I have encountered a number of people who have expressed opposition to corn ethanol because they feel that it is wasting food by turning it into a fuel. You can imagine my surprise when I found an advertisement for a “multi fuel” stove that actually burned whole corn kernels. What made it all the more …

At one point in my career, I worked in a division of HP (now part of Agilent Technologies) that made gas chromatographs and other exotic chemical analysis equipment. Gas chromatographs have many uses such as analyzing compounds in the chemical processing industries and for testing air and water quality. There was a man who would …

As biomass interest begins to take hold as gas and fossil fuel prices continue to rise, one might wonder; why is biomass better than fossil fuels? This question first crossed my mind when I realized that burning wood chips, corn, ethanol, or switchgrass (all common biomass fuels) releases Carbon Dioxide (CO2) just like burning gasoline …

While traveling through the Colorado Rocky Mountains on the way to Steamboat Springs this winter, I noticed that a growing number of evergreens have taken on a rusty shade of brown. This is the result of mountain pine beetle damage which has claimed more than a million acres of lodgepole pine trees in Colorado and …

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