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...
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...
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...
As global energy consumption continues to rise, Emerson's Alternative Energy industry leader, Alan Novak, shares his thoughts on the role of consistent tax policy in growing the renewable power portion of the overall energy supply. The debate continues in the US over...
Douglas Morris, who is part of Emerson's alternative energy industry team, discusses some of the financial challenges alternative energy producers face when scaling up first of a kind technology: Advanced biofuels are a strategic part of the 21st century's strategy to...
Emerson's director of alternative energy, Al Novak, appears in a recent Forbes magazine article, The Real Promise Of Advanced Biofuels. You may recall Al from prior alternative energy-related posts. He notes that more than 100 companies are working on many different...
In a study by Hart Energy Consulting, they project: ...global biofuels demand is still projected to grow by an impressive 133% by 2020 - primarily by government policies and market mandates. At the recent Emerson Exchange meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Emerson's Al...
I caught up last week with Emerson's Al Novak. You may recall Al from some of our alternative fuels-related posts. He mentioned that they had another Alternative Fuels and Energy Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focus of this summit was on using "biomass" feed...
As yesterdays's Wall Street Journal points out in the article, Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea, oil companies have to look in increasingly difficult places to find energy. As energy producers look beyond oil and gas for other energy sources, alternative fuels...
Finding alternative sources of energy remains a large, global topic. A quick check of Google News returns almost 8,000 news items in the past month alone. The Emerson Alternative Fuels team, led by director Al Novak, is holding a fourth regional summit on December 16...
Austin Texas is home to lots of discrete manufacturing businesses with companies such as Dell, IBM, Samsung, Freescale, Advanced Micro Devices, etc. to name a few. It's not historically known for process manufacturing, which I shorthand describe as "stuff flowing...
As process manufacturers grapple with high fuel costs to create the steam for their processes, they often look to increase the use of biomass and alternate fuels in their boilers. vThe key measurement is typically the cost per pound of steam. This can be reduced by...
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