Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
…the global oil peak implies that all the nations of the world will have less total energy to divvy up. I just don’t see where the United States is in a particularly favorable position on this. Have you heard of any plans to reduce our extreme dependence on cars? …Are we going to subcontract the Jolly Green Giant to go around America moving things closer together so we don’t have to burn so much gasoline?
A Look at the Administration’s Budget Request for Sustainable Energy Programs in FY2006.
Germany’s ambitious plan to phase out nuclear power by 2020 while also reducing its reliance on fossil fuels has made it a leader in efforts to fulfil the Kyoto protocol.
But critics are now predicting an energy crisis.
Renewable Energies are much more than an additional option to the old energy system. They are the alternative, the general solution, able to cover all energy needs. To promote them must become the primary strategy everywhere.
The prime ministers of Ukraine and Georgia said Monday that the flow of oil in a key Ukrainian pipeline would be reversed, a decision certain to complicate the two former Soviet republics’ already tense relations with Russia.
What was the biggest oil story in 2004? I posed this question to all the Simmons & Company oil experts this year. Oil prices in 2004 were on almost everyone’s list. Even “Peak Oil” got votes – a topic that received more media attention, during 2004, by a substantial margin than ever before.
Latin America is becoming a rich destination for China in its global quest for energy, with the Chinese quickly signing accords with Venezuela, investing in largely untapped markets like Peru and exploring possibilities in Bolivia and Colombia, and especially Venezuela.
As crude-oil futures climbed above $51 a barrel this week, analysts threw up their hands and wondered why.
For years, central banks around the world have held most of their foreign currency reserves in U.S. dollars. Now, there are signs that central banks are shifting away from dollar assets and into other currencies, such as euros.
China’s breakneck economic growth is causing a dangerous shortage of its most important energy source coal, with potential consequences for the entire world, state media warned.
The energy-to-GDP ratio is a convenient catch-all for measuring energy usage. But as is the case with many aggregate measures of economic performance, the cost of simplicity is high.
THE coming of steam sent the world’s great sailing fleets into decline. The internal combustion engine finally finished them off. So it would be a strange twist of fate if the age of sail was resurrected by what amounts to a child’s toy: a kite.
