Changing Global Energy Mix
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...
A New Lifeline for Advanced Biofuels
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...
Coal is Not a Four-Letter Word (At Least Not that Kind)
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...
Trends in U.S. Biomass Energy Production
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...
Proving Brazilian Biofuel Processing Technologies
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...
Addressing the Challenges of the Renewable Fuel Standards Regulations
U.S. refiners have been changing the way they make the fuels we use every day as a result of federal regulations. Emerson's Patrick Truesdale and Chris Connor will present at the 2011 Emerson Exchange on the Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2). These regulations became...
Increasing Role for Renewable Photovoltaic Power Generation
Photovoltaic power generation technology has been available for decades. Emerson's Thomas Snowdon shares how advancements in this technology in recent years will soon make it, without subsidies, cost competitive with fossil fuel-based power generation. Recent news...
Technical Challenges in Scaling First of Kind Technologies
Douglas Morris, who is part of Emerson's alternative energy industry team, writes a follow-up to his recent post about the challenges alternative energy producers face when scaling up first of a kind technology: In my last post, I discussed some of the financial...
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