Sandia Labs proposes energy surety model

With concerns that energy use will rapidly increase over the next several years while fossil fuels diminish as well as numerous other energy uncertainties including the results of climate change, Sandia National Laboratories is proposing applying the principles of surety to energy.

Environment – July 14

Staff, EB

First half of 2006 Is warmest on record for U.S. /
Global warming: They’re not laughing at Ron Sims now / UK MPs: ‘Climate change should be taken out of politics to allow radical remedies’ /
Global warming ‘will cancel out Western aid and devastate Africa’

Biofuels – July 13

Staff, EB

Edible oil turns into bio-diesel /
Ethanol ain’t all it’s cracked up to be /
Green Energy: A Second Coming /
Focus on biofuels is foolish /
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate /
Indonesia to spend a massive US$ 22 billion by 2010 to promote biofuels

Transport – July 13

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California: so many cars, so little money / Davis: the best bicycle town in North America /
Blacktop cost curbs road work / Fuel costs may benefit Boeing; airlines could seek to replace fuel-guzzlers / How to hack a hybrid (plug-in Prius)

Peak oil – July 13

Staff, EB

Plenty of opinions about energy (peak oil books) / Black Gold (book review) / Peak oil and energy resources (anarchist view) / Whipple: Independence Day 2006 – America’s last fling? /
Clinton gets peak oil and global warming

Global energy policy – July 13

Staff, EB

Energy security yes, but climate security too / G8 Call for more oil output won’t help poor: report / McKillop: Towards the international energy transition plan / The mother of all battles: for oil / In energy, we’re all connected / Energy should not be political tool – Chirac / BBC poll:
‘global fear’ over energy plans

National energy policies – July 13

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A watershed on energy? (UK energy report) / China called to rein in growing use of electricity / Jane Bryant: what we need is policy / Alliance: Car feebate could replace CAFE increase / Turkey as an energy terminal state / American Conservative Magazine cover story on “American Petrocracy”

Politics & economics – July 13

Staff, EB

Consumers face challenges in handling debt /
UK: Surge in oil imports sees trade gap widen / Major global economic shock could rock UK banks, BoE warns / Addicted to Oil (video) / Senate approves expanded drilling in Gulf of Mexico / US: Oil costs continue effect on trade deficit, overseas sales / Guide to Russia’s key energy clients

Pentagon and Peak Oil: A Military Literature Review

Sohbet Karbuz, Energy Bulletin

Until the recent oil price hikes and world wide discussions on the future of oil, Peak Oil was nearly absent in military publications. Now, things have changed. This article attempts to provide a US military literature review on Peak Oil and related issues.

Clinton: not briefed on peak oil

Staff, Energy Bulletin

“To the best of my knowledge I never had a security briefing which said what some of these very serious but conservative petroleum geologists say, which is that they think that either now or before the decade is out that we’ll reach peak oil production globally … This needs much more serious debate. It’s almost not discussed at all in the mainstream media.” [Clinton also comments on climate change and how to present the issues.]