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BiofuelsDigest Cellulose as a source of cheap simple sugars, and an army of underpaid microbes that convert simple sugars into green gasoline, green diesel — the drop-in fuels — as well as a base for a dizzying array of renewable chemicals. God bless Joe VC, Martha VC, and Uncle Sam who put up the [...] Florida bank regulators hold a meeting to discuss their 'investigation' of Allen Stanford Miami Herald. This is damning stuff. I hope the pretend regulators involved to go to prison. Employees for disgraced banker Allen Stanford were shredding records and sending pouches to Antigua stuffed with money — under the watch of Florida regulators. He [...] Rather than plowing corn cobs under, Iowa farmers will be able to sell them to plants that will turn them into ethanol and fertilizer. The farmers can just leave the cobs piled in the fields and have them picked up. 25,000 acres of corn fields will be used, generating about a ton of cobs [...] I’m changing the way comments are handled here, deinstalling an old comments plug-in and just using Akismet. Let me know if you notice any difference. Jumbo flying squid attack scuba divers in San Diego. Giant mysterious blob found floating off Alaska coast. The basic version of the Tata Nano costs just $2,531 and has shipped in India. Sure, it’s tiny, and no frills. But millions who want cars will now be able to afford them. It gets 56 mpg and does surprisingly well on crash tests. [...] Michael Lewis profiles Joseph Cassano of AIG Financial Products, whose arrogance, stupidity, and greed directly led to the destruction of AIG and the cratering of the world financial system. That’s not an exaggeration. Topanga State Park hiking trail The infants in Sacramento continue arguing about the California budget. Reports are they may actually have a deal soon. We’ll see. One thing for sure, budgets are getting decimated and 220 parks and beaches are scheduled to close. So just how will this done? Put a fence around it [...] Four banks went down yesterday and were seized by the FDIC, among them Temecula Valley Bank of Temecula, CA and Vineyard Bank of Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Both are in areas especially hard hit by the housing collapse. People there bought homes for less there than in the more urban areas, probably with extremely dicey mortgages [...] Amazon is watching your Kindle Amazon just mass deleted ebooks on Kindles that customers had bought and paid for. Yes, they got a refund, but that’s not really the point is it? Why even bother to buy ebooks from them if they might get zapped from afar without warning. To make matters worse for [...] |  | ||||
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