Energy Headlines – May 16, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Viridian Greens confront Kunstler / What’s on the other side of the Hubbert Curve? / Alien American dream changes the Earth as some of us awaken / Bush urges development of alternate fuels /
Oil giants gambling on “green” fuel / Old foes soften to nuclear / Government report gives new wind to green energy in UK / Accidents reveal troubles at Mexico’s oil monopoly / New issue of HopeDance / Rural enterprises in UK and Czech Rep. / New issue of CSIRO newsletter / How do Japanese dump trash? Let us count the myriad ways / China’s quest for a modern flush / Argentine town hopes to transform wind into windfall

Energy Headlines – May 15, 2005

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Community Solutions newsletter on Peak Oil economics / Kunstler interview in Salon / PO – “a promissory word of new birth” / Berkeley energy professor roasts Bush / Climate change’s nuclear fix / Ecuador gets Chávez’d / Oil fuels programs for poor in Venezuela / Problems aplenty in a world of plenty / Australia ‘throwing away too much food’ / Increase in ‘dead zones’ starving the world’s seas / Germany plans to triple wind power

Energy Headlines, 14 May 2005

Staff, Energybulletin.net

Today’s Prophetic Noahs and Paul Reveres Sound Alarms / Oil Doomsday is Nigh, Tar Sands Not a Substitute / Qatar to revolutionise diesel market / Bush energy policy: So stupid, it’s painful

UK: Wave, wind, sun and tide a powerful mix

Research at Oxford University shows that intermittent renewables, combined with domestic combined heat and power (dCHP) could dependably provide the bulk of Britain’s electricity.

The growing consensus is that only new nuclear power can plug that gap without contributing to global warming.
But a new report indicates that a judicious mix of intermittent renewables – wave, wind, sun and tide – could supply over half of UK electricity.

Energy Headlines 13 May 2005

Staff, Energybulletin

Powerdown – back to Eden? / USEIA’s unbelievable optimism / Kunstler: The Rapture / End of the Age of Oil / Strategic Conundrum Of India’s Oil Pipeline Projects / Trading oil for biomass / Bush’s energy solution / Five Arab countries and Turkey to be linked via power grids / Afghan ‘pipe dream’ draws closer to reality / Less-polluting hybrid locomotive begins operation

$4 a gallon

America is over. America is like Wile E. Coyote after he’s run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he’ll take a few more steps in midair before he looks down. Then, when he sees that there’s nothing under him, he’ll fall. Many Americans suspect that they’re running on thin air, but they haven’t looked down yet. When they do …

Energy Headlines, 12 May 2005

Staff, Energybulletin

Push for release of oil & gas production data / Farm costs up 10% / Cheney clings tight to Energy Taskforce records / Construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline nearly complete / Nova Scotia: Fewer gas stations, fewer tourists? / UK Oil Co’s fear Windfall tax / Whitehouse wants oil price at $25 a barrel