Jeff Manuel

Historian of Energy, Tech, & Environment, Professor @SIUE, Author of ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY, and TACONITE DREAMS, Public & Oral Historian

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It's publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40% of its corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
https://t.co/ICxpqwEIFX

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@JKempEnergy To be fair, a lot of people have been getting screwed by the oil markets lately

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@mattyglesias You do, uh, know that we were putting ethanol into US liquid fuel before 2005, right?

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cc: @szintri

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If I can now buy a bioluminescent petunia at Home Depot, I'm sure plant geneticists can make bioluminescent corn. Can you imagine how awesome the Midwest would look at night? Can we make this happen people?

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@TheStalwart @adam_tooze A key question here: how much do you want your work to matter 25 or more years from now?

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@ndrew_bunker @Rory_Johnston There's a book-length history of the US SPR if you want a deep dive https://t.co/RZxiN5rIer

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@gbrew24 Based on comma usage, Trump seems to be entering his Henry James era

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I don't know how Amazon's algorithms work, but ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS is now 20 percent off in hardcover. It's a lot of energy history for less than five gallons of gas in California!
https://t.co/aN6aCBAtlr

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Thanks to @adam_tooze for featuring the paintings of Paula Kamps, a friend and talented artist, in today's Chartbook.
https://t.co/ZxeLLmHf02

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Also available for pre-order from Amazon
https://t.co/aN6aCBB1aZ

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One month away from the publication of ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Tom Rogers and I describe the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs for the first time. Online pre-order available now.
https://t.co/ICxpqwEIFX

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@DerekKrissoff To be fair, there is a lack of intellectual diversity among university administrators. Almost all of them want their institutions to survive and even thrive. Gee thinks differently!

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@redbuckman Honestly, most of today's land-grant ag schools are variations of Borlaug studies

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@szintri Anything that's a feedstock for biobased diesel, apparently

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@biofuelslaw re: Trailblazer, any discussion of Wyoming's "make carbon dioxide great again" bill? (https://t.co/NNgrpbbsug) If passed, would this put Wyoming's primacy for Class VI wells at risk?

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@biofuelslaw Worth noting that the Chemical Foundation's final audit of that Atchison plant found that it lost $300k-$600k before closing. Frank Uëkotter has a good 2021 article on it (and the larger 1930s chemurgy movement)
https://t.co/cLSzxdveFA

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#WomensHistoryMonth

"By answering the call to defend Alberta’s oil industry against a critical public and politicians in Ottawa, Canadian petroleum became more than just a job for these women; it became an identity and a way of life." - @jeffmanuel

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@TheStalwart Miami didn’t work out, but new Magnitogorsk for crypto/AI is gonna be a boomtown.

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@joguldi Word of warning: double-check installation & connections of any system you get. My friend’s under-sink filter sprung a leak from the water supply line and it flooded the whole first floor of the house. The (expensive) system used cheap, brittle plastic connectors.