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Since 1995, David Fridley has been a staff scientist at the Energy Analysis Program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. He is also deputy group leader of Lawrence Berkeley's China Energy Group, which collaborates with China on end-user energy efficiency, government energy management programs, and energy policy research. Mr. Fridley has nearly 30 years of experience working and living in China in the energy sector, and is a fluent Mandarin speaker. He spent 12 years working in the petroleum industry both as a consultant on downstream oil markets in the Asia-Pacific region and as business development manager for Caltex China. He has written and spoken extensively on the energy and ecological limits of biofuels.
In the video Fridley explores the energy science, environmental science, ecological science around biofuels. Contains a mini moview "The Pototo Parable" an analogy to explain EROI from 41:45 mins to 50:20.
"The Myths of Biofuels" is the record of a presentation given at a public meeting sponsored by the group Post Carbon Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara, California), by David Fridley of Lawrence Berkeley Labs and San Francisco Oil Awareness. David is a staff scientist and leader of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, where his research involves extensive collaboration with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, and medium and long term energy policy research.
Authors: Ian Wybrew-Bond, David Fridley, Akira Miyamoto, Keun-Wook Paik, Jonathan Stern, Najeeb Jung The next decade will be crucial for Asian gas markets and determine whether natural gas will become a major fuel in the … >>
Post Carbon Fellows Jason Bradford and David Fridley were quoted in an article in the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. The article on how Californians are responding to the twin challenges of peak oil and climate … >>
Richard Heinberg busts the myth that "clean coal" can fuel our future.
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