Its Thursday, you know what that means renewable energy roundup! I know most of you just got calmed down from last weeks, but here it is again, children leave the room, people with weak constitutions brace yourself, for…the news!

Chevron is teaming up with Weyerhaeuser to create cellulosic biofuels.

Heard someone complain about CFL’s, “they are not bright enough”, “they are too bright”, “they take too long to light up”, “they don’t fit in my sockets”, etc etc, could be they just haven’t taken a look at the new bulbs. Well popular mechanics has done it for them in their CFL mega test!

The EPA has released its renewable fuels standards.

Talking of biofuels reminds me that you should always be wary of who you are getting your biofuel technology from, DeBeers (no relation to the diamond people) has been selling a lot of Algae to biofuel technology. Sounds great right, well the only problem is the technology is unproven at this point.

Chicago has gotten its own hydrogen fueling station.

And that’s it my friends, the cracks might have gotten smaller, or perhaps I was better at catching things this week. Want to see your news item in the weekly roundup, use the contact form and make sure to mention that you want to see your news in the roundup.