This article says nay.

Wow not only are we using corn crops and such to make ethanol and plastics but we can make other stuff out of plant sugars?

Score one for the largest consumer of global energy.

This is another pointer post but I thought it was interesting. 8 technologies for a green future.

Looks like General Motors is getting back into the clean car game with their serial hybrid car.

Vinod Khosla believes that the road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Wired has the article here.

So you don't want those unsightly wind turbines, even the ones out at see to pollute your view? MIT has the solution with their "invisible" wind turbines.

Works for me. The more we use alternative ways to produce energy that do not involve producing pollution the better. Birds can survive and migrate around wind turbines. Humans may not survive the planets fighting back against pollution (read: natural selection).