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Tangled Pipelines: The Muni-Biofuel Acquisition A DiversiChem Narrative By Gerald Keep, PhD 4/3/2020 Disclaimers This is not an autobiography, or a minor variation on what might have been. Many of the life and work experiences of Archie Teller parallel my own only to provide an element of realism to these works, which are fiction. This … Continue reading
Green Drinks is a national organization that gets people together each month over drinks to talk about Green developments in the community. Kyle Meister runs the Tricities chapter, and he is rotating us through each town. Last month was in Johnson City. This month, I will be presenting an overview of the various Green Technology … Continue reading
We celebrate Earth Day as if Mother Earth was a person, sometimes called Gaia, worth recognizing. This analogy between the interconnected ecosystems of the Earth and person is actually a pretty good one. We have many internal systems in dynamic equilibrium, that is to say, held in place between a balance of forces. We get … Continue reading
Everybody that is trying to promote anything, be it a business or a point of view, needs to have a very short reply to the question “what do you do”? This is called an elevator speech because you have someone’s attention for about the time of the elevator ride, and if you haven’t hooked … Continue reading
This blog is inspired by an article in the May 2014 National Geographic titled “The New Food Revolution”. It’s about how we might hope to feed the 2 billion additional souls we expect the planet to support by 2050. I’ll give you the raw scores first, then the commentary. In the USA we eat about 18% … Continue reading
Right now most old roofing shingles go to the landfill (people sometimes even pay a dumping fees). Then, more foreign oil is consumed making new asphalt shingles to replace them. What I’m thinking about is turning shingles into road paving materials — a way to use another “free” resource to reduce our foreign oil dependence. There … Continue reading
During my work on oil sources for biodiesel production, and later attending the 2013 Algae Biomass Summit in Florida, I have learned a lot about Algae. I will repost some general information from my Facebook stream at the bottom of this note for those interested. There is a lot done with algae, but current limitations … Continue reading
Okay, today our Kickstarter effort expires, so at a minimum I owe our supporters there a full-context overview of our Lignin status. Lignin is the cell walls of the wood that is left over after they extract the cellulose fibers for paper making. 350 billion pounds a year are produced, and it’s burned up into … Continue reading
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