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Drive Energy Innovation to Grow the Clean Economy Says Brookings

By Teryn Norris on July 21, 2011 Comments Off on Drive Energy Innovation to Grow the Clean Economy Says Brookings A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment, advanced biofuel, algal biofuel, biotech, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, clean economy, cleantech, cleantech economy, emerging energy technology, Energy Frontier Research Centers, Energy Innovation Hubs, energy storage, Geothermal, green careers, green collar jobs, green economy, green jobs, photovoltaic, PV, RE-ENERGYSE, renewable energy, Sizing the Clean Economy, solar energy, solar power, solar;, Teryn Norris, wave energy, wind, wind energy

Summarizes the new green jobs study by the Brookings Institute, noting that the study reports that the driving force behind the U.S. “clean economy” over the last decade has been emerging energy technologies. It is these dozen or so “hot” segments within the larger green economy where most of the growth has been concentrated. This suggests that, in order to build a cleantech economy, the U.S. should put primary emphasis on new, technology-intensive, energy-related sectors.

BIOFUEL UPDATE: Some Biofuels Worse Than Gas for Global Warming; Danforth Science Center Gets $15M in Stimulus for Biofuels; OriginOil Develops Better Way to Get Oil from Algae; FedEx: to Use 30% Biofuels by 2030

By Chris de Morsella on May 3, 2009 1 Comment algae biofuel, Barack Obama, biodiesel, biofuels, California, carbon dioxide, CO2, Corn Ethanol, Danforth Science Center, electromagnetic pulse, Energy Frontier Research Centers, Environmental Research Letters, ethanol, extract oil, FedEx, fossil fuels, Fred Smith, global warming, greenhouse gas, jatropha, kinetic efficiency algal-based fuel production, Los Angeles, maize ethanol, Michael O'Hare, Missouri, National Academy of Sciences, OriginOil, Richard Sayre, second-generation biofuels, St. Louis, switchgrass, thermodynamic efficiency, ultrasound, University of California Berkeley

In this first post of the BIOFUEL UPDATE — a newly introduced feature of The Green Economy Post — I write about how so called first generation Biofuels such as Corn Ethanol that are derived from food crops or grown on land that otherwise would be used for food crops may be worse for global warming than burning gasoline is! This reconfirms in my mind the pressing need for the biofuel sector to move towards non-food biofuel crops that also are grown on marginal land; crops such as algae, switchgrass, jatropha etc. In other news the Danforth Science Center in Saint Ls. MO gets $15 million in federal funds. Fedex announces plans to get 30% of its fuel from second generation non-food crop biofuels by 2030. OriginOil has developed a simpler and more efficient way to extract oil from algae.