Green news harvest: Chevy Volt on fast track? Revisiting World Bank biofuels report

Here's a sampling of green-tech news and quick commentary:
• GM readies Volt unveiling to shift focus from crisis - Reuters
  A "showroom-ready" Volt by September? This shows how the Volt is more important to altering GM's image as an SUV vendor than any revenue it gets from the car.
• Europeans Reconsider Biofuel Goal - NYTimes.com
  This would be a serious damper to the biofuels industry if the proposal to scale back targets goes through.

A concept car that gets more than 200 miles per gallon.
(Credit: Volkswagon)
• Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW | Autopia from Wired.com
  Now that's a sleek-looking concept car!
• SequesCO combines CO2 sequestration with biofuel production - VentureBeat
  Another firm enlists microbes for work, in this case to make hydrocarbons from biomass.
• Rubber 'Snake' Could Help Wave Power Get A Bite Of The Energy Market - Science Daily
  Cool concept where waves squeeze water through rubber tubes equipped with turbines.
• Sharp's Solar Powered Television - Inhabitat
  This looks more like a novelty than a practical use of solar in the home. More interesting is the ultra-low power LCD television.
• Big Island solar farm to begin construction - Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
  A trial of Sopogy's relatively small solar troughs at megawatt scale. The potential here is solar thermal in places where not a lot of land is available.
• Bad Juice II: Biofuels Maybe Not Quite So Bad, World Bank Says - Environmental Capital: WSJ.com
  A WSJ reporter actually called the World Bank on its supposedly secret biofuels-food prices report and guess what? The original article was a bit off the mark. More to come this week.
• Cleantech venture investments were $2 billion in Q2 - Reuters
  Interesting to note that algae biomass companies are rising up the ranks. Solar thermal and cellulosic ethanol are top two categories.

[theBike45]

Why are you people so dumb? Showroom-ready Volt will NOT be available by September, although a model of the actual car will be unveiled to show the public what it looks like.
The Volt won;'t be showroom ready intil it goes into production, a date which has NOT changed since a year and a half ago and is Nov 2010. Stencil that on your forehead, writers.
Quit manufacturing stories and stop being so damn confused, people. Journalism majors!! Yukkk!!

[cnetcensorssuck]

You're a complete moron.

[RyleeROBERTS]

Various reports from different autopartswarehouse and auto dealers indicate that electronic controls in the 2011 Chevrolet Volt will fire up the gas engine once the battery pack runs down to 30-percent power, then keep cycling the engine to maintain power within a specified band.