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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4863)	10/14/2006 10:05:41 AM
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The St Louis Renewable Energy Conference - Day 1 Posted by Heading Out on Thursday October 12, 2006 at 11:13 AM EST This was the first day of the "Advancing Renewable Energy - An American Rural Renaissance" Conference in St Louis. At least that was the title at the top of the page, but over the course of the day it became hard to believe that it was not the National Ethanol Show. As one of the speakers (Robert Engel, President of CoBank) said this afternoon, "now is the perfect weather for Ethanol," by which he meant that the oil price was up, the MTBE issue required a substitute, there are record corn crops , the regulations have become favorable, and the world is in a period of economic growth). And when Vinod Khosla got up to speak this morning, he followed a relatively gentle presentation by the President (Red Caveney) of the American Petroleum Institute. Not that those relatively benign comments stopped Vinod from piling on, as he gave his relatively passionate speech, but more of that later. So, how is it going? Well the best set of talks, in my view, was the last panel discussion of the afternoon on liquid fuels and bio-products. The presentations were very informative and the discussion lively and interactive, and the panelists were very realistic. But to begin let me start with where I walked in, just after the meeting started. And I immediately found that I could not find a seat in a room seating over 800. (There is talk that counting everyone there will be around 1500 folk here). There's more… (2684 words) \| Comments (0 new, 100 total) \| Permalink theoildrum.com