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By Patrick Cockburn in Counterpunch A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November. The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to this reporter, are likely to have an explosive political effect Continue Reading →
Growing a fungus in some of the leftovers from ethanol production can save energy, recycle more water and improve the livestock feed that is a co-product of fuel production, according to a team of researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Hawai’i.
“The process could change ethanol production in dry-grind plants so much that energy costs can be reduced by as much as one-third,” said Hans van Leeuwen, an Iowa State professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and the leader of the research project.
The project is focused on using fungi to clean up and improve the dry-grind ethanol production process. That process grinds corn kernels and adds water and enzymes. The enzymes break the starches into sugars. The sugars are fermented with yeasts to produce ethanol.
The fuel is recovered by distillation, but there are about six gallons of leftovers for every gallon of fuel that’s produced. Those leftovers, known as stillage, contain solids and other organic material. Most of the solids are removed by centrifugation and dried into distillers dried grains that are sold as livestock feed, primarily for cattle.
Utilities Owning, Buying More Wind, Planning for Carbon Regulations by Carl Levesque, American Wind Energy Association Texas, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Utilities are increasingly embracing wind — owning their own facilities, buying wind-generated electricity from other producers, and even factoring future carbon regulation into their financial equations, said expert participants on a utility panel at WINDPOWER Continue Reading →
Celebrating World Environment Day, Environment Minister Peter Garrett today announced three new initiatives to help householders save energy and money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
They are:
From the ABCÂ
ALI MOORE, PRESENTER: Well, in what’s likely to be welcome news for the coal seam gas sector, the Federal Government is looking at another round of tax breaks for big multi-billion dollar gas developments. The Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says Treasury Secretary Ken Henry’s review of the tax system will look at barriers to investment in downstream gas and why a number of projects are yet to get off the ground.
The last Federal Budget cancelled a long running tax break given to the North West Shelf project in its initial stages 25 years ago.
I spoke to Martin Ferguson, who’s also the Minister for Tourism, from our Canberra studios earlier this evening.
From The Mail
The phrase ‘nine meals from anarchy’ sounds more like the title of a bad Hollywood movie than any genuine threat.
But that was the expression coined by Lord Cameron of Dillington, a farmer who was the first head of the Countryside Agency – the quango set up by Tony Blair in the days when he pretended to care about the countryside – to describe just how perilous Britain’s food supply actually is.
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| Crisis: Britain’s food supply is in peril |
Long before many others, Cameron saw the potential of a real food crisis striking not just the poor of the Third World, but us, here in Britain, in the 21st Century.
The scenario goes like this. Imagine a sudden shutdown of oil supplies; a sudden collapse in the petrol that streams steadily through the pumps and so into the engines of the lorries which deliver our food around the country, stocking up the supermarket shelves as soon as any item runs out.