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Oct 28, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

At Google, Chu announces grants for 'out-of-the-box' global warming projects

Full story: LA Daily News

Fulfilling a campaign pledge to tap Silicon Valley innovation to combat global warming, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Monday at Google's headquarters the first federal grants for high-risk, high-reward clean-tech ventures - including revolutionary technologies like using bacteria to create gasoline.

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Giulio Negrini

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I am hoping that we can finance all fuel sources
including Waste to Energy Gasifier that use any product than can be physically burned, can be used in the gasification process.
These include:
Municipal waste
Sewage sludge cake
Wood waste
Leather industry waste
Refuse derived fuel
Rendered products
Sterilized clinical waste
Pig litter
Poultry litter
Oil filters
Coconut (copra) shells
Palm oil waste
Rice husks
Packaging waste
Coal
Tyres
Sugar cane
Corn husks/cobs
Hazelnut shells
Olive pips
Straw
Miscanths

www.negriniconsulting.us

“Climate Realist”

Since: Dec 08

Ebensfeld, Germany

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The best source of finance is the market, people need energy and fuel to light their way, warm their homes and move their goods. Don't let government run the energy sector; they only care about cronies and kickbacks.
Giulio Negrini

Rutherford, NJ

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Brian_G wrote:
The best source of finance is the market, people need energy and fuel to light their way, warm their homes and move their goods. Don't let government run the energy sector; they only care about cronies and kickbacks.
Have you the address of an investment banker that provide access to the market for energy projects financing?
Thank you in advance
Giulio
No Clue Chu

Minneapolis, MN

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Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx...

Somebody should tell Energy Secretary Steven Chu that commencement speakers are supposed to give new graduates good advice. His Harvard commencement address last Thursday laid out some pretty poor premises for addressing the challenge of climate change:

If the world continues on a business-as-usual path, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that there is a 50-50 chance the temperature change will exceed five degrees by the end of this century.... A world 5 degrees warmer will be a very different place.

The change will be so rapid that many species, including us, will have a hard time adapting.

That sounds scary, but there are some problems with it.

One is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wisely avoids asserting a "business as usual" path, because it recognizes the difficulty in projecting world economic and population growth over a century. Instead, it describes six "marker scenarios" for global development and provides probability distributions for projected warming under each.

Under no marker scenario does the IPCC project a 50-50 chance of more than 5 degrees Celsius warming by 2100. Expected warming by scenario ranges from a low of 1.80C to a high of 4C. A more realistic representation of the over-under bet from the IPCC's current assessment report is about 3C of warming by 2100.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...

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Chu Have No Clue

Has Chu painted his roof white yet? The government is being run by lunatics.

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Giulio Negrini wrote:
Have you the address of an investment banker that provide access to the market for energy projects financing?
Thank you in advance
Giulio
Is Google broke? Schwab, SmithBarney, the list goes on for ever, there are some good internet brokers, ask someone you trust for references.
Owl Gore

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Using bacteria to make gasoline to counter global warming. Hmmm...let’s think this through. Assuming that global warming is caused by too much CO2 in the atmosphere, and that the CO2 is generated from burning hydrocarbons, and that gasoline is a hydrocarbon...

I’m wondering just how it makes a difference to the global warming theory whether the gasoline comes from the ground through distilled petroleum, whether it is made by bacteria, or whether the Good Witch of the North creates it with a wave of her magic wand.

In other words, this guy cannot even keep to the logical rubric of his own theory. This Chu guy, though, is not unique to history. Look up Trofim Lysenko. We’ve turned our national science policy into a new kind of Lysenkoism.
Northie

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No Clue Chu wrote:
Neither Taxing Nor Rationing CO2 Survives Cost Vs. Benefit Analysis
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx...
You might try a source with more scientific credibility than the editorial page of Investors Business Daily--a source that makes the Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed page seem positively communist.

If you really want a cost/benefit analysis, here is one of the best:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_sum...
newguy40

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I simply detest these lib lecturers like Gore and Chu. Is there anything worse than a smarmy hypocrite?

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said.“The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

That last bit of snark references an audit that the Department of Energy failed in its own facilities. They’re apparently unable to work modern climate-control systems to keep from air conditioning and heating facilities unnecessarily while unoccupied. Some buildings didn’t even have proper controls installed, and others just weren’t used properly. Equipment was left powered overnight, including computer monitors.

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Lake Stevens, WA

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Brian_G wrote:
..... ask someone you trust for references.
Yes, it is imperative that you NOT trust brian_g.
frank miller

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Answer to 'Owl Gore Minneapolis MN #6': Yeah it took a long time for some people to figure out that oil, peat, coal, natural gas are all 250 to 450 million years aneorobic bacteria decay bi-products of ancient dinosaurs, coniferous vege-tations impacted by high pressure sediments, moisture, and about 90F subterranean temperatures!
Hearing some of the juvenile "CO2AGW" debates on C-Span, these politicians, and the staff aids, who stand behind them, come across as if they could not care less about the real evolving science of CO2 independent GW/GC climate changes, probably not so much in this materialistic country who is only interested in whatever very short-term voting
constituents at the lowest, and dumbest level will contribute to their next campaign!
By that I mean the whole rhetoric has been about
independence from demonized Muslim Arab oil! Ironically we only get 4% and it all goes to the East Coast! The next demonized group are South Americans now outside the sphere of capitalistic
Wall Street financiers, and neo-conservative war
mongers! Never mind that its not only Venezuela's
Chavez who supplies us with oil, but our Canadian
friends to the North who so far have escaped Demo-nization! Mexico of course is beeing demonized every day!
So my friends, and 'Owl Gore' this whole postu-ring of independence from foreign oil, and thus duplicating what aneorobic bacteria began to syn-
thesize millions of years ago, is synonymous with doing nothing! God help us! Oh, I'm sorry some more intellectuals want to take 'God' from our
currency, and schools too! Well that will take away the guilt as Bill Mahr may voice!?
F.M.
F.M.

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