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	<title>Agroblogger &#187; Alternative Energy</title>
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		<title>The Photosynthetic Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/27/the-photosynthetic-ceiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared-Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul-Stamets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    The concept of a &#34;photosynthetic ceiling&#34; was first introduced in Jared Diamond's book Collapse. Though Diamond certainly did not pioneer the idea, as far as I can tell he was the first to use the easily digestible term &#34;photosynthetic ceiling&#34;, often referred to in other studies as human appropriation of terrestrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pyrolysis</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/10/pyrolysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agri-Therm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pyrolysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Continuing on the idea of agricultural wastes, we move to pyrolysis, a term used to describe the conversion of biomass (and non-biological waste products, as well) into constituent elements by exposing it to moderate temperatures (~500ºC) in the absence of oxygen for short periods of time (fast pyrolysis). Though general research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Energy Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/16/the-energy-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy-gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew-Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable-energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    For the past couple of years I've been following closely the words and ideas of Peak Oil guru Matthew Simmons. Simmons is a conservative energy analyst who, after taking a close look at the available data, has concluded that Peak Oil is upon us. Simmons is so convinced by his own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Kidding&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/02/22/just-kidding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/02/22/just-kidding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy-independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy-week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President-Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The Bush administration has declared that this week is &#34;energy week&#34;, as the President and his cabinet travel the country to tout the programs that will, in the President's words &#34;help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/02/01/addicted-to-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/02/01/addicted-to-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy-conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fossil-fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle-East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil-addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil-imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President-Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state-of-the-union]]></category>

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    Last night the President admitted: &#34;America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.&#34; The President went on to say that &#34;the best way to break this addiction is through technology.&#34;

    
     According to President Bush, his proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Warming Source</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/25/the-warming-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/25/the-warming-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions-neutral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green-building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realestate-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable-design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
     
    
    

    &#160;Think the CO2 coming out of your car's tailpipe is the primary source of global climate change?  Think again.  While the sickly obese Hummer has become the poster child for global warming, our homes and office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fat Man&#8217;s Cure</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/06/the-fat-mans-cure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/06/the-fat-mans-cure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable-energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Projections of future renewable energy use are dismal.  Yes, total renewable use will increase in the next 20 years, but so will total energy consumption.  So we'll see more use of wind, solar, and biodiesel, while the fossil fuel market continues to expand to meet growing demand.  According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Futility of Technofixes</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/03/the-futility-of-technofixes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/01/03/the-futility-of-technofixes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George-Monbiot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable-energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    This post takes its name from an article in the Guardian written by columnist George Monbiot.  The columnist illustrates this woeful futility by taking a similar stance to my own against biofuels.  Monbiot, citing a Friends of the Earth report, explains that the European quest for a fossil fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the Point</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/31/missing-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/31/missing-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable-energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South-America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    In a recent article in Grist magazine, author Kelly Hearn describes the South American (esp. Brazilian) effort to create an &#34;ethanol empire&#34;.  In the wake of the environmentalist reverie over the utopian vision of emissions neutral automobiles,  I wonder if anyone has actually paused to imagine what an ethanol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adhocracy in Action</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/08/adhocracy-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/08/adhocracy-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adhocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Is the call for decentralized power structures nothing more than a rant, something that sounds good in theory but could never be put into practice?  Not so, says the community of Willits in Northern California, where community organization has led to the emergence of greater local autonomy and energy independence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Renewables?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/02/why-renewables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2005/12/02/why-renewables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peak-oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewable-energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In a recent article in Grist Magazine, David Roberts observes that the peak oil argument so often cited by environmentalists probably won't convince the world's majority to move towards renewables.&#160; Roberts suggests that &#34;A much more natural, predictable reaction would be to push like mad for more drilling and for more coal gasification.&#34;&#160; &#160;However, there [...]]]></description>
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