Verenium Corp. (VRNM)

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    jjason
    Aug 08 08:16 AM
    BP, Verenium Partnership: Big Oil and Alt Energy Find Common Ground [view article]
    Help to bring down the price of oil. Go To:

    www.stopoilspeculation.../

    And sign the petition.     Reply
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    BobinCA
    Jul 27 05:47 PM
    Cellulosic Ethanol: The Next Biofuel Boom? [view article]
    If you look at the number of landfills in this country alone that have been filled and consider that new places for landfills are becoming extremely hard to come by (e.g. Los Angeles trying to get the Eagle Mountain open-pit iron mine for a landfill), it seems to me that garbage is one thing we won't be running out of anytime soon. Places to put garbage, yes. Garbage itself, no.

    What will you do with your compost? What problems will that solve? Bluefire's technology, if it can be scaled, reduces what goes into landfills, extracts methane from the existing landfill to use for a heat source (methane is a much worse GHG than CO2), produces usable transport fuel, partially powers itself from the leftover lignin, and hopefully makes money in the process. All without burning fossil fuels. Obviously, it remains to be seen if that latter criterion (making money) can be met, but the pilot plant that has been operating in Japan has been slowly scaled up and is still working well. The Japanese results were known when DoE gave Bluefire the grant.

    It should be noted that this process will also work with any other cellulose-based feedstock, such as wood chips (the Japanese plant runs on wood), switchgrass, etc.

    Finally, "lowest cost" isn't necessarily required. Lower cost than gasoline (taking into consideration the difference in energy content) is all that's necessary, since no one source can provide all the fuel we'll need. That's why I think this may be viable regardless of what others do. We're going to need every drop of ethanol/methanol/butan... we can get our hands on, and making fuel out of trash or other waste doesn't impact food supplies or land needs.

    I don't own any stock in this company, but I am thinking of buying some.

    On Jul 11 02:57 AM CCHanderson wrote:

    > I believe ethanol production requires a more consistent product than
    > yard and vegetative waste to produce a reliable product at the lowest
    > cost.
    >
    > I think a better alternative would be to require landfills to operate
    > a public compost operation that could then be reused in the community.
    > Some places already have this in the US but it does not seem to be
    > going mainstream.     Reply
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    buyitcheap
    Jul 23 11:05 AM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    longhold - LOL that is the best "Modest Proposal" I have read in some time! Spot on! Please run for office so that I can vote for you.

    And why is it that people who support zero population growth are already alive and apparently unwilling to really commit to the "cause?"     Reply
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    Rosedog
    Jul 21 12:49 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Verenium (VRNM) is heavily into biofuels-Its the leading public company in the field of cellulosic biofuels (from switchgrass etc. instead of corn as the article states). They also just got a US Dept of Agriculture government grant to build a new facility. Their stock is on the rise again- only time will tell.
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    Marc
    Courtenay
    Jul 17 07:50 PM
    My Website
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    How about some more investment ideas, as per "Once again as investors we can "vote with our wallets" and invest in companies that are doing all they can to reduce greenhouse gases and promote the use of organic, non-polluting forms of agriculture. These companies are few and far between, but they do exist and we hope to report on them here. Any comments on such companies that you know of would be greatly appreciated" Reply
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    akapital
    Jul 17 04:58 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Specialization (be it agriculutural or otherwise) has historically brought great benefits but always at a cost. It is time to consider whether that cost is worth it.

    Consider, would we need so many roads and so much infrastructure if people ate and worked close to home? Would we need a specialist to fix "everything we have" if we learned more about what we use. It use to be very common for people to sustain their own house, car, and garden as well as work a full time job. More recently that full time job has taken up more and more of our time.

    The 40+ hour work week is a fairly recent phenomenon. Contrary to popular belief humans have historically enjoyed a good amount of leisure time. It is about finding a balance...     Reply
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    supereco
    Jul 17 02:15 PM
    My Website
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    I wouldn't say these ideas are half baked. Big agribusiness is not sustainable and is very short-sighted. The agricultural chemical runoff is already taking its toll in the US, with a dead zone the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico. That means less fish and shrimp to feed the growing demand for these edibles. news.nationalgeographi...

    This is not a liberal or conservative debate. It affects us all.

    And if it weren't for dreamers, we would be in the stone age (think Edison, Einstein, Bucky Fuller, etc.)     Reply
  • commenter
    Think-About-
    It
    Jul 16 09:45 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    riverpirate, you nailed it.

    Too may dreamers out there with half-baked ideas.     Reply
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    fearofgreed
    Jul 16 09:41 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Why would anyone be scared of letting people choose? Is it a problem that Europeans do not want American food? Reply
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    CLH
    Jul 16 06:54 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    People can only be fed by bioengineering not by returning to the stone age. Reply
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    longhold
    Jul 16 03:32 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Why does "organic farming" need any investment give everyone some seed and a planting stick and let them go to it. The newly elected green party in Germany was very disapointed to learn that they could not produce enough organic and natural food to feed their own people and thus had to revert to traditional modern agriculture to survive. Natural, Organic, and local only food production will only work when we reduce the worlds population by half. I sugest that the liberals who propose such a solution volinteer their lives first so that their goal may become a reality. Reply
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    Spokanite
    Jul 16 03:24 PM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Riverpirate, your ignorance is global. You think that because YOU, on of 400 m folks in a 6+ billion world, everyone is like YOU. Facts dude is that the vast majority of people live day to day and close to the land. So stop projecting your eco-ignorant world view onto the other billions.

    Think for a minute, might be hard but try this, if all those 4-5.5 billion people suddenly didn't have ag work to keep them full and provide income, what would they do? Make shoes for you? It'd be massive amts of folks scurring off to vast slums in mega cities trying to make a living somehow.

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    riverpirate
    Jul 16 11:28 AM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Sure, small scale farming can work if your only goal is to stay alive and feed yourself.

    Bottom line however is that the wealth we enjoy in the world -- the whole world -- is largely the product of one very powerful phenomenon: specialization (aka utilizing comparative advantage).

    If we were all to grow our own food locally, 3/4 of the world would be farmers as a primary occupation. Good luck finding someone to roof your house, fix your car, pave your roads, do your taxes, build you a TV, or make you a coffee. No, they'll all be to busy tending to their gardens.

    A fine bit of eco-ignorance this is.     Reply
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    buyitcheap
    Jul 16 09:21 AM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    Sorry incomplete post - they went from a community farming collective (and near starvation) to an individual/family farm approach and they thrived, producing surpluses. Reply
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    buyitcheap
    Jul 16 09:18 AM
    The Global Food Crisis: From Panic to Organic [view article]
    It worked for the Pilgrims at Plymouth, they went from a community farming...why not? Reply
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