Jim Lane’s “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” published; free PDF for Digest subscribers
Digest readers: Today, the new book “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” by Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane is available in PDF format for subscribers at the usual Biofuels Digest “low, low price of free”.
(Note to web and RSS readers: the book is available free to newsletter subscribers; to sign up and qualify for your free copy, visit here for a free newsletter subscription).
Print copies, and electronic copies for non-subscribers will be available for a small fee, in late November.
The book collects 27 essays on bioenergy that have appeared in the Digest and elsewhere since 2007 – and four previously unpublished essays that were created for this book: “Citizen Cane,” “Routes,”, “Get Back” and “Biofuels and Veterans”.
The book includes some of the more popular Digest essays, including:
- “Drop In, Tune Out, Turn On” on drop-in fuels
- “Biggie Smalls: Microcrops go mainstream” on the development of algal fuels
- “A Vast, Chicken-Wing Conspiracy” on the political forces aligned against first-generation fuels
Plus, entertainments such as the annual “10 Most Bizarre Stories in Bioenergy”.
From the Preface:
In the essays that form Citizen Cane, I have aimed to explore the terms and conditions, the representations and warranties, by which we can hope to construct a world in which bioenergy drops in, just as the supply of affordable fossil fuels drops out.
Many of these essays are explorations of hard data, some are more lyric. Many have been previously published, some are new. Many address the urgency of a particular topic and time, some take the broader view.
But as one who lives at the western corner of the Bermuda Triangle, I cheerfully admit no special powers to predict the future. The waters are murky, the charts often muddled, and the way forward is no easier to see now than when Columbus stumbled into these waters, in 1492, thinking he had found China.
The myths are no easier to dispel than when Ponce de Leon landed in 1513, a few hundred yards south of my terrace, in search of the Fountain of Youth. The destination is clear, but the way is spackled with unmarked shoals, and sandbars, and reefs.
It is the author’s usual hope that readers of a collection of work will “enjoy these pages”, but more than enjoyment, I hope you they ignite, or inspire, or augment, your own sense of longing— no matter what tribe, goal, or agenda is driving you.
Nothing is worthwhile that comes without a passion; it is the renewable energy behind renewable energy; it is the force that binds all of the arguments and arguers in this industry and quest.”
Upcoming other new content for you –
always for subscribers at the “low, low price of free”
Next week: Chapter two in the new book, “The National Energy Solution.”
Also next week: the debut of Biomass Digest, the new newsletter, on 11/11.
And the week of November 16th: subscriber voting begins for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, and you’ll have an opportunity to download a 200-page Selectors Book, full of company profiles and some other data.
Jim Lane
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NathanSchock | Nov 6, 2009 | Reply
What about those of us who can’t stand email but subscribe to the RSS feed?