Dysfunction – March 31
Developing countries are awash in e-waste
Income gap Is widening, data shows
Mercury in energy-saving bulbs worries scientists
What are our alternatives, if fossil fuels are a problem?
Answers questions like “I love my SUV. Why can’t we continue to use oil and gas as in the past?” and “Won’t ethanol cover our fossil fuel shortfall?”. Good educational material.
Peak oil – March 31
Swedish PhD thesis: World oil production close to peak
Helicopter industry watching peak oil
Congressman Bartlett Warns Of A Energy Crisis
Biofuels – March 30
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
Renewables – March 30
Energy activists snipe at rivals
Tom Whipple on wind power
Hydro’s uphill battle
The hydrogen economy – energy and economic black hole
Australia climate – March 30
PM’s forest plan ‘hypocritical’
Carbon karma: Green festival in Castlemaine
Carr predicts carbon trading among individuals
IPCC experts warn of climate mayhem
Howard’s punt is on the money
Australia faces extreme weather rise, says leaked UN report
Biofuels – March 30 (2)
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
Brazil’s da Silva: Our biofuels partnership
UK slams US biofuel subsidies
Huge jump in corn planting expected
Ethanol fuels jumps in Nebraska agricultural land values
Oil industry – March 30
Marseille dispute threatens fuel supplies
Big Oil spends more, only some see 2007 output up
From what was once Yukos, Russia builds state-owned oil giant
Pertamina acknowledges LPG scarcity
Bartlett elaborates on GAO peak oil report
Address to U.S. House of Representatives, giving background on peak oil and concluding: “with proper leadership, I think that Americans could be exhilarated by the challenge.”
Middle East – March 30
Iran vulnerable on oil product imports: US
Jeff Vail: Stormy weather
Russian military sources: US attack on Iran planned
Peak oil – March 30
End of oil heralds climate pain
Pickens: Fundamentals pushing up oil
Kunstler at the Commonwealth Club of Calif
Review: “Crude Impact”
Arbitrage – insights into Saudi knowledge
Good golly, Ms Moly
GAO: U.S. needs a peak oil strategy
Highlights from the just released GAO report on peak oil: “Uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline in oil production.”
