Month May 2010

Renewable petroleum

KiOR’s President Fred Cannon described KiOR’s technology as being able to crunch into seconds the millions of years that it takes to carbonize biomass (turn it into fossil fuels) in nature. Cannon said the company’s catalyst — a fine white…

Government of, by, and for BP

Congress just can’t seem to get it together to raise the liability cap for BP to $10 billion. The mere fact that Congress has been unable to accomplish something as politically obvious as asking companies like BP to pay more…